The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-16
Timely Discovery Of a
Plot in Fulton.
SEVEN MEN WERE
PUT UNDER ARREST
While Six Others Succeeded
In Making Their Escape.
WERE CONCEALED
IN A DARK ALLEY
We're Armed With Pistols and Rocks
and We're Making an Assault Upon
Car When Soldiers, Under
Majors Nottingham and
Cheatwood, Arrived
on the Scene.

Concealed in a. dark alley OF Fulton,
and pistols, were surprised last night
in the act of waylaying and attacking
one OF the late oars making its way
along the route.
All around them suddenly appeared sol.
diers. and to the right and the left, AZ
they glanced in terror, seeking an ave.
nue. OF escape from the trap in which
they found themselves. muskets and
bayonets cleaned in the fitful light
scene Of wild confusion cnsued. Frantic
efforts We're made by the prisoners to
escape, and. under cover Of the night.
escape some OF them did. Rack fences
were scaled: some crept along the line
OF the fence, and finally made q bold
dash for 1t; all scurried about like rats
in a cage besieged from the outside. Sew
eral squeezed through the Gordon drawn
around them several did not and thers
they stood. covering, caught redhanded. y
When final results We're figured out, It
was then seen that six of the number
had been caught. These SIX are:
z. w. REDFORD, a motorman. for
nlerlH In the employ OF the company.
& r. H. CARROLL. also a motornan.
4 T. j. KANE. a laborer.
G. KANE, a boy.
JOHN .LANNEY, a laborer
4 a. B. JORDAN, a contractor.
Tho prisoners were taken to the First
Police Station and there locked up. The
charge against them Is In effect that OF
unlawfully and feloniously and malicious
~ asaultng street car with Intent to
main, disable, disfigure and kill the peo-
pie therein. and with placing obstruc-
tions on the track The offense carries
with 1t maximum punishment Of ten
years In the penitentlary.
A Well Laid Plot
The night was dark, the hour late. the
spot secluded. With great ingenuity tho
consplrators laid their plans, and when
the time grew propltious gathered silent.
ly and set about the performance of their
work. The spot selected by them was
on Williamsburg Avenue. between Gra-
ham Street and State Street Just along
here is bag factory, which forms a sort
of L in the rear. In this hollow spot
or alley the plotters assembled. 1t was
fast approaching midnight when they be-
gan their work
While all of this was going on. how
ever. military headquarters were In a
hustle. For some time past there had
come to the ears Of Colonel Anderson
rumors of the planned Fulton coup d'etat
plotting OF his own. Skill was met with
skill. and when the coldlers left the
armory to Join these already In Fulton.
all had been arranged. In their possess
sion even then was the information con-
cerning the location OF tho men and the
plan OF approach and the method OF ap-
proachng the consprators had all been
carefully laid out. Just how many were
there Is not known but there were a
column Of them with orders to cover the
streets OF Grulton Major Nottingham, OF
Norfolk, and Major Cheatwood, OF Rich ,
mond, were in command.
The Arrest.
How tho troops succeeded In the task
set before them Is told above. They pro-
ceeded without delay to the seat OF war
and with all possible dispatch drew a line
around the alley and awaited develop
ments. Major Nottingham was already
in Fulton with four companles-K and a,
OF the Seventieth. and A and G. OF the
for some days for this very thing. From
went the Blues, under Ma
jor Cheatwood, to Join the forces on tha
field The battalion went down Broad
Street In two cars and skirted Chimborazo
Hill, coming In on the rear OF the con-
spirators.
For a while the troops lay awaiting
dev evelopments. and before very long de-
yeopments came, A car was seen max
Ing its way up the track In the direction
of the city. II reached the dark alley.
The car began to Jolt over spikes on tho
track. and then stone flew out OF the
alley Then came a shower OF them, and
finally two sharp. quick cracks of pistol
we're heard. while the balls whlzzed by the
car harmless
At this 1uncture the soldiers closed in
the Blues from the rear the others from
the front, and there the midnight ma
rauders stood. caught red-handed In theii
own trap. Excitement was rampant for
many wild moments. Those In front OF ths
little party huddled together In the alley,
threw their hands above their heads and
screamed for mercy, Behind them q. mad
scramble ensued. Like pack OF rats
they ran hither and to blindly trying to
force their way out. Some scaled fences
and got away; others sneaked off In the
darkness and escaped; It is thought that
some disappeared through doorways. Tho
soldiers fired four times into the night. but
so far as is known hit nothing,
Those Arrested,
When the excitement, died down some.
what the result of the nights work was
figured out In the midst of tho soldiers
stood some six or seven covering and
men, who, unlike their Fellows
had not been able to elude the troops
All of them We're taken to the First Pou
ICSonttnn,ad IN Third PswSl