The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-06
AGAIN The
SALE Bill
3,rorfolk Senator Says it VIII lbc
the First Bill to be In
troduced.
a GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE
Sailor Lad in Navy Tells Strange
Tale Of Being Dragged
and Sl1anghaied.
4 GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE [
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NORFOLK, VA, Nov. Ex-senator
Sale. OF this city. tonight stated that
the first bill introduced in the forth
coming session OF the Legislature will
he one to pass over Governor Montague's
veto the legalized primary statute passed
for the benefit of Norfolk ten years
ago: amended to include her new popula-
ton, and vetoed by Governor Montague.
The Senator may make the bill as
offered, a general law. applying to the
State at large.
a GIRLS SUICIDE,
Mamie Carter. colored, aged seven
teen years, shot herself In the breast at
T:S0 A. NJ. to-day, with suicidal intent,
and died two hours later. The girl first
said that she had been shot by man.
whose name she did not give. but "heh
told by her pastor that she was about 10
die and that she should tell the whole
truth. she confessed to having shot her.
self.
A STRANGE TALE.
Fred McDuEgal, sailor in the navy,
saws he was granted shore liberty In
Norfolk some months ago in his resula-
tfon sailor attire. He was seized by a
sailors clearinghouse man, carried to a
fourth.cass theatre in the lower part
L OF the city, and there drugged, after
which he was carried aboard an outgo-
ing British tramp steamer and shipped
= AZ a seaman, the ship agent collecting
from the captain OF the ship In advance
all OF his (McDuggals) wages.
The sailor declares that he was on the
broad Atlantic when he awoke and dis
covered his condition. At Rotterdam he
vas put off the ship penntless.
WORKED HIS WAY BACK.
Finally he succeeded In working his
way on another ship back to Baltimore,
and from there to Norfolk. being ar
rested here as a deserter before he could
get back to the navy yard to report.
The boys story not being substantiated,
he was treated as deserter and locked
in the brig of the Richmond as a pris-
oner for days. He lost $50 pay; in ad-
lition was denied shore liberty for sl1
months.
The bow has appealed to Washington,
and the Department Of Justice directed
an Investigation.
A SINGULAR CLAIM.
Mrs. Edna May Marshall, wife Of an
army sergeant, who was born and has
lived all her life in Virginia, claims that
her husband. being New Yorker, her
marriage to him makes her also New
Yorker. Her husband himself has not
lived in New York since he was seven-
teen years old. Mrs. Marshall Is suing
the Newport News and Old Point Electric
Company for $4,000 damages for terri
BILE injuries she sustained on the cars
of the company. The case was continued
in the Federal court to-day.
SOCIAL CLUB Law.
Judge James T. Croker. Of the Hus'
tings Court, of Portsmouth. to-day ar.
raigued the Legislature for passing the
social club law, and illustrated the work.
Ing Of the law itself.
Judge Croker stated that his refer
ence to the Business Mems Association:
lights on Sunday nights was an example
of the working OF the present law. No
only has the court no power In the prem
ises. but the law providing that the club
9 or, organizat ons having social featur
shall remain open twelve hours day. In
GLIDING Sunday. takes the regulation o
the association In this regard out Of It
own directors hands
They are men. the judge said. who h
is sure have not only the material but tn
moral interests of tho city at heart. Blu
still, under the law az It stands. the
have not the power to close the buffet O.
Sunday.