The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-26
SHE ClUNG TO
NEGRO \. ]: / 0 BURGLAR |. !
Seized Him by Coat Collar and
Held on Until Strength
Gave Out.
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.LlNEMAN FALLS FROM POLE.
Man and Woman Arrested
Charged With Deserving
Families.

a(EpeCtal Btes}5l
NORFOLK. VA, April Is. --Nfts ST
Clair, Of o73Duke Street, caught a negro
man going on with the silver from the
dining room this morning, and held him
by the coat collar until her strength gave
out. Tho ncgro's flcetness OF foot enabled
him to escape the police. a telephone
message came to the police station and
the wagon hastencd to the relief Of Mrs.
h st. Clair, but tho negro was gone when
the patrol wagon arrived. II Mrs. st.
Clair could havo detained the robber
three minutes longer he would have
been caught.
q ]. e. Eggleston, n lincn,an employed
by the Norfolk, Portsmouth and New
port News Company fell from the top
OF a pole at the shot s OF tho railway at
Port Norfolk this morning and wns serl-
o,isly injured. The pole was rotten and
broke and fell with Mr.. Eggleston. The.
injured man was removed to the Nor
folk Protestant Hospital, where 1t was
found that his kncc-cap was broken and
4 that he had suffered internal injuries,
Tho knee was successfully operated on
this afternoon, and the surgeons declare
the patients condition Is favorable.
william Krencr. aged twcnty-thrcc,.
and Mnry Fitzgerald. aged thirty. are
( held here for the authorities Of Jersey
i City. N. j.. upon the charge Of DESERVING
families OF children In that place. The
couple have been living at n Bank Street
house In Norfolk as Mr.. and Mra. VIII
+ liam Kreme r. Krcmer has been employed
on the Board OF Trade building. now In
Fl course Of construction at the corner. Of
i Atlantic and Plume Streets. & A. Al
Sailor Crirnpers Caught.
ai Frank Moree and L. G. Gritty, sailors
boarding house keepers. were held & for.
Indictment before the United States
crimping sailors wages. In violation OF
the United States revised statutes. The
charge came about In d novel way. ].
Z r. ones and 4 r. Mcdonald. British sea-
y men, applied to Chief OF Police Boush.
& for the recovery Of their clothing. say
ing that being stranded here they had
toined the Boer War aggregation as orig
inal British soldiers, but could not go
away with the troop without their.
clothes, which the boarding house men
refused to deliver. Chief Boush sent
word to the United States maj shal. and;
Frank Moree was arrested, charged with
taking n sailors VI clothes. and L. G.
Gritty waa charged with ,e = 9, me
sailors to leave the steamship Tamp!can,t
on which they had arrived here. Gritty
and Moree have been in the same kind OF
Z trouble before and they were required
10 give q $500 bond each for their APP
pearance on next Monday. III n
Fig Tree Larceny
sa The charge against e. T. Thomas OF
larceny was changed to trcspass, and he
was fined $40 for encroaching on tho
h dividing line between him and his neigh
III bor e. IF. Snyder, 30 as to include a
< fIg tree, which he dug from the ground
and took away. The city engineer tes-
tif,ed that Thomas had encroac hed FIVE
i feet on Snyder's land. and In that fve-
Ii foot strip was the hole where the q ttg
n tree had flourishcd. Z The novel case Gre.
ated diversion in tho cour. and when
+ the attorney for Snyder made sintimations
discredltnble to Thomas there was a
commotion as II the attorney would be
assaulted. Snyder was fined So for using
Z bad language toward Thomas. and the
court part OF the neighbours quarrel was
+ over n M y
Missionary for Japan.
Rev. II. st. George Tucker. Of Nor.
Z folk, who has been In Japan as a mis-
, slonary, 3 arrived home this evening on
aylsit to his relatives, and will be In
I this country till the first OF r&ext year.
!, He is "a son OF Rev. DR.. and Mrs. BeY-
II erly -, TUCKER anu -HcllI W - VIZ -
Paul's Episcopal Church. Norfolk. of
which his fat Their is rector. He has been
u In Japan for six years, and Is president
y, Of ST. Paul's College, at Toxic. he Is
now thirty years OF age, and was edu-
q Gated at the Norfolk ~ academy. the Uni.
versity OF Virginia and the Theological
y Seminary Mt Alexandria. Rev. DR., Tuck
u er went to Charlottesville to meet his
son. and they arrived: here at 6:25 o'clock
this evening.
To Sell Bark Baltimore.
f. Cacace. OF Baltimore. owner OF the
Italian bark Baltimore, which was llbeled
In this port In something over $1,000 by
4 Vincent cacace. OF Norfolk, d clares that
he Will not give bond. The GU took now
4 is that the vessel will be sold by the
United States marshal to satisfy libel !
ants claim The Baltimore, which is Of
iron OF 731 tons register and 1856 feet
n long, was built at Dundee Scotland. IN
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