Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-16
THE SHOT WASFATAL
rArrEsoN FIRES UPON a
rursr. KILLING HIM.
NEGRO LIVED BUT A FEW MINUTES.
49,. Rniiromd Man Did Not Know
che Rail Had Taken Eject Until
che warrant Was served Upon
utm-Granted Bail.

Mr.. James L. Patteson, foreman OF
..r inspectors in the Chesapeake and Ohio
..no.av wards, who resides at No. 81
80, cary street, shot John Edward Jones.
-olored youth OF Is years, yesterday
,,o~,,ng about els. and the boy died in
49,. tban a half hour afterwards from the
,qe,is Of the wound.
AIR. Patteson was just getting up, when
-o.ss In the yard below attracted him TO
,t. window. Looking out he saw Jones
..tsa bundle from under the back porch
a., n Sly way and about to steal of. Mr..
r,r.son got his pistol quickly. and, re-
Coming TO the window. hailed the dis
,r..aring boy. and then fired.
rrare was no outcry from the boy,
,t.m DE saw no more. and, concluding
r.f DIS aim had failed, he thought no
mos. of 10.
THE BOY SOON DIED.
81. WAS different with the boy, however.
III. bullet. OF 80 calibre had entered his
IN breast Just under the collarbone and
zone almost vertically through the left
Inns coming out at the back seven inchey
i.e.r down. Jones ran from Mr.. Pate
s.r.s house after being shot as far as
r5s-,h and Byrd streets. BY this time
~ WAS weak from loss OF blood, and
-.t.4 a c0lored man who was passing 10
steady him against post This was
..r. He soon requested his attendant
.5 fst him down to the street, and this
done also. he died almost Immediately.
MR.. PATERSON NOTIFIED.
The first inking that Mr.. Patteson had
tbat the ball fired by him had taken
eject and resulted fatally was given him
bv Policeman Wren at the Orleans-street
wards where the officer served a war
r.rt which had been sworn out by Police
man Foster. Mr.. Patteson went imme-
dIateIy with the officer. and remained at
the Second Police Station until after the
inquest yesterday afternoon.
The Coroner. DR.. W. II. Taylor viewed
tho body Of the young negro shortly after
bis death. and deciding that he died from
The sh0t-wound. turned the body over
-1 friends for burial He had the fol-
lowing jury summoned, holding the in
quest in the City Hall in the afternoon:
George Bargamin. w. d. Schleit. r. II.
Bah. Henry Asher. Willie o. Belts. and
Joseph Myers. a number Of witnesses
were examined. among whom was Mrs
PattesOn wife Of the car-inspector. The
story told by her and the others was that
gwen above.
ACQUITTED AND BAILED.
The jury. at the close Of the testimony,
pronounced the killing justifable homi-
eide. thus generating Mr.. PattesOn from
an blame. Their verdict is as follows:
THAT John Edward Jones came TO his
18th day Of August. 1895. by James L.
Patteson. while said Jones was engaged
i1 stealing from James L. Patteson. and
the jury are OF the opinion that the
shooting was justifable.
Mr. III. VI. Smith. Jr., counsel for Mr..
Patteson. applied TO Judge Witt for bail
for his client, which was granted him in
1900.
He is 10 appear in the Police Court this
morning for preliminary hearing.
Negro Driver Crushed 10 Death.
William Brannock. a colored man. en-
ployed as q driver for the Virginia North
Carolina Wheel Company. fell yesterday
afternoon from one of the horses to the
WAGON which he was driving. and being
caught under the wheels his brains were
crushed out. Death resulted almost inn
mediately. Coroner Taylor was sum-
mOned. ana having seen the remains and
heard the account Of his death. deemed
an inquest unnecessary. The body was
given 10 friends for burial. William is
said 10 have had doing propensities
when on his wheel horse, and some thinl
he was mapping, and therefore fell off
Or. Taylor thinks, however. that he ha(
sunstroke. The horses did not ruI
away. but William feet became en-
tangled in the bride. AS DR.. TaylO
puts it. they just walked on until William
went under the wheels.
COIored Woman Dies Suddenly.
Martha Nenable, a colored woman, o.
g. years fell from her chair at her home
No S2S west Leigh street. about oclocl
Yesterday afternoon, and expired imme
diatelv Or. Taylor viewed the body
and pronounced the cause Of her dealt
heart disease. The remains We're giveI
10 friends TO be buried.