The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-18


paper and pen. After writing letter
with, great cure she exercised a woisSan's
right TO change her mind and impulslvely
tore 1t UP.
Upon being locked up she put her chair
under the electric light and seating her.
self, face from tho door read 4 maya
32!ne which Sergeant Bailey kindly fur
nlshed her. She refused for a long time
to turn her face towards tho door unloss3
assured that tho o tficcr was there al ne
During the afternoon a promlEc% 7 g
zen came dowt, to inquire about hor. but
dld not ask to see her. Later MI. Join
w. Williams, clerk OF the HHouse of Del
egnts, came to SEQ her, and ~ re pre-
sent her when the case 10 called before
the Police Court this morning.
Loneliness Broken.
Last night by 0 o'clock she had grown
very tried of the loneliness and confine-
8ment and when a newspaper ma stop.
ped In front or her cell ana spoke TO her
\ she seemed TO appreciate tho attention
and the break in the nonotony. The
weather was discussed and many other
subjects entirely fornign$to that Will ~
was uppcrmost lii the minds Of beth. her.
trouble. Finally, when tho two had be- DC.
come better acquainted,@ and she he'd
or the cell and tho newspaper man had
4httched ano tter. to the door on he out
side, and they could see each other
fthrough*the slit, the conversation tura Cd
upon herself, ard she talked quite freely,
She said she was O Miss Mary ]. Dill
OF Philadelphia, before her marriage TO
NJ G. Jameson, Jr.., and had lived ~ u
philadelphia. New Y rk and AYaahingt NJ
hut not in dBa ltlmore. Her huspaEd 1 had elt
been dead about two years. after a mar
rled life ot one year. She said she
thought her husband had money N tn Is
Roanoke bank when he died. and that
" as the reason she drew tho draft omit
She said her husband came from South
west Virginia. Her husband Was 81. e,
Jameson, Jr.. son OF the late Morton G..
jameson. for number of years comp
troIler of the Norfolk and Western rail-
way Company.
Came Here Monday.
Mrs Jameson says she came To Rich
mond from washington Monday morn
Ing and went to the Woman's Christian = 2,
Association She remained here = roush y
the day, ard that night took the Old
Dominion steamer for Norfolk uesday
and tuesday night she spent In ) orfolk,
she said riding A around 4: on Il the street
cars. From what she related Of herself,
she seems 10 have spent Tuesday night
on the streets or In street ca rs, .s I este
day morning she turned TO Flchno ..t
blythe Chesapeake and Ohio road. s s
could not have been IN the. city. ron ~, ~.
fore going Up on Broad Street, where
she was arrested. She said she had mo
money now. In reply to a&direot cues
tIon. she said she had never beer IN
trouble before ; this in denial OF tho re-
port that she had been both in Phllaadel-
phia, her native city. and In Baltimore.
Had Undergone Operation.
She said she had not long been dts
charged from a hospital In Philadel-
ph!a where q surgical operation had
been performed. She had not yet recov-
cred ard asked the reporter to get a
woman to come to the cell and help her
replace a bandage. a kind hearted wo.
nan from across Main Street was se-
cured However. before the reporter lett,
tho prisoner Invited him to return and
talk with her again. saying sEo was
lonely. The newspaper man SAID ne
would. and he did, taking her some
Philadelphia papers and magazines 70
read. s. .tg
But she was not TO use them last night
About II O. clock she became quite sick.
and complained of the wound from the
operation hurting her. The ambulance
was called and 1T was decided best TIN T
she DO taken to the City IIosplta l for the
night. Policeman Kuhn was detailed TO
guard her all night b HE y, 3
Very Sad Case.
The woman Is really ina pit able llt posi-
ton. such as appeals far to feel
ings Of sympathy and Kindness u than
resentment. III Il "
President Sands, OF the bank, EXPRESSED
| the opinion yesterday that she must be