The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-28
several gentlemen above mentioned, which
was in substance as follows:


was In substance as follows:
HALF MILE FURTHER.
That school No. % Is the school nearest
to the residences OF the majority or Wit
Is are about equldistant from the resi-
dences Of the others of said witnesses;
that Benjamin F. Dabney. resides about
onehaf mile from senoGs AZ dstan from from
school No 49,; that No. % Is the nearest
and most convenient to Dabney's rest
dence; that the present school year Is me
first year that Dabney,s children have
attended school No. %; that Dabney has
for several years prior to the present year
sent his children to No: 10, and that inc
patrons of school No. 10 do not object TO
the attendance of the children of Dabney
at that school.
Furthermore, 1t was testified that the
several witpesses above named are the
parents or guardians Of about fifteen chill
dren who are entitled, by reason OF prog
Unity. to attend and whom they desire
to attend school No. 2; that said VT Ma
% II the children Of Dabney be allowed
to attend the same school; that con.
sidera Bile majority OF the children VINO
the law, to attend said school, VIII not be
allowed by their parents and guardians
! to attend If the children OF pabncy at
d dem and and Conduct Of tho children OF
said Dabney are unexccptionable; that
personally the witnesses have no objcc.
| ton to Dabney or MS CHlloT Gil.
COMMON TALK.
Furthermore. It was testified that the
| only objection the witnesses have to DAB
ney and his children and to the attend
ance Of the latter at school No. - Is ond
| in which they live to the effect that
there is an admixture OF negro bleed IN
| the veins of Dabney and his chlidren
procure evidence to prove that such is
the case; that the belief Of witnesses. that
Dabney and his children have an admix,
ture OF negro blood IN .nem ,a Is nai ,ha
neighborhood in which Dabney iiVes'
that said general reputation Is TO- the o.
feet that the great grandmothe o. OIL, na ~
negro blood. the refutation not hxlhs inc
! quantity thereof.
PART INDIAN.
Benjamin f. Dabney testified sunsmn p,
| tiallv to the facts as above except IN
the following PARTICULARS: Ihat ne Is
aware that he and his family bear among
some OF the people, but not al IN ms
| admixture of negro blood In hem; that
this reputation given to him and his chill
dren is without foundation, in fact; that
there is not and never mas , peen any M, a.
or in his children, or in any of his anccs,,
tors; that he and his wife, his father and
his mother and his grandtat a's1. Ans, ana
| under the laws OF Virginia; that the only
| admixture of blood other than white or
caucasian in him or his childl en- deScends
| from his grcat-grandmother, Bette Walk
or who was three-fourths white. or eau
casian, and one-fourth Indian; that since
| the time of his greatgrandmothcr there
has been no further admiXture OF any
| blood other than white, or Caucasian, In
| his family and that sixty-thIee sixty
fourths OF the blood OF his children IS
white or Caucasian, the remaining one
sixty-fourth being Indian blood.
EhL,\r THE GRANDMOTHER.
/ Counsel for Benjamin +. Dabney stated
| that Joseph N. Brooks, Of Church Road,
DinWiddie county, was prevented Dy SICK,
from testfyng before the 6onld ana ma
testimony Of Dabney, as above given, as
to his family history; that ne YOU'D tes-
tfy that he (Brooksl knew be g M hnax
and Is we'll acquainted with the Ihn3,liy
4 history of Dahney: that Bette WaihslI
was three fourths white , ana o nf Rettie
/ Walker there has not been in l)abney's
fam n any a1mixture of blood other than
Whts and that the p9od * nSnsy
n,hita nr Caucasian, and one sxty-fourtl
''i It Was agreed by the board that Brooks
would estify as TH sspiea oy sc cfL
Tho boa d. after full consideration OF
the objection and motion above t, t Sereen'
and of all the testimony re rnvimce , or the
hh board do to- Investigate the family history
If Dabney, but considering only the ene G.
mon school No, 90, of the attenualice, ~, ~
ia bney's children there, IN view on w w
imposition of such Il large proporllpm ~ ~
he patrons thereof. entered an oraer ~ ~
ne erect that the Board of Trustees y III ~
dren OF B. r. Dabney, at school !. NJ. :, -, 20
Void greatly hinder the prosperity .i'i Y,
eficency of said school; therefore, ~ W. ~
ordered that they shall attend sci'o'' Nv
From this order counsel for pa antei
prayed s an appeal, which was ,I grsm1teta TO-
The case will be taken, on apiIs5 ayYoi IL
i,nuntv Superintendent y. ~ ef oMe' 4
tbence TO State Superintendent s4 "d,na y
and thence to the State Board OF l'ouou'
tion. b.s mazda affidavit,
~. opsep b,s own personal knowledge. fuily
~ detail the family history ana aeelai,, y :
that there is not nor ever lias .'eS f III, III
a adm, xture of negro blood IN the fanny.
Renian,in II. Dabney is, very Wora s1,
c,izen Of Dinwiddie, who has always
steues" we'll in the estimation of the neo-
pie.
Fatally Gored by pu'l'
fsnec,al to The Times Dspatch3,
pIsG,oE VA Oct. 27.-Mr. t. NJ Will