The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-23
MITCHELL BAuGA
CASE CONTINUED.
There Was No Woman in the
Case, AS At First Re-
ported.
.ANTl-sALooN LEAGUE FORMED
Negro In Petersburg HOLDS Up
a Street Car With Gun and
Torpedo.
lspecIal to rhe rImes-pI,pa!el,.l


PETERSBURG. VA. January 22.-The
preliminary hearing IN the Mitchell Ba,igh
shooting case. to have been held at Stony
Creek to- day before Justice Leonard Par
ker, was postponed until next Monday.
Stories of the trouble have been conflict
Ing. but reliable reports from Stony Creek
tonight entirely deny former story that
there was any quarrel about woman,
asserting that the affair was n chance
shooting scrape, brought on by an acct
dental quarrel. s. v. Baugh, who was
wounded in the frticas. is well again, and
is represented by p. II. Drwry, OF Peters,
burg. Frank Mitchell being represented by
r. II. Mann, OF this city.
band OF the Anti-Saloon League
was organized at the Matvaca Methodist
Church last evening, with IL member
ship OF fifty. Charles -. Wilherson be-
ing elected president.
In the Mayors Court this morning.
Love, colored, was fined fifty dollars and
sent to Jail for three months for get
ting on a tear Saturday afternoon. and
holding up Sycamore Street car, with
shotgun. Love had been put OF the
car for disorderly conduct, and after
scouting the gun and u torpedo proceeded
TO place the torpedo on the track, and
hold UP the car with the gun. raising
q considerable row. He says he was
drunk. and knows nothing OF the AFFAIR.
An additional sentence OF three months
was given Doc" Hall. for cutting
fellow prisoner in the city jail with a
knife, which the negro says he found
In his cell. He is serving Il four months
ktry f.tlf an. ~
Is his third sentence for that ofrense.
Rev. DIR. W. w. Moore, OF the Union
Theological Seminary, gave d very in
teresting lecture at the Young Mems
Christian Association this evening on
"gambles IN the u!le Valley" graphic
and scholarly description of his travels
In Egypt.
David f. Bowden. died suddenly this
morning. from heart disease. at his farm
on the Quaker road few miles from
the city, where he had gone to super
intend the demolition of barn. Mr..
Bpwden was about sixty-three years
old. and had long suffered from heart
trouble.
He IS survived by his wife. who was
Miss Sophia Gillian; son. Mr.. ". F.
Bowden. and n daughter. Miss Mary Bow
den. His sister Mrs. William =. Wells.
lives In Norfolk. Mr. Bowden was
gallant Confederate soldier. entering the
ermy with the Prince George Cavalry.
and afterwards serving with Maury's Bat
TALON of Artillery until the end OF the
war
Rev. W. II. Edwards addressed a crowd
ed meeting OF the Methodist Sunday
School Association OF Petersburg and vi.
c!nity at the Market Street Church yes
terday afternoon. Mr.. Wilson, OF Mntoca.
also making short speech. Reports from
the eight Sunday schools composing the
association showed a total registration OF
20i7; attendance. 1871: collections for
the past month. sl7s.9c.
w. ". Jones. who WAS killed by hotel
man in Gallup. Texas. n few days ago.
was for a number OF years u resident OF
pinwiddie county where he owned and
operated q saw mill, near Sutherland's
Station. afterwards being appointed a
government lumber inspector in Texas.
where he had been but a short time when
he met his death.
strong sermon on 1.-The Saloons of
the City. or Why Are They Here?" was
preached at the High Street Church last
evening by Rev. ". Asbury Christian.