Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-06-15
some SAID KILL THEM
Strong Talk at Phoebus Yes
terday Morning. f..
C0L0RED MEN ANGRY
barnes CONVICTED OF Larceny from, the
Person. Prominent Church Pan
pie In Bank Break
Ing Scheme.

Frank Chisman and wasbine+or
Dlsss, the two men in Jail here cha rees
with the abduction of Bessie Gathright
the thirteen-year-old girl who was
driven to Newport News and placed II
house of i'll fame on Twenty-Five
s.lse.' early yesterday morning, are
| perhaps unaware Of the fact thar had
they been apprehended before IL O'clock
Monday night Elizabeth City county
might have been saved the expense OF
| Trying them. Nevertheless that is true
All through the long hours of the night
during which the disturbed parents
were grieving over the loss Of their
! daughter at the hands Of men who are
said to have borne her away to lead a
Hfe OIL shame, angry and ominous
words were heard, and it Is declared
tnat the appearance Of Chisman and
Diggs would have led to speedy trial
Lynch presides. -
The girl was found yesterday after
noon by City Sergeant Milstead. OF
Newport News. and officer A1astln. of
Phoebus, in a house OF direpure on
Warwick avenue. near Twenty-second
street. Digss drove her from Phoebus
10 the house of George Pugh, on Tween
ty-thlrd street, where she remained
until she learned that the police were
on the lookout for her, when, at the
suggestion of Pugh, she took refuge
In an adjoining building. 1t was soon
found that the girl was not safe there
ana another move was made this time
her captors leading her to the house in
which Messrs. Milstead and Mastin
found her Pugh at first denied know
ing anything about the child and pro
1essed to be very much surprised that
the officers Should call at his place in
guest OF her. But a warrant charging
him with aiding in the scheme of alb
o. f ttr1 A~ It,
he quickly told all he knew.
When Bessie reached the courthouse
in this city she found her friends walt
ing for her. Upon seeing them she
broke down and wept pitiously. She is
an attractive girl. somewhat precocfod5
and as she appeared yes
terday In q becoming frock, which fit
ted her symmetrical form to perfec-
ton, and a flower bedecked hat, drawn
down to conceal her tears, she present
ed picture worth the study of a clever
painter. She told her story in the office
OF Commemorative Attorney Collier, |
but it would not be proper to make
known all that she said. Suffice it to |
in Which she was induced to 7orsaFe
her home forms. with other things that |
are known. a chain of evidence which |
Chisman and Diggs will find it hard to
break. Bessie was not actually stolen.
But it was the Importantly of Chisman,
coupled With promises which will come |
out upon the trial of the case. that
,aused her to go away. She did not ex-
oect to remain in Newport News, a fact
which accounts for her willingness to
herself from the officers after
Pugh's den of infamy in the
Rockets. Chisman told her that she
should go to Philadelphia, where she
would have fine time and enjoy her
elf as she had never done before. CHS
nan had also written her number Of
etters in which he addressed her as his
lear Wife and she. trusting him, be-
ieving that he meant all that he said,
eplied calling him her dear husband.
Messrs. Hughes and Montague, who
nave been retained by the two men.
yesterday afternoon. asked Judge Lee
o liberate them on bail. The court
however. declined to do so until he had
heard the statement Of the girl and
'ther witnesses. He will hear argu-
nent this morning at 10 o'clock.