Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-06
THE NEGRO BURGLAR
CAPTURE OF WASH. FIELDS, THE AS
sAnANT OF DR.. WHEELER.
IT.. rconxict Confesses--Great Excite
ment-Dr. wheeier's Narrow Escape
Co,I,s,on Damages Recovered.
rsnoo,al Telegram 70 tho Dispasch.l

noon n uas learned that the murderous
negro burglar Wash. Fields was secreted IN
a house in Huntersville. lmmediateiy
Chief Pettis. with Captain Mordica ana
Officers John o. Pitt. Heppel, and Prince,
proceeded TO the house of colored wo-
man in Briggs row. on Church street e1-
tended, and reinforced by Special oihcer
Fast and Mr.. Wood, OF the county, rushed
in and captured Fields.
IDENTIFIED BY BIS WOUNDS.
II was found that he had two WOUNDS In
his head and face, showing that poJh sn0ts
fred by DIR. Wheeler had taken enect. Inc
first shot struck Fields on the night SIDE OF
the head. and following the scalp came
ont ON tbe left side. The second shot en-
tered lust below and back of the Ieit ear
and came out near the nose.
ACKNOWLEDGED HIS cRISEs.
Fields acknowledges that he was the
burglar. but saws the cutting was done DY
a pocket-knif with n blade about two
inches long. He says that Sam. Hender-
son was his accomphce and was on watch
on the outside of the house.
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
Fields was at once taken to the station
house. and his arrest created great excite
ment, crowds being about the station
house. Henderson is Glso in Jail. The ne,
gro Fields is well known 10 the police, ana
has been arrested numbers OF tunes ior
robbery.
AN Ex-CoNyICT.
He has inst served a term in the ,penlten-
tiary for robbery committed IN the Nest
End. having only been back TO the CITY
about a month. His picture adorns the
rogues' gallery in the police station.
CONDITION OF DIR. AND MRS. WHEELER.
DIR. William A. Wheeler and Mrs.
Wheeler are getting along very comfort
ably to-day under the care Of DR.. D. 1.
Francis. One of the slashes Of tho Negroes
razor would doubtless have caused the
Doctors death but for the fact that a
leather pocket-book in one Of the front
rockets of his trousers shielded the
femoral artery from the keen blade. The
burglar in his flight left his hat behind, a
brown Derby, which is now at the police
Mrs. Sophia C. Parks, wife of Commo-
dore Marshall Parks, died suddenly at her
residence on Freemason street this morn
inc. She was q sister Of DIR. ). X. Jackson,
of this city.
DEATH OF A PRINTER.
A strange printer named William Low
ther died NJ St. Vinceut's Hospital yeste r
day of pneumonia. He reached Norfolk
last Saturday. and held travelllng-card
from Columbia Typographical Union,
Washington, ID. c. tie Is thought 10 be
from New York. The remains were buried
by Norfolk Typographical Union this
morning.
In the United States Court yesterday the
schooner John W. Hall recovered 81 1876
from the Merchants and Miners Steamship
Companv for damages in a collision with
the steamship Chatham III Hampton
Roads.
Postmaster Claude VI. Wilson, of Great
Bridge, Norfolk county, died ut his home
YESTERDAY. .-..-
fuse to allow Canadians who come here in
the cotton season TO join their organlza-
ton. The Canadians work for less than
the association men.
NAVAL NEWS.
Medical-Director Chris J. Cleborne has
been detached from the charge of the
United States Naval Hospital here and IS
ordered TO the hospital at Chelsea, Mass.
Medical-Director Il. c. Dean succeeds DR..
Cleborne.
A draft of seamen was sent yesterday
from the receiving-ship Franklin to the
United States steamer Petrol, IN Hampton
Roads.
During the month Of November there
were fifteen deaths in Portsmouth, ten Of
which number were colored. This is much
less than last year.
On Sunday morning Rev. A. f. Owen, d.
d., pastor of Court-Street Baptist church,
will preach his nineteenth anniversary ser
mon in Portsmouth. The Doctor is full of
vim and energy and good for many years
hard work yet in the Baptist ministry.
DIED or HIS INJURIES.
Young Bernard S. Welsh, of Portsmouth,
a fireman on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway, who was terribly crushed while
coupling cars at Hinton, ". Va, about
week ago. died last night of his injuries.
He was twenty-five years of age and un-
married. The remains will arrive here to-
morrow from Newport News.
Mr.. X. johnson Nicely, one of the oldest
lumber merchants and manufacturers in
this section, died at his home on North
street, in Portsmouth, this morning from
consumption. He came to Portsmouth
thirtv-six years ago from Bucks county,
Pa, and started lumber-mills at Franklin,
Southampton county, and amassed consid-
cradle wealth. He married a Miss Ridley,
of southampton, who survives HIM with
several children. He was si1ty-three years
OF age.