Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-15
ARE STILL AT LARGE.
MURDERERs OF POLICEMAN AUS
TIN NOT YET APpREHENDED.
NONE OF The SUSPECTS GUILTY.
Five Are Held, Howevcr-Two Men
I'm Custody at Orange, and Officers
Have been Sent for Them-Rewnrd
Raised to 5000.
Raised to 5000.

Raised to 500.
Locked IN the various cells Of the Sc
cond Police Station are five negroes
three yellow and two black ones-who
were arrested in various cities adjacent
to Richmond, on suspicion that they were
implicated in the murder Of Policeman
Robert d. Austin Not one OF the hve,
however, appear to have known aught or
the murder until they were arrested. or
this the police are confident, yet they are
holding them in hopes that something may
turn up which will give them a clue on
which to work.
1t is likely that by breakfast-time this
morning the number will be added to, as
Policemen Gibson and Folkes left last
| night on the 1890 Chesapeake and Ohio
| train for Orange Courthouse, where the
| two negroes who were seen to jump from
a train Monday night have been captured
About o'clock last evening Chief-of-
| Police Howard received a telegram from
| Town Sergeant Grymes, Of Orange, adj
vising him that he had captured two ne
| RrOeS VINO accurately duS"NiNN wv
scription Of the murderers as given on
| Major Howards postal, sent broadcast
through Virginia on the day OF the MUIR
| der.
| ARE FROM LYNCHBURG.
nh. Cb,.f asked for a description of the
men and some further details Of their ar
| rest and WAS told that they at FIRST
| claimed their residence as Atlanta, bul
| unon being closely questioned, gave their
names az Lee and Bill Early, sons OF
Branch Early, of No. 40 Taylor street.
Ivnchburg. Chief Howard at once com
nunicated with the Chief of Police IN
Lvnchburg, who wired him that there
was such a man as Branch Early nvins
on Taylor street, in that city, and that ne
had two sons, both Of whom are notorl-
GUS characters.
chief Howard then detailed Messrs.
| Gibson and Folkes to go to Orange Court
| house after the prisoners, and hopes that
no has the right men. He is under the
impression that one of the men is son
| Of Branch Early, and that the other has
| simply taken the name and passed OIL as
| his brother. According to the orange
| Sergeant. they are not at all alike, ana
! are hardly related to each other
! The police of Richmond are working IN
defatigably to apprehend the murderers
| of their comrade and everything that
| even smacks Of a clue is run to earth.
Any number of false trails have been
started, and some of the officers have
been on duty almost necessarily since
! Monday.
| THE CHARLOTTESVILLE ARREST.
Early yesterday morning Sergeant Cosby
returned from Charlottesville, having
in custody James Lindsay, the negro who
! was thought to have been one OF the rHur-
derers AS soon, however, as Mr. Bern'
stein. one of the witnesses to the MUIR
der. set eyes upon him he asserted that
| he was not the man. Lindsay tells very
straight story of his movements. He
saws he is from Reidsville. n. c., and was
en- route via Lynchburg and Charlottes-
Vile to Washington, when arrested He
disclaims ever having been in Richmond
! before. and the police believe his story.
The two Fredericksburg suspects, Henry
Minor and John Fields, somewhat re-
semble the men wanted, but the pohce
| do not think they are the right ones
They reached Richmond yesterday after
| noon at o'clock, under the care OF
! Policeman Foster, and were marched
| direct to the Second Station. Both or
them claimed to have been from caro-
line county. and said they left Newport
News last week. Minor, the short, black
negro, was more talkatiye than ms COM
panion, and said that he was In Rlchnnohd
Sunday night, and when on Monday morn
ing he learned that policeman had been
shot he made tracks.
THOUGHT THEY HAD HIM.
Bright hopes entered the breasts OF the
officers yesterday morning when news
was received that man had been located
on Hospital street under very suspicious
circumstances. He was confined in a
room. and a number of bloody articles
of clothing lay around. He answered the
| description of the murderer and Chiet
Howard Immediately dispatched Detec-
tive Gibson, Sergeant Werner, and Oh1cer
Amos to the spot. Investigation proved
that the man had been fighting with a
woman, and hence the blood on the cloth-
ing. He was arrested, however, and car
ried TO the Second Station, where he gave
the name OF William Fraser.
A negro named John johnson, VINO was
thought TO answer the description or one
of the murderers, was arrested yester-
day in Petersburg, and captain Angie
went over after him. He turned out not
to be the man, but the Captain brought
him back TO the city, and ne Is no"
locked up at the station. lie does no
at all resemble the murderer. so those
who saw him say. Johnson claims TO Dc
a resident of Richmond but says he mas
not been here in some months.
; A telegram was received last night iron
Officers Wren, Sowell, Sutton, and Eos
: ter who are at Scottsville. They say
that they have exhausted every clue ina
presented itself TO them, and that the!
, have discovered naught that would leat
to the arrest of the murderers.
THINKS THEY ARE IN RICHMOND
Chief-of- Police Howard In converse
tion with a Dispatch man last night, sale
, that his men were working as hard al
q body of men could, and were doins
, | everything they could to assist In bring
. | ing 10 Justice the slayers OF their com
rade. He asserted that he proposed Z
follow every clue that presented itseii
no matter how remote ii might be, ant
exnressed the belief that the murderer
we're still within the borders of this city
, he Is imbued with the idea that they ar
concealed somewhere in Jackson ware
and saws he purposes securing that ter
l ritory for them.
He is determined that the murderer
a shall be caught, and Mayor Taylor
= equally as anxious TO have them appie
A bended. To this end he on yesterday II
h erased the reward originally onereu 10
I the men from 800 TO 500. The pohc
v force and its friends will also raise
n Children should always
e :a,ca IN ,ueiUht Not &c