The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-08
DEsPERA1 'E NEGRO
IS SENTENCED.
Gets Twenty Years in Penitentiary
for HOUSEKEEPING.
THIS HIS SECOND TERM.
Wash Fields Vas Pardoned Before ia Belief
That He Had Consumption, but is
Thought to Have Fooled
the Doctors.
THIS HIS SECOND TIE

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Especial Dispatch to me Ifnes)
NORFOLK, VA Jan Wash Fields,
colored, was. by, a Corporation Court jury
to-day sentenced 70 serve twenty years
IN the penitentiary for housebreaking and
ROBBERY. Upon each OF two counts
tFields got ten years. On December llth'
last, he broke into and robped the prem
Uses OF Mr.. L. A Doxey, No. LIZ Char-
aotte Street. an0 on December isth ne
broke into and robbed the residence Oh
Mr.. A B. Williams. No. III Charlotte
Street. Little wonder if he rues this last
Charlotte Street raid, for in MIR. Williams
house he was caught. He made game
fight: and took refuge in the pantry, from
which he fired provisions, from raw po-
tatoes to canned tomatoes, at his Pur-
suer After firing perhaps a ton of am
munition of this sort, his supply gave OUT
and he surrendered. Reinforcements ar
rived while the battle rageo, and three
abie-bod!ed gentlemen sat upon Wash
until the police came.
DANGEROUS NEGRO.
Fields is regarded by the police as the
most dangerous fellow OF his sort in
town, and Chief Vellnes said to-day
that he, If he had his deserts, should be
hanged. Fields some years ago entered
the nome Oh NilttiSi, VI Vic
navy, and when opposed by Mrs. Wheel
er. when he sought to fly, cut her terri
bly, with short knife he carried in his
hand, and would have killed her had the
knife been long bladed.- He was sent to
the penitentiary for eighteen years. but
was pardoned before half his time ex-
pfred, the doctors declaring that he had
consumption. and would die within six
months. Chief Vellines said to-day that
Fields ate soap and ground glass thereby
causing frothng at the mouth. emacia-
lion and bleeding from the throat, thus
fooling the doctors. The police believe
that if some Governor does not again
61ardion Wash and the penitentiary warden
does his duty. Norfolk viii be forever rid
of one of the worst of desperate burglars
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
A deed of record to-day conveys to the
First Church of Christ Christian Scent
ist) for s1250o. the beautiful Freemason-
Street. Norfolk Church, formerly the Sec
ona Presbyterian Church.
The Presbyterian congregat-on will
build new church out Client way.
TIE charter of the Norfolk Hardwood
Company was amended to-day, the CAPT.
tail being by the amendment increased,
from 5000 to $4,000. The original char
ter granted few days ago contemplated
the manufacture here of materials of
wood, ard it Is stated wood rlantels
is. chief OF these.
Elizabeth SaddTefield (colored). wife of
Barber Aaron Saddietield (coloredl, was
shaving her husband yesterday, when
Laura Sykes (colored). a lady friend
of Aaron's; entered the barber-shop. and
tauntcd the wife. The wife then seized
a baseball bat, and struc. Laura on the
head, telling her. Police Justice Taylor
to-day sentenced Elizabeth to serve
twelve months in Jail. 1t appeared at
the trial that Laura, who is yellow, was
an apprentice of Aaron's before he mar
ried Elizabeth, who is a decided bru-
nette. and Jealousy underlay Elizabeth's
crime.
PECULIAR DAMAGE SUIT.
in tire Court of Law and Chancery to-
day, Mrs Jennie n II. Elack and her
son, MIR. Georga D. Black. pho each sued
for $500 damages each, recovered YER
dict against the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway Company for $50. The case is
peculiar. 1t was shown that the plain
tiffs embarked last summer aboard
Chesapeake and Ohio train for Allie
;shany Springs, but We're, by the error
of. a green, colored Pullman porter. car
1isd beyond their destination and event
uaIly landed at While Sulphur. where
they each spent some Sc. They We're al
terward.- at the railway company's ex-
rense, transported to Allegheny They
subsequently sued. alleging that they
were mortified because obliged to enter
the dining-room at White Sulphur wear
ing travel-stained linen.
The company made no defense. con-
tenting themselves with alleging that
the claim was excessive. Their attorney
said afterward that the company VIII
nav the face of the verdict Some OF the
iurv. wanted to award the plaintiffs 81
each, but were outvoted.