The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-02
AMHERST LADY
STRUCK down
BY A NEGRO.
a Crime Last Night That. hat
Has Aroused Intense
Anger.
MRS. FRANK BROWN
THE MANS VICTIM
\ Clothes Of the Young Woman
Torn to shreds and $ She he, is
Badly Hurt.
SHERIFF. BEARD HAS
ASKED FOR BLooDH0uND's !I:'
/ An Appeal Received Last Last Night
H Z
BY Superintendent Boiling,
Of the PenitcntiaryA Assail-
ant Unknown, But a Ne Ne.
gro is Believed to Have
Been Guilty.
SHERIFF BEARD HAS
ASKED FOR BIZ 00DH0UNDls
tspec,al to The Tlmes-Dlspatch.)

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AMHERST. VA. October All OF sAn1-8 y
herst Is In state OF excitement over
dastardly# criminal assault which took
!, place right In the center Of the town.
tonight. Who the assaila1 was Is not
known. but the circumstances point 70
one orStwo negroes. Sheriff John p
4 Beard has tclegraphed for blood-hounds.
and the country side will be secured to-
morrow. Guards have been placed at
the Amherst depot, and all Of he trains
4 will be watched.
i#3 The victim or the horrible crime was
Mrs. Frank Brown. the young wife Of
MI. Frank Brown, Of this place She
4 says that her assistant was a egro, but
further than this she is unable to- say.
Mrs Brown is now suffering Intensely,
and infa8highly nervous condition. is5s
Seeking His Wife. ss,.s:
Tonight about dusk. Mrs. Brown vent
3 to the lot where she. keeps herr COW 4 to
\ Irilk " This lot Is only a distance Of one
4 hundred yards from her home After. she
y had been gone some while, her husband
went 10 look for her. II He5wer1ts to- the
J, pasture and finding the COW tied at he
/ lower end sof the b lot and not seeing his
lsWt fe ta col cluded la fter he u had called
her wit hout receiving IN answer. I hat she
had returned to the house by a different
\ route35IIe returned home and not nnd-:
ing her there. he went back to the past
3ure to look for her, carrying with him
two young men, Johnnie Fr!stow. and
John Lynch. ss Il
4 IIpon reaching the pasture they heard
Mrs. Brown at the lower end 8. It, calling
Z for helr. s
Was Badly Hurt.
+ ~ bfo,, hat hnc NJ
head where she was struck with some
weapon or with tho dst OF the assailant.
The finger prints are on her throat Her
clothes were torn In threads. The shirt
waist which she had on was torn In many
places nnd slightly bloody IN one place.
Her ot!.er clothing was torn IN the same
way. Mrs. Brown says that when she
went 70 the pasture she saw the COW
standirg at the fence on the far side OF
the~ lot When she cot where tho COW
was a man suddenly appeared and drew
something over her face. She l!d not get
good look at the man. but says that
she thinks that he was black. = Calling
her byname, he said: s
III YOU scream Will kill YOU"
Rendered Unconscious. &
About that time she received the blow
on the head which rendered her uncon-.
scious. When she became conscious she
was on the other side OF the fence, and
the man was gone. How lol!g she re-
mained unconscious is not known. At
first 1t was thought that the man had
been scs red off BY the calls OF Mr.. Brown
when he came to look for his wife the
first time, but now it is believed that this
was noe the case. Id. l
Mr.. and Mrs, Brown have but recently
moved here from New Glasgow, In this
county. She had one child less than a
year old. She Is in bad condition., but
will recover II is thought. y
The general belief here Is that the
assailant lives In the village or near by.
and the fact that he called Mrs. Brown;
by name would seem to strengthen this
belief. 5
The COW was later found tied at the
lower end OF the pasture, indicating that
tho man tied 1t there 10 entlce Mrs.
Brown there. further away from the road.
Superintendent Boiling, Of the peniten-
tiary. last night received a telegram from
Sheriff Beard, askink for s1,e use OF the
#bloodhounds at tho State Farm. His re-
quest will be granted.