The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-05
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escape FROM JAIL!
They Were Sailors and Had Lit
tie Trouble i'll Making Rope
Of Blankets.
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES.
Large Crowd Attends Ceremonies.
iii Blandiord Church
yard.
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES
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PETERSBURG. VA, Juno 4.-By dig
ging through the brick wall of their
cell and swinging to the ground BY u
rope made of blankets from their bcds
r. T. Johnson. William Ruling and r.
IS. kull, sailors arrested on suspislon
Of being dcserters from the United
States navy. escaped from the city jail
about o'clock this morning.
The prisoners would have been ro-
turned to the receiving ship Franklin
at Portsmouth several days ago but for
the fact that the jail was aunrantined
because Of II case of smallpox develops
I'D by a negro prisoner The men oc-
oupied o top story cell on the north
ern side Of the building, and swung
down into the lot adjoining the Jail
property. AS the rope blanket was
found broken, it is supposed that ono
OF the fugtires was injured by the
probable fall.
Memorial Day Exercises.
A delegation of ono hundred ladies',
representing every State III the South,
and headed by Mrs. Norman v; Ran.
dolph, of Richmond came over from
Richmond to-day to participate In Me-
mortal Day exercises this afternoon
Tho majority of the visitors were dele
.-ates to the recent convention of the
Confederated Southern Memorial Asso-
citation They were accorded nearly
welcome by the members OF the LADIES'
Memorial Association of this Guy, VINO
entertained them at luncheon at the
Stratford Hotel. L.,
Beautiful weather perfected inc NY
mortal Day ceremonies this atterhouil'
lie
Zinc Of march of the parade and lloc .F,
IN Rlandford Cemetery, where the me-
mortal exercises were held. ..,,,,
The parade, led by General SUN
Boiling with stan or Mues' f i,,Grvu
promptly at o'clock, In the fotloW
ing order. Chief Marshal Boiling ana
staff. police corps: Petersburg Grays,
under command of Captain BENJAMIN
Harrison and preceded by band: A. Z.
Hill Camp of Confederate Veterans IN
der Lieutenant Commander Homer At
kinson and hea ded by their drum corps;
company of veterans Of the Washing
ton Artillery, of New Orleans. LED by
General w. j. Bchnn and Colonel Echle-
man; "A. P. Hill Camp of Sons OF Vet
Grams; line Of carriages, in which
we're members Of the Ladies' Memorial
Association; Mayor Jones; Rev. DIR. w.
G Taylor, orator Of the day; Rev. r. w.
Barnwell, commander of A. p Hill
Camp. Sons of Confederate Veterans;
tiCV. LIT. u. >. oStcr,
Seward. of a. 2. Hill Camp, and visiting
veterans from other camps
Exercises ut Cemetery.
General Boiling called the assem-
blage to order and presented Mayor
Jones as presiding officer saying that
he needed no Introduction to home PEG.
pie. but must be presented to tbs
ance might cause false impression
that he was not the Confederate vet
eran whose gallant record was so well
known. Mayor Jones presented Rev
byterian Church, who offered a benu-
tiful prayer, thanking God for the
sacred memories. of the day, and in
r>.iing His blessing on the people and
His aid in the future.
After the singing of the hymn. "How
Fir,, Foundation" led by choir OF
ladies' Rev. DIR. w. C. Taylor. pastor
of the First Baptist Church, delivered
ever heard at the Memorial Day ex-
ercises in this city. After expressing
his gratitude for the honor of being
Invited by the Ladies Memorial Asso-
DR.. Taylor dwclt In beautiful Ian
~ gl~ge on the great value of the me.
mortal ceremonies as a. treasury OF
isentiment whose worth could not be
{reckoned from commercial. philosophi:
cal or ethical points of view but would
ever be enshrined in the human heart
as sacred heritage from the past
and an inspiration for the future, per.
petuating the. noblcst feelings of graf
itude and devotion to the Confederate
heroes who. fought for the great prin
ciples in which they believed and gave
their lives for the South The speaker
closed With a glowing tribute to South
ern womanhood.
After the singing of Il AUD Lanf
Syne." the benedct!on was pronounced
by Rev. r. w. Barnwell. rector of st
Pauls Episcopal Church.
Win Bachelors Degree.
Miss Estelle Gertrude Harding. Mis-
Gladys Gertrude Hethorn, Miss Mar,
Bathurst Quicke and Miss Maize Muir
nette Stainback were awarded the a. r
degree ut the closing exercises Of TIN
Southern Female College last evening