The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-01-30
PREMEDITATED MURDER.
MATHEWS DYING WORDS GRE.
ATES THIS CONCLUSION.
Further Particulars of the Cascade
TragedY-Negro Fugitive Arrested-se-
riOus Shoating ARRAY IN L-nch5urg.
FROM Al over the State.

FROM All over the State.
DANNILLE, Va, Dec. 29.-[Specal. T.
The Eanes-Mathews tragedy at Cascade. il
this county, an account Of which was tele
graphcd tHE tiNKs last night is slill ,h,
ali-abs!rbing topic IN ami around tie yil
lag "f Cascade, twenty-five miles west o
here. Thomas d. Mathews, who was sho
by Lee Eanes, died at 6.30 O'Clock this morn.
ing. A 4nec'al ca ms dying statement
put "a different face on the tragedy
lie said the Eanes boys came tC
his house and asked him 10 accom-
pany them 20 >cymours diriillerv Will,
they w"rc thoie, they drank no whisky
ana neither of the three was drunk. llar
den Ianes became 1uarrelsOme and ac
cu.ed Mathews OF a constant aud continued
refusal 20 pay a debt Of $40 he owed biz
father, iiOiDrOOk Eanes. This Mathews de-
MED and gave Eanes the lie. Harden Eanes
Then Knocked him down. and while he was
iu the act of rising Lee Eanes drew
"a pistol and shot at him iOur times. two OF
the shots taking effect. lie then drew his
knife, rushed upon Harden Eanes, who
WAS nearer 10 him ard crt him. and coh-
tinred To slash at hiu with the desperation
of wounded and dying man as long as his
strength lasted. A cOrOner's jury, sum-
mOued 90 hold am inquest over the body Of
Mathews, rendered "a verdict that he came
90 his death from pistol shot wounds in
fictcd by Lee Eanes, and that Harden
Enpo- was an accresdff.
lee lanes has ab,cOnded and mp to :
O'Clock ihis afternoon the officers had not
been able 10 find any trace OF him. Harden
Eme-, who is living a' lis fathers i'm a crit.
.ca. condition from the wounds inflicted by
Mathews. was bound over in 900 bond.
lt was rumorcd to-day that Harden
Eanes could not live until noon,
and then 10 was asserted by friends
of Mathews that Eanes is not
seriously hurt, and that the stories OF his
critical condition are sent out for effect.
However. the latest information is that the
knife wound in the abdomen is a mortal
one. that the intestnes have been severed,
and that tine man is In a dying condition
and cannot possibly survive through the
night.
Mathews VIII oe buried at o'clock to-
morrow afternoon. lie leaves a wife and
three children. Mathews, though pro-
fessioual gambler, had many good traits,
and eniOyod the confidence Ofh5 neighbOrs.
cd a- the correct one.
To-day while Clopt0n Robinson, colored
draymau. was unloading his dray on Main
street. negro named Charley Jones rushed
upon him without warning and stabbed
him n the breast with "a small pOcket-knite.
The wound inflicted was but slight. Jones
is The same negro whO during the Christ
mas holidays, attempted 10 commit suicide
because his best girl had gone back on him.
His uncerem0nlOus attack on Robinson to-
day was on account of a previous difficulty.
but 10 is believed that Jones is crazy.
Andrew Glover, negro iactpry-hand,
who boo November last assaulted and dan
cDr0u-lv, ,wolndOd Solomon stone, the
Watehmah at the Danyille and Western
depot. and then skipped the county, was
arrested at Winston. North Carolina, last
uI-ut and will be brought back bere to-
morrow Or trial
Tine shipments ~ manufactured tobacco
to-day were -. 600 pounds. The warehouses
coutiul. to Dee crowded with leaf.