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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
Held by the Police on Circum-
stantial Evidence, Following
Mysterious Death.
DECLARES HE is INNOCENT
Son of Victim Married Prisoners
Daughter-Pool OF Blood First
Led to Suspicion.

Having woven chain of circum-
stantial evidence around the feet of his
alan. Detective Sergeant Mcmahon yes
terday evening arrested ID. A. King, a
painter. of No. 800 North Twenty eighth
street on the charge of committing
ths assault which three weeks ago re.
suited in the death at tho City Home
OF John Curran. Curran was found
walking in a dazed condition at the
corner of Ninth and Cary Streets. he
MAS taken to the City Home, where he
died in a few days without fully re-
covering consciousness.
Came Here With Money.
Curran's son married Kings daugh-
ter. and, according TO evidence discov-
:red by Sergeant Mcmahon, Curran.
scnior. came here from Baltimore with
1900 to visit his son. l was generally
grown that Curran had this amount in
his possession
Soon after he arrived he deposited
$500 in the First National Bank, and
on Thursday. April I'd. went with his
son to lGllerson, Hanover county. The
son left him there. supposedly to stay
couple of weeks, but the father re-
turned the next morning and began
drinking. Kings family and young
Eurran. however, declare that they did
not know otlhis return until they read
In The Tipes.DIspatch the next morn
Ing of the assault.
1t was after the coroner's inquest
that Sergeant Mcmahon began investi-
eating as to how Curran received TIE
wounds which resulted in his death
His first effort was rewarded by find.
tng two pools of blood near King
gate. which had been there since sun
lay morning, when Curran was found
until the following Wednesday,
Answering his questions, Mrs kins
said that stains had been there since
tie day before. and then, in alleged
confusion, said that there had beer
another pool directly IN front of the
gate. After this Sergeant Mcmahon
states that both King and his wife
agreed that Curran nus received the
fatal blows at that spot. The detec.
tive felt satisfied at once that some
ono there knew of Curran's trouble
and further inpesti cation resulted II
sufficient evidence te warrant the ar
rest of King on suspicion of having
committed the deadly assault
Said other. Were Guilty.
Both King and his wife tried u
fasten the crime on another, but coul,
give no satisfactory reason to the OF
fcer why the other Should be arrested
Their actions confirmed his own sus
picions. Mcmahon says he subsequent
" learned that King had once beer
sentenced in Goldsboro. n. c., TO tn
State Peniteniiary for three years 70
like crime, and that he had beer
pardoned after twelve months time.
king protests his innocence, declar
Ing that he knows nothing of IN
crime. Mcmahon, however. believe
that he has a strong chain of cir
cumstantial evidence which viii con
pect the accused with the assault OIL
Ind death OF James Currau,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
CHARGE CARRIER
MURDER
John w. Gaines, Colored Post
Office Employe, Alleged to
Have Beaten Her to Death.

Charged with the murder OF his wife.
who died shortly before noon yester-
day as the result 1t Is claimed. OF a
severe beating administered by her
husband. John Wesley Jones. United
States mail cartier. who has once be-
fore been in trouble with the city po-
lice, was arrested by Bicycle Policeman
Bolton. and locked up in the Second
Police Station. Postmaster Cabell was
at once notified that a substitute would
have to take Jones.s route.
The woman had been confined to her
bed since the beating, on April 10th.
The assault is said TO have been most
ed. and fined $50. An appeal was
granted In order that Assistant United
States District Attorney Talley might
appear IN 10 =, the case, but the appeal
Jones was once in trouble before. He
became involved in an alteration with
a street car conductor for alleged re-
fusal to change his seat from the white
terest at the time. as the negro was
wearing the postal uniform. The
case to court to prove that the local
authorities had violated a Federal law
when they interfered with the deliv-
cry OF the malls. and won its conten-
woman's body at e:so O'clock this
morning at Prices undertaking estab-
lishment. and the coroner's inquest will
be held at the same hour on Friday.
Jones was arrested five minutes, after
the police were notified of his wife's
death.
Qunrreled Over BODY.
Undertakers quarreled yesterday
evening over the body of Mamie Jones,
and 1t was hours before the matter
was settled
The body had been ordered by Coron-
err Taylor to BE turned over to Under
taker A. D. Price. who quickly had 1t
placed on stretchers. ready to be car
ried to his establishment Later, how
ever, as is alleged. William I. John
son. another undertaken. drove up, got
the body and took 1t to his place. Price
Immediately hurried to the Second
Police Station, where Jones was in
carcerated. and got an order from the
husband that he should have charge OF
the, funeral arrangements. Armed with
the note ana the coroner's order.
rrice went back and took possession
Even after her death. the poor woman
was made the object of gruesome and
unnecessary struggle.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
sIEBERT's CASE CoNTlN JED

