Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-11-21
NORFOLK LETTER.
A Parsonage Robbed-Attempted Muir
der-A White Woman Suicides.


NORFOLK, VA, November Is, 1896.
Special services will be observed IN
St. Johns A. M. +. Church on next
Thursday, Thanksgiving day. There
will be preaching at IL =. m, by the
Lastor, Rev. DIR. ID. z. Seaton and at
which time sacrament of the Lords
Supper will be administered to old
members of the church. Follow ng
this there will be served in the lecture
room. a free dinner. To that end the
officers and their corp OF ASSISTANTS
have left nothing undone to make the
renast an excellent affair. AS they
will have plenty of refreshments, they
have decided to serve dinner at 10
cents. The proceeds to- assist in the
Incidental expenses of the church.
On the first sunday night in Novem-
her while the Rev. Dr Seaton and the
members of his household were attend
ing divine services in his church, he
officiating in the sacrament of the
Lords Supper, the parsonage was en-
| tered and burglarized by THE who
ransacked the house scattering their
furniture helter-skeiter, carrying OF all
the food in the sideboard and other
things easily to be gotten away. They
did not fiud much cash as the doctor
does not keep any in the house &c
amount to much. There is no clue tC
the thieves. AS this was the second
time the parsonage has been entered
bv thieves, the trustees have put the
parsonage in a more secure condition
About 6 80 o'clock on Saturday nigh
before last, MIR. Willie Simmon o.
North ST., Huntersville, WIN lie on the
way home from his place of business
. was struck from behind and knock
ed almost senseless- He was pass
ing through Victoria street, nea
Chick azola in Huutersville, His erie
brought assistance quickly. Had j
not he might have BEEN killed as tn
: wculd-be murderer struck him twic
: after falling with some blunt lnstru
, ment, fracturing the skull liz four pla
I, ces. Robbery must have been the oh
iect az Mr.. Simmon carried an armfu
q of packages.
,Jethro flock, a juvenile class of TIA
I order X. S and ID of Moses gave
e very pleasant entertainment on Tues
:. day in Odd Fellows Hail, Butte Street
, under the management of Mr.. Abrs
e ham Carter. the father of the flock.
was of a literary character. The bi
~ lights of the order were present an
- spoke encouragingly of the future {
y the order. A banner was presented {
~ the class by Rev. r IL. Bowling of th
Butte st Baptist Chnrch in an exec
- lent and eloquent talk of about fiftee
minutes, after which the large numb'
n of guest present repaired TO the roci
- beloW where refreshments were
!, abundance to satisfy the most fastid
"a Gus.
- On last Sunday afternoon, Nam
Brickhouse, a white woman residing
- NJ 1SQ N fhA fal
derloin district attempted suicide b
shooting herself in the upperpart
al the body as she laid on her bed. IT.
1e ball passed entirely through the boo
no and the bed and lodged in the floor b
he meath. The weapon, a Smith x We
e. son 80 calibre were the property of
,s- j. Powers, an engineer on one OF &
air Plant Line of steamers, who was t
n only witness and whose leaving TO
ed gone for sometime from his friend W
he declared that she could live witho
cir him, gave rise to the rash act
mt Fred Mart tin, living with WON
he whom he called his wife took up qua
or ters in a boarding house at "a Fe
church street and were regarded al
ur peaceable and good family until ye
ial tarday afternoon he went to his roc
nh and fired two shots in her body Giro
ST. which she died Wednesday, turni
It then, he placed the weapon to himse
ha shooting himself three times, dying
most instantly.
Officer J. E. Osborne, one of Norfol
finest of the re-instated police fol
ell was arraigned before tia police co
of missioners. charged with intoxicati
az. and INSTRUMENTATION to the Sergea
nd He was fined 500 and ordered to apo
of gize to the Sergeant. The commissiC
I'd. ers are strictly in it and do not fail
of execute the rules impartially.
NRDL