The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-22
Who Had Very Badly Used Their
Father.
OVER AN ELECTION ROW
Able Counsel Employed and the Crowd
in the COURTROOM Applaud the Senti-
nients of the Speakers-tiistory OF
the Affair The Grand Jury
VIII Bring in Several Other
Indictments.
Especial Dispatch to The Times.)

FRONT ROYAL, VA, Jan. M-The
trial of Harry and Claude Pritchard. in
oictcd for an assault upon Adam Hud-
nall last November. is being tried in War
ren County Court here. Hudnall and the
father of these boys, who are mere
youths, had a difficulty the day before
over the election, and these young men
met Uudnall in the village of Linden
and struck him with stones.
The case has attracted much attention
owing to the prominence of the parties,
and great interest is manifested
HUDNALL'S PICTURE.
The court refused to admit the picture
of Hudnall, taken while banoagcd and not
long after the occurrence, as evidence of
his condition. 4 legal battle is now go
ing on as TO whether evidence of the
difficulty between the elder Pritchard
and I4udnall shall be permitted to go to
the jury.
During the argument Of the point of law
by Marshall Mccormick, who is associated
with O'Flaherty and Fulton for the de-
Tense. the great crowd in the courthouse
applauded that statement that he thanked,
God that the time had not yet come III
Virginia when a son would not resent an
insult to his father.
PUNI$aMENT FOR APPLAUSE.
The court threatened TO punish any one
who again offended, saying that the court
house was not n theatre.
The case will consume several days. as
there are many witnesses on both sides
commemorative Attorney II. E. Jackson
has associated with him Messrs. Downing
and Richards.
The grand jury is still in session, but
has not announced its findings. 1t is un-
de1.stood that there will be several in
dictments for violations of the revenue
law and ono for shooting with intent to
kill Court will be in session perhaps all
week.
CAUSE OF THE SUIT.
Harry and Claude Pritchard arc II and
10 years old, respectively, and are The
sens of Jas. W. Pritclard, postmaster at
Linden. Vat. and a prominent farmer.
They are the nephews of Cfas. l..
Pritchard. former postmaster at this
place, and cN-member of the State Re-
publican Committee, and who now holds
a good position in the Census Depart
ment.
They are indicted for assault upon ono
A. r. Hudnall, a we'll known farmer of
Linden, Va. with the intent to main,
disiigure. disable and kill. The trouble
arose from a difficulty which occurred at
the election last fall at Linden. On that
day Mr. Huinall entered the voting pre-
cinct with a. voter, and Mr.. Jas. w.
Pritchard, one of the election JUICES, re-
quested him TO leave the room, which
HudnaIl declined to do. After being re-
ouested by the other judges and by one
of the clerks at the election, Mr.. Hud-
nall finally left the room
After the polls had been closed and
Mr.. Pritchard was on his way home he
passed by the store porch upon which
Mr. Iiudnall was standing. Mr.. Hudnall
joined Mr.. Pritchard and demanded to
know of him why he had insulted him
(HudnalD by requesting him TO leave the
room in which the election was being
conducted, and stated that if he ever did
that again he would give him a beating
THE ASSAULT
Hot words passed and after walking
together some seyenty-tive yards, Mr.
Hudnall again repeated his threat to give
him q severe iogging in the event Pritch-
ard ever again insulted him, as Hudna,i
claimed he had done in requesting him
10 leave the voting room. Mr.. Pritchard
said to him If he was going to do as he
said, now was the time for him to do
1t, and picked up a stone to protect him.
self. Mr.. Hudnall, who had gone upon
the depot porch at Linden. walked back
and got off the porch and picked up a
stone, and as he turned around the corner
of tho porch he threw it at pritchard,
and as Pritchard lodged the stone Hud-
nall rushed upon him and beat him up.
He was pulled off, but renewed the at
tack; he was again pulled off and again
renewed the battery, and by this time
Mr.. Pritchard was badly beaten I'D, so
,,aI, yN,.,y -
his ears and from a cash in the back OF
his head
THE BOYS HAMMER HUDNALL.
This fight occurred about dusk Pritch-
ard then went on home, and his two
boys between this and the next evening
learned of the severe beating which Hud-
nall had given their father, went to Lin
den, and when they met HudnaIl going
into the store of AIessrs. w Q. and
Stuart Walter, they assaulted him with
rocks and hammered him up badly.
Mr. Pritchard is a. delicate, weak man,
ami has the reputation of being a quiet
citizen Mr.. Hudnall is one OF the strong
est men i'll this section of the State, and
has the reputation Of having had a num-
Der of difficulties and fights from all or
which, except with the two above boys,
he came out victor and unlurt. As soon
as Mr.. Hutinall was able he swore out the
warrant against the boys, charging them
with the above offense. The boys, through
their counsel NJ. ]. Fulton. OF the firm
of o. I7lai1ertv & Fulton, appeared before
tho magistrate and waived a preiml-
nary eSamination and were sent on to the.
grand Jury. They gave bail in the sum
of q la9, for their appearance. tt5the No.
,,a,,,her term of the County Court they
,,o,c indicted by a special grand jury.
aud MT the December term the case was
continued.
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