Man In Trouble With Uncle Sam il
Charged With Another Offcnsc.
Tho case of L. w. Siebert, who is in
trouble on the charge OF using the
United States malls fraudently. now
charged with obtaining 500 under
false pretenscs from Mrs. II. G.. Martin
was continued In Police Court ycstcr-
day morning to May 18th. Attorney
Isaac Digs is counsel for Slebert The
latter was builed in the sum of $500 for
his appearance on the day set for tho
second hearing.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
DEBATE LIVE SUBJECT.
Randolph Macon and Richmond Students Ia
DISCUSS Query In Ahhlnnd.

Resolved That the Corporation Commis
People will he the subject Of a debate he
tween Richmond College and Randolph Ma
con College at Ashland Tomorrow night
The Ashland college. which will have the
affirmative SIDE OF the question, will be
represented ny Messrs. e. D. Hellwis and
s.. Townsend while Messrs. j. r. Cropr
and 7. H. Bnford viii speak for Richmond
The officers OF the debate are as follows
President y, $. Keen, OF Randolph Ma
con- Vice President, It. W. Oslin, Ct Rich.
nne marshals are C. w, Beale chief, and
w ". y, Midyette and H. r. Balderson. as.
This Is one Of the society events az In,
staeon Al Randolph Macon, After iii,
sleakug Is over refreshments will be serv,
e eao,a For the accommodation q the Rich.
4!aad AZ l2:ll A. NJ. Saturday.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
NO INCREASE FOR CHIEF
Finance Committee Goes On Record Agains
Further Salary Increase.

Finance Committee Goes On Record Against
Further Salary Increase
At meeting OF the Finance Committee
Tuesday night the ordinance increasing the
salary of the Chief of Police from $4,000
to $1,000 was rejected, an adverse recon :
mendation being sent TO the Council. The
neasure had already been approved by the
Committee on Ordinance. Charter and Re-
form.
a member 81 the Finance Committee said
yesterday that there was no disposition to
make any fight on the Chief. Tho budget
careful estimate OF the needs of the various
departments" he said, land the Finance
Committee did not feel that 1t could begin
this early In the year making additional
appropriations for increased salaries"
This action by the committee is accept
ed to mean that for the time being. at least,
salary increases will not be granted
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
BAR LICENSE GRANTED
p1.cinelli Bros, 10 Continue in Business
Moving Saloon From the Corner.

pTCinelli Bros 10 Continue in Business
Moving saloon From the Corner,
From the bench of tho Hastings Cour,
yesterday Judge MI announced that The
Fast Main Street would be renewed. this
sat having been one OF those on the reserv-
war made 10 the location nj the corner OF
Eighteenth and Main Streets which is q,
transfer for passengers on various stree,
Jar lines
Pucinelli Bros indicated their willingness
la remove several doors into the block and
Ike Judge told their agent Yesterday 10 go
ahead with the removal and the license
would be duly Issued. Both among the
Staiian colony and in he peighborhocd OF
1heir place Of business the proprie,ors OF
3his saloon are given an excellent charac-
tor.f
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
BAR AND CHURCH
GRANTED PERMITS
Mr.. Rueger to Spend $1,000 on
Delarue Place-West End
Christian to Build.

Permits for building and repair work ag-
srtsatlns $4,000 were Issued by Inspector
Beck yesterday all varieties Of work hg-
urlnE in the list. from brick churches TO
rcstaurant and bar fixtures.
William Ruescr secured a permit TO make
extensive changes and repairs at the build
ing No. 80 East Main Street. now occupied
az a restaurant by Gus z. Delarue The
building Is TO be remodeled at cost OF
1000. and Will be used as saloon and
restaurant by l.. Shere. who has secured a
transfer OF the business from Mr.. Delaruet
a permit was Issued 10 tho congregation
of West End Christian Church TO erect a
brick church building at the routheast COR
net of Allen Avenue and Hanover street at
cost OF SIS. 700.
other permits issued were. Geors.
Berkeley. to repair frame dwelling No. 1924
James street. 5000; II. B. Baker, to repair
brick dwelling No. East Grace Street.
$1,000: r. Pincus, repair brick store and
dm cling No. 1902 East Main Street. s5o5.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
lakewood Memorial.

