Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-03-31
TOWN OF SUFFOLK
CoIored People to Organize Home
Club For Protection.
How it Came About Northern
we"ther-Aitempt TO Break jail
On the stnte Llne-A Pretty Race
PERSONAL.
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SUFFOLK, Va, March S0.-With few
friends and not money enough to buy
his shroud the body of Tom Jones, who
was stabbed to death by one-armed
negro in a saloon. was laid away in q
SHALLOW grave, nearby a little branch
not far from the grounds of the Suf-
folk Fair Association, by a colored un-
dertaker. He could not have been ex-
pected to put the victim out of sight
IN any great style, for the county had
to pay the price. 1t was a very small
price.
To-day they buried him over again.
Down through the mud and yellow
clay they dug till the box was found,
and rescued from It's bed of cold. mud
dy water.
The corpse was lying in soak. 1t
was almost entirely covered with wa
ter The top of the face, n portion of
the body and toes stuck through the
sloppy moss In q sickening way. The
remains were put into a more decent
collin and hauled over to Cedar Hill.
There was q little wreath of fern laid
over the casket. There was no process
sion to follow the hearse; there were
no mourners. The Rev. j. f. Love,
OF the Baptist Church. made a prayer
at the grave.
HOW IT CAME ABOUT.
SUFFOLK people feel for strangers de-
spite their poverty and friendlessness.
They have hearts. When it was learn,
ed how the victim was hidden there
were many offers of contributions to
have a disinterment Messrs. George
L. kel1am and J. d. Matthews went
around and collected about SOS. Mr.
r. w. Baker charged for the coffin,
hearse. &c, S21 The balance was
turned over to the widow. who will
need 1t to rear her young children in
valid that she is.
HOME COLORED CLUB.
well-known colored man said to-
day that the organization of q home
colored club. whose members would
be confined to natives or longtime
residents of Suffolk. was being discuss
ed One of the clubs objects would be
the protection of the regulations of Its
members and oil other good Suffolk
people of color.
Whether the club be organized or not
1t is indisputably true that the repu-
tation of the colored population is fire.
quently hurt by the acts of law-break-
ers, whose homes are elsewhere. A
very large proportion of criminals ar
rested and tried in Suffolk are strangers
or persons who have come from a dis
lance and are stopping here Temporal
reflects unjustly on negro citizenship
AS whole there is not n better nor
more law-abiding community OF col
ored people in the South than reside In
Suffolk 1t is a deplorable condition
that their reputation should be ma
ligned by reason of misdeeds done by
tho floating class OF visiting criminals
THE WEATHER UP NORTH.
Mr.. Il. b. Dumville has n letter from
his sister. Mrs. H. e. Thompson, of
Newburgh. N. Y. in which was writ
ten during Il snow storm. That was
March %. He had another letter at
the same time from Sam. Dumville.
Esq, at West Cape. Prince Edward Is
land. in which it is said there are pros
poets for an early spring. The ice is
rapidly breaking In the Gulf OF St.
Lawrence.
TRIED AND FAILED.
Joe Sykes and Arnold Carr made an
attempt to break jail ct CORTLAND day