The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-15
ASSAULT IL ON THE
DISPATCH editor
Result Of the Crusade Of a Nor.
folk Evening Paper Against
Liquor Selling, Etc.
Especial Dispatch to The Tlmes.)

NORFOLK. VA, April l4.-There was
rough house in the Office Of the Norfolk
Dispatch this morning about 1880 o'clock.
with the result that Editor James NJ.
Thompson's left eye will be closed to
Sunday liquor selling, gambling and Off
cial malfeasance in Norfolk for some
DAYS. Foreman H. T. Hurtt's face is
battered, and Pressman Lewis Wright IS
shy q front TOOTH The correspondent
who visited the office shortly after the
eruption found the papers In Editor
Thompson's private office spattered Dy
blood, the paste pot upset. the scissors
missing. and the Office looking as though
cyclone had just passed by
He was told that Mr.. Napoleon Buona-
parte Joynes, with his brother Mr.. w. L.
Joynes, had come to the office and asked
for Mr. Thompson: that they had been
ushered into his private office, and trou-.
BILE followed almost Immediately. Editor
Thompson said that Mr.. n. B. Joynes
said upon entering that he was displeased
because Of a reference to him by the Dis
patch last Friday, and when he was
asked to sit down and talk about 1t he
struck the editor in the left eye Editor
Thompson said that Mr.. Joynes continued
to beat him, and that he, fearing that he
would be knitted, made no resistance, but
Grated by others present Messrs. HURT
and Wright said that they. hearing the
row, ran in, and finding Thompson down
and two men beating him. engaged In the
fight with the results mentioned
The men were later arrested. and the
case will be heard tomorrow. Mr.. N. B.
Joynes said later that he called to get
satisfaction for an article printed Friday.
in which his nickname Of ''Bony" was
III -rI, of the r3ff1a
of bones or dice, with which he was
familiar, and that getting no satisfaction
he took it.
At the Dispatch Office it was said that
the atteckng party threatened to Kill
somebody if the paper printed an ac-
count of to-day's fight. The paper has
been exposing gambling. Sunday liquor
selling and alleged malfeasance of mu-
nicipal officers and the result was an
ticipated. Mr. Joynes is a saloon-keeper
accredited with being a power in the So
called political ring ruling Norfolk lie
is personally popular.
The occurrence is said to be unparal-
leled here in thirty-six years. has caused
a tremendous stir and appears likely to
largely influence the May election.
Mir. HURT says he got Mr.. N. 3.
Joynes' head in chancery and struck
him several blows. Mr. Joynes' hand
was cut during the ARRAY, how. he says.
was dressed afterward- The attacking
party were arrested at the station-house.
where they went it is conjectured. to
surrender themselves. The Dispatch
party swore out the warrant before JUS
tice of the Peace Andrew J. Dalton.
Mr.. Crown. who has been writing the
anti-gambling articles printed in the
paper recently, was In n barber shop
some distance away and r.as rot aware
of the battle until it WAS over. Mr..
HURT, who was hurt. and whose face
looked as though nutmeg crater had
been used upon it, is an elderly man. of
small stature. most kindly soul with
out an enemy.
Mr.. Joynes said tonight that he struck
Thompson. and after they got on the
street Thompson struck him once.
Thompson says he got out on the street
because beset by four men in narrow
Office, he could not there defend himself
Mr. Joynes was put under peace bond
in 81 600 this afternoon.