The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-13
PECULIAR DEATH
Of WIN. A. POWELL.
While Going to Get Medicine to
Save His Life Was Struck
BY Coal Train.
HEAVY SHIPMENTS OF KALE.
Sol. Grecnstcin Expected to Plead
Guilty to Perjury-Run-
away Sent Home.
Especial to Tho Tlmes-Dlspatch.)


NORFOLK, VA, March 12.-William
A. powell, IS years Of age. living In
Underwood, Il suburb of Norfolk, just
beyond the Norfolk and Western Rail
roads Lambcrts Point terminal tracks,
was seized with an attack Of acute in
digestion last midnight. and declaring
that he would die before morning IL he
did not get medicine, started alone for q
drugstore, against the wishes and adj
vice of his wife. Finding the drugstore
closed, Mr.. Powell started back home
and was killed by "a Norfolk and Western
train of empty coal cars coming from the
I4inibcri's Point piers, within two hum
dred yards of his residence. His head was
crushed and his left arm almost severed
ut the wrist.
There are several theories, one is tina.
Mr.. Powell was struck by the train and
knocked down. Ills hand being run over
and then the driving wheel of the en-
gIno striking his head. Another Is that
he threw himself against the engine or
niny have suddenly become unconscious.
aud while waiting for the train to paas,
fallen against the engine.
All of these things will be Inquired
into AT the inquest tomorrow evening.
Mr.. Powell was married. has wife and
little daughter about three years old.
He leaves several children by u former
marriage. For fourteen ..--.--.--. - mas been
employed on the Merchants and Miners
wharf here. but u month ago he went
into the delivery business and employed
a driver while he solicited business.
tSltLE TO NEW YORK.
Unusually large crops of spinach aud
ksie are being shipped from Norfolk
this season-2J per cent. larger than ever
before. Eight thousand barrels OF those
two products WAS carried to New York
from here Saturday night by the Old Do
niinion steamer. There is a profit for
the producers of these crops in the prices
they are bringing on the Northern mar
kets this season.
RUNAWAY SENT HOME.
Peter Long, twelve years of age. cried
as II his heart would break fin the Gem
trial Police Station this morning. He was
takcn from the railway station OF the
Atlantic Coast Line where he had ar
rived after beating his way from Durham.
y. G. He said his father Is dead and
his mother works in u tobacco factory.
and he determined TO come 10 Norfolk
10 earn living. He had no money and
no pians. hence chlef-of-Poicc Boush
required the railway to take the boy
back to Durham under the pauper law
passed by the legislature. lie was cared
next train. when he was sent home.
TO PLEAD GUILTY.
Sol Grocnstein, OF New York. now in
the Jail Mt Richmond as Federal prison.
or. Is expected here tomorrow, He is
to appear before Judge Waddill, OF the
Federal Court, TO plead guilty of per-
jury. He and Pcyser Abraham, a bank
rupt merchant of Portsmouth. united in
a romance To the effect that the mer-
chant had no money for his creditors
because the money for the stock OF
goods he had recently bought and sold
without paying for had been lost in two
games OF poker in New York. They
united in saying that 500 was lost on
one night and six weeks afterward $50
was lost ut the same place in the same
way Abraham WAS sent to jail for COM
tempt of court and Grecnstcin was in
dicted for perjury. Abraham has found
$3.50 of the money he lost and paid 1t
into court and is released from jail. but
not discharged in Bankruptcy. Now the
case of Grcenstein Will be considered
by Judge Waddll.
That Is complicated by his jumping a
bail bond when he should have appeared
in court and by his flight from here
when the prisoners were taken from the
jail because II was threatened by the
burning of large peanut factory adjoin-