The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-17
THE SHERIFF RETURNS
To Lunenhurg WIthOutthe Company Of Either
Sergeant Epps or the COlorad People.
LATE MANAGEMENT OF THE GAS WORKS.
There IN No Small Pox In the Pcnitcn.
tinry, Rnt Consumption Rcigns
Supreme-what Bishop Ekenne says
OF the Man Maxwell, Whose Wife
Expresses such Confidence In.

Richmond, Va, Nov. 16.-(speclql)
--Sheriif Ctardoza, who has been IN
Richmond all the week trying TO get
the Lunenburg prisoners into his GUS
tody. left for home to-day empty
handed. City Sergeant Epps Is sick
from nervous prostration and was un-
able to go with him. Mr.. Cardoza will
probably return here within a week
for the Court of Appeals will decide
the case by next Thursday. Meantime
the prisoners are In the custody of the
CITY Sergeant by order of the Cover
nor and Judge Wexford. The course
OF the Executive and the Judge is be-
ing criticised by nearly all the mem
berS OF the bar who have expressed
themselves on the subject. ! have not
heard IL single lawyer say the Cover
nor had any authority of law for what
he has done.
There was a rumor yesterday TO
the effect that smallpox had broken
out in the penitentiary. but the re-
port had no foundation whatever. DR..
Ben. Harrison the prison physician,
tells me that the health of the prisoners
Is as good as he has ever known 1t to
he. The most fatal disease i'm the pen
itentinry is consumption The ventila-
ton is poor, and when n person with
weak lung Is carried there he or she
has not long to live. This is matter
worthy of the attention of the Legislu-
y.
fault Of the penitcntiury officials. They
DO the best they can, but the matter
| Is one that calls for the most careful
consideration at the hands of the law
makers.
The investigation of the affairs at
the Gas Works Is developing II most
deplorablc condition of affairs under
the administration of the late Superin-
tendent w. G. Adams. 1t has been
1,,-,, =, n
Adams told bidders for supplies just
how much to bid to get the contract
There was no sort of system of hook
keeping. and IL will never be known
what the city has lost. Another thing
brought out is that Mr.. John r.
mittee on Light, bought up orders of
employees on their pay and charged
them interest as high as ten per cent
per month.
Bishop John ]. Keanc. of the Catho-
ic University at Washington. has been
shown II picture of the Mr. Maxwell
who formerly managed for the Mason
Telephone Company, and he is posi-
tive that 1t was this person whom he
The impression that the Maxwell who
has recently married is the same who
lately resided In Richmond is becOm-
ing stronger. Mrs Maxwell No. I has
Just written here expressing her conf
dencc In her husband and saying he
has explained everything to her salts
faction.
The case of j. II. Hill. the negro law
Yer. whose second trial began in the
lienrico Count Court yesterday morn
ing. was given to the jury to-day and
after fifteen minutes deliberation n
verdict of guilty with penalty Of two
years Imprisonment in the penitentia-
ny was returned. Hills offence was de-
frauding n Gent by obtaining money
from him by false representation. on
the first trial he was found guilty and
given one year i'm the penitcntiary He
appealed and obtained n new trial from
the Circuit Court