The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-12
lN'DERlNOTT AND PALS
FACING PENITElN7IARY
Police Rake in Gang on Charge Of Selling Cocaine In
Guiding Man Who Tried Desperately to Save Lon
don Who May Now Forfeit 81 1000 Bond

After two days and night OF un-
firing work Sergeant Amos and Police
man Samuels, of the First District
succeeded yesterday and last night in
arresting Edward McDermott, alias up-
ton McDearman James Martin, Daniel
Timberlake, Willie Coins and Davy
jackson, and in holding w. r. vickers,
alias Wickers, as witness in the case,
on the charge of selling cocaine Or
being implicated in the drug traffic
Martin was locked up at the Second
station. where he stated to the officers
that McDermott had sold him the drug.
an the others were confined In the
First Station.
So carefully have the two policemen
worked up the case against the men
mat there seems hardly a loophoe for
escape. Before McDermott was even
arrested Judge Witt was informed of
the impending apprehension by the en-
ergetic officers, and he requested them
with marked earnestness to get their
man. In the First Station the star
prisoner asked repeatedly for S. j. Lon
don, with whom he was implicated in
case now before the Supreme Court,
but the furniture merchant never came.
When informed OF the arrest of his
friend and clerk, London held up his
hands In horror. and exclaimed: My
God, am ruined mani" He went on
$1,000 bond for McDermott's good be-
havior for twelve months after the late
trial, and IL the man is convicted on
the evidence in the present case the
bond will be forfeited, and McDermott
VIII be liable to a term in the pcni-
Tertiary.
Rnkcd Them All In.
McDermott was arrested on evidence
furnished to Sergeant and PO-
liceman Samuels by Martin, who de-
clared that he had bought the drug
from McDermott and had paid for 1T
in London's store. He stated solemn
ing London's trial, and has since dealt
with him in the latter's place on East
Main Street. He was arrested when
partly under the influence of the dope
in q house at Second and Clay Streets.
and Informed the officers that twenty
one empty bottles formerly used for
the stuff could be found In Goins's
yard on Mayo Street. This was found
of the principal witnesses in the LORI
don case was arrested in his house
while shaving. Tlmberlake was seen
on the outside. and Sergeant Amos, no.
ticfng that the negro was chewing gum
with suspicious rapidly, ordered his
arrest. He was searched from top to
toe by Policeman Samuels, and from
his underclothes dropped three pack
ages Of cocaine, already prepared for
shifting
Davy Jackson. cripple. known to
his friends and TO the police as Hip
py," was arrested on the charge of
being a suspicious character and
vagrant. Vickers, white man. was
arrested and fined in Police Court yes
terday morning on the charge Of fight
ing in the street. and is being held
as an important witness In the case
Police Kept Watch.
McDermott, OF course. is the prin-
cipal man In the case. Ever since the
famous London trial the police have
been keeping a watchful eye on him,
and Captain Barfoot detailed Sergeant
Amos and Policeman Samuels to catch
him If they could.
McDermott, thereafter, hardly moved
without being followed by one Of the
Officers. The latter finally landed Mar
tin, and from him they gained evidence
on which to arrest the white man.
Martin swears that he bought his drug
from McDermott. that he paid for it
in London's store, that he received It on
Mayo Street, and that he threw the
empty bottles into the yard where
Goings lives. The twenty-one bottles