Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-01
HIATT HI. WILL |. RETURN {. | |:||
TO STAND TRIAL IN NORFOLK FOR FOR
MURDER OF WIFE.
THE MARINES TO MOBILIZE lie:
The Charge of "shanghning''
Against Sailors is Discharscd-Re-
publican Harmony Now In sight
Old Citizen Dead.
THE MARINES TO MOBILIZE.
le Charge Of uShanEhning''
Against Sailors is Dischnrgcd-Re-


NORFOLK, VA, Sept. 3o.-(specialo--
Advices from Saltwater, Okla, say that
Charles F. Hyatt, alleged double VIE
murderer, arrested here after the rnvste-
rious death of his second wife, and deiiV-.
cred to the Oklahoma authorities because
1t was thought a better case could be mace
on the charge of the first wife's MUIR
der, has been released on his own recog-
nizance until January.
Hyatt, when similarly released in Okla
homa eight years ago, fed and came East.
changing his name to Osborne until ar
rested here.
1t was the understanding when the prls-
oner left Norfolk that he was to be held
in prison at Saltwater until convicted of
the first wife's murder, or delivered back
to the Virginia officers.
Attorney W. S. Woodwork. counsel
here for Hyatt says Hyatt was released
in Saltwater Sept. Is, and that he ex-
poets him in Norfolk on Thursday or Fri
day of next week. Woodwork says Hyatt
will demand trial here, and will then sue
the city of Norfolk for $4,000 for photo
graphing him as a murderer. Other suits,
WoooWorth says, may also follow.
MARINES TO MOBILIZE.
Inc Marine battalion to be modified
mere between tomorrow and October 10th
VAL consist of but 400 men, and instead
OF pelng sent to the Isthmus Of Panama,
they will be sent to Culebra Island. Hab-
itatlons were provided there for a land
ing force last winter. It is believed by
naval officers here that the marines will
not pc landed unless Germany makes
decided move. Her fleet in Colombian
waters has been increas ed to the point
where an admiralty officer has been
placed In charge. He is the commander
OF the Vlneta, which was for months in
Hampton Roads. The Prairie will arrive
tomorrow to take the marines south. The
commandment of marines here says the
men Will likely be merely on watch. and
will not be actively engaged save in a
grave crisis. He is just now at loss
where to house the detachments as they
arrive, the barracks being filled already
CHARGE OF "SHANGHAING" DIS
MISSED.
Donald Scott, the sailor clearinghouse
keeper charged with "shanghaing' and
sending off on an outgoing British steam
er against his will one Benjamin Meeks
has been acquitted of the technical
charge by Magistrate J. S. Carmine, at
Lamberts Point. The arrest of Scott. it
seemed from developments at the trial
was the result of bad blood between
James Furlong and Vance Mccarthy, riv-
al sailor clearinghouse keepers, but that
the boy was really taken off,
REPUBLICAN HARMONY.
Republican harmony is now evident In
the district. What was once the Wise
Republican Second District Congressional
Committee met this afternoon for the
purpose of endorsing the call of Chair
man Wolcott for the meeting of the
Bowden District Committee, which af-
forwards called a congressional nominal
ing convention, to meet at Newport News
October 9TH. At the close Of the meeting
1t was announced that out Of possible
fourteen members of the old Wise Dis
trict Committee, ten wers in attendance.
and that the vote for an endorsement
of the Bowden- Wolcott convention at
Newport News, October 18th. stood for
and against, the one negative vote hav-
ing been cast by Mr.. S. D. Hope, the old
secretary Of the committee
WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN DEAD.
Mr.. William S. Spratley a well-known
citizen of Norfolk died this morning at
the residence of his son-in-law, Mr.. A.
s. Cooper, aged 50 years. Mr. Spratley
was native Of Norfolk and was one Of
its Oldest citizens. He was vice-presi-
dent and one Of the original incorpora-
tors in 1851, Of the Merchants and Me-
chanics Savings Bank of Norfolk, the
oldest savings bank in the South, and
was long in the hardware business, from
"f1lch ne retired about twenty years
ago.
The one hundred and twelfth annual
session of the Virginia Portsmouth Ban
fist Association is in session in Ports
mouth to-day
rev n. W. Battle, of Petersburg, pre-
sided. There was little business excent
OF purely routine nature.
WEATHER IN SEPTEMBER.