The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-09
Father TO JAIL,
CHILD TO GRAVE
6
Negro Desperate Supposed to
80 be l5ead is 1880.
Missing.
|. FIRE ON OYSTER PIRATES
Captain Hudgins Concludes
That Peaccable Means
Will Not Do.

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NORFOLK. VA. July S.--Sarah. the
child of VIM. Bnrford was buried by
the city to-day while lie was in jail
charged with DESERVING the Wife when
the child was sick. The man was before
Chief of Police Toush several weeks ago
on the complaint OF his wife. and pron,is-
cd to ASST her. Yesterday on the death
of the child he was arraigncd for vag-
rancy. The mother went TO the cemetery,
the father went to Jail. He will be taken
before the grand jury on the new law
which gives a husband the alternative
of dividing his earnings or staying in
jail.
The body of Frank Smith. n desperate
negro prisoner. who was shot in the
suburbs of Portsmouth last night and
left for dead by county officer Stursis
from whom the negro was escaping. was
not found to-day. The officer shot the
fugitive several times and he fell down
into weedy ravine where the officer did
not care to follow, but came there to-day
expecting to find the body The man
escaped. although shot.
SERVICES AT THE BEACH.
Rev. Calvin S. Blackwell. pastor of
the First Baptist Church. will begin Il
( series Of services at Ocean View to-mor-
( row afternoon. He will preach a sermon
4 at the chapel on Tho Souls Awaken
ing. for the benefit Of the cottagcrs
and the visitors. David Coates will be
the leader OF the singing services. The
novel feature of the popular resort has
awakened great interest. and the success
2 of the new departure will be welcomed
4 with general commentator.
NORFOLK HAS 127,noo PEOPLE.
4 Hon. Barton Myers. Chairman of the
4 Committee of the Board Of Trade, has
prepared a book showing the condition
and The prospects of Greater Norfolk,
4 in. which he estimates that there are
! $4,000 people here; that Is, in the cities
on the Elizabeth River, or within q
radius or two miles Of the City Court
House. He declares that strangers who
see the number of people on the streets
here on the first visit say that it indicates
that there must be n population of 125.-
coo to 10000 In Norfolk
HUDGINS FIRES ON PIRATES.
The oyster gunboat Rappahannock. Cap
tain Hudgins. is In port with her gun,
figuratively speaking, still smoking from
the bombardment of oyster boats caught
adepredating on the public rocks in the
James River during the closed season.
It was decided by Captain Hudgins that
gentle means wouldn't do for the oyster
thieves, and he has adopted n policy of
z giving them something more emphatic By
which they may remember that the oyster
laws of the state were made 10 be oheyed.
For several days he has been firing into
the deprcdators, and that he Is taking
good aim is evidenced by the fact that
he has had It reported to him that he
shot the mast out Of ono ofthc craft.
He made one arrest in the James River,
negro named Bob Walker whom he
carried before Justice Wood, of Warwick
county. The prisoner was fined $50,
which he paid. The Ralrpahannock Is
making repairs here. and will return to
N her station In the James Rivcr next
week.
DRUGGISTS SAIL MONDAY.
On next Monday. July 10th. the Vir-
4 g1nia Pharmaceutical Association will sail
from Norfolk on the Providence steamer
of the Merchants and Miners Transpor-
tation Company, and will hold its annual
meeting on shpboard at sea while maxi
Ing the voyage to and from Providence
Many OF the members OF the association
will extend the trip to Boston. 1t is ex-
pected that the novel session of the assoc
citation this year will be we'll attended,
and that the trip will be delightful
.tlagE lON II LILY SkllS BALL.
G. T. ToHnley, former policeman, ana
convicted of obtaining s70O from Ruby
4 Ford oil false pretenscs. has been re-
ported to the court as a fugitive, and his
X bond for Sl,bo0 forfeited. His brother,
Nv. w Townley, of Albemarle county,
was surety on the bond for appearance on
Monday. but Townley left by the Old
dominion steamer two weeks ago. end
bis attorney, Colonel George c. Cabell,
declares that he doesn't know where
he Is.
Townley was policeman appointed for
his services In the election carried by lie
good government faction here. He ar
rested Harry Talcott, and got the reward
from the naval Officers for returning a
deserter, and then told Ruby Ford that
he had influence to save him from prison
and took 800 in money and jewels from,
her on that pretense. He WAS not con-
victed on the first trial. but on the next
trial he was convicted for three years
in the pcntentiary. His attorney pro-
cured new trial on the ground of new
evidence, and on the error of the assist
ant attorney In commenting on the fact
that the prisoner did not appear on the
witness stand in his own defense.
That trial was pending. The bono
will be sent 10 Albemnrle county rs ar
execution against the property of Tho
Brother, who made affidavit to the owner
chip OF two farms there.
MIR. GOODE DECLINES.
Hon. John Goode, who, II was hoped
could be secured to make the address o,
the occasion Of the unwilling Of the ncy
Confederate monument at Princess Ann
Courthouse on July Goth has write,
TO Chairman o. b. Mears, saying thn
owing 40 feeble health he cannot accep
the invitation from the Princess Ann
veterans.
Has Been a Weary Task.