Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-02-24
WIFE MURDERERS.
THREE USHuNG-oNE OF THEM AT
LARGE IN NELSON COUNTY.
Escape of Brute Dudley TO the
observation-disclosures Conventions
and Their Aims and Objccts-A
slight slcighing Accident.
Correspondence Of the Dispatch.)


ALTON, VA. February 23.-Coming
down from our mountain post-otiice the
other day, as old Dobblns logged around
the bend at Goodloe's, we opened the first
paper. and read-front page. first column:
Three AUTHORIZATIONS Who Killed
Their Wives Not Hung.-Hassan, Balti-
more. Who Cut His Wife's Throat From
Ear to Ear. Sentenced TO Eighteen
Years OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES New
York, Life-Imprisonment For Wife-Mur-
der Shot Her In the Back With Re-
volver.--Martin. Kansas City. Hanged
for Murder of Ell Stillwell "a Man,"
In the Rockflsh Valley, one and a half
miles below Alton. the first act in these
CHASTITY dramas had been enacted the
night before.
Arthur Dudley, white man. living on
the farm OF William Zimmerman,
whipped his wife severely: knocking one
eye nearly out of the socket and badly
bruisng and cutting her about the face
and head. Upon warrant gotten out
by John Spradling, Dudley was arrested
at Bakers store. and the party came on
TO Zimmerman's house, where Mrs. Dud-
ley had gone for refuge.
ESCAPED.
Dudley begged to be allowed to go In
side and speak to his wife, and Zimmer-
man halted the constable a moment In
conversation, as Dudley went In. Dudley
did not attempt to see his wife, but passed
on out the back-way, and struck out FOR
a ravine In Mays woods. He had a start
OF perhaps ten or fifteen minutes ahead
before his escape was discovered. Inc
constable, with a hastily sworn-in de-
putty. put out after him, and tracked MS
long lopes through the snow; but the
drifts and thlckets were impossible for
horses. and the prisoner got safely away
10 the mountains. He sold barrel or hour
and two sides OF bacon, the provisions IN
his cabin, to Zimmerman for 81 when ne
was first apprehended. saying ne had
no money and would need 1t II they tooh
him to Jail, etc. IL.
The wife is a poor, feeble creature, with
two little children and the near prospect
of another. Comment upon this occur
renee. which has happened right mere III
our enlighted community, Is unnecessary
or the analogy to be drawn from II ana
these wife-murders, filling the daiiy press
with horrors.
w AMON1 iIi6 pA-NAe
The woman Suffrage Convention
lately met in Atlanta, and the Naliohai
Council of Women of the United States
Is now In session in Washington, many
of them great, all OF them eOod, "on'en'
These are fighting, with their hisn noul'
nm among the stars, on the varied ques-
lions OF interest to women-rehsloh'
dress-reform temperance, womans Worh'
indian Association, League OF jewish Mo-
men. Social Purity League OF Colored Wo-
men. Farmers Alliance-eVerythihs uilueI
the sun except the simple and Needy ann
nj how 10 give a woman her share OF the
sour-barrel and the right OF ownership
in her side of a middling OF meat
NO TEMPORIZING.
n curas aominum.-and of women!
when the blood of this poor woman '"hu
many another) Ia crying Tor rehel anu
her children crying for the bread ,ne Ia"
gives the husband the right 10 sell
ice has no business temporizlnS Win
sentiment. Whether few men, under hhe
cIrcumstances. would have bought 'hese
provisions Is not q question. Hlihilicll' ia'-
II Is said. gave back part OF thein VIZ
he found Dudley was gone, thus lhan.ns
,he wife an object OF charity ior "i'a'
should have been her own ,,,h
The aleighlnR EedSOu "SNN.. ~
q snead trial on Wednesday. There were
five sleIghs running, and thsy haa pus
ono accident. Down the AlbemaIie roa9 a
Mics Nollie Goodloes horse ran OH anu
threw her out, cutting her race anu
hruIsin1 her arm, but not dangerously.
Niss Mary Hall was also tumbled upon
the snow. In the melee T. w. Goooioe
double team started to run out wa
caught by Lacy Hall The gay party so'
In safely at last. and were fully satis-
fed with the sleighing fun of 1879.
BRUIN GETS AWAY.
bie hear was seen yesterday morn
ing near Alton by the conductor Oh No
& and reported when the train came H.
4 Marty. consisting Of Messrs. James,
Iohn cris. and r w. Goodloe, WIN
pnrch. and Master Johnnie Hays. started
bo,Iv in pursuit. The dogs were soon Oh,
the scent and impromptu hunters added
along the route, but for all that oii
bruin was lost in some or the ueep "0'
lows near Greenwood. ,.,. -,
Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford Timberlake, OIL
Alberine, are visiting Captain TimoerlaSe'
of THE Farm" 49,, n
Mrs. NJ. II. Pearce. who mas oeeh ~
the neIghborhood since last summer iei'
for Norfolk Tuesday.
Mr. Clarence Goodloe. mail-agent on
the chesapeake and Ohio was at nome
a couple of days. , 9,
Miss n. A. Slower. OF stanton Is
visiting her aunt at "Willow-Wisp.