The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-23
W|LL.AT TEND THE
MILITARY SCHOOL
Lieutenant Gay the First vir-
. ginia Militiamat, to Ac-
ccpt Offer. ~
AN EXPLODING SHELL
Goes Of in a Store and Wounds
a Boy-Policenan in
Trouble.
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2@H Especial to The Times Dispatch.)
Y NORFOLK, VA, May 22.--Lieutcnant
J. p. Gay, Of Franklin, of the Seventy
first Virginia Regiment, is the first Of
ficcr Of Virginia to accept the offer of
an education at United States military
school. He has notified Colonel A. NJ.
Higgins here that he desires TO accept the,
offer of tho government for training of
one year at one OF the stations with the
allowance of $50 a month for expenses.
which accompanies the offer. Colonel Ilg-
gins has advised Governor Montague and
Adtutant Wright has gone to Franklin
to mako the final arrangements. 1t is
understood that Lieutenant Gay will be
asst gncd to the school at Fort Monroe.
BLESSED is THE PI5Ac1-MAKER.
Milton II. Porter. OF Portsmouth, broke
HIS leg yesterday in tho attempt to scpa-
ratio two friends who were fighting. The
three went to the country together. Two
Of them quarrelcd and then began fight
ing. While interfering to stop the figh.,
Porter was tripped by one Of the men
and fell to the ground, breaking his leg.
The fracture was reduced and the patient
+ Is; doing well. The fighters stopped to
: bring the injured man TO the city.
A young boy, the son OF Joseph Howard.
OF Portsmouth, was seriously wounded to-
day by an exploding shell. The shell was
In ;Kootz's store as a curiosity. II was
a one pound navy shell and there is no
explanation OF the cause OF the explosion.
but fragment was driven through the
/, calf of the boys leg, tearing large
z hole. He will recover. but may be lame.
CHARGES AGAINST POLICEMAN. y.
Another one OF the good government
policemen is in trouble. Charges have
Il been filed at police headquarters against
Officer Becraft He has been one OF the
active political supporters OF the good
government faction. and therefore there
is double reason for suppressing and
E minimizing the alleged offenses. The
charges are filed by DIR Bowen. an In
teligent and respectable negro physician
and druggist In Church Street, who says
that the officer camefto his place and
created a disturbance while In uniform
and not in a condition to walk a chalk
line Chief Of Police Boush Is absent
from the city. attending a meeting Of
the chiefs OF police In Washing ton; hence
no action has been taken on the COM
plants. Meantime the good government
politicians declare that 1t is the state
ment OF negro against that of a white
man. But the white man reported that
he was too sick for duty meantime.
NEW TRIAL FOR TOWNLEY.
Former Policeman c. T. Townley OBJ
/, tained new trial on a motion in the
y Corporation Court to-day. He was In
& Jail & on the conviction by the jnryttof
4 obtaining 500 from Ruby Ford on the
s false pretcnse that he could secure the
release OF her sailor husband. Harry Hal
colt, from the prison ship Southery.
where he Is confined on the charge Of
desertion after having been arrested and
delivered by Townley. The new trial Is
- kto... e,,tf
filed by Colonel G. G.. Cabell to the effect
that Ruby Ford's testimony Is not con-
sistent with itself and with the facts.
4 Townley was one Of the judges for the
good government faction In the contested
3 primary election. and he was appointed
4 10 the police force after the good gov
q eminent faction won the city admins
4 tration. He has had two trials. In the
4 hrst there was n disagreeing jury; In the
second he was sent to jail for a year.
He is bailed out now for s1.5O0 by his
brother. nonresident. The case has
excited Interest because OF the political
activity OF the accused.
DIED OF HIS WOUNDS.
John Johnson. colored, died Of a wound
in the abdomen in the Protestant Hospl-
y tai this morning, and his body was taken
+ by the coroner. He was sent to the hos
pital on Saturday from the Cross Roads,
y In Norfolk county. for treatment The
statement is that the man who inflicted
the wound escaped. The coroner's jury
Z was called here and adjourned till to-
morrow for evidence as to the shooting
from the county.
CHARLES T. EVANS's BODY SHIPPED
Tho body OF Charles T. Evans, whose
4 leg and foot were crushed while coupling
cars in the navy yard, and who died
Il at the st. Yincent's Hospital here after
tho nmpntatlon OF his leg, was shipped
4 to BERTHE county, N. G.. yesterday, in
charge Of his brother. Edward Evans.
He had lived in Berkeley six years. and
he came from BERTHE county.
CONTRACT FOR NEW ROAD.
The contract for building the section OF
The Underwater road from Bluestone, Va.
10 the western end of the 100 mile sec
+ ton, for which the contract.was awarded
4 recently to Sands and Oliver, is to be let,
under present plans. about June 1st
It having been decided that the north
ernmost survey from Suffolk shall be fol-
lowed, the road Will cross the Seaboard
Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line at
points on the Nottoway River and meet
the Norfolk and Western at Drookneal,
Va Brookneal is on the Norfolk and
i Western extension from Lynchburg into
North Carolina.
A dispatch from Fayetteville, Va, says