The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-01-17
DOINGS OF THE OLD DOMINION
The Latest Virginia News Told in
Short Order.

Short Order.
At the conclusion of the meeting
of the jamestown committee on
minerals in the office of the Cover
nor, Governor Swanson applied to
the State Corporation Commission
for a charter for the Virginia Miner
al and Timber Exhibit Association,
of Rich hmond-Claude A. Swanson,
president, Richmond; r. A. Ayers.
vice president. Big Stone Gap; b.
c. Banks. secretary, Bland; w. ].
Baker, treasurer, Hillsboro; direc-
tors. w. J. Paye. Richmond; G. e.
Doyle. Richmond; J. w. White. Nor
folk; NJ. V. Richards, Washington,
d. c.; W. ID. Duke. Richmond; f.
II. Labaume. Roanoke. There Is
to be no capital stock. the object be-
ing to make the mineral and timber
exhibit of Virginia at the Exposi-
ton. The charter was issued.
NJ Fivel. a junk dealer. under SEN
tence to serve a year in the peniten-
tiary, committed suicide in the Nor
folk Jail by slashing his throat with
a pocket knife. Fivel's mind, it is
thought. had become unbalanced by
broOding over his troubles. He was
convicted at the November term OF
the Corporation Court and had been
in jail ever since, pending a motion
for new trial and finally an appeal
to the Governor for commutatiOn OF
his sentence to n term of imprison-
ment i'm the city Jail. He was found
by fellow-prisoner lying face down
ward in a pool of blood. Near him
the bloody penknife lay. Fivel was
man of family. had accumulated
considerable money and bore a good
reputation until suspicion of wrong
doing was directed toward him last
summer.
Meetings of the voting trust and
certificate holders and stockholders
of the Seaboard Air Line Railway
Company were held at Petersburg
in the AppomattoX Trust Company
Building. There We're present Judge
Leigh r. Watts, general counsel, of
Portsmouth; James Byrne, advisory
counsel, of the firm of Hornblower,
Byrne. Miller & Potter, of New York;
Robert l.. Mutt. treasurer and as
sistant secretary, or Portsmouth;
Lewis B. Woodruff. Norris Miller.
John J. O'Leary and Miss G: N 4.
Bird, of Petersburg; John Shelton
Williams, Hon. A. Ca6erton Brax-
ton, DR.. E. G. Williams and l. G.
Earnest, of ~Richmond and Hon.
Charles Eassiter, OF Petersburg.
Judge Watts was chairman of the
The amount of stocks represented in
person and by proxy was 609,13S
shares. Resolutions were adopted
at both meetings authorizing the
making of a new mortgage to secure
$1S,00O,000 bonds, of which about
$7,000,000 were authorized to be
offered TO the stockholders and vot-
ing-trust certificate holders at 90
per cent. of their par value. These
bonds, which are to be dated Febru
ary l, 1907, are to be per cent.
bonds and to run for 80 years. They
are issued to equip the road more
fully and pay off certain indebted
ness of the company.
Wallace G.. Mays, aged % years,
of Staunton, shot and killed Mrs.
Eta Murray aged 30, the wife of
Frank Murray. and then blew out
his own brains falling at the feet
OF the woman he had murdered. The
tragedy occurred in the Murray
home, in Northwest Roanoke. and
was witnessed by Miss Leila Witt,
sister of Mrs. Murray, and the lat
ter's three-year-oId baby girl The
cause of the killing was jealousy.
and a number of letters found on
the dead mans body and in his va
lise went to show that he had planned
the murder and suicide and that
Mrs. Murray had charged Mays with
thinking more of her (Mrs. Muir.
ray's) sister than he did of her MRS
Murray. Mays was unmarried.
Mrs. Murray leaves a husband and
five small children. She was the
daughter of A. p. Witt, a Norfolk
and Western locomotive engineer.
Mays mother and Mrs. Murrays
mother are sisters. and both families
were from Staunton. Mays came
here short while ago to work in
the Norfolk and Western shops. He
boarded with the MuraryS, but two
weeks ago lost his position and NOV
ed his boarding place.
Charles Good was convicted of the
murder of his sweetheart, Miss Fan
ME Stroop, and sentenced to be
hanged March for the crime. Good
had been on trial all the week, and
the case was given to the jury about
9 O'Clock. Goods nerve has been
the wonder OF all who have observed
him throughout the trial, and soon
after has was sentenced by Judge
Haas. he showed the first sign OF
weakening. When asked II he had
anything to say why the death SEN
tence should not be passed upon him,
Good replied that he shot Miss
kStroop- accidentally and that be felt
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