The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-01
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Z Second Street at A high sneed to Bacon
y Street at which point lie turned
! and was lost to view. Tho either was y
colored woman living or Bacon Street
h Who saya she saw the Figure ofHnf man
4 soiiik through licr back lot toward The
4 railroad tracks.
''lIe seemed to be In trouble" she
y sAid. sand could scarcely get along. He
! vent up the track
Not Jim Goode.
Layinla Nichols, the colorcd woman, AZ
whose house the trouble started, said
"a The police were mistaken IN thinking thnt
y Jim Coode was mt her house, t e
I'll don't know the man" she said, and
never heard Of him. except what saw
I IN the papers. VA
+ ..,rhe only two men ttnt were In my
II house were "1sellow'Wnnd "Snowball.'
U .Bellow, vs., nan,c is James ohnson. l
4 know lie tin'tstl.c man they are looking
for. because he was here last Saturday
$ night when TINT shooting took place on
Il Eighteenth Street
'Tl1e other man was my brotlier-in-l law.
He works onthe Richmond, Fredcricks-,
burg and Potomac Railroad. and used to
s, work on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad,
\ He comes here right often, and ! know
X he ain't the man they are looking for.
/ If lie was the man the policemen shotat,
\ they viii find when they catch him that
Y he Is tho wrong man..
n why did he run?'' asked the reporter.
Very Likely.
i 'AnNbody would run, IL they heard MI
4 That shooting, was the womnn's reply.
4 "General looks like tho man they de-
n IN n
\ That's why they call him SNOWFALL"
4 But he didn't kill no Niger. lie aint
4 that kind of man. H
The Nichol house Is n two-story frame,
4 standing on the hill, about twenty feet
N from<thc street, and back about twenty
\ five yards. The back yard Is about eighty
u feet deep Two windows look out into the
& yard from the second floor. and IT was
& through ono OF these the shots were
fired down at tile fleeing negro. Inspector
Il Shnberger said he was confident that tho
Y negro had been hit by one of the de-
v tcctives or himself
~ don't mind lying here with th,H
wound said the Inspector, as MISS
Nenable, the trained nurse. stood by him
with FAN in hand don't mind this II
n only the murderer Is caught.
81 couldn't soc at first who 1t was
coming down on8mc. II might have been
Hone OF my men. When he fired saw
THAT 1t was the negro, and then shot
back. and I think he was struck.
Tho doctors urged the wounded man to
cease cxcrtng himself by talking
Dir Brock said last night that he would
l4llve the Inspector removed to one OF
the down town hospitals to-day II he was
Z, no worse
Operation Possible.
'If his condition remains as at pres
AN. I.,,I .tsvl, tttyrn MIL
lie greatly encouraged. But II he shows
Indication Of shock we may have to per-
Il form Incorporation. At present he is get
ting along nicelN.s
The inspector did not seem to be suf-
5fcring. the members OF his family were
y at his side, and DR.. Charles Brock kept
vigil all night
Inspector Sbinberger is beloved by
every man on the force. He is consid-
cred fearless officer, and never hest
#titcs to place himself in danger at the
Ecall!,of. duty. lie is popular and Ills
suffering is a source Of regret to every
citizen.
The shooting of Inspector Sh!nbcrgcr,
recalls The Austin tragedy OF several.
Wears ago. He was one of the bravest
OF officers and was in the act Of ar
resting ttwo negroes ut Fifth and Broad
Streets. when one cf them shot him,
from tic effects OF which he died shortly,
lufterward The murderer has never been
] captured. =
Policeman Minor was shot in the eyes
somc Years ago, by negro burglar,
whom he WAS about to arrest. The ne
40 was caught and sot a long term in
he penitentiary. Mr.. Minor lost his
(Eht.
Every man on the force last night eX-
essed his determination to leave moth
s unturned to capture the fugitive.
One Man Arrested.
hnut. 2 o'clock this morning the negro.
leral Randolph, was arrested and car
to the Second Station. He said he
at the Ncllol home, but made his
from the front door, and was not
man who ran out the back gate.