The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-16
MURDER MYS' Terry
IN PET ERsBuIRG.
The Watchman Of the pocahontas
Mills Killed.
HIS ASSASSIN IS UNKNOWN
The City Council viii Probably Modify
,,o obnoxious Street obstruc-
ton Ordinance = Baptist
Young Peoples Meeting.
.Pocahontas
HIS ASSASSIN is UNKNOWN.
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pFvrF1RSBURG, VA. October 1o.-o,'s
IF tho most mysterious murders !" .ne
i,:story Of Petersburg was thae u y.
tam Westmoreand, night WatGlllliaii 9.
r,nabontas Cotton Mills. who was shot
sud killed between / and 0 cioeh VS. go.
day morning. while on ms roulsl'. ~ ~
nisto1-shots. fired in rapid Succession, "et
heard by some of the RESIDENTS II enI
cinitv Of the mills, among thsih,
,I.s tSlizabeth Marks, aged ahout
sivfv-fiyc wears. who rushed to the Mus
and fo,Ind Westmoreilnd lying on the
ground in front of the otice.
he was then dying. Other neishnors, III
GLIDING Henry Wells father-ln-laW OIL t.e
murdered man, were also attracted 10 ti'e
scene.
ONE EFFECTIVE SHOT.
ONLY one OF the three shots hred pE I've
murderer or mur0erers took erect. 4 ne
bullet struck Westmoreland III the heshs
part of the left arm, then entered luse
over the heart and lodged III the oaeA-
He died. without reganing CONSCIOUSNESS.
half an hoilr later The bill was fired
from a SS-calbre revolver.
By Westmoreland's side was tound ms
pistol, fully loaded. He was required 70
make a round OF the mills every hour, and
his watchmans tme-detector showed
that lie made his last tour ct l CLOCK
At the time he was shot, he was in the
act of entering the Office which STANDS d
few yards from the mills. An axe, crow
bar, couplinspi.l. and lot OF furniture
yarnish was found near the spot Ehefe
the Waterman fell-
The murdered man was 81 years OF age
and had been Waterman at the Pocahontas
mills for five Years. He leaves widow
and two children
A post-mortem examination was made
and a coroner's inquest was held. The
verdict Of the jury was to the effect that
Westmoreland came to his death from a
pistol-shot wound, inflicted by some per-
son unknown to the jury
The news of the murder spread through
out out the city rapidly. and acting upon
information that they received, the police
arrested three young white men-J. b.
Puliy W. NJ. PoythresS ana W. r. Tay-
lor on the charge of being implicated in
the murder.
THE INQUEST
The evidence before the Coroner threw
no light upon the case, although for five
hours the jury listened to the testimony
of twenty-four Witnesses The most i'm
portant witness examined was an aged
lady--NIrs Elizabeth Marks.
Mrs. Marks lives on Battersea Avenue.
about fifty yards from the scene of the
murder. She was awakened some time af-
ter 1 o'clock by three pistol Shots. She
Went to her window and raised it. She
heard means and cries and fearing that
some one had been hurt, she, without wait
ing to dress herself. ran out OF the house
and down the hill in the direction OF the
moaning. arriving at. Inc factory fence. she
saw body lying on the ground on the
inside Of the yard. notwithstanding her
age the old lady climbed the fence and
went and lifted up the head OF the body.
WeStmOrellQl.
! There We're no Signs of a struggle. a
pistol bullet slightly flattened was found
on the ground and about four feet from
the ground on the brick wall of the office,
was found the mark of where bullet had
struck Just outside the gale of the fac
tory an axe. a soiled fowl, a bottle of
furniture polish and a heavy piece Of iron,
slightly bent and a pulley key. was found
| The axe was identified by Mrs. George
Marks, q lady living near the mills, as
! her property She had used it last Sat
urday evening about o'clock and left 1t
! Just outside her rear door that evening,
end only missed it when she got up on
| Sunday TO prepare breakfast.
ARRESTS MADE.
Pulley. Poythress and Taylor were ar
| rested upon information gwen by Mrs.
| William Westuoreland wife of the muir
| derzd man. who t stfied that on SATURDAY
| night, October 9th, her husband had words
| with them, and that Berry Fully threw
| an empty whiskey bottle at him, telling
| her husband chat he had no right to
| order him away from the front of the
| mills
| The three men all proved yhere they
were on the Saturday night Of the kill
| ing. and their statements were corrobe-
! rated by several other witnesses, and
! they Were subsequently released.
| Westn:oreland carried with him a
F.; watchmans dock. The factory contains
| twelve stations, and his clock showed
! that he made each of these stations or
| time from to Z o'clock. The shot that
! killed him must have been fired by some