The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-05
GRAND JURY
IS PROBING
mayor Riddick's Sunday Clos
inq Crusade In Norfolk.
M o INDICTMENTS YET
The Jury. However. is Considering %
Gases and True Bills May be Re-
turned After Conference withth
Commemorative Attorney

/ Special to The Times. Dispatch.)
a NORFOLK, VA. February 4.-The lobby
of the Corporation Court was Allied with
policemen and others summoned before
The grand Jury. There was roundup OF
witnesses to be examined in search Of evil
nence against tho bar-keepers and the sa-
looms It Is the intention Of the Board of
Police Commissioners, Of which May or
Riddick Is chairman. to indiot tho bar
keepers for selling liquor ON Sunday and
10 attempt to cancel tho licenses Of tho
saloons where liquor Is sold. For that
purpose there were fifteen or twenty Off
rers called to testify before the grand
Jury. and Mayor Rldhick himself was In
ylted to tell what he knew of the efforts
to enforce the laws and of the success
with which the laws and the fines Imposed
by the courts have been evaded
The assembly Of such a crowd Of wit
nesses and OF course, OF the attorneys
and the friends Of those who arc expect
Ing to be indicted, attracted an unusual
number Of spectators to the court and
made scene that rarely occurs. The
grand jury is the same ono that has In
dic,ed several men and one woman, to
be tried for killing or an attempt to Kill,
besides many negroes who have already
been sentenced to the penitentiary for
robbery.
After examining all of the witnesses and
taking stenographic report Of the evil
te1lce. the jury arose without returning
my of the twenty weight indictments 1t
was supposed 10 be considering. report
has It that the evidence IS referred to the
cGmmonwealth's Attorney for his advice
as to the action Of the grand jury; also
a.. IA - nj n
among the officers as to the legal evidence
they may obtain by entering the saloons.
DESERTERS RETURNED.
j. S. Christner, ]. L. Nauge, w. II. Cox
and ", L. King, alleged disorders from the
United States navy, picked up last eve
ming by Substitute Policemen Barron and
Allen, were delivered at the navy yard
this morning. The government pays $40
reward for every "deserter' apprehended
and delivered. The money all goes to the
cantors The "deserters," who are quite
frequently sailors who have simply over
STAYED their liberty, as the result OF a
bad spree, are, upon their delivery at the
navy yard, sent to the brig on their re-
spective ships.
Willie Mitter, colored, about thirty years
DID, who applied at the Norfolk police
station this morning for treatment for n
pistol shot wound in the hip. said that
he was fired upon at Money Point this
+: c1ning by 1Ienry Wilson. another negro
who as yet Is unarrested. The trouble,
which resulted in the shooting. Mitter
says, began last nj ght over dispute as
to :some grub Mttter came to Norfolk
on the street cars.
j. D.. Terry the Halifax county man.
under sentence of sixty days in jail for
the alleged carrying of raw material to
an illicit distllery, who argued his own
case in the United States Circuit Court
Of Appeals at Richmond yesterday and
secured a reversal Of the lower courts
sentence, was tried In the United States
Court here six months or more ago,
when he conducted his own defense and
argued his case as he did in the higher
court yesterday Hon. r. z. Thorp as
sisted Terry In preparing his appeal pa
pers in the local court.
PERRY'S TROUBLES.
James Perry. colored. was brought from
the Portsmouth jail by Detective Rose
this morning. James stole a boat here
TWO months ago End rowed to Portsmouth
where he stole. cargo of iron to sell
sn his own account. The officers of Ports
mouth got him first and succeeded in
sending him to prison for sixty days.
When his term expired this morning the
Norfolk detective was there to continue
#tfe serial that Perry Is running. He
Was transferred to Jail here and will be
tried for stealing the boat ana likely
be sentenced here, too.
C.. F. Osborne, against the Life Insur-
lnce Company Of Virginia. was the IT,
lie OF a case In the Court of Law and
chancery this morning. 1t recalled the
famous case In which Osborne was sus-
hected Of killing the wife on whose life
the policy that Is the subject Of this
,uit was issued. The policy was trans
lerred to the attorney who defended Os-
borne in the examination no underwent
here. and for which there was not evil
Hence to hold him. Osborne Is In Okla
bona now awaiting trial for murder
there. Judge Bruce heard the argument
Ind reserved decision about the payment
Of the policy
The body of Robert Lawrence was taken
home to-day. Robert Lawrence was en-
gagged In telling trees In the country
twenty miles from here yesterday, when
the tree he was feeling came down sud
denly and crushed his skull, killing hin,
Instantly. He was twenty-three years
Of age, and was native of Gates STA
lion. N. c., to which place his brother,
\ A. r. Lawrence, took the body this
morning by rail.
Miss Blanche Thomas, of Drewreysville
hns been engaged to sing ut the Ep-
worth M. E. Church here. She Is an ac-
complshed soloist and has a highly cul.
sivated soprano voice,
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