Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-02
BILL MUSCO CAPTURED
ALLEGED MURDERER OF The CHAR
Louisville POLICEMAN
Found Under a Hsystsek-An Excited
Orovd-Proughtt TO Richmond for
safe-Kesping.

A special to the Dispatch from Chirloites'
vills received last night says:
William Musco olids Thomas Jordan, the
negro who is supposed TO have shot and
killed Policeman Seal in this elty last night
was caught At Barboursyille to-day and was
brought here on the Virginia Midland train
which arrived at =. NJ.
TelegTaphic information was received
here early this morning stating that
negro answering the description Of
the murderer bad been seen near
Profits Station. on the Virginia Mid
land railroad, aud Ciiy-Sergeant Dudley and
Messrs. Trslber and Day left the city at 10
O'Clock this morning 10 try 10 catch
the murderer. Sergeant Dudley and Dir;
| Day got OF at Gilbert's station, and
| we're 10 walk down the track towards Bsr-
! boursyile, while Mr. Trelber went op to
! BarboursvlIle and was TO come back snd
/ meet them. Dir. Treiber left Barb0ursviie
/ accompanied by Mr. l.. X. Hereford.
/ young man who was IN the neighb0rhoOd,
/ aud after proceeding about quarter of a
! mile down the track they saw two negro men
/ coming towards them. One OF the negroes
| seeing them approaching turned Of across
/ the field. but hc was followed up ana told 70
/ halt. lie refused TO do 20 and begau TO run,
/ when Nr. Tfeibsr fred at him several times.
|
/ him I'D, but were unable 10 oveTtake MN.
/ BY this time several gentlemen from near
/ BarbOursyille had come UP, and the party
/ after diligent search found the negro hid
/ under some hay near bV. lie was searched
/ aud tied and was brought 10 this citI
/ on the first train. An immense crowd had
! gathered at the Virginia Midland Junction,
/ where they thought he would be taken OIL
| the train, but the officers got ahead OF the
| crowd and bad the train stopped several
/ hundred yards below the depot, where
/ Mayor Woods and Mir. Lankford had mack
| 10 waiting for the prisoner. As soon as the
/ crowd saw what was up they struck Tor The
! fail. but the officers ouiran them and g0ttne
! prisoner in iall before they were Oyert2ken
An immense crowd thronGed the streets
! leading 10 the jail, but they were finally dis
persed by the police. Mayor Woods and
! the other city officers saw it was useless
| TO try 10 keep the prisoner In
| iaiI overnight, so they had him Sc
| cretly taken out and carried 10 the Cbes-
apea6e a0d Ohio depot, where he was
/ placed on Express train No. aud sent 10
/ Richmond under charge OF Sergeant Eudi3y
aud Mr. 4. y. PAYNE. Mayor Woods showed
great deal Of strategy In his plans, for no one
| dreamed that the negro would be sent nom
| the city tonight. The negro was identined
] DV sfNCIai Witnesses, NIU N'It VI taih eHht
| he is the murderer Of Officer seal.
The Murderer tu Richmond.
| The train with the prisoner aboard
! reached here at S:45 last night, and was met
/ at the deu6t by Deputy-Sergeants Burgess
/ and Lee, who. in company with the Char
! lotiesyille officers, carried the prisoner to
/ the jail.
Nusco was taken up into the Jail office and
searched, but no weapons were found upon
/ hlm. Accused remained very silent while 10
/ the isil Office and did not seem disposed TO
/ talk. He asked fo7 something TO eat, saying
/ be was very hungry. and the jail officers
! gave him supper At the request OF Mayor
| Woods. Of CharOtiesvilic, the prisoner was
placed in irons and put in Que Of the strong
/ est cells IN the prison.
He DENIES.
A Dispatch reporter called st the jail about
/ II O'Clock, and in company with two OF the
officers visited the cell. Nusco was lying
upon couch apparently asleep, and when
/ the reporter entered did not move until his
/ name was called several times. lie then raised
/ himself upou one elbow and uncovered his
bead. when the newspaper-man asked him
! what he was arrested for.
| II do not know" he responded, and
ouietly Law down aud sgaln drew the cover
I over bis head.
The reporter again called him up, aud the
prisoner became more laxative.
"Were Won in Charlottesville yesterday
/ when Policeman Seal was ShOt?" asked the
reporter. 3,
replied the prisoner.
Where aid you stay last nightt'
"Ata colored wOman's house in Char
/ lottesgile."
"Wbat were you doing in Charlottes-
yile9"
- was on my way to Lynchburg from
! ChGrle.ton, W. Va"
"When did you leave CharlottesyilleI
"Euly yesterday morning"
"Where we're YOU going when the officer
arrested you:"
! al was irving 10 60 to Lynchburg.'
"But YOU were going toward Washing
ton" -.
81 thought was going in the right di-
recfion: did not know the way, and
( guessed that [ would get to LynchburS II
| kept on"
"Who was the man with you when the
officers saw you on the railroad track"
II don't know who he was; ] got with
him down the railroad"
"Why did you want to 60 to Lynch
burg?"
Because my father lives there"
"Can Won show at your trial that you did
not shoot the policeman"
"T don't know what i shall say, but ! was
nowhere near where the murder was COM
mitted."
''were you frightened when you reached
| Charlottesville z"
"Yes. 1 was; and the officers told ne l
had better pray
PERSONAL.
The prisoner further stated that he had
! been living in Charleston, w. Va, as &
waiter in \ boarding. house. When asked
his name by the reporter he gave no answer,
but when addressed az MuscO responded 10
the interrogations.
Musco said ne had not been able 10 sleep
since he was put in his cell (at Riehm0nd)
and had been in constant prayer and bad
found considerable rehei from his mental
anxieties.
Musco Is Eve feet six and one fourth
inches in height and appears 10 be about
twenty years OF age. Heis Of dark ginger
cake color and has Ssmooth face.
ARREST ~ WASHINGTON.
The Washington Star Of yesterday after
noon, after giving an account OF the murder.
says:
The train arriving here at 11:I3 O'Clock this
morning bore a colored man who boarded
the train at Brandy about thirty-hve miles
from CharottesvilleA and telegram was
sent by the tranmen TO Officer Acton, IN
this city, and he, on the arrival Of the train
here, in company with Special Officer Au-
eustus LSue. took the cOored man in charge
and carried him TO headquarters. lie gave
the name OF Henry Mitchell, aud protested
thst he had been in Culpepper county on
visit. and that he was on his return to his
work at Terra Gotta.
Mitchell, As the man who is arrested calls
himself, corresponds in some particulars with
the telegraphed description OF Ausco, and
hi. appearance indicates that be has walked
a long distance over muddy roads. He was
taken to the First precinct station.
THE PRISONER DISTRICT MAN.
Mitchell states that ne lives in the county
Of washington, ID. C., near Terra Gotta, with
his mother, who Is the wife Of Rev. Richard
Washington.
Passengers on the train stated that be got
on At Rappahannock about O'Clock this
morning. Persons who live there stated
that he was never seen In that locality before
-, fl,.ra this norninO II IL fllr-