The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-30
The County Jail.

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rest. Captain Gugon wanted them kept
In a special room at the jail because they
we're not common criminals and should
Sands asked the sheriff to regard the
requeat Of the captain. but Mr.. Solo.
mon said that, the men were no bitter
they they Would be safer in the cell. He fear.
ed that il they were put In the room
upstairs an attack might be made on ne
better get squad of soldiers, to guard
the jail during the night. The sheriff
started out to 40 tins d ana o tSs
f heSda niar heDe Ct Colonel Anderson Il
develops. however. that the guard did
not appear a ana on tss a The 2hee
men spent the night In the cell. Whits an
Captain Guigon declared to be unit ZOE
dog to live In o. the oond,t "a me o. tho
That Unprotected Gap.
After Mr.. Sands left the stand MI. A.
n Roschen appeared While he did not,
Of course. know anything about the con.
ditions elsewhere, he was positive tnat
there was no disorder on Main Street,
the presence of the military. He advised
Solomon to this effect. This was about
$40 O'clock on the evening of the Ath.
At the time of the disturbance that nlBht
he was on his front porch and he wit
ressed the trouble, He saw the car start
out heard something like stone thrown,
heard 1t run over a torpedo. saw man
crowd All this occurred In tho City. ana
the frtng from the car kept up from
Tombardy Street to the sheds The sec
cnd car came along and hred IKE the
drst. The arrest OF tho three guards FOL
lowed, with the incidents already stated
SO far as he could see there were no
crowds of people and no disorder on 1ne
have seen, however, IL there had been
any people behind the sheds in the held
where the Sheep ELL gang is supposed to
have been. The fence INSTRUCTED his
view.
Here. as he had done elsewhere, Judge
Sims indicated strong desire to get at
the facts in connection with that gap be-
tween Lombardy street and the county
line, some $50 feet above. This. indeed
| seems to be the very orux OF the trouble
There was evidently some mlsapprehen'
sdon. The soldiers thought the county
| line was at Lombardy Street, and they
got out OF the cars there. The county
officers. on the other hand. acted on
the assumption, and the correct assump-
ton, that the county line ran across
Main street at point about $50 feet or
thereabouts above Lombardy Street, and
their operations extended this far. and
no farther. Thus the situation was an
abnormal one. Below Lombardy the sol
diers kept things in order; the county
officers. from the other direction, patroled
to the county line, $50 feet above Lonl-
hardy. Between the officers and the SOL
diers there was thus gap OF LEO feet
of territory-unproteoted territory, as IT
seems. And in this gap the trouble be-
gan. and the gap was. technically speak
Ing, In the city
So far as he was concerned, Mr.. Boz
schen stated that he did not learn until
afterwards that this Misrepresentation ex-
listed. When he came up in the afternoon
he saw some city policemen on Lombardy
street. and took 1t that they knew where
the corporate limits were Judge Sims
asked Mr.. Boschen If Mr., Solomon had
put any men over the county line ana
protected the gap supposed to. be part
OF the county, or at least to inform the
soldiers OF their mistake The witness
said the sheriff had not; that SO far as he
knew, Mr.. Solomon was not aware OF
the Misrepresentation. and was acting un-
der the belief that the military protection
extended to the real county line.
Some witnesses were now introduced to
show that there was no disorder In the
county OF such character as would neces-
state a demand for troops. Mr.. Schwalm,
Mr.. Perkins and Mr.. Hooper, all residents
OF West Main Street. In the, county, and
all property holders, stated that they were
In position to see; that there was no
disorder, and that the protection given
was ample.
The Afternoon Session.
After the usual recess tor, lunch the
court got together again and PROCEEDED
was was sons slight delay owing to the lail::
al ct one ecR Eye th ssesesE' % present
Mr.. Moore. a resident Of Bon Air, The
ness 5fstsd ths ~ ans %srs
ty looking for excitement: They found
gons Once they met Mr. solomsa a ,bs To
opinion about calling on the, troops. Both
that there was at that time no. need for
Goth, the day before. the strikers parade
More property-holders, We're now ntro-
duced with statements that there was no
a call for troops, Mr., ]. Fl. Lelsheld.
who lives at Strawberry. and Main Streets
said he had seen no disorder and that
told that officer that there was no need
for the military In, the county. The Wit
ness stated that the. police had the, s't-
others mounted rode up and down the
Visited the Reservoir every day between
the time the strike was called and the
messed no disorder, Every time he went
out he met Solomon and every time he met
Solomon the sheriff asked him about call
ing out the troops Mr., Well told him
each time that there was no need for the
military. Once or twice there We're oth-
er persons. present and these gentlemen
told him the same thing,
Cn,ef . Tolce Testlfes.
The long awaited testimony, of Chief-of-
Police Radcliffe came next In order, He
made some exceedingly interesting state
ments concerning the arrangement OF the
Henrico police during the strike.
On the 18th Of June Chief Radcliffe. with
his regular police force OF six men. was
sent to the Reservoir with orders to pro-
tect tho property Of the company and
pl eserye order there. On the next day
this force was Increased by about eight
specials, and It was thereafter gradually
Increased farther until the men under
The chief numbered t@enty-eight Some
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