Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-16
BEHIND THE BARS.
The Nurderers Of 0fdc,r Robert Austin
Bpprehended in This City.
POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED LAST HIGHT.
The Police Confident That They Have
the Right Meu in Custody.
MANY SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
The Darkies Correspond to a Nfcety
TO the Desert ptfon of the Nurdersrs,
and the Yellow Boys Clothing
Matches the Coat Found.

The two men who murdered Policeman
Austin on the corner of Fifth and Broad
streets. early Monday morning. are now
safely lodged behind the bars of the Sc
cond Police Station. and give their names
as Edward Boud and John Dumas.
There is no doubt in the minds of the
police that they are the night men. They
were positively Identified last evening by
two of the witnesses TO the tragedy, and
though they deny most emphatically that
they were in Richmond AT the time of
the shooting, they are unable TO give
connected account of their movements
and their statements are conflicting In
many details.
The police, though they have secured
every hole and corner in the country ad-
iacent to Richmond and have followed
every clue that offered any promise OF
the apprehension of the murderers, have
all along contended that the men they
wanted would be found within the pre-
cincts of Jackson Ward and such proved
to be- the case. The men were appre-
hended at an early hour yesterday morn
ing asleep in bad together at che True
Rsfosmers clearinghouse, corner Of
Sixth and Baker streets.
THE HOUSE WATCHED.
Captain Angle. Of the Second District.
received information Thursday night late.
that the men were at that boarding
house. His informant told him that they
had come there under rather suspicious
1T
since their arrival had been such as to
give rise TO suspicion. The Captain or
dered that the house be watched during
the night. and shortly after daybreak.
Sergeant Brooks, in company with OH
GERS Amos and Werner. entered the room
I'm which the two suspects were sleeping.
They answered in detail the description
given by the witnesses to the murder.
and when the policemen awakened them
and told them that they were under ar
rest, the yellow boy at once asked:
what do you want us for; for the MUIR
der of that policeman
"WhO said anything about the muir
der of a policeman qUeried Officer
Amos.
1--WE heard about Il I'm Petersburg"
was the darkys reply. "a policeman
| over there told us that we had better no,
| be charged with numbering the policeman
here"
CLOSELY INTERROGATED.
No other words were spoken by tho
men. They quietly arose from their beC
| and dressed, after which they Were taker
| 10 the Second Station and locked up
| Commonwealth Richardson
| was sent for by Captain Angle. and Sc
| parately. for a couple Of hours each. hi
| examined the negroes. He Piled then
| with questions and made them tell pretty
much all they knew. ana a great dea
that they did not know.
The black negro gave his name as Johr
| Dumas. and the yellow one said that his
| name was Edward Boud. The former
| claimed his home as Norfolk. and the lat
| ter said he was from Baltimore. They
| both. however, subsequently claimed theii
| homes 70 be i'm Macon. Ca, and said they
were hotel-waiters. and had been working
| in Florida hotels, and were en- route from
| the land of flowers TO the northern re-
sorts. Dumas said that he had been EN-
| ployed as a waiter i'm the Carlton Hotel
| at Jacksonville, Fla, and afterwards was
| a porter az the Ponce de Leon. in St Au
| gustine. When pinned down. however
| and asked to describe the Ponce de Leon
| he recanted, and said that he meant the
| Ponce de Leon a Atlantic City. This lat
| told that Boud had asserted that he Du-
mas had never left Jacksonville sst win
| ter