The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-06
OFFICER FARLEY
B NEGRO.
He P''ljulckily i Captures l!i!:';: His S;
Assallantl. q .|i'Ill
he. HAD ROB 3 Ed A LADY
Affair Occurred JustWhere b G ! Mills !
Was 81 W'4'ayIalid: Y y aid
|. .PolE 8 ARE ON The WATCH
Mrs:Ezeklei Attacked and Robbed Of a
Chatelaine Bag on Ninth Street.
The Man.Identifed astheNegro
Who Shetland Was Caught
by Officer Farley:
.HissWound.
III =
polio AR ON The WATCH.

Acting SerSeant#L L. NJ. Farley, OF the
wounded in tl,esfoot by "a negro named
Daniel Wl4liamss bout s1es o'clock last
night at tho. mouth or the alley on
Eighth Street, between Clay and5LeiEh.
81 The encounter OCCUR ed within twenty
feet of the spot1upon which Just a week
before,s almost the hour, young w ate
Hampton Mills was .waylsid and robbed.
Sergeant FarleyWas so close to the man
that he seized hfinsas soon as. he hred.
wrencl1ed tlle pistol from his i1and and
knocked him sdow1lsswitlls.his club. AL
though in great pain from the wound the
officer held on to::ls man and manage
to get him TO theGSecond Police Station.
The negro is believed to. have had "a
hand in more than zone of the ghold-ups
and .robberies ofStf1e pa asts two or three
weeks. He is certainly the negro who
sEatched a. chatelaine bag from Mrs
H. IT. Ezekiel on Ninth Street about ten
O'clock lsst night. 1t isahard to- estab-
lish proof in t1e-case of the NJ ills hold
up of a week ago.. but the fact that
-A1illsswasS a.tacked,a Officer Farley shot
and Mrs. Ezekiel robbed at the same
alley and almost the same spot makes
the probability very strong that all Ewere
gang.
MRS: EZEKIEL ROBBED.
| Abouss 10 o cl oc1S last nightsMrs. Fl. T.;
Ezekiel. who lives at. No. 61S1a North
Tenth Street, was going home with her
littles bov.Sup Ninth Street between Clay
and Leigh. AS she pa led the alley 1I11Il-
ming through 10 :l1igsAh h Street diunlr
sizedznesro4nan, wearing a1ght: ht:sottSshae,
darted1 out of tho allcE,~ threw his arms
around her. and rsrenclied oft the. chate-
slaine bag that was hanging bytwo leather
straps from her belt.
The belt and its connecting straps were
very stoutly made and the negro must
have usedSconsiderableF force i11Htear1nS
the bag loose from thes supporting straps:
After securing the bag, which contained
only a small amount of money. no darted
ba OK into. the darkness of the alley Mrs.
Ezeiucl made her way home with her
little. boy and the police were apromptiy
notified. 49,
w ord of what had happcnedswas passed
around to the patrolmens on duty III the
Second District and they We're given IN
structions to watch closely the alleys and
cross streets in the neig hborhood In which
Mrs. Ezekiel was robbed:
About 1880 o'clock Acting Sergeant
Farley, who had been wofklngi; caretully
over the neighborhood in which Mrs.
Ezekiel had been robbed an hour and a
half before. after walking UP Eighth
Street between Clay and Leigh. turned
into the alley which runs from Eisntin =. 10
Ninth between Clay and Leigh:r4At this
very spot young Mills vas waylaid a
week ago. At the other end OF this alley
on Ninth Street Mrs. Ezekiel had been
robbed.
Officer Farley had hardly turned into
the alley before he ran upon#tW negroes.
"whatE are you doing. here?" asked the
officer. -
I'M Ninth Street. Tho other at once
opencd fire. shooting Mr.. Farley in the
instep of the left foot. The officer was
close. enough TO the man to Jump ana
catch the pistol in his hand ne1ore ne I
could fire again. He wrenched the pistol
from the .negro's hand and knocked him
down with his club. Officer Cox came
up and tried to overtake the other negro.
but he had made his escape. officer Far ar