Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-03-31

VI uhi tFOOps, tutoEmtnE n IN tnat knS
foEce on hand was entirely mad, qust..
rnls act of his was soon communicated
to tho NIB. A committee waited up
On the Judge. and the result was that
the request for more troops was re-
called.
Cotton il O cold-bloeded man. and
apparently is absolutely devoid OF
fear. He seems to glory 10 the deeds
he has done, ard says he expects TO
hang for them. When I visited him IN
his cell this afternoon he was seated
on o stool, chained to the floor, hand
and foot, while at his feet, bound with
q rope, was O'Grsdy. the white man
who Was in the house with him when
Messrs. Saunders and Welton were
killed.
COTTON csNyrssEs.
Cotton talked freely to me and sd-
mitted his identity. describing in mi
mute detail how he had sawed his way
out OF she Portsmouth jall. He de-
MED his guilt in the case in which he
was sentenced to be hanged, and also
denied having been . party to the
murder OF Bsrkeeper Blick. He ad-
mittsd, however, having robbed Mr..
GriEzsrd here, and then, with ell the
narrowing details. told how he had on
yesterday killed Hessrs. Saunders and
Welton. attempting TO Justify himself
by the statement that they drew guns
on him. He was asked Why he h.d
not made his escape good after the
killing, snd replied: ooh, I knew I
was going to get caught, and did not
bother much about il. I don't sss
Whist they have sent the military for !;
l am going TO swing and 60 to hell,
and juss ss we'll 60 now ~ later"
Cotton was caught on the railroad at
Stony Greek by Mr.. William Moore
and Cyrus Psrhsm, eolorsd man.
ing r him and could have plugged"
one o; them but he was tired of kill
ing people, and he surrendered.
THE WHITE TRAMP.
Up to the time I entered the cell the
white tramp had refused stesdfastly
to give his nam e, or to speak to any
one. He finally. after much ersus-
sioB, agreed tn talk, and said his name
was Brandt O'Grsdy, and that he was
. native OF Boston. Mass. He said he
had been married but lost his wife,
and had then fallen through drink un-
til he became q tramp. Ills people
were respectable. he claimed. and he
had, he said, a daughter, now being
educated in Paris by her grandfather.
he denied having been party TO the
shooting yesterday, and in this he was
borne out ny Cotton.
When the four prisoners from ar
rats were brought in Ootton at first
did rot recognize the old man, Della.
ncy, but identified his sons and the
Clay boy. BY the Statements of one of
the Delaney boys it was shown that
the old man had cut his mustache OF
and then Coston recognized him, he
SAID, as the man who had on tuesday
night last given him the key Co Blick's
bar. which was found on his person.
This would seem TO prove Ihss the d a.
lsneys and Clay were parties 10 the
murder OF Blick, but the popular i'm
preston 10 that Cotton perpetrated
this murder also, though he says he
was in Wilmington, N. c., on the date
OF that murder.
DIsPosiTIoN OF Troops.
The Jail in which the prisoners are
iEcsrcersted is q small frame struc-
ture on the court house green. It has
only two cells withia it and no place
in which the soldiers can find refuge
! should a mob attack. Captain Daugh-
however and has extsnded his picket
lines for n radius OF fifty yards. II il
not. however, with his email force, in Q
posi ion to oder much defence AZ at
tackled by 9 mob of such proportions as
is said to be approaching. and hence
| the unoasiness. The men are however
| in good spirits, and are prepared TO
defend the prisoners to the end Each
man has ferty cartridgeslin his belt,
and though some are raw recruits, yet
all are good soldiers, and orders are
obeyed without question.
The command rank and file nun bsrs
sixty men. They are: Captain w. l..
Daughtrey, Lieutenants T. A. Spencer
and w. N. Jones, First-SergsAnt J. l..
Young, Jr., Qusrtermaster-Sergesnt
X. M. Taylor, 5ergeants Ransom Guy
A. T. Brock. T. NJ. Hobson and Wal
ter II ollidsy; CorPorsls Fendley, John
Mayo, j. 4. Ryan, Robert Peyton, Har
~ Bates, Beverly Harvey and ]. u.
Robertson; trivates Braezeal, Bid
coed, Burwell, Bridges, Blanton,
ChAmberIsine, Cooke, Oorella, Davis,
Deane, English, Graves, Cranberry
ellis, Goblin, +. 8. Harrison, J. H.
Harrison, Knowles, Lathrop, Lefebvre
Lloyd, Loving, Lynch. Mayo, Mercer,
Morton. Newton. Osterloh. Rogers,
Rudd, Rufty. Smith, Sydnor, Slater,
West. Wood. Williams, Jones, J. Do
natl, u. j. Donati, Taylor, Webber,
Moody and Chalkley.
DARK As ERHBUs.
It is dark IS Erebus on the court
green. and all is as quiet ss can be-
Jet the stiffness is taken an forebo6
ing Of evil. and il . rush 10 made on
| the Jail by the mob, it would be hard
in the darkness for the troops TO hold
the fort. Ii has just been reported
to the judge that dynamite has been
secured by the would be lynchers, and
that an effort will be made to blow
the Jail open.
At 8 O'Clock tonight party OF prom.
inent citizens, headed by ex-Judge
Bsrham, waited upon Judge GOODWIN
and requested him to have the troops
Withdrawn from Emporia They ad
vised him thai half q thousand deter
mined men were moving on the town
and that unless the military was with.