The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-10
NO VERDICT IN
Redo MURDER.
Samuel Kennedy Arraigncd for
Passing Fraudulent
Check.
TWO CRUSHED TO DEATH
Marines Enter a Plea Of Guilty
to Forging Money
Order.
Especial TO Tho Times. Dispatch,

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NORFOLK, VA. May 9.--Alexander
Reid, Jr.. was tried for murder to- day
IN the Corporation Court. The charge
was that Of shooting Ethcbert sivills
In the apartments Of Mrs. Ross, II,
Church Street, because OF rivalry for
the favor pretty young girl. Minnie
Williams, OF whom the two men were
enamored. The shooting occurred a
month ago, and the victim died the next
day. There was quarrel and a fight
IN the house, and but one witness, an
old soldier from Hampton, who was In
the habit of Visiting Mrs. Ross, whose
testimony was to the effect that the
shooting was in self-defense. sivills
came to the rooms and assaulted Redd.
who was there, and Redd shot TO pro-
stect himself. Tho ante-morten state
ment OF the dying man was to the ef-
feet that he had been killed during
quarrel. Tho jury considered the case
all afternoon without agreeing. They
stood ten for two years and two for six
months In jail. The jury was discharged
CHECK FLASHER ssARRA1GNED.
Samuel Kennedy was arraigned in the
Police Court this morning, charged with
obtaining 5000 by false pretenses, and
the case was continued to the 18th.
Harvey McDickson charges that the
prisoner procured his endorsement Of a.
check for 5000 on the Blue Ridge Bank
and got the money from the National
Bank OF Commerce here by representing
that he had the money to meet the de-
mand. The check was was returned un-t
paid. X Officer Purnell, who went from
here to bring the prisoner from Char
lottcsville. where ha was arrested, says
the distress OF the young and pretty
wife, who belongs to- an estimable fam
lily there, was pathetic The prisoner
was formerly a shoe merchant in Ashe-
vile. N. C.
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Jesse Elliott, an employe Of the Sea-
board Air Line Railway, Whs crushed to
death on the railway In Portsmouth to-
day and may die. He was sitting on the d
& end OF q cross-tie near the shops rest
ing and probably doing, when O switch
engine backed car against him, knock
ing him over and crushing him.
Brakeman James Boldly (colored).
the Southern Railway at Pinners Point
to-day, and was crushed to death. He
was thirty-five years OF age, and had
been several years in the employ of the
road. "a
Russell 3. Cole, aged twenty-five, OF
Philadelphia, and Ivan NJ. Alley aged
5twenty-fiv Of Kansas City. Mo-, ma
rines from the receiving ship Franklin
Iat the Norfolk navy yard, charged with
Jacob F. shafer. another marine. by
his father from Washington: D. G., en-.
tered plea Of guilty in the Federal
Court to-day waving jury trial
Judge Waddill reserved sentence
STRANDED SHIPS.
e: Advices received here by wreckers state
that the schooner D. D. Haskell, Captain
Torey, Is stranded Eighteen miles south
OF Ocracoke, N. c., in good condition.
She is believed to be from Georgetown, g..
c., for Norwich, Conn.,. with lumber It
lis also believed that her crew is IN no
danger Tugmen DO not contemplate go
ing to her assistance. She is on dan
Rerous coast and may never get off.
E Frederick Ives, OF Princess Anne coun-
" was drowned In a pool OF water on
Saturday and his body was not found
till the next day when a search was maue
for the missing man. He was 10 years
OF age and great shrimper and fisher.
It Is supposed he was pursuing his
fayorite sport when he was attacked ny
vertigo and fell into the pool near Great
Bridge and drowned, He was veteran
OF the Union army IS
FOuNO 31NSISA>%41'hS'@>A1,''
Paul w. Derrickson. the l3-year-old
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Derrickson, Of
mR North Marshal Avenue. brambleton,
who disappeared from home last Satnr-
day has been found in Richmond anu
his father left for the capital city TINS
morning to bring his runaway son Daek
home tonight.
Four steamers, oil from southern ports,
hound for ports Of Europe, sailed from
Ianbert's Point yesterday. where they
mad touched for bunker coal. Ihey
wera all filled with cotton In bales, num-
herine 1885, and the value OF ther
cargoes was nearly $4,000. 900.