The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-20
MANY CASES BEFORE:
PETERSBURG COURT
Criminal Docket OF September
Term Largest for Several
Years.
TRY ELI TARTT OCTOBER 1sT
Appeal of Negro Preacher to Be
Heard at That Time-Poisoned
With Lye.
Special to The Times-Dispatch.l

Especial to The Times-pispatch.J
PETERSBURG. VA, September a.
The September term of the Hastings
Court convened this morning with the
largest criminal docket In several
years, including the August cases. and
about sixty indictments for vagrancy,
which latter. it is understood. will be
nolle prosqued. The big crowd in the
courtroom was mainly interested in
the hearing of the case of Ell Tart
pastor Of the Harrison Street Baptist
Church. colored, who was recently flnet
s25 and given sentence of thirty days
in Jail In the Mayors Court on the
charge OF assaulting John Henry Ma,
son. colored porter. at the ONCE OF
a colored lawyer here. Tart appealed
to the Hastings Court and when the
case was called this morning Charles
T. Lassiter. his counsel, asked that&it
be postponed until the next term, stat
ing that he had only recently been
asked to assist in the defense. and had
Attorney r.. II. Mann
strongly objected to postponement CIV
ing as one of his reasons that the de-
PENDANT had interviewed one of the
prosecutions witnesses at Tariffs home
last evening. The case was set for a
hearing on Tuesday. October 1st.
!, The case of Charles P. Buckley, the
white man charged With robbing and
assaulting ]. f. Grimstead, clerk IN
the Miller furniture store VINO 81 Y KS
store with his skull fractured and
pockets rifled. was continued until &C.
tcber I'd, In order to allow time Tor
communication with people in Wash
that he can estblish an aiibi. Buckley
is represented by Robert Gillian, Jr.
Poisoned With .Lye.
rare case came up in the Circuit
Court of Prince George county yester.
dty, when indictments We're found
a woman calling herself Lula .Patter-
son. with whom he lived. charging
them with causing the death of the
5woman's daughter BY mixing concen,
trated I've with. n,olasses. which ha I
uerson and her mother Were away.
The girl ate the connection and died
after several weeks of suffering, the
attending physicians subsequently tes-
tifying that her death. was caused by
concentrated lye Anderson and the
s-lrls mother are III jail. and will be
tried at the next term Of the court
Rcbckah Celebration To-Night.
nv a big celebration at Odd-Fellows
Hall to- morrow evening Charity Re-
bekah Lodge, No. 49, 4 9. o.. ~, 9. W y,
the founding Of the Rebekah branch OF
the order, which will be commemorate I,
Throughout the country by order of the
grand sire Of the sovereign grand
iodge Of Odd Fellows Charity r.,
ne tell Lodge was Instituted about tive
and half years ago, and has proven y 'sI,f
one Of the most progressive N tht
State. The exercises Tomorrow, .nlsll
will consist of the exempt tcatlon q
dc grees, the presentation OF a. JeWe
~ the order to Mrs. p. n, Hinckie ans
an unusual entertainments. with the
serving Of refreshments.
pennsylvania Veterans.
A number of veterans of the One
Hundred and Twenty fourth Re glment
Pennsylvania Volunteers, returnl.a
from their reunion at the Jamesto s, y, =
ESposition, visited Petersburg TO day
and were entertained by Colonel Grimm
nresident Of the Atlantic Dredging
Company. Of Philadelphia me 6, ,vet = =,
ans went out to the battle helds any
Visited other places OF interest ~ NV
around the city. u, 4
" Miss Geneva. "A. Hamm, daughter, Q
and Mrs, William II, Hamm, dec
about ii o'clock last night at her nome g,
I'm Matoaco after long illness. a MIS- y ~
Hnnlm was twenty six Years !, &. OF age
! THE funeral took place this AFTERNOON
from the Matoaca Baptist Church.
Miss Jennie Rrittnn died 5yesteru y y, :, =
the residence Of her sister. NJ VS. t1e IN,
ierlxinson,s In Chesterfield ,enunty., Nv Nv
| ffun eral services We're held TINS aattef
noon liz old Blandford Ghurch.