Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-11-18
NORFOLK.
anAH HORRIBLY CRUSHED UNDER a
DERRICK.
The Recent Navy-Yard Shooting Case in
Court-The Testimony-Per-
soual Notes.
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,Corespondepce OF the bicnmono Dispa'cnI
NoRroLE, November II. 1886.
This morning J. 81. Emmoden, one OF
the crew OF the British steamship EDDY
stone, loading cotton ut the piers oil the
Norfolk and Western railroad, was caught
under a falling derrick, which by some
means got loose from lis fastenings, anu
was fcarfuly crushed and mlngled. Several
homes were broken and the body u 80 in'
iured that II l. thought impossible ior MN
10 live. II was at first thought that he was
killed outright. The unfortunate man was
released from beneath the derrick a. soon
as possible and sent to st. Nincents Hos
pital.
m session this morning, George w. HUI.
who shot Potter in the nayy-yard, was
brought before Judge Hughes to apply Tor
bail. Judge James Il. Heath appeared as
counsel Miss virginia Hill, the young
lady in The case, appeared with her mother,
and after the witnesses ~ the shooting hih
been examined, she testined a. 10 Potters
attentions 10 her, and which eliminated IN
the shooting. Potter was introduced 10
her by friend, and at once became very
devoted In his attentions. Her father, the
accused, on learning that Potter was mar
RED man, positively forbid bis COM
ing to the house. Potter not Deing
able, then, TO meet Miss Hill, CON-
menced writing her endearng letters.
As the letters were received Miss Hill placed
them before her father. and. as each sue
ceeding letter more fully developed the
purpose OF Potter ~ ruin the girl, the
father determined to interfere. On Mon
dsy afternoon be sough, an interview with
Potter at the Davy-yard, accompanied by
his daughter, in order TO ascertain II Pot
ter bad been encouraged by Miss Hill. In
the interview Potter was insolent, aud
threatened to have her father elected from
the ward il he didn't leave. Finally, Pot
ter called her father liar, and made mo-
ton as IL TO draw a pistol. Her father
then, 10 defend himself from injury, shot
Potter twice.
After examination Hill was baied in the
sum Of $4,000 for his appearance before the
grand Jury tomorrow for indictment. "A
certificate was presented TO the court from
DIR. V, G. Culper, stating that Mr.. Potter's
condition Is very precarious and critical.
The November Term OF the United States
District Court commenced to-day, but the
grand Jury was simply sworn and the court
adjourned until tomorrow.
The commissioners appointed by the
States OF Virginia and North Carolina to de-
fine toe boundary line between the Two
states have started their surveying corps to
work, and met yesterday at the historical
old "line stOne," on the Dismal swamp
canal, near the Northwest locks. The com.
missioners are to determine the line on a
parallel OF latitude from the seac0ast to the
Blackwater river, and will probably con-
sumo three months. The work OF cutting
track through the Great Dismal VIII be
q hard one.
Efforts are again being made TO establish
training stables at Virginia Beach for The
northern spor,smen.
A negro thief named Thomas was shot
last night while robbing the money-dra~er
at the store OF Thomas Brown, on upper
Church street.
James p. Roberts, yard-master at the
depot Of the Norfolk and Western railroad,
died yesterday. He was a native oil Pc
tersburg.
The schooner George Touane, from
Savannah 10 Philadelphia, put in yesterday
with the captain dangerously i'll with ieyel.
Colonel Walter ii. Taylor, French Con-
sui, says that the frigate La Ninerya did
not leave Norfolk because he snubbed the
admiral. as correspondents allege, neither
did she leave suddenly or sooner than vas
contemplated when she came here. q.