Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-29
KILLED HIM.
A YArAL EARLY MORNING ArYsAy IN
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A saIoon.Ksspsr shoots sportings1an--
A Terrible Fight Between Sailors
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NORFOLK, July %, 1883.
on Main street near Church, this morning
about daylight. John II. Evans, who keeps a
saloon or the corner OF Main and Church
streets, shot and killed Peter Mclean, a
sporting man OF the city. putting four bullets
,r,sh,s body. II seems that in the early part
OF last night Evans and Mclean bad dill.
Guilty. but the parties were separated. The
difficulty was renewed IN saloon several
hours later, and on the street In front OF
steyens's bat store the two men cllnched,
and both drew pistols and coni-
menced firing. Mclean fell in the
gutter after the second shot and while on
the ground received two other shots. In
Mel head there were three bullet.holes
and In the right side there WIS one. Officers
Snowden and hamburger arrested Evans on
the spot and found eve chambers OF his pis-
toi empty. Evans stated TO the officers that
be was Obliged TO do what he bad done.
NcI,ean's pistol was alongside % his body.
Coroner Newton held an inquest al 8 O'Clock.
Mclean leaves wife and one child. He
was about forty years OF age. Evans was
committed to the ststion-hOuse, and has Sc
cured Hon. John Nicely and Mr.. George Nc
Iutosh SIS his counsel.
This afternoon the examination OF Evans
took place before the Police Justice. The
testimony before the Court was almost iden'
teal with that before the coroners jury With
one important exception. Witness John
Lewis stating positively while under oath
that Mclean fired the first aud lastshots.
After all the testimony had been taken
counsel fer the defence asked that their
cIent he admitted 10 bail, which was op-
posed by the. Attorney for the Common
wealth and refused by the Justice, who re-
manded the prisoner TO jail TO be TIED nj
the september term OF the Corporation
Court.
Near Portsmouth this afternoon q FIRE
occurred ut the slaughter-house Of j. o..
Codd & Brother. which entirely consumed
the building aud seyeral out.hOuses. IL ap-
pears that man Who was boiling lard fell
asleep, and when be awOse the building was
I'm light blaze. The building contained
lot Of talloW and lard.
Insanity seems TO be greatly on The IN
crease among the cOlOred people OF this sec-
lion, and cases OF it are continuity being
brought 10 the attention OF the authorities 10
be cared for at the jsils until turned over to
the care OF the State, the unfortunates being,
OF course. uniformly OF the pauper class. In
lunacy the blacks heresbouu exceed the
whites in the ratio OF eight or ten to one.
Last evening a commission OF lunacy was
held at the city Jail and three colored men
aud one colored woman declared lunaiics
and ordered to be sent to the asylum. The
counts jail has small colony OF lunatlcs on
baud all the time, while the Jail in Ports
mouth is rarely without its due proportion
OF oolored inmates who have lost their rea-
son.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany are putting 100000 IN new bridge
l. 90 aun of the limo
The new iron bridge entering the city viii
be In place by the last Of September, when
similar structure viii be built across the
Southern branch Of the Elizabeth river seven
miles from the city.
It Is understood that the surveyors are
through aud the construction force OF the
Richmond aud DAovQle managers VIII break
ground for the new road at Drivers store,
on the Atlantic aud Danyile lice, in Nanse-
mond county, on Tuesday, and work through
10 the Cbowsn river, where the ChoWan aud
Southern road commences, and is going
through to Tarboro'.
Last night desperate fight occurred on
the schooner Richard VauX lying at Atlantic
CITY, between two OF the crew. Aaron Il.
Morton and James Barnes, andthe latter was
terribly wounded in the head with an axe.
Morton Is in the county jail and the doctors
are doing what they can for Barnes.
Dir. Thomas b. Southwark, for twenty
years chief draughtsmah OF the construction
department Of the nsyy'yard, has been re-
moved. lie Is Republican.
The United States steamer Pensacola.
which has been ordered 10 GospOrt navy
ward from New York, is expected the later
part Of next week, aud will be fitted out as
flagship Of the North Atlantic squadron. She
was fitted out at this yard four years ago.
About four hundred workmen and Ia
borers will he put TO work in the nayy-yard
soon after the lst Of the month, aud Secre-
tarv Whitney says he has ordered repairs
amounting TO 100000 10 be done here aud
commenced within Ten days. The Secretary
saws work ought TO be commenced here
on the new battle-ship within thirty or forty
days.
\ new constructor in place OF Constructor
Bowles will be ordered here in few days.
CiyI-Eugineer 81. T. Endicott, OF the
ward, has been ordered to the League Island
yard on temporary duty.
Olive Branch Methodist Episcopal church,
near Portsmouth VIII be dedicated to>mOr-
row and Rev. DR.. ". V. Tudor will preach
the sermon.
Dir. 4. o. Wise, Jr., was elected regent Of
Asceola Council, the new branch OF Royal
Areanum instituted IN BramD'etOn.
Nearly 1900 tons Of Southwest Virginia
coal were shipped from Lamber's Point
piers this week.
Hon. Morton Z. Post, Of Wyoming Terri
tory, Is stopping with ex-Congressman
DezeudOri.
Norfolk people are now enjoying the full
tide OF their unapproachable summer mar
kets.
Mr.. Thomas II. Hardy, the dealer in shoe
findings who was supposed to have COM
mitted suicide at Ocean View last year, has
been hesrd from sgain. and this time in Cali
fornIa, having gone there from the West
Indies. u.