The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-27
.BAP list MINISTERS
AND JUDGE CAMP BELL
The Underwater Pastors Condemn
the Action in Amherst.
.sYMPATHYF0R Mr.. CRAWFORD
>YMPATHYF0R Mr.. C CRAWFORD
A Fine Home to Be Given Bishop A.
Coke Smith if He Viii Settle in
Norfolk Change of Street
Car Management.
Especial Dispatch to The Times. !,

Especial Dispatch to The Times)
NORFOLK, VA, May 24.-The Baptist
ministers of Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Brekley at their meeting lo-4ay by
condemned Judge Campbell, of Amherst
county, for citing DR.. Crawford for con-
tempt, and expressed sympathy for the
latter.
Persistent rumors here are to the eff
feet that Mr.. C. Brooks Johnston, gem
eral manager of the Norfolk Railway
and Light Company, will retire July LIST,
and Mr.. &c. Hathaway. formerly man
ager at Baltimore, will succeed him, and
may take general supervision of all the
con1pany's lines here and on the PENN
sula.
Mr.. Hathaway. is here, but no one in
terested will talk
HOME FOR BISHOP SMITH.
There is a movement on foot to raise
funds wherewith to present Bishop =.
Coke Smith with a fine home. provided
he shall agree to live here. Capitalists
admit that they have been asked to con-
tribute to the fund.
News was received here to-day of the
death this morning al Greensboro, N. c.,
of Mr.. albert G. Hume. who formerly
lived at Norfolk, and was employed by
the Southern Railway Company. He
was brother-in-law of Messrs. ]. Y.
and R. j. Alfriend and J. McHenderson,
of the National Bank of Commerce.
A TRAGEDY.
In the Court Of Law and Chancery the
sequel to a tragedy. now five years old.
was to-day unfolded
The cause at bar was entitled John G.
Tlton. administrator of Sallie Dennis
alias Lille Maloney alias Lille Wilson,
deceased, against Samuel H Marshall and
Ida MARSHALL, an infant.
Attached to plaintiffs plea was an ill
spelled note in a woman's handwriting.
marked Exhibit Al a copy of this
note. from which the name a. a ma well
known about this town is omitted, fol-
lows:
ALLEN try and take care of my baby
Ida, and see that everything goes to
her. Goodbye, dear, get my doctor to
send for - and tell him he is the
cause of this. If don't succeed this
time will next. Your true friend, Lii
lie. Tell my baby goodbye. My one
stone diamond ring is for you, as you
are as dear as sister to me-
WHOM THE LEGAL HEIR
The administra tor in the paper at
Tackled recites that the suit is brought
to determine to whom he may legally
deliver s724.o9 and a diamond ring. the
estate of the dead woman.
The administrator states that the
wl,ereabout of ..Allis" or her proper name
is not known, and tina tl"Ida,' who is be-
lieved to be the baby to whom the moth
ser. dead long since. it appears. by her:
own hand, wished to leave her all. is in
Isle of Wight county. Samuel H. Mar
SHALL, the other defendant is believed to
live in that county and to have been
once the husband of the woman Who left
slttlas dross to her child. and that tar
n;shed: The rest of the story may be
guessed.
TRIED SUICIDE THREE TIMES
Sallie Dennis. the administrator. Mr.
Tilton says. died in October. 1887. She
twice before attempted suicide by TAX
ms, poison. The third attempt succeeded
The jury to-day held the will to be val
id, and the court practically admitted it
to probate.
81 Later a decree viii De entered in chan
fcers' directing the deposition Of the es7s
tate