The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-04
IMAGEE' MURDERER
NOW IN PETERSBURG
The Negro Says Operator Drew
Pistol on Him, and That He
Shot Through Fear.
Especial % Tho Times Dispatch.

~ y snesi , 70 Tho Times Di,patch.l
PETERSBURG, VA, February 3.--
shot and killed Barney Magee, Jr at
Golfers Station. on the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad. last Friday morning.
was brought to Petersburg this morn ;
E ing. by Sheriff Galusha, OF Dinwiddic
county, and is now In the city jail.
The sheriff and his prisoner left En-.
poria early this morning for Suffolk
whore they boarded the Cannon Ball"
train on the Norfolk and Western
2R .ai, reaehing Petersburg at Il
! o'clock. The officer left the train with
bis prisoner In the suburbs, and
brought the negro up the back streets
to the fail. Aiack's story Is that while
. he was warming himself at a fire which
4 he had built near the railroad track at
Golfers, two white men came along
and reproved him for building O fire /
SO near the track. one Of them pulling
pistol and ordering him to follow,
to draw his own pistol and shoot He
then ran off III the woods, eventually |
reaching the railroad track, which lie /
Followed to Emporia. The negro Gays
that he threw his pistol into the Not
toway River.
Another Eyewitness.
Bonnie Schenck, OF Dinwiddie coun-
~. is another eyewitness OF the trag-
edy, and says that while driving along
the road to Petersburg he saw Magec
and Falconer approach q negro at a
fire. subsequently seeing the three
walking up tho track toward the tele-
graph Office. After driving past them
he heard pistol shot, and looking
back saw Magee fall and also saw
the negro FIRE at Falconer. hearing four
shots altogether. He then went to the
telegraph office. and. after getting the
gun LETT there by Falconer, returned to
the scene Of the murder. III
The funeral of young alngee took
place here yesterday afternoon. The
services were held at the grave in
Blandford Cemetery. In the presence Of
a large number of friends.
Mrs. Woody's VIII.
The will of the late Mrs. Eliza w.
Woody. widow of Thomas RI. +
Woody, OF this city. whose, sudden
death occurred at her residence in this
city last Thursday night was ad-
nitted to probate to-day in the
Hastings Court, Mr.. John D. watkins,
of this city, qualifying as executor.
The total value OF the estate Is esti-
600 Mrs. Woody had no children, and !
leaves legacies to large number of /,
relatives and friends The sun of ,
$4,000 is left to the Petersburg Home y
for the Sick now known as the Peters, /
burg Hospital, and $4,000 is left to
the trustees Of the First Baptlst Ii
Church. The will provides that after Ii
the payment of the stipulated legacies Ii
the residue of the estate is to be i
equally divided between Mrs. Mary T.
Young, Mary C. Damerguiendo and
Eliza G. Waite. sister and nieces OF
the testator. and that all real estate
belonging to the testator shall be sold.
The Harrison Street Baptist Church,
colored. and Its Tart quarrel Is again
in evidence. a number OF members OF
the santi-Tartt faction complained to
Judge Mullen this morning that the
negro preacher. by continuing to
preach at the church. and by declar.
Ing that he Is still the pastor. is VIC,
lating the recent decree Of the Hastings
Court. In which he Is declared to be no
longer such pastor. Judge Mullen re-
ferred the complaints to the attor-
neys. who are representing them, and
are now preparing case against
Tart.