The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-27
.REPENTANT VIE
Returning Home ! 4 |:
Mrs. Mary Fitzsitni1oiis Says the
Devil Must Have Possessed
Her When She Left.
MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER
Held for Trial, Although Exoi1e-.
rated by the One Whom
Il He Killed. n !.
q rhe rin,es- Dispatch.)

NORFOLK, VA Z April 26.-Dctectiyo
Bennett, OF Jersey City, N. j.. left here
tonight on the Old Dominion steamer
with Frank Kremcr, aged twenty-six, who
came here with Mrs. Mary Eitzsimmono.
aged thirty. both of Jersey City, who nave
been living as husband ans wife In a
Bank Street boarding house here.
5 The charge against the man Is that OF
deserving q wife and two children. There
is no charge against tho woman, and tho
detective said her husband had not asked 1
him to bring her back. But slie5 says she I
will return TO tho husband and children
and ask forgiveness.
She says sho left her husband without
cause, and must have been possessed OF
tho devil. go
lSrelncr is tho son OF q policeman, ana
was employed as an elevator BOY.
HELD FOR MURDER.
Thomas Beard, colbrcd, was held in tho
Police Court this morning forgt the grand
Jury on tho charge OF killing James Grif-
fin, another negro. Tho case is PECULIAR
There is statement from tho dend man
to the effect that the two were friends,
and that tho shot which killed him was
an accident, because they were .plnying
iThon tl,cro Is q statement Of two physl-
clans, one white and ono colOrcd, that the
dying man cxoncrntcd heEliying and also
that both Of them were too drunk 70;
know what they We're doing Yet, Justice
simmons said, despite the testimony. that;
he did rot care to assume rt he respon-
sibilty Of discllargtng q man VINO liad
killed another man even II there were
not enough evidence to convict MIN OF
murder. yss BIZ 5iS
commemorative Attorney Tilton de-
clared that he would not ask the Justice
to do what he had expressed an unWlll-
tngness to do, and he said he uld not
recommend the discharge OF q man VINO
had not testified for himself as to his
own Innocence In that way the prisoner
was held for the grand Jury under a BOND
ofi Isl 900, which was given by his employer,
IS. c. Davidson, owner. Of tho saloon . ana
poolroom where the shooting oc s'i 7ret n
| S.}8POSTOFFICE ROBBERY.
Jame.s Delay. an old man who runs a
cookslop and boarding house on Camp
belts Wharf was, arrested to-day and
held / for investigation by United States
Commissioner Boivden, on the charge OF
CONSUMING with John Mcbride, now IN $the
| penitentiary, and others to rob the post
office at Port Norfolk June l1th last ~
year, The complaint Of Inspector l. W Ia
Lis to the effect that the prisoner mar
bored the robbers at his place peto I! 2
and after tho robbery, md assisted N
the division Of tho money. and the stamps y
taken to amount Of s4O0. II I'D n Y
CIIINAAiEN FAST SAILORS.
The United States naval collier " 2 ut y,
! Captain Hendricks, has arrived 81 at the the
Norfolk navy-yard only fifty-seyen da,
out from Singapore, having made the
quickest trip on record for an American
4 collier from the far East.
The previous record from singapore VIZ
1.-The Sucz Canal was sixty-seyen days
made by the collier Ajax, which recently
i arrived with a full crew Of Cinnamon :,
with tho exception OF her commander ano
engineers The Brutus has @ si1allar g s ~.
OPPOSITION TO BRIDGE :s J,
At the meeting Of the harbor commas,
4 sioners from Norfolk, Portsmouth Snnd
4 Esrkley to-day for the purpose Of near
ling tho proposition to throw a cantlley =
4 bridge to carry q hanging car ncross INC INC
4 eastern branch OF the Elizabeth River PC
\ tween. Norfolk and Berkley, there was
4 considerable opposition developed from =
\ among the maritime Interests on the state'
Z. ment that d bridge only 1875 feet hleh
a would interfere with navigation (.
4 The statements are That the mast Of tne
J. large gchooners arc too hightto 30 under
bridge OF less than 165 feet IN 5he'g 9 =
A and that it would cost $40 q mast or wv AlN
4 for every five lnasted vessel which !, low
!, cred her masts to go under, the prlage !,
a The objections to the bridge were Snot a. a,
4 heard to-day, hence the hearing WI = =
resumed on Saturday afternoon,