The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-02-09
TRIED TO. POISON MILK
Serious Charge Preferred Against John B.
CLANCY BY His Employer,
he bio II our OF A Spirit Of REVENGE
Luckily IT Wns discovered In TIme to
Prevent Serious tecsults-Cnse con.
tinuea Until To-la3-Ncws OF Jus.
tice .Tomlin's Court-Arrcstcd ms n
Suspicious Characters.

Justice =. II. Hawks, OF Norfolk coun-
ty,iyesterday called the case OF John e.
Clancy, an employe of the Bloomsdale
Dairy, which supplies about go families
IN this city, on the Very serious charge
or attempting TO poison the supply of
milk served to the dairy's patrons Sun
Day morning. The Justice continued
the case until II o'clock this morning,
when It will be thoroughly investigated.
clancy was milllnian, aid has been
employed by Mr.; b. Ferret, Jr., the
proprietor Of the dairy, for more than
four years. Sunday morning an alterca-
ton arose between the two men about
some trivial detail, and it IS said that
clancy made threats at the time. Mr.
Ferret thought nothing further or the
matter. however, until after lie had de-
NVered milk to two or three dozen Gus
toners, when he discovered that It look
ed peculiar and there was apparently
deposit In the cans. He returned to
the customers who had been served and
took the milk back. explaining the cir
cumstances as far Is lie could: He then
went to the police station and swore out
q warrant for Clancey's arrest. It was
placed In the hands OF Detective AIRING
ton and Ruddick. who went on a search
for Clancy, finding him in Church
street dairy lunch house. On examin-
Ing him they found something like sui
phur under his finger nails. He denied
that he had tempered with the milk, but
said that he had been using sulphur on
a sick cow. which Mr.. Ferret enes.
When the prisoner was taken before
Justice Hawks 4 sample Of the milk was
also carried there, and upon examina-
ton by DIR. Baxter he decided that 1t
contained sulphur. AS Mr.. Ferret has
missed bottle OF beladonna from his
medicine chest further expert examina-
ton of the milk will be made before the
case is disposed of. The Bloomingda1e
~ cI n taff tt,x Nh
Bridge road. not very far from the city.
Mr.. Ferret has PAT morning customers
100 OF whom talle the milk for young
children.
POLICE COURT RECORD.
William Wind. colored disorderly CON
duct a the ferry wharf; fined $3.50.
William Mclaughlin, a lame youth,
Philadelphia authorities, was held for
five days.
Jane Washington, colored, abusive
language; fined 81.
Mary Bailey, feloniously assaulting
Roger Morgan. colored; fined $1,000
Richard Scott, larceny Of % cents
worth Of porksteak from Nelson Jen-
kins; fined 81.
George Wilson, colored, sick vagrant;
five days in the jail hospital.
c. A. Phelps colored, larceny Of SIG,
the property of Rosa Macklin. colored !:
released upon his own recognigance
William Watson, colored, interfering
with an officer; dismissed
Jonh Ward, colored, wife-bea!ing; dis
missed by paying cost of court.
Willie Watson and Brooks Turner,
both colored, who stole oranges from T.
ID. Hart at the City Market, were too
small 10 be sent to prison, and were
whipped II the Jail by relatives.
APPEALED HIS CASE.
ID. d. Lawrence, OF Portsmouth, who
was sent TO Jail for two months upon
the charge Of stealing an overcoat from
Mr.. John Allen appealed his case 10 the
Corporation Court. and was released
under bond OF $50, with his father, j.
X. Lawrence, surety.
MERELY LOST HIS WAY.
"A. Light, 4 white man from Bruins
wick county, left his satcheI, containing
SIG. at boarding house on Commercial
Place Saturday night. He then started
out TO See the town, but lost his hear
inEs. He was subsequently arrested as
a suspicious character, but Justice Tom
lin discharged him.
WILL ORDER HIS RELEASE
Information has been received in Nor
folk that negro man has been arrest ed
in Plymouth, n. c., on the charge of
criminally assaulting colored woman
in this city. Chief OF Police Do-nn and
the CommonweaGl's Attorney have
looked intP. tlle matter, and believing
from the evidence IVA Eable that .co1l-
s esea % eS@ pf e. h ess neen de