The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-15
NEWS GATHERED
FRO:|M. S ST |. !. ] !.
Large Audience at Final Excr-
clses Of Manchester High Il
School Last Night, AIj
ESCAPED PRISONER |: CAUGHT
Mrs. Hastings Has Narrow E IS
captain, Lamb to Speak
at Sunday-Scllool.
ESCAPED PRISONER CAUGHT

i :
at Sulday-Scllool.
No. lios Hull street.
Leader Hall was taxed to Its Gu
pncity last night by the audience at
tending thesE commencement exercises
OF tho Manchester High School.
~ Tho evening was opened With prayer
by Rev..J. j. Fix pastor OF tho First
Presbyterian Church. The singing
proved n notable feature Of tho pro-.
gram, The salutatory was by Mir.
Ashton Blhikcnship. Mr.. 4Browhleigll
French and Miss Bessie jerks wero
address OF tho evening was made by
Superintendent ]. D. Eggleston, ri and
the diplomas were delivered by Super
intendent D. L.tPullinm. Mr.. Joseph
Bear delivered tho valedictory address.
The graduates are as follows: Bessie
Jerks, Ashto Blankenship, Brownlelgh
French and Joseph Bear
Fully six hundred visitors attended
tho exercises.
To Erect Bungalow. ,,a,,
The news that Mr.. William B. Eiab-
5liston president OF tho National Bank
Of Virginia. Is soon to erect bunga-
low in Chesterfield county. in the I'M
mediate neighborhood Of Ma .n:nst ''i :;
his efy Pans for he
drawn i BY holland and baskerville Rich
mond architects have already ,peen
submitted The name OF the buildlns
that its CONSTRUCTION shall be COM
pleted by autumn. -,
$.s Paid Crensl,nw'st Board Bill.
William ROYAL cre ,, nf,ser a RE 81
ITatt ro11 %, ~
with Attempting to beat his board BIZ,
was liberated yesterday afternoon, al
ter having spent q day behind bars.
rhe ySung a Tbo mas II x =
arrested under this name; Last tues, :,
day morning he enlisted in the United
states Navy at recruiting station IN
Richmond, and was 70 report az IA Np o.,
time his landlady, Miss Christiann
Trego, No. 9o1 cambridge Street had
him arrested on the plea that no oWool
+ her Sc for board.
At 6 o'clock yesterday Afternoon par
ties In charge of the. naval recruiting
station at Richmond ached the Man
chester Jail, paid the alleged IS d ,,.,,t
their recruit.
Green Was a Trusty.
Herbert Green, the negro hunchback
county jail early yesterday morning
and who was captured. later in the
day, was employed as trusty by
Officers at the prison. ~, - -,
for bucket Of water. The first trir
was accomplished satisfactorily, but
from the second the prisoner did MOI
return.
Green, who Is being held on q charge
| OF murder, was S.recaptured In thu
E.yic!nityS OF the.TG.a spot on i. which th'
t,traEedy. occurred, s8.,szs.s, .5tt ~ ,,si
Had Narrow F;scnpc.
During the early parl OF the week
Mrs. john. Hastings, OF NO. Dol ives
Fifth Street, narrowly escaped an &c
/ cident which might readily have cos
| her her life.
In tho rear yard to the propert!
occupied By Mrs. Hastings Is SUM
IN old we'll, which has for many year
been hidden by debris and chicken "
with an accumulation of rubbish. TIL
i cavity was supposed to be filled In.
While. standing over this pitfall
4 Mrs. Hastings felt the earth givinl
She is convinced she would have bee
hurried alive ifsshe had not moved Yer
:. s1i Personals and Briefs.
Il Congressman John Lamb VIII del!ve
an address at the Children's Day exer
4 cises Of the West End Sunday Schoo
|, to be held tomorrow morning at !
I o'clock. I \,
a brooch has been presented to Mr.
! Badly, wife of Rev. DR.. E. Badly, b
the ladies Of Bainbridge- Street Churc
as q token Of their esteem. Mrs. Bald
will soon leave for South Carolina, I
which State her husband has accepte
4 q call
I Mr.. and Mrs C. ]. Heath, who die
: suddenly Thursday night, was conduct
/ cd from the home No. 81 Hull stree
n at 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Re
! G. Q. Woodward officiating.
4 Judge Clopton, Mayor Maurice. NJ
Ernest H. Wells, MrlWillis Pullial
/, and o. number OF other citizens ,e
i Manchester yesterday morning to a
II tend the funeral OF the little daughte
OF Clerk P. " Cogbill. who was burie
at Chesterfield Courthouse yesterda
4 Mr.. ana Mrs. r. II. Beasley, OF sout
Boston..are guests mt the home of Mr.
4 b. II, Morrisett, at Swansboro. N
Beasleytis editor and proprietor OF Il