y lakewood Memorial Association will
have Its annual sermon and memorial
exercises In Leigh Street Baptist
Church, corner Twenty-fifth and Leigh.
Streets. on sunday evening, May 3D.. at
s O'clock, Richmond Chapter, United
Daughters OF the Confederacy and
other Confederate organizations will
attehN and will be assigned seats in a
reserved portion of the church.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
Continue Brooch Case.

Jessie Swlnson. a colored girl, was in
Police Court yesterday morning on tha
charge OF stealing a SIS brooch from
9. II. Cameron. but the case was con-
tlnued until april 2Sth in order to
SUMMON more witnesses. The girl ran
away to West Pointh after The alleged
theft and she was brought back by
Detective Sergeant Wren on Tuesday.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
prcsIdent TnrnIn IN.

President William Fl. Turpin, OF the
Board of Aldermen. who has been iii
for ten days at the home Of his nephew
l.. FL Cook, No. los North Nineteenth
street. is stu confined to his bed. AL
though there was no Improvement In
his condition yesterday. his friends en-
pect him to be out I'M a short WHILE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
nIonumcutnrx Novelty Party,

The Willing Workers of Monumental
Church will give q novelty party to-day
and tomorrow In the church lecture
room There will be various fancy
articles and refreshments on which
the visitor can spend money. and each
night there Win be burlesnue enter
tui, MN 4 r
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
4. Made Tcmporary Chlef.

= In the absence Of Major Werner,
Captain TomHnson, Chief of detectives,
is acting as chief OF police. Major
Werner is In New York with Commits
sioners Manning and Landerkin and
City Electrician Thompson to select a
number OF patrol boxes to be installed
Mere, ~ ~
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
Nerdlct Tor the Plaln,ln..

In the case of the parents OF Maria Do
land and Louia Mariotti. two little girl4
who were killed abou, two years ago by a
tfsin on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
after two days OF argument. was decided in
Iicnrico court Yesterday morning. The
Plaintiffs were allowed $4,000 each BY The
jury. For the second time the company
ertercd demurrer. which the cour; took
5urder consideration. Mr.. l. o. wendenburc
and Edgar 3. English were attorneys for
the plaintiffs
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
Mis-. Catllu Operated On.

) Miss Mary Catllh daughter of Mr..
Herbert Cntitr Of No, 1225 Floyd Ave-
for appendicitis yesterday
She was reported last night
to be making splendid progress, the
operatlon having been entirely suocess,
FIJI < Il.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
FOR OFFICE BUILDING
Ground Is Broken for New Structure at
FL EAff4t5t penitentlary. r

Ground was broken yesterday for the new
office building at the Virginia sPenitentiary,
and work on the foundation is now being
job to be completed within ninety days. !
3 All the work will be done by the convict
force. and will be carefully superintendent
building will be directly In front OF tho
main entrance to tho penltentlnry proper.
The Legislature appropriated $4,000 for
tho material and general cost OF the bulld-
n /,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
EApcnse Accounts Filed.

Four additional candidates In the recent
urinary fled the statements OF the expenses
Sl7.5o; Nv. III, Curtis. $a1.ab; G,f "a. Nia-ks,
(1S9.os; w. a. CgenshaW, $3.50, "a n
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
Charged with rr,eft Of stove,

Joseph Chase colored, was arrested
yesterday evening by Bicycle Police
man Clark on the charge OF stealing
q stove and boiler stand from $, Ehr-
stein. 53 ls
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
southern RalIway Earn,nos,

Estimated earnings of the Southern Rail-
way for the second week In April. according
to statement Issued yesterday by Comp
troler Plant, show decrease of $1s5.453
over the corresponding week of last year.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
Bann,Iet Postnoned.

The annual banquet OF the Richmond
Alumni Association of Hampden- Sidney
College. arranged for Tonight has been
postponed until next Thursday night at the
Jefferson Hotel.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
= - = = -
SMALL VERDICT
After Iiotiy-Contested Fight Gordon Metal
~ COMPANY Gets little Damages.

