The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-23

gu at tHe 'pacK with the sword. i MAD
hardly got to the front door when I
heard q crash. The time I heard the
| crash some pistols began to fire -Four
shots Were fired in the house. AS I
got In Mr. Jones had staggered back q
little and swlped at them with the sword.
This was after the shots were fired An
this occurred inside the house Rogers
and Wilsonwere just inside the doorway.
The third one was standing right In
the centre of and behind them, with q
pistol over their shoulder pointing at
me. He said: II Will shoot you, you
--- II you come another inch
towards me-" This was Nottingham.
Al. made a remark to me that he was
turned around and walked to the front
porch with the sword in his hand: then
he turned right around and started back
In the house. He then dropped the
tor He said he thought he was dy-
Ing. started off for u doctor. Mrs.
Mamie Brooks and Annie Putnam were
In the room at the time. 1 don't know
whether the door was broken In. The
apprentices boy was behind them. He
did not come in until after the shooting.
INSERT b ETAOIN SIDRPSH
This testimony was corroborated by
that of Ernest Jackson, Tew's appren-
tice, and Annie Putnam. an inmate of
the house in which the shooting oc-
Cured. The story of the arrest of
Rogers was then told
A. c. Cromwell. being sworn, said:
l heard on nay way from Portsmouth
That there was man shot i went by
the Ocean View depot about ten minutes
TO 3. and while / was there l learned
that one of the parties who was accused
OF tine shooting was ON his way ito Ocean
View. got on the train and looked
to the right and left going down, and
after 1 got there L remained there until
the 8 O'Clock train started for Norfolk
About THE time the train started learn
ed that this man was between Poole's
store and Ocean View. j went to the
motoimanl and told him III I gave him
signal 4 wished Thim to stop I looked
out II the front of the car, and saw the
party who i thought was the man l
wanted. I gave the motorman the sig
nal and he stopped. Il got off the car
and made the arrest. We got on the
car again and started for Norfolk 1 i'm
mediately searched him. but did not find
gun. l asked him where his gun was
what he had did with it-and ne told me
he had threw 1t away. 1 asked him if
he would take me to where he threw it
and he said he would. We d.d go there
and foundh. The prisoner who arrest
ed by Rogers. Only one cartridge was
left in the pistol. I told him Whatever
he did, to tell the truth about It. He
knew who was.
AgnuS Mcneil, sworn, said: About
II: 80 O'Clock on the day of the shooting
went for glass Of beer into the saloon
| a.. the corner OF Kelly avenue and Broad
Creek road During THE time was
there q ru;h was made in by five men,
Including THE three prisoners They
were all laughing and joking, and one.
alluding to the other, said they didn't
do That thing right at the Ocean View
Depot. They We're very joyous. They
had their drinks and a man named Coop
er paid for their drinks. They called for
another, and then Cooper and u man
named Sykes went out of the door RuR-
| ers went out where ,they were stand
Ing and pulled a pistol out and poi,ited
1t towards Cooper and said: How would
you Hike to have that? I'll have blood
| on this Tonight" They came sn then
and Wilson went out by himself and
fumbled ait something. 1t was a pistol
| and he examined it. During this time
Nottingham was sitting down joking
as to who would pay for the drinks. AS
they were coming out one of them said,
DON'T know which: "Lat us clear the
id ranch out, and be clever about
It; don't let us do as we did this morn
ing" The next thing l saw the whole
hVe were going In a straight line for the
house In which the murder occurred. 7
i've at corner of Highland and Kelly
avenues.
AFTER the examination of McNeill n
statement OF the result of the autopsy
by DR., LomaX Gwathmey was read,
ana Coroner Charters told about the
death of Jones.
The case was then given to the jury,
ana verdict that Jones came to his
death by pistol shot wounds. inflicted
by one or more of the prisoners. was
returned.
The three young men were then taken
back to the county jail
ANOTHER MURDERER CApTupEn