The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-12-15
CHARGED WITH MURDER
GRAND JURY FIND "A TRUE Mill
AGAINST YOUsHEE AND JORDAN.
The Case VIM 40 Tried at the Ja"""r,
Term of the Court-No Indictments
Found Against 4. &. Green.

The December term OF the county
Court was commenced yesterday morn
ing. II WAS the nrst term held In th'
new court house building.
After Judge Wickham had formaiy
opened his new court the grand jury
was called. They are Mcssrs. Richard H.
Gum. William h. Graves. Todd Dabney'
C., l.. Miller. Alexander Brown. VI. -
Burton. Joseph Johnston. X. y Henley
and Walter L. Grant. The petit jury
were called and discharged until TINS
morning.
grand jury was that OF Charles toushee
and Frank Jordan. the two Laurel Re
formatory boys VINO are charged WIN
the murder of Edward Tinsley one OF
the guards employed at that Institution.
This was the chief case Of intciest' "'u
much speculation was expressed as 10
the final outcome.
Mr.. Alexander Gibson. one u the teach
.rs AT the Reformatory, was present. IN
charge of seven Of the Boys who h-o
been summoned as witnesses. They were
John Sterling. George Mitchell Upton
McDermon. NJ. G.. Baker. James Metric
cor. Willie Collins. and James Mcken-
ney. -.
Mr.. Gibson said the case certainly look
Cd dark for Foushee and Jordan, as from
all he could gather II was a pure case
of murder. lie stated that Tinsiey WAS
one of the most popular guards AZ the
Rcformatory and he could assign no rcd-
son for the boys act. Mr.. Gibson thinks
Jordan is not possessed of good sense
while on the other hand he Is oil the
opinion that Foushee is cool, smart
and scheming boy.
ADMITTED THE ACT
Willie Collins. one of the boys sum
moned as a witness in the case. sald
that the night after Tinsley had been
killed he said 10 Foushee rs ne entered
the mess-hall: 80 you killed Tinsley,
Gid your" Foushee replied. Yes ana !
will kill you If / get chance ana win
this he grabbed a knife from one OF me
tables and made fer Collins, but one OF
the guards interviewed.
The grand jury examined several other
indictments before they took up the one
against Foushee and Jordan 1t was
after o'clock before the grand jury
were ready TO make their report 70 the
court. The indictment against the two
bows was returned as a true bill. The
case will be tried on the first Wednesday
of the next term. Foushee and Jordan
will be represented by Messrs. Roosevelt
Page. Hardin T. Burnley, and Allan
Potts.
Foushee and Jordan were brought into
court and heard the reading Of the in
dictmcnt against them. They did not
appear at all concerned over il; in fact.
Foushee calmly smoked a cigarette. and
looked as If he considered the affair on
the whole as most interesting.
OTHER INDICTMENTS.
The indictment against County Officer
A. c. Green. who accidentally shot ana
killed Walter Wharton. a negro youth,
was returned as not n true bill.
The other following indictments were
returned by the grand jury:
George Kibby. felony. not true bill.
Eliza cambridge. Flute Joter. Roxey
Miller Stevens. Henrietta Epps. Martha
Epps. and ID. Gitlis. all colored, felony,
a true bill.
Isaiah Ross. colorcd felony, a true bill
Dandrige Dunn. colored. felony. a true
bill.
Paul Davis, colored, felony. n true bill.
The grand jury were then discharged
for the term.