The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-15
WAS DROWNED ].
WHILE BATHING |. n !
Young Negro Man Could Not
Swim and Went. in Deep
33.3i Water.
OLD MAN. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS
Closing Exercises Of the Peters.
burg School Of
Music. s

X Especial to The Times DisDatch.) NV
PETERSBURG, VA, June 14.-Charlie
Green, a young colorcd man, was drowned
Z In the river this afternoon while bath
Ing with number OF friends near the
foot OF Short Market Street. Green was
unable TO swim and got beyond his depth.
His body was soon recovered. He was
twenty-onei years old, and is said to have
been employed In tobacco factory.
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS.
A. B. Cross well known shoemaker
conscious in his room on Short Market
Street this morning, and is not expected
to 1--we. Heart disease Is pronounced by
4 DR.. w. p. Hoy to be the cause OF his
condition. Mr.. Cross always slept In q
room In the rear OF his shop. which re-
manned closed until such late hour this
morning that friends, suspectlng some
thing wrong. entered his room through
rear window. after several unanswered
calls. and found the unconscious man
lying partly in bed and Iprtly on the
& floor. DR.. Hoy was at once called and
administered heart stimulants, but the
mans condition was such that his re-
covery is not expected,
8 Mr.. Cross Is about sixty-five years old
and has two sons, John and Waverly
4 Cross.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
III The award Of prizes to an unusually
lnrgc number Of successful students at
the Petersburg School OF Music this morn
\ Ing marked the closing exercises OF one
: OF the most successful sessions In the
history OF the institution. The Rev. DR..
IS. c.. Hatcher, OF Market Street Metho-
& dist Church. made an Interesting address
and delivered prizes for excellence In
{ their respective grades to the following
young ladies: Madeline LIE Morue. Catha-
@rine Mann. Anne McIlwaine,s Clara Hays
leslie Booth, Kate Stockdell and Lena
Tyor. Miss Elizabeth Davis and Mr..
1 Robert Claiborne vsce awarded special
prizes for remarkable advancement In
theory and definitions Miss Alice Hays
Z and Miss Virginia Leigh were the lead
& Ing students. This musical institution.
4 which Is conducted by Miss L. v. Major,
y as principal. with Miss l.. z. Jones, Mrs
&C. D. Witherspoon and Miss Beatrice L.
Il r. Jones. assistants. has graduated sew
I eral distinguished musicians. among
& whom. Miss Laeta Hartley. OF this city
4 Is considered an artist OF brilliant prom
ise. Miss Hartley has graduated with
the highest honors at the Boston Con-
Gservntory. and sails Tomorrow from
New York to spend two years In Europe
under the instruction Of distinguished
French and German musicians. X u.s.
Il .,5 CRIMINAL CASES.
# Several unusually interesting criminal
cases will be tried at the June term OF
the Hastings Court. which begins to-
morrow. 55S$
James W.. Cooke, a well known young
druggist, sent on from the Mayors Court
on the charge Of robbing a safe in w.
i. Browns drug store. Of which the ac-
cused was formerly proprietor. will be
y put on trial. & S83
sSa a young man, who. when arrested,
gave his name as John G. Reede, and
said that he was frora Evansville. Ind.
win be tried on the charge OF passing
fraudulent checks. Reede was recently
arrested here by Chief OF Police Ragland.
who found large number e checks on
various banks in West Virginia. Ken
/ lucky and Ohio in his valise Commu-
5nications with the alleged slgners OF these
checks indicates that they are. all false.
Since his arrest the accused man has
steadfastly refused to give any informn-
tion about himself, expressing great fear
that his mother and family may hear OF
a1lis wrong doing.