The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-04-09
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81 Father Avcngcs Daughter WHO
Was Taken Into Woods
and Assaulted.
KILLED y ,|l['. IN HIS OWN HOME
After Ate. Firing SIX Balls Into Park Park
M cisclll1eimcr's Body Talbot
lDrury Sttrrcndcrs to Police.
Etspeclal To The Tlmes-Dlspatch>

N'1l'SSIdl8lO Inc flllt1eS-DiSPi'S"'t 1870
NORFOf1t.liv VA, April s.-An awful
tragedy occurred on clay Street shortly
fter q o clock this morning when Parks
Cannon Melscnhciner about twenty-five
years years OF age, was shot and almost IN M.
stnntly killed I'll his own home, BY TAX
bot u Drury, aged thirty-six years, o.
East Bran bleton. @
Tho killing, friends OF Drury say, re-
suited from an alleged attempt by young
Mescnhelrner. to assault the fifteer-year-s
old daughter OF Drury, IN strip Of
Gods on the outskirts Of Brambleedton,
last evening. The Mcisenheimer family,
who ara bowed down in the deepest grief
say they lave no knowledge of any ar ga
son that Drury may have had for the
awful deed.
At five minutes TOT o'clock this morn
Ing, Drliry entered the porch at Nc %
Clay Street, next to where the Melsen-
llcimers live! and knocked at tho door.
Drury then knocked at tile Meisenheimerr
door. Melsenheimcr, who occupied, as q
bedroom. the front parlor room down
stairs, was called and was tod that
Sscme gentleman was at the door VINO
:,
he would he right out.
Mi TALKED IL OVER.
n Some indlstinct conversation ensued be-
tween young Meisenhcimer ana the
astrangersatsthe door, Meisenheimer, VINO
had left his room only partially dressed
said s4
''Wait a minute until + can get my
clothes on 53b
II ,Then Miss van Fosin says she heard
several pistol shots fired in rapid sue
cesslon. She rushed down stairs, but
fAfeiserheimer had gone to the back o.
the house and the stranger was leaving
the premises, Meisenheiner rushed
through his bed room and then through
two other rooms into the Kitchen. where
his father, Mr.. Jesse a. Meisenheimer.
aged fifty-four years. was eating break
FAST Young NIelsenheimer. with ms
hands over his heart. called Tor hls wire:
saying Mama. am shot; am shot
His young wife was at the time In the
back yard having gone out for a minute
after preparing her father-n-laws break
fast. The elder Mr.. Meisenheimer, who
is deaf. noticing that his sons undershirt
was nblaze. said:
\ whats the matter. son?
Yourg Mcisenheimer replied: II am
WHO shot your asked the father.
and tho young mans reply was:
'Drlry did H. Il IL
#"These,' says the elder Nelsenheimer.
were the last words spoken by. my SON."
Melsenheimer's young widow. twenty
one years old, Is now Frustrated at her
home. her condition beirg reported By
her father-in-law as quate grave
PLEADED FOR FATHER
1t is reported that after the first shots
was fired at NIeisenhemer by Driry this
morning, Meisenheimer turned to go into
his bed room. but was followed by
Drury, who. in the presence OF the muir
dered mans little son, fired other bull
lets at the childs father. The boy says
he saw the strange man with a smoking
pistol in his hand fire more bullets from
1t. The little fellow screamed and begged
the man to shoot no moro at his father.
The boy was in bed with his father when
Drury arrived at the house. Nothing
alleged attempted assault by young
Meisspheimer on Drury's weak minded
daughter on the outskirts of Brambleton
yesterday The police have heard that
persons claiming to have seen tho af-
fair told Drury Of 1t. Another statement
is that the girl went home crying last
evening and was asked by her older
sister what was the matter with her. The
girl told the sister, and the latter in
turn told her faher, who Is reported as
having said.
"I'l put stop to this" The killing OF
Meisenheimer followed this morning. It
is claimed that Drury had positive In
formation that Mcisenheirner was the
man. but there are those who think some
mistake may have been made In the
mans identity. Drury is in Jail