The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-27
He Was Accused Of Shouting
"Scab' at Motorman.
GEORGE C. WINN
is AGAIN ARRESTED.
a Charge of Feloniously Shooting Ser
geant EasIey Entered Against Him.
Quiet Prevailed in Both East
and West Ends Last Night.
The Military Handled
in Excellent Manner

The first shooting incident OF the strike
in the East End was that OF Luther VIII
cox, slxteen-year-oid lad, in Rockets
Bottom, on Lester Street, about 10 o. clock
last night.
Young Wilcox, In company with Lee
Childress and Ollie Goode was on his way
home from the Seventh Street Armory
He had been there to take his brothers
supper. the latter being a member Of
Company B, of the Blues.
AS they passed the viaduct leading into
Rockets. on their way to Fulton. they
isawtWo soldiers on sentry duty. 4 pleas
ant remark was passed and they went on.
/ Car No. 43 was coming on toward Rich
mond, and as 1t passed the boys, one of
them shouted "Scab.' with an unmen-
tionable descriptive epithet. The soldiers
could not tell in the semi darkness, how
many people were outside. They stopped
the car. and the boys ran.
Halt" shouted the soldiers. several
times, but the boys ran the faster.
Then three shots were fired after the
both striking Wilcox. One ball passed
through the right hip, making painful
flesh wound. the other badly injured his
right hand
ONE ARREST MADE.
Lee Childress was arrested but Ollie
Goode kept on running. Special Officer
Gi. II. Mosby. who was near at hand.
ran to the car, and jumped aboard to in.
yestigate the trouble. lie said that he
had no sooner got on the car than he
was Jumped on" by the soldiers. thrown
off, and held there until the car passed
on. The soldier who did the shooting
was not arrested at the time, but Mr..
Mosby will cndenTor TO locate him.
The Wilcox boy was taken to his home
and the ambulance was called. 1t res
sponded In post haste, DR.. Sycle in
charge. Tho boy's wounds were dressed
and he was made comfortable.
1t was found that the hip wound was
not serious. and that the hand wound
was the most painful
The lad displayed considerable nerve
during the time his wound was being
dressed and scarcely flinched.
When asked by n Times-Dispatch man
why he was shot, he said:
III don't know. Somebody In the crowd
called them scabs and, then was shot"
p Ollie Goode, well grown young man.
who was with Wilcox, said that ono Of
the trio did shout ''scah!' and when the
soldiers called to them to halt they re-
fused to do so. and ran away as fast
as they could. Then 1t was that the SOL
diers fired.
II heard the shots" said Goode, 'and
heard the command to halt, but got
out of the neighborhood as fast as
could" ~
1t was stated by the soldiers that the
Young men were not fired at for calling
names, but because they Would not hail
when commanded TO do so.
Young Wilcox Is an apprentice NJ the
Richmond Stove Works, lie is IN his sev-
onteenth year and Is part support for his ms
widowed mother, He lives at NO. SS2g
Fourth Street, Fulton, and is iiked ny al
who know him,
" FIVE YOUNG MEN ARRESTED.
Shortly after this incident a party OF
five young men were arrested by the sol
diers on louisiana Street, near the rail-
road crossing, They We're charged With
disorderly conduct and refusing to move
when ordered by the sentries,9 The names
Of the boys are Oliver Foster, WINE
Hampton, Harry Post. Ham Shepherd and
Willie Hardin. They were carried to the
First Station and locked up.
Acting as spokesman for the others,
Young Shepherd said that they We're doing
nothing hut singing when they We're ar
rested.
Aside from this there was nothing ex-
citing In Fulton, The scene resemhled
nothing more than an ordinary Saturday
afternoon, except that the presence Of
the militia who kept up their ceaseless
vigil. lent an air of restraint.
All day and all night Fulton was IN
the hands OF the soldiers. From the ap-
pearance of things no one would think