Company Gets Little Damages.
After six days Of court hearing and the
lrti oduction nf mnch expert testimony. the
cross suit OF the Gordon Metal Company
against John T. Wilson and John r, Wilson
against the Gordon Metal Company, which
were heard jointly, were decided In the
Law and EQUITY Court yesterday with a
verdict against Wilson for sli4,pe
In the second suit Wilson against ,ht
Gordon Metal Company, the jury found for
the defendant. Motions 70 set aside both
>s1dlcts Were argued and ovetTpled.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
HOWITzERs PREFER MARCH
Members Would Rather Tramp Than G
Into Camn This Summer.

Into Camp This Summer.
One hundred and eighteen men were pres
ent at the regular drill OF the Richmond
Hnwitzers Tuesday night. AT meeting OF
the battery II was decided that the mem
berg attend in body the annual sermon.
which VIII be preached in the First Pres
byterian Church next Sunday morning by
III. chaplain. the Rev. James Power Smith.
.. ..
An effort Will be made to have the bat
terry go on long march, as II did last year,
irstead of going into camp. Most of the
men are In favor of this. plan.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
Governor Busy.

Governor Swanson spent yesterday
intllis office looking after routine work
and receiving callers. He will leave
for Fredericksburg to-day. whore he
will participate in public program
in connection with n monument IN.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23

Curran's son married Kings daush-
ter. and, according TO evidence discov-
:red by Sergeant Mcmahon, Curran,
scnior. came here from Baltimore with
1900 to visit his son. 1t was generally
srown that Curran had this amount in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-20

