The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-22
F, Webb SHOT
BY MRS. FURGUSS0A
Was Slightly Wounded in a Limb
Below the Knee.
SAID TO HAVE TRIED TO ENTER
jefferson Wallace Club to Be Formed
To-Night-Base-ball and Other
Items from Mans
chester.
SAID TO HAVE TRIED TO ENTER
Manchester Bureau. Richmond Times,

1902 Hull Street.
tonight. and get in line for the Con-
e 80, .s.icra campaign. At Leader Han
there will be a Jefferson Wallace Club
organized.
From what can be learned there VIII
be a large number of names TO so or
record as charter members.
This is the step taken By Manchester
towards helping any candidate for Con-
Eress-Lanb or Wallace.
The supporters of Mr.. Wallace VIII DC
out of the city by reason of picnic al
West Point. carrying nearly ali me
knights OF Pythias. AS Yet there mas
been no movement. so far as is known,
by the friends OF Captain Lamb TOWARD
forming a club. Within a short lii'le
the city will be aroused by a loiilt u..
ba-e of the aspirants for Congress J..
most certain that Captain Lamp wiz
De invited 10 this club after 1t mas per
fected an organization. 50 Tar as kiiu W.. -,
the club will embrace some OF 'iie -, 80
known men of the scity OF every canine cam :,
of life. AT the Southern SHOPS iiei - :.
is said biz those in position to kno" laal
Mr. Wallace will poll nearly every vote,
Personally he is known to nine-tenths
o+ me voters in Manchester. In the re-
cent primary Mr.. Wallace was a con-
snjc;1ous figure on the streets mere. IN
the Business Mems Association ne IS
highly regarded His able speech at
!. ba1ouet of the Association. held some
months ago won him many friends who
had before been unknown to him.
With a bullet wound in his leg. just
below the knee, inflicted by Mrs Ida
Ferguson. wife of Mr.. j. S. Ferguson,
f |. Webb. married man of some
thrty-fvc or FORTY years. spent last
night in a cell at the police station on
the charge OF feloniously attempting to
enter the home OF Mrs. Ferguson. lie
viii he tried this morning for the alleged
offense The wound in his leg while
cutie painful is by no means serious.
and VIII soon heal. To the charge OF
feloniously attempting to enter the house
Webb says he is innocent. Mr.. Fergus
son says she shot after she had warned
him not to come in the house.
When a Times representative called at
her home last night the little woman
said she was standing in her front room
when Webb came to the gate. lie push
ed the gate open and came to the Win
dow making an insulting remark TO her.
She told him To leave and he persisted
in coming in. He was finally gotten out
of the gate by some men and held Tor
p little while. He came back though. In
a few minutes and approached the Win
dow told Mrs. Ferguson he was coming
in. She warned him, but it had no ef-
windowsil and had pulled himself nearly
through the window when the plucky
woman we7at to the bed and brought
Sorth her revolver. He stood out of the
window and she fired. the ball taking
effect in his leg just below the knee, and
lodging down near the ankle.
The man was taken to Dr. Brodnax.
who extracted the ball. He was later
arrested at his home by Chief of Police
Lipscomb on a warrant sworn out by
hrs. Ferguson charging him with fell
oniously attempting TO enter her home
He declares he is innocent. He said il
the cell that he had gone to the house
with some lquor;that she fired while
he was in the house.
GRAND JURY'S WORK.
The grand jury yesterday brought II
true bills against the following parties
W 5. Wells. felony: w. B. Wells nc
Joseph Nixon felony: James Harris. 4
felony: Mary Lizzie Darlington. a fel.
ony: James Harris, a felony; Wells and
Nixon are the only white men to be
tried at this term of the court. They
are alleged to have taken tickets from
the Richmond and Petersburg Electric
road. Nixon is represented by counsel.
SE-BALL
The Blue leans are not to be daunt.
ed by the defeat of Saturday and vii
play the Manchester Grays Wednesday
afternoon at Forest Hill Park and the
Red Pants next Saturday. The Grays
are conceded TO be the strongest team
in the city. In fact they claim to- be
the strongest in Richmond or Manches
ter The Red Pants. play good ball
ind both games Will be interesting
Pitcher Thomas is as good as can hi
found around Richmond. and with gooc
support. he can win any game he pitches
His drop ball has been the talk Of the
city since Saturday.
The meeting of the club will be in
Leader Hall tonight and over one hun
dred names, it is said. will be enrolled
MIR. PULLEY BACK.
Mr. T. E. Pulley. the afflicted old gen.
heman. of Manchester, who wandered
AWAY from his home last Tuesday. was
found Saturday on Chestnut Hill anc
taken to Henrico county Jail, where HI
was kept until yesterday afternoon
when he was brought to Manchester ant
placed in safe keeping The family o.
the old gentleman living here were mucf
relieved to learn Of his whereabouts, HI
having been missing since Tuesday. wit,
no trace as to his whereabouts to b'
found anywhere. Mr.. Pulley is sixty
three years old and has been living !,
Manchester for something over twent.
gears He is the father of two grown
-sas here. Several years ago he receives
a sunstroke and since that time his min'
has been more or less affected, until re