Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-30
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
NEAR DARLINGTON nnrcHrs, m
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY.
KILLED HlrH 4 Shotgun.
Hall Carter the yictim-shot FIRED
by Thomas W. Price-Haa p..n
Great Friends-Price Arrested-His
Account Of the Homicide.

FARMvILLE. VA. July 2s.-fspec,aI,-
a terrible homicide was committed at ar
early hour this morning in the room O,
Mr.. Thomas w. Price. near Darlington
Heishts. AS a result. Price is in Prince
reward jail, at this place. and his once
happy home. as well as that OF his VIC
tim. Mr.. Hall Carter, Is shrouded in sad
ness and gloom.
Inomas Carter is q man 6s years of age.
a prominent and prosperous farmer.
with him worked Price. and Hall Carter.
n son OF Theodore Carter, a highly re-
spected and well.to-do- citizen OF Prince
coward. Young Carter and Mr.. Price
worked together without a jar, and were
apparently strongly attached 10 each
other. They were together in Farmvillc
yesterday. About one hour before day this
morning Carter went to the mi OF
Price, who. with his wife, was sleeping,
and waking him from his slumber asked
him to get up and have an early break
fast. Nothing further Is stated on the
side of the murdered mans friends other
than that Price arose. and Selling a gun,
shot the young man dead.
PRICES STATEMENT.
Price was brought here this evening
Tor imprisonment. and when seen by the
Dispatch reporter tonight, made the fol-
lowing statement: Before day Carter
came TO my bed, and waking me, ordered
mat / get up and get breakfast. / do not
remember what L, said TO him, but Just
as / got out of my bed he threw me to
the floor and began choking me. As soon
as he got off of me / ran for the gun.
swinging across the room in a rack, but
Garter reached the gun first, and seized
1t by the muzzle end. 1 caught hold OF
the stock. and while the scufie was in
progress, the muzzle was turned to his
side, and / pulled the trigger
Price then went on TO say that Carter
fell perfectly dead instantly. not uttering
a word. He also said he was on the best
of terms with the young man, never
having had a disagreeable word with
him, and that he was one OF the best
boys he ever knew. When asked why 1t
was that Carter choked him, Price de-
clared he had not the remotest idea Price
Incidentally remarked that for one OF his
extreme aga he was the most muscular
man In the county, whereupon the re-
porter inquired IL II wouldn't have been
better had ne simply brought his muscu-
lar force into play and overcome Carter?
To his he replied mo-" saying he would
kill any man who choked him.
THE ONLY WITNESS.
He stated that his wife was the only
witness to the shooting. she being an in
valid, lying awake at the time. Both fam
flies are well connected. and everybody
in the county will be shocked and grieved
on hearing Of the terrible tragedy.
Price is confined in the steel cage oc-
cupied so many months by Solomon
Marable, the murderer Of Mrs. Pollard.
On concluding my conversation with him
tonight i asked him If he had any re-
grets for What he had done, and he said
emphatically No" He seems as indiffer-
ent to the matter as If it was not a
human being that had been launched into
eternity. 1t was stated by some one from
the neighborhood of the shooting that
when the gun was fired Hall Carter was
fleeing from the house. 1t Is reported that
there is great excitement in the neigh
borhood.