The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-16
BOY GROUND
| PIECES /: J,
Bravely Fought Against Death,
But Failed to Tell How lie
Came to be Hurt.
Mr.. DA I. BAD BAD LUCK
Had Two Mills Burned While
OFF on Trip olicen1ai1
Meets Bluff Of Thief.
Mr.. DALToN's BAD BAL LUCK G.
tspeclal to The .rimes-Dispatcll)

x GREENSBORO, N. c., Dec. 15,-satur-
day afternoon Ebert Aumon, aged ten
years, son Of Or Aumon, Of Liberty, wus
found near that town lying beside tho
railroad track literally cut to pieces
Both Of his arms were severed from his
body, one of the arms being cut OF IN
throe places. Both legs were also soy.
cred. Besides this. there were many
b, uises and two deep scalp wounds. Tho
physicians Of Liberty at once attended
him. and DR.. Broadnax, the railroad COM
panys regular surgeon, went from hore
To assist. Or. Broadnax returned yes
,orday, saying the llttle fellow lived over
twelve hours He seemed perfectly COM
rosed MI and was conscious I'LL tho while,
insisting when told that he would die
that he would not and persisting IN this
assurance until half an hour before
DEATH.
He never told how the accident oc-
CURED, although repeatedly ASKED 10 9. 40 1I
So From all that could be learned It IS
thought that he tried to climb up on
chr as the train Wna slowly ascending Il
rrade on the outskirts Of Liberty, and
had fallen under the wheels. lie was
not seon on the track, and none Of the
train crew or others on tho train knaw
OF his being about the train.
LOST TWO MILLS.
MIR, Frank Dalton, Moses Conc and
Judge II. b. Stevens arrived yesterday
from a two weeks trip of inspection Of
The fifty thousand acre tract Of timber
lands In Southeast Georgia. recently pur-
chased by syndicate, In which tho Milles
Pages, Coxes. Cones, Daltons and other DIG
financiers are interested AZ O'clock
to-day all Of these parties had q business
Meeting at the Benbow Hotel to perfect
The various transfers Of titles to the
property and complete the necessary ar
engagements for operations,
Mr.. Dalton had not heard of the de-
struction by fire at High Point OF q large
furniture factory In which he was IN
tcrested until he reached home, and said
that while he was gone large iump '
mill In Georgia, in which ne was m m
tcrested. was burned.
Chief Of Police Scott who left last
week for Harrisburg, Pa, with rcqui-
sition for william Ingram, charged with
murder, has not returned but has writ
| ten saving that he found ingram to be
| the right man, but the Governor OF Penn
svivania was out OF the city and would
| not return until to-day, when no pre-
sumed tina requisltion Of Governor Ay,
cock would be honored. and no would
START home. He wrote that he called by
En1porla. Va. to view tho suspect ar
rested there for Green AfsAdoo, but lt
was not the right man.
NET THE BLUFF.
! Yesterday Grover Campbell, who had a
pair of pants stole., from his boarding
house a few days before. saw them on
| n white man named Harry Purdey. a
warrant for his arrest was quietly op-
tanned and officer Pugh served It FUR
dey denied the charge, but very aifaply
offered to go to his room and snow the
| coat and vest of the same goods. Camp
| bell called the attention of the officer TO
!! the fact that the goods had been newly
dyed and pressed showing, however.
marks Of Identification In the shape OF
| mlsmatched buttons his landlady mad
| sewed on for him and other "ear mar ks.
! Furdeys request seemed reasonable, and
the officer accompanied him to his room
Arriving there. Purdey went to his trunk,
opened the top, and when he next showed
l his hand there was a revolver directed
at tho accommodating policeman's head
! with an order from Purdey to git out
1 pugh. quick as flash. jumped all over
tho prisoner, tho pistol was sprawllns
| In a far corner Of the ROOM and the nip-
/ rcrs were on Purdey before he could re-
cover from his establishment The man
had not long been released from serving
sentence on the roads.