Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-29
MURDERED.
A YouHa MANS BODY FOUND IN
BERKLpY.
Choked TO Death and Robbsd-suspscted
Parties Arrssted-Ths Late Com
modore Barron--Hotes.
Correspondence Of The Richmond p!spatch.l
NonYoIK. February rs, 1Sss.

At an early hour this morning young
man named Edgar Haney was found
murdered in Tilley's old lumber-shed
in Berkley. adjoining the Norfolk
Southern railroad depot. From the
marks on the body it was evident the
man had been choked TO death for the
purpose of robbery, as his gold watch
aud money, and valuables, which he was
! known to have OF his person the night
before, we're gone, and the pockets turn
ed inside out. At o late hour last night
Haney was seen in Hills bar-room in
Berkeley drunk and with a man named
Charles Cook, and from there it
is believed the two went TO the house OF
woman named Sarah Webb, on Pearl
street. near the shed above named. He
was, it is thought, choked TO death in
there and robbed, and then taken TO the
shed. Cook was arrested this morning.
His hands and clothing were spattered
with blood. and subsequently the woman
and man named George Chapel were
arrested as accomplices. The murdered
man, Haney, came to Berkeley from
Lynchburg aboutfour years ago, and was
engaged in running on the Norfolk
Southern railroad selling papers and pc
riodicals for p. II. Braullet. He was a
past chancellor OF the Knights OF Py-
thias in Lynchburg, and Mason.
There, was n hard freeze all through
this section this morning, which will
have a good effect in putting back the
frnit- trees which, under the stimulating
/ - fha Lotto xrary,, crNau xrapa
getting ready to bud. A cold snap now
would be beneficial, probably, as it
would retard vegetation and prevent the
disastrous effects of freeze next month.
Peas are up and growing finely and the
cabbage are all out and doing well, and
a cold snap on the truck-farms now will
only stunt their growth. All over the
county the truckers and farmers are
getting in their Irish potatoes as fast as
they can.
The remains of the late Commodore
Samuel Barron will reach here from
Essex county tomorrow morning on the
steamer Essex, and will be inferred in
the family lot in Cedar Grove cemetery.
The deceased was uncle of the late Cap
tain James Barron Hope. Commodore
Barron, who killed Commodore Decatur
and is buried in Portsmouth, was an uncle
of the deceased. and in his family deceased
was raised. Nearly all the old naval
officers about Norfolk-General Page,
Captain Pegram, Captain Murdaugh,
Colonel Ward, Captain Spotswood, and
others sailed with him, and their remi-
niscences OF his remarkable and event
full life are deeply interesting. An cpl
sode that created great sensation at the
time was when the Commodore COM
manded the Mediterranean squad
ron and forced an entrance into
the Bosphorus. and when the Turkish
! fortresses prepared to fire on his ship,
shotted his guns and cleared the decks
for action. The matter was smoothed
over by the American Minister, and the
Commodore retired from prohibited
waters. Commodore Barron married a
Miss Imogene Wright, OF this city, who
died at the navy-yard during the yellow
fever plague in 1865, and two sons and
three daughters OF that issue are now
living. our well-known townsman Mr.. W.
Thompson Barron being one.
The case OF David Scott against the
Chesapeake and Ohio Elevator Company
at Newport News for $4,000 damages
for scalding received at the same time
that Robertson was killed by the explo-
sion was argued in Judge Hughes's
court to-day ON the evidence previously
taken.
All the boiler makers in the navy yard
were discharged last night.
The Pensacola is taking on $50 tons OF
coal.
4 lodge OF 3. p. o. Elks was orga-
nized in Portsmouth last night, with
Judge G. ". Murdaugh as exalted
ruler.
Rev. DR.. J. J. Allen, missionary to
China, is here lecturing.
The Norfolk City Railway Company
have mortgaged their property for sI25,-
900 to extend their lines and make i'm
provements.
Hon. p. J. Mcclure, of Philadelphia,
in his speeches here, urges eight hours
day for the carpenters and joiners.
The captain and crew of the foundered
barkentine Samuel Welsh arrived here
to-day from Whales Head on the
steamer Bonito. U.