Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-13
Sailor Accused Of MurderOus
Assaults Missing.
BL0ODFlELD POLICE SLOW
,ity Authorities Located Assailant Of
Donaldson and LeierIe, But County
Officer Didn't Want TO Take Walk
in the Rain.
in the Rain

I Although the city police department
Brent worked the case up for Them
nd offered them every assistance pos
4 lble, the Bloodheld police made no
nort t. arrest the sailor who cut
Il oseph Donaldson and Charles Leirie
Friday night until after the steamer
En which the man is employed had
Ieft this port at o'clock yesterday
|oornine. The man is now enroute
For Everett. Mass, and in order ior
i'm to be brought to justice, the
Everett authorities will have 10 ar
Fest him on the arrival of the ship
here ami the state must pay the eX-
|Denses OF one OF the county officers
o Everett and return as well as the
Expense of transporting the prisoner
here
The cutting occurred at Chesapeake
K Ohio pier No. s, which is outside
Or the city limits. The local porce
vere appealed to and the injured men
|vere brought here, Donaldson beng
cent to the St. Francis hospital Tor
Treatment at the city's expense.
Afraid of the Rain.
Soon after the crime was commit
ed. station Keeper Robbins tele-
Ehoned 10 the Blocdfield station ana
Esked that an officer be sent here 10
Rrrest the assailant. Two hours pass
I'D and no county officer arrived.
kgain the Bloodfeld station was cali
|fd and an officer urged to come here
o work on the case. II was raining
bard at the time and. it is said. the
officer said he did not want 10 come
syer IN The rain.
I'm the meantime, Sereeants T. A.
zNlitchell and w. T. Webb had been
Gathering information for the county
officers TO work on. Several sailors
swho saw the cutting were questioned
ssnd finally the officers learned that
q he assail9nt was a sailor of the Amer
Ecan steam collier Maiden, which
.was loading coal at Chesapeake ~
Ohio pier No. II.
With this information in hand,
Sergeant Webb called the county SEA
stiOn by phone again and once more
urged an officer TO come here and go
ito work on the case. Finally at about
s O'Clock, Officer Whitfield arrived at
'the station house and the information
sin the hands of the local police was
burned over 10 him.
officer Gets "Cold Feet
Sergeant Webb had to go to pier
lNo. to see the captain Of the tug
ICoastwise. on which Leierle was en-
pIOyed, and Officer Whitefield accom-
panied him. II was still raining hard
and the county officer decided that ne
could arrest the sailor just as we'll at
ter day break as az that time.
when the comfy officers went TO
pier - yesterday morning to arrest
their man. they found that the Maiden
had gone to sea with the sailor on
board.
Since the crime occurred in the
county and the city officers had no
legal right to bind the city for
hospital bin for the injured man. Or.
J. W Ayler. the city physician, tried
TO get the BlCOdfield authorities TO
take charge of the wounded man.
Chief Madison. of Bloodfield, was
communicated with, but he said that
he had nothing to do with caring for
the man and that the city should
either send him to the Sailors Rest
or to the marine hospital at Norfolk.
Today the city officials viii so over
the head of Chief Madison and ask
Sheriff Curtis, OF Warwick county. to
take charge Of the man. as the ex-
pense rightfully belongs TO the county
and not the city.
Another Argument for Annexation.
City officials point to this case as
another strong argument for the an
nexation Of Bloodfeld and all OF the
territory south OF the city limits 90
Hampton Roads. Crimes frequently
are committed Just south of the city
limits and in almost every instance
the city authorities are compelled TO