Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-19
SHAKE UP IN NORFOLK Il
SEVERAL OFFICIAL HEADS SOON
TO FALL, 1T IS SAID.
NEWSPAPER MAN ASSAULTED.
sayare1y kicked and Beaten by a
Gang of Gamblers nnd Teushs-
Gen. Lee Arrive.-Receiver APP
pointed for Norfolk Ice Company,

NORFOLK, VA. October 1S.-(Special)
There Is great dissatisfaction on the part
Of Mayor Riddlck and his associates on
| the Board of Police Commissioners, as the
| result Of the failure Of certain members
| OF the Police Department to discover al
| legged gross Sunday liquor violations that
have been going on in the city recently,
and it would seem that there is soon to
| be a great shaking up in police circles.
| The general report is that the official
| heads Of several officers are soon to be
! cut off, Just who they are, however, can
| not be learned from reports now in clrcu-
| lation. but it is rumored that big polltl-
| cal break has come, and the result, 1t is
| stated will be seen in police. changes mat
! may soon be made. The latest disclosures
made by Policeman Mordica will be the
basis of further proceedings, and he will
likely be promoted for his efficiency.
The penalty Of dismissal FOR failure 10
| detect liquor violations on any olllcer
beat. will likely be enforced in every IN
stance discovered by Mordica.
EDITOR ASSAULTED.
City Editor Crown, of the Dispatch, was
this morning assaulted by numDer OF
gamblers and toughs and savagely kicked
and injured. Dr. Odendhal, who attended
him, says his injuries are serious. Ihere
is great Indignation here because OF tne
assault and the fact that certain physl-
clans refused to attend the injured Hiail.
LIT IS believed that Crowns attacks on the
gambling hells of Norfolk are responsl-
Bic for the cowardly assault. upon MN
by superior numbers: NO arrests nave
been made, for the reason that ,tne ~
jured man refused to tel the hdhieo ~
his assailants.
General Fitzhugh Lee arrived here to-
night to confer with the Executive COM
mittee of the Jamestown Exposition COM '
49,. he to-
p''''' OSBORNE. INSURANCE.
Attorney Woodwork has begun an ef-
fort to collect the insurance money on .li!e
life of Mrs. Matte J. OSBORNE VINO Is
1.-THE hands of her husband. c. F. Osborne'
Or HYATT now awaiting trial IN otill-
water, Okla, upon the charge OF having
murdered his first wife in that place some
years ago. Attorney EdWaro Cois' oIGL,
sci for the insurance company, IN which
one of the OSBORNE policies is held, says
Osborne, or Hyatt, # he IS proved 70
have murdered his Norfolk wife, is en-
titled to none of the insura nee mones; ~
If il is shown that the wife committed
suicide then the husband can recover the
premiums that We're paid IN upon the
policy. +,,,+
Latest developments seem to SHOW , " t tina.
Attorney Woodwork is now endeaVor-
ing to collsct any portion OF the lnsur-
ance money that is cOllectaOle
RECEIVER FOR ICE COMPAN1. -
Judge Martin has entered oscIeS -
the Court of Law and Chancery, aPPo.h l1e
ing the Citizens Bank, w. H. Doyle,
n r,rs received for the Norfolk Ice
Company, which it is averred, has become
insolvent The Citizens Bank held ED. a
mortgage given BY the NEr1ol an lf ISSUE Uom Of
sSooNoo in six per cent. bonds. due July
/, 1890. -. ~, oon,.nv
had been unable, since July, 1907 to NEE.
~ ;na n1antsr Of the company, which Pc:
t It'll the court granted. The bank IS
civon absolute authority over all the prop
ertyEof the defendant company