and it was so cold that / had to wrap myself in my
overcoat. Shortly after leaving Belfast latitude
6463 feet), where there was heavy FROST we began
the steep descent of deep canon and down the
gorge of its river we travelled all day. At about
three thousand feet we struck the hot country and
naked nativeS-many of them beautiful figures,
especially the men, and all the usual jolly laughing
lot Here took on cargo typical of the country
rubber and copra dried Cocoanut meat
I'VE reached Delagoa Bay at eight P. NJ. These
coast towns are terribly unhealthy with lots of fever
and many deaths. Officials never blleted here
for more than two years at a time, and even that
time kills a large percentage of them The next
morning was hot as the hinges in the sun; but it
was cool in the shade,-not more than seventy-two
degrees
the track is three feet wide, rails inch wide on
top and the like a park bench stuck on
wheels, with buggy top and push handle behind
like perambulator. You pushed along by two
Kafir boys, each of whom single rail
without slip, at each step grasping the
rail between the great and second toe, and never
making misstep Thus you showed along
fast l rode horse The streets are
loose sand, three tram tracks down each street. and
not single wheeled vehicle in the place except these
tram cars.
'This is the port for Northern Rhodesia and traffic
is so heavy they forced to two trains week.
Ten years ago this bay all wild jungle, and mile
in any direction inland from the pier it is still the
same, as evidence two three sloops filled with
skins and heads of lions rhnos hippos. and all sorts
of big antelope
the humid air of the coast, and up thousand
feet; in fact we ascending all the way to
Nairob The country traversed is beautiful every
where. Awakening at dawn, were in an open
timbered, parkike land, with grass deep that of
meadow | more than up my elbow in
the gray light of dawn when saw four great os-
triches standing in line like file at attention, watch
ing glide by. They not more than fifty yards
from the train. AS soon the sun up we could
see wild game everywhere far the eye could
reach; the Athi plains black with them for ten
miles either side of the road The country south
of the track is preserved, hence their abundance
hereabouts, almost at the outskirts of the town.
Between sunrise and eleven o'clock must have
seen at least thirty thousand head including twelve
varieties and at point another saw each OF
these species: ostrich, gazelle Grants gazele, wilde
beest, kongon steenbok, giraffe lion, zebra Thomp
sons gazelle and waterbuck Shooting from trains,
l should state, is prohibited and punished by heavy
fines.
AT Nairobi there great gardens with solid
masses of flowers and trees with rpening mangos,
figs, pomegranates, granadlllas, bananas, apples,
and peaches (they all do we'll here) and wild
eye and timothy stand thick and high
in the best cultivated meadow AS for the tenn
perature it is never less than hundred and twenty
five degrees in the and rarely above sxty-nine
degrees in the shade
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hons seized III their beds in camp and carried off
and ate thirty cooie laborers before they
finally killed; and in Nairobi met man who was
one of the three in compartment of a passenger
train through the window of which lion jumped,
while the train taking wood at small station
south of Nairob seized one OF his companions, and
sprang out again through the car window carrying
his prey. Sound like fables don't they? But they
true.
By day it is intensely hot in the sun, but always
cool in the shade, and at night cold cannot sit
outside comfortably. Seventy-fve miles away
Mount kenia thrusts her capped head seven
thousand feet toward the sun, wholly indifferent
10 the fact that she is sitting squarey aStrde the
Equator.
A Long Journey
BEGINNING with his departure from Pretoria,
- Mr. Bronson in another letter thus describes
his journey to Nairobi:
The railway is excellent the roadbed smooth, and
the far comfortable for long journey than
a Pullman, and the kitchen car gives us decidedly
better cooking than Royal Blue diner. As
soon as we left Cape Town the train began climbing
toward the great central plateau through country
which, with its scant water, sandy soil, and isolated
naked rock mountains, is like New Mexico. The
next morning in Arizona desert,-sandy,
rock strewn, with volcanic ridges all hands,-and
al day long the track was lined with block houses OF
stone, seldom more than one hundred yards apart,
many hedged thckly round with graves, bearing
testimony to the bitterness of the recent strug
gle between BritOn and BOer.
Just after sunset l had hour in Kimberley,
the site of the diamond fields, which now nearly
shut down and PROSTATE owing to hard times
and consequent limited buying power. Just out of
Kimberley we had the most wondrous sunset ever
witnessed. Barely that nights down in the
west before another orange flush identical with that
in the west, appeared in the east, almost instantly
followed by the moon, full and of color to make us
think the its very self had raced round the earth,
set time and distance at Defiance and was back with
again.
Daylight Sunday found us the high veldt six
thousand feet just south of johannesburg. Here
the country is beautifully grassed, and, looking at
the surroundings might be rolling into Cheyenne
Helena. The air is just keen in it's nip; indeed
during the night had all my coats stacked on my
two blankets. In the mountains of the Hex River
Canon there patches of snow about the SUBMITS
Getting Into Real Africa
A FTER leaving the Transvaal, l took regular
kafir train-which wretched-for Delagoa
Bay; but was glad took it. for it gave splen-
did view of scenery that the regular train misses
We had first class and second class coach,
and eight freight cars loaded wo-thrds with naked
blacks returning from work in the mines to their
homes in Portuguese East Afrca,-a merry, grin
ming lot, with red parasols mouth organs, gramo
phones, looking glasses They all looked much
like natives that it hard to realize they
were actually savages l had to sleep in my clothes,
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gate to the country and the outlet and distributing
point for the trade and of Central well
observes, is very unhealthy; but the elevated
plateau of the interior described aSat least that
is the way it is regarded by Recommendations
The products shipped from Mombasa and other
points include ivory, rubber copal, hides of wild
beasts and cattle archil, oil seeds, and copra.
The supply of ivory to be diminishing and
traders predict that it will become extinct
within the next fifty years They base this predc-
ton the comparative scarcity of the elephant
since its active destruction became vogue among
been very large for the last two decades; but while
scarcity of ivory has been experienced at times,
shipments have continued to Europe with remark
able regularity. rise in price always brings out
supply. African ivory is considered the best IN the
world and only few years ago tuskS worth from five
In the forests. An inferior quality comes from the
rhinoceros and the teeth of appropriateness. The
hides of the latter also very much priced. They
cut into strips and dried in the the strips,
which used for whips mainly, are as heavy as
iron and flexible India rubber
The Uganda Railway. built from Mombasa to the
Great Lake is of the most wonderful and ro
mantle lines in the world. 1t pierces equatorial
forests, across immense pra1rleS and stops
above the line the edges of the Great Lake.
The track is smooth and we'll ballasted, and skirted
from start to finish by telegraph poles and wires
The road cost upward of fifty thousand dollars
mile to build and while it serving immense IL
terests fear expressed that the results would not
compensate for the outlay These fears have proved
i'll founded. In forty-eght hours by the Uganda
Railway tract of country can be traverSed that ten
years ago occupied many weeks in t1resome marches
beset by many dangers, But what pleases the stock
holders is the fact that the road is beginning
to yield profit Last year the net earnings reached
four hundred thousand dollars.
From the of this road many of the strangess
sights in the world to be seen.