The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-11-22
OSCAR FLEMING
G0ESUNM0LESTED
Was Arrested and Placed in Norfolk
Jail.
DENIES KILLING YOUNG SNYDER
Returns Home with Friends Wei
Armed Ia Guard Ills House aud No
Further Trouble is Likely Ia
Occur-Will Bury Dead Man.

NORFOLK, VA, Nov. 2.-special.-
Fleming following his visit to Norfolk
to-day returned home after reception
accorded him at DE Mars Saloon by the
latter mis- friend. and other kindred spirits
Mar accompanied Fleming home, taking
along a rifle and ammunition therefor
The body # the would-be lyncher shot
by Fleming yesterday morning has since
laid unburied Fleming said to-day that
if no one came and claimed it, it would be
buried by his farm hands by his order in
the plot where several OF his former
slaves lie.
WILL LET HIM ALONE.
II is known that Fleming Is now REIN
forced by several friends who will aid
him i'm guarding his mousse al night and
this TACT together with the additional one
that the nrst excitement is waning, APP
pears TO justify the belief that no lurther
attempt will be made TO storm the REM
ing house and lyncn him.
Fleming came 10 town on the Virginia
Beach this morning, arriving here about
5 o'clock
Shorty after his arrival be visited Arm
strong hardware store ana IL soon De-
came known that he WAS ln the ouidihB'
crowd curious 10 see him. gatheTe"
about II. Within q few minutes DE was
arrested upon q warrant sworn OUT 10y
a Y. Derby. of Norfolk This warfah
charged him with while i'm the hardware
store pointing pistols al several perso"s
in the crowd and making threatening de-
monstrations al them.
THE ARREST.
The arrest was made by officers under
instructions OF Chlel-Oi-POlice Oh N0rloin
Kiser. They conducted Fleming 10 the
ian. where he was az once incarcerateu
in steel cell. There the reporter inter
viewed him. lie said, regarding his az
rest to-day, that he did not know what
he was arrested for. as bee had not done
anything which warranted IT,
Told Of the allegations in the warrant,
he said that ne had merely been hand
ling "a target rifle Boo the store and denied
threatening any one with 10. Regard!ns
the killing OF Clarence Snyder of which
he was accused by % Norfolk jury ~ I'M
quest, he said that Dee was not guilty. thai
he did not shoot or shoot at Snyder but
ON the contrary believed that Snyder was
shot 10y some person not az the time on
his land bat ON the road some distance
from the Fleming farm
CORONER's JURY.
Regarding the finding of the coroner's
Jury. he said that there was no evidence
offered before 10 which eliminated him
and the finding o. the jury was unwar-
ranted lie admitted killing the man, be-
iieyed to be Goodwin. of Hampton, ON
Monday morning last; he said that the
man was one of these who came 10 lynch
him.
Asked how he knew the men who ape
preached his house meant 90 lynch him.
he said that he had been by telephone
from Norfolk warned that the men were
on their way % his farm bent on lynch
ing him and that he was awaiting them
and fred upon them Wien they approach
ed his house "A he had a right TO do.
lie said that he has been for sixteen
years a justice OF the peace of Princess
Anne county. ana by inference That he
knows The law.
Asked if be had previously shot two
colored men, he said that he had not
but once shot q negro who came ON his
farm and tried 90 strike him. he said
that he. I'm self defence. shot the mai
"a bad niger named Williams fiins
him fun Of bird shot and that Williams
recovered.
BAD LOOKING MAN.
4 wilder or more desperate and cruel
looking man than Fleming IS rarely seen.
He has a. Hatdeld-McCoy face-a par
ticularly bad c0untenanDe. Looking
at him no one longer wonders at the
wild work ne has done during the past
few days, the large number Of bitter
enemies he has in Norfolk. the abJect
fear with which DE seems TO have in
/ spired the Princess Anne judiciary He
| said that De will offer bail for release
| upon the charge Of to-day and it is be
Heved this will be accepted. Hts arrest
| by Chief Kiser is generally approved as
| it is believed 10 have. probably, prevent
| cd bloodshed to-day. Fleming said he
| came to Norfolk 10 set shaved and buy
| some bolts for his gates, but that he
| came 10 buy arms and ammunition IS
! believed BIS almost everybody here. He
| had a wild and hunted look as he stood
| I'm his cell a the JAIL and 'he few allow
cd TO see him edged away from him
when he approached the cell door. closed
| though this was. 10 was suggested to-
/ day that be was elected justice Of the
peace by the people Of his county siN-
teen years ago and these have been since
| afraid TO depose him.
| Fleming was this afternoon released IN
| so bail and allowed 20 return. 10 Ms
| home unmolested.
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