The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-07
PROCEEDINGS
| OF The COURT
! Meeting Of Creditors Of the
Hall Tie and Lumber
Company.
VERDICT FOR A CITIZEN ,l'!|:;I'
Woman Whose Throat Was Cut
by Husband Recovered Stiff
Gently to Appear: Against Him.

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PETERSBURG, VA, October s--Thc
creditors OF the Hall Tie and Lumber
Company, which was recently declared
4 bankrupt, held meeting to-day at the
offices OF Mr.. George s. Bernard, referee
In bankruptcy.
Mr.. Bartlett Roper,3Jr.. who has for
some time been receiver OF the Hall Tie
and Lumber Company, was to-day made
trustee by tho creditors.
The company has filed schedule OF
debts and assets showing the amount OF
Indebtedness to be $l17,91s.33; assets.
i s4S.7s2.93.
In the suit Of NJ. Levy, the furniture
8 dealer. against the city OF Petersburg Tor
!. five hundred dollars damage alleged TO
i have been caused BY az, overflow OF wa
ter from Sycamore street into the plain
tlff's store, the Jury IN the Hastings
a Court yesterday evening awarded Mr..
Z Levy $40.
Niessrs. George S. Bernard and Bernard
I, Mann were counsel for the plaintiff, and
I Mr.. George Mason. city attorney repre-
4 scented the city.
GAMBLING CASES.
The cases OF w. P. Hudgins and George
v
\ ored. all OF whom were fined IN tho
Mayors Court some time ago on the
charge Of keeping gambling houses. came
4 before Judge Mullen this morning on
appeal. Hudgins was dismissed and the
"a case OF Algle Knox. in the absence or
4 Mr.. James 7. Rahily, counsel for the
& defense. was continued until October
18th. In the Walden case. Mr.. George
d Mason. city attorney. referred to the
present law. which requires n recogni-
zancc not only for appearance in the
\ higher court, but also for the Judgment
Of the lower court which latter provision
had not been compiled with In this In.
stance, for which reason, Mr.. Mason
maintained, that the case was not really
4 on appeal S
Mr.. John Watson, counsel for Walden.
stated that his client had furnished a.
Z 500 bond for his appearance. which was
all required by the lower courr,
Judge Mullen took the matter under
consideration.
Calvin Terrell and Pat o Brlen. the two
white men arrested in Richmond sew.
II eral days ago on q. charge OF breaking
open and robbing a freight car on the
Seaboard Air Line In this city. were ar
Il raigned in the Mayors Court this morn
L ing
The accused parties waived examina-
ton npd were sent on to the Hastings
Court for trial on a charge OF felony.
s. Detective Tomlinsin, OF Richmond, was
4 among the Witnesses.
ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER.
John Warrenton. OF this city. Will have
a preliminary hearing in the Mayors
Il Court tomorrow morning on the charge
Il Of attempting to murder his wife. who
y was for scye:al days In very critical.
condition at the Home for the Sick, re-.
ssnlting from wounds in the neck inflicte;
4 by a razor in the hands OF her husband.
Il The affair occurred about six weeks
ago on Washington Street. not very far
\ from the hospital. and so desperate was
the woman's condition at the time that
her ante-mortem statement was taken
NJ before a magistrate. She has now al =
most entirely recovered.
Sergeant H. D. Jordan, OF Bedford City,
passed through Petersburg to-day with
n sixteen conyicts. whom he was taking
to Bedford county to work on the county
a roads. sI
Tho Board OF Directors OF the Appo-
nattox Planning Mill, a Petersburg COM
e pany that has recently been incorporated.
i held a meeting here yesterday. and
Il elected j. w. fanny, OF Philadelphia.
r president, and T.. M. Field. OF Petersburg.
secrtary and general manager.
The company's mill has capacity OF
about fifty thousand feet per day. and
1T is understood that special attention
will be paid to dressing lumber for ship
ment to Northern ports, i,
The Turner Art ExtI1!t. which includes
handsome reproductions Of many OF the
worlds masterpieces OF art. III painting
and sculpture, Is now on exhibition In
the gymnasium OF tho Southern Female
X College.
a. P. Hill Camp, Confederate Veterans.