Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-13
IMPORTANT ARRESTS.
SUPPOSED MuRDERERs or POLICE.
MAN AUSTIN hrPREHENDED.
MORE ARRESTS MAY Be MADE.
Police on Trail. and Expect to Sur
round and Capture other FuEi-
Uves--FuneraI of the Dead Omcer
20 TuIxr Place This Afternoon.

are stu at large, nut tine SuiiV"h""e
country is being secured by score or
more OF the most clever members or the
police force, and it seems almost lmpossi-
bic for the fugitves to escape the hands
OF the law.
Up to early this morning the negroes
had not been apprehended; or, at least
no report that they had been captured
had been received at police headquarters
but it is thought that the two men are
now so surrounded that it will only be
question OF few hours before they VIII
fall into the hands OF the officers.
About $40 o'clock last night Captain An
gle received n message from Mr. Luck
who lives at Pole Green, stating that
three negroes had come to his place, and
seemed to be almost exhausted, and that
the appearance of two of them tailed
with the description given of the men
who are wanted for the murder of Mr..
Austin. Mr.. Luck reported that he wOuld
endeavor TO use some pretext TO detain
the men, until officers could arrive from
Richmond. Captain Angle immediately
sent Officers Talley and Bailey to Pole
Green. which is about fifteen miles from
this city.
TWO MEN AT ORANGE.
1t is believed that the men mentioned
I'm the following telegram, received from
the Dispatch correspondent at orange
are the negroes who are wanted;
The telegram reads as follows:
'erwo negroes supposed to be the muir
/ Ill
on Chesapeake and Ohio Train No. 2 as
II rolled into orange this morning at 40.
Sergeant Grimes and several private citi-
zens wee vn t.. LOCKOUT. and as the
train stopped both negroes jumped, ana
i'm the darkness lodged their pursuers
around freight-cars. lumber piles, and
LOT of machinery. officer Grimes fired as
they left the car, but they only ran the
faster. -
TOOK TO THE WOODS.
eft is supposed that they took to the
woods. as no trace Of them can be round
along the line The southern people nave
block telegraph officers every two miles
and the numerous operators nave seen
nothing of them. officers Wren, Sowell'
and sutton arrived at Orange to-day ana
after receiving further instructions from
CHIEF Howard went to Rapidan station
70 watch for them. At this hour-S:o I.
M-the officers have seen nor heard no
thing of them"
SUPERINTENDENT C. G. Walker, Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio. last night received
p telegram from the operator at Rapi-
dan. requesting the official TO inform cap
tain Angle that Messrs. Wren and suit
ton wished two officers sent to Alexan-
dria 10 work across the country In the
o,l there
Cantain Angle will this morning send
Officers Werner and Gibson TO perform
the above duty Captain Angle thinks
that the men who jumped of the train
NJ Orange were the negro murderefs
and that they are working their way to-
wards Fredericksburg or Alexandra. The
idea i'm sending Messrs. Werner and Glib
son 10 Alexandria Is to head these men
! off and either capture them, or drive
them back in the direction OF Rapidan
where their retreat VIII be cut on ny
Werner and Sutton, who are working this
| way.
MANCHESTER JAtL-BIRDS.
Last Monday six negroes were arrested
| IN Manchester as tramps, and were
worked in the chain-eang untu Friday.
when they were released one was q
zero with q wooden. or peg leg" while
| of the men who shot Officer Austin.
| Officer Clarkson yesterday arrested n
| "nag-lep" negro in the "slashes" on the
| Richmond. Fredericksburg and Potomac
| railroad and lodged him in the Third
| Police Station. The man gave the name
of + V. Vincent and claimed to be
| from birmingham. Ala. The officers at
! the Second Station said last night that
| Detective Gibson had seen the negro
| and that the latter was Richmond man.
| and not the one who was arrested With
| the gang in Manchester last week
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
The negroes who composed this gang
| vere from North Carolina, and are
| thought TO be some Of those VINO were
| implicated in the rUbberies though the
| first burglaries were committed while
| they were I'm Jail. 1t will be remembered,
| though. that the coat left by one of the
murderers. indicated that he was from
| the old North State.
| Numerous reports were received during
| the day to the effect that negroes had
been seen I'm the nearby counties VINO
| answered the descriptions, but these
| statements did not lead to satisfactory
| results.
About 10 minutes past o'clock yester-
| day Afternoon Captain Angle received IA
J phone message from Ashland. stauns
| that two negroes who answered the de-
scription of tho murderers, and who mao
! been lodging around that locality had
| been surrounded in a swamp a rev mites
from the town.
! Another report came from Ellerson,
| inst the other side Of Chickanomlhy
swami in which it was stated that two
| suspjcious- looking negroes were sur
rounded at that point.
| Nothing came Of either report
About 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon "a
nero was arrested in Ashland by Mr..
| Irving Darlington. on suspicion of being
one of the fueitlves. Richmond officers
in Ashland declared that he was not one
| az the men. but he was held. He Is a
stocky young negro. very black. ana
gave the name of Crenshaw.
CONFERENCE IN CHIEFS OFFICE.
The first thing yesterday morning a
! conference was held In the Chiefs once
| between Major Howard and Captains An
Gle. Hulcc and Whitlock. The sad trag-
ady which ended in the death of ON
| Ger Austin was discussed at length ana
| the status of the case stated, as arrived
al from reports received up to that hour'
The three officers present were instruct
| ed hy the Chief to trace every clue, ana 10
work with untiring energy until the muir
| derers were captured. Not only has every
| thing been done by the officers and men
| NJ the Second Station TO run down the
| fugitives. but those of the First and Third
| a,stricts have also been working night
| and day on the case.
| n.y. ,,ap who returned from their man