The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-24
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!. SET ASIDE.
Negro Charged With Robbinq
Germans Is RedrreSted.
.FlR II E: MAY RESIGN
Y : Believe Tha. the Paid on.
clals Of the Department Should Re.
celved More Pay British Ship
Daventry Being Repaired.
Especial to rhc Times. pispatch.)

Especial to Tho Times .Dispatch.)
NEWPORT NEWS, March 23.-1n the
Corporation Court to-day Judge Barham
set aside tho verdict in tho cuso Of
George Tansley. tho negro who was given
eight years In tho State penitontiary
several days ago on the charge OF rob-
bling German sailors. Commonwcalth'a
Attorney Robinson, nolle prosecuted thu
case against T1nsloy. deciding that hd
would have no chance ofSeonvictlng him
IL lie should go into q second trial. The
Warwick county authorities rcarrested
fTinslcy Immediately after he was rc-
leased, ana will hold him for trial In
the County Court. .s5i
Tho Bloodfeld Justice has sent April
Robinson, Lily Hpps and Estclle Whiting,
the three negroes who were arrested with
Tinsley and Ben Powell, on to tho grand
jury OF Warwick County Court. a Bpe-
cial grand jury Win probably be suina
moned tomorrow to dispose the cases.
Tho volunteer nremen Of the city, ono
hundred strong. threaten to resign unlesH
the City Council sees 1T to increase tho
salaries OF the pnld heads OF tho depart
4,
n year. tho engineers SEQ and the drivers
so. Tho volunteer men claim that their
heads are insuftlciently paid, and they
demand that Increases be made Mt once.
The British steamship AIerchstnn, Caps
tain Mure. from Appalachicola, Fla, for
Harrington. Hull and Fleetwood, England.
which put In here Saturday for bunker
coal Is still here, the crow having refused
to sail With her because She was too hcav-
lily laden. Tho vessel Is loaded with tins
her, and is weighted down ten inches be-
low her summer load line. 1t Is probable
that she will go to tho ship-yard and
discharge part OF her cargo before pros
ceeding to sea.
The British steamship Dnyentry. which
went asl,ort on the coast OF North Caro>
lima, and sustained damage to her bot-
tom on tho starboard side, left the ships
yard yesterday. after having been tho1
roughly repaired at cost -Of so, 900.
City Sergeant u. w. Milstcad went tc
Norfolk this morning and arrested Henry
Mason, tho young white man who Waa I
fined 5000 and costs I'll the Corporation 5
Court Friday for peddllng without V
ccnse. Mason was fined 800 In the Pi-
lice Court. and his attorney appealed tIe
case to tho higher court. He was rcleassa
on his own recognizance for his nIpcn1
ance, He appeared Tuesday. and a cor
tnuunce waa granted until Friday. III
same day Mason Disappeared. and dl3
not show up on Friday when the cas-
was taken up. Fl
There is trouble in tho Newport NgsW
general hospital between some oflthd
nurses, their superiors and tho pfyyl-
clans who have cases In the hoapitalIlt
seems to be some internal lnisundr4
standing, and will probably be adjustds
IT Is said that six Of tho nurses tendT-
cd their designations, but-Were prepailf y
upon to withdraw them
Tho saloon keepers of tho city hcld,.'
meeting this afternoon and viii probnT
make another protest to Mayor MosA
and the City Council against the high
liquor license recently authorized. Ono
| OF the Councilmcn who voted for tho
| high license Is quoted as saying that he
would not have done SO had be known
the State license would be Increased.
Holmes and Curtis McMurran have res
ceIved n letter stating that their brother.
! Henry McAlurran. tho young man who
|mystcriousy disappeared from this sec
tlon two years ago. and who was be-
|lleved to be dead, had been seen aliye
and wellIn Monterey. Mexico.
George Milton, tho negro barber at the
Soldiers Homo. was found dead early
this morning on the back porch of his
| home. The coroner decided that tho ne-
gros death was due to heart failure.
| A monument about fifteen feet IN
height. erected over the grave Of Richard
a. Ruth, in old st. Johns Church yard.
Hampton. fell and broke TO pieces INST
night. Tho monument was placed above
\ tho head OF tho casket. and the wegtit
caused tho casket to crush and md 1 the
ground to cave
David STEVENSON. George Greer Aleu-
Shields, William Brooks. MI n nesroes,
i we're arrested to-day IN lih!nptont
charged with stealing one hundred do!.
lars from. Edward Nolan, ~ eu Ma y ~,
i vi, Nolan on n charge OF drunkenness,
me latter had the money sewed IN tho
o ans of Ills trouses, and says the ne-
groes robbed him.
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