Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-14
WHOLE CITY MOURNS
GENERAL GRIEF AT THE DEATH
OF MISS LAssITER.
THE FUNERAL THIS MORNING.
Pau,s Church-The List of PAIL
Bearers-Citizen Held Up and Rob-
bed-1IysteriousIy Shot,

PETERSBURG, VA, September 1S-
(Special.)-T funeral Of Miss Virginia
Heath Lassiter, whose death by accident
occurred yesterday afternoon, will take
place Sunday morning at $3.50 o'clock,
from ST Paurs Episcopal church, Of
which she was a member. The following
gentlemen will act as pall-bearers:
Active-w. D. McKenney, W. H. Cuth-
bert, Dr. Joseph D. Osborne, r. P. Hanlil-
ton and S. w. Arlington, Of Petersburg;
and DR.. E. G. Williams, Otto Noting, and
DR.. Meade Mann, of Richmond.
Honorary-W L. Venable, John Nc
Gill. Alexander Hamilton. G. w. Branch,
of Richmond; James Dunn, George Cam
eron, Jr., DR.. f. W. Hams. George j.
Seay, DR.. H. G. Leigh, and DR.. R. a.
Martin.
DR.. D. w Lassiter and daughter, Miss
Annie Lassiter, arrived home this morn.
ing from Boston. where they received the
intelligence of the accident. They left
Boston at once, and were not Informed:
until later of the death of the beloved
daughter and sister.
It has not yet been clearly established
at what the horses became frightened.
The driver, in his efforts to control, did
not know when Miss Lassiter left the
carriage. and kept his seat until thrown
out from the force of the collision Of the
carriage with a tree some distance fur
ther on.
There will be a great assemblage at the
funeral tomorrow morning. The whole
community is in sympathy with the be-
reaved family, and no one was more uni
versally and generally beloved than the
gentle and noble hearted young lady,
who was so suddenly taken from life
Another Street Robbery.
At a late hour last night, Richard
Bcwles, a white citizen, was robbed of his
watch and chain and about $40 in money,
and two white men, Vernon Nelson and
Charles Pearcy, are locked up IN Jail on
the charge of committing the robbery.
1t is said the parties had been in COM
pany together during the night, and that
Bowles was subsequently found in an
alley minus his watch and money. The
watch and chain We're subsequently left
by one of the men in a bar-room on Old
street with the request to hold them 4un-
til the matter quieted down, when they
could be sold. These, with some 50 or Sc
in money We're recovered.
A negro named Sport Taylor, applied
late last night at the office of DR.. Easley,
on Halifax street, to have a wound in his
arm dressed. The doctor found that the
man had been shot, and extracted a ball
from his arm. Taylor refused at the
time. and has since declined to tell by
whom or why he was shot, but the police
believe there was q woman in the case.
AT the Ferndale Park Casino, on the
18th. there is to be a boxing exhibition
between Joe Burke of New York, and
Kid Lanier. late of Memphis, now a resi-
dent of Petersburg. Both men have made
a record in sparring matches, and both
of them have been in active training for
some time for their contest here. Lanier
is in charge Of an experienced trainer at
mond.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary e.
Young took place to-day.
The public schools will open on Mon
day, and the enrolment Of pupils will be-
fully as large as last year, notwithstand-S
ing the exclusion Of new scholars under
z years of age. The several teachers to-
day signed contracts for the next year.
The members of the several councils OF
the Junior Order United American Me-
chanics, nSthis city, will meet tomorrow
night and march in a body to attend di-
vine service at High-Street NJ. E. church..
"a sermon special to the occasion will be
delivered by Rev. George q. Booker. The
Juniors once a month attend In a body
one or other of the churc ches,
Satisfactorily here. ana the fact is eyt-
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