The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-31
CUTS HIS THROAT,
THWARTS CAPT0Rs
James Joyner, Private Detec-
tive, Ends Life While Be-
ing Pursued
SEWERS JUGULAR VEIN
WITH POCKET KNIFE
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Had Tried Revolver But All
Shots Had Been Fired at
His Intended
Victim.

topcCiai 10 Inc R1chmona NlrSinlan.b
NORFOLK, VA. Aug. 3i.--~with a
pistol which he had ernptied In an
attempt to Kill q young married wo-
man who had refused to accompany
him to Ocean View In one hand and
pocket knife In the other, James
Joyner. a. young private detectiva In
the employ of the George NJ Hoppel
detective agency, committed suictd Q
to-day by cutting his throat
He used the sharp weapon while
an effort was being made 10 over
take him after he had fired the piss
toll at the woman. The wound was a
deep and jagged one. LoyDer walked
almost hundred feet after he had
completed the deed, and died while
no was being carried TO the st. Vim
cents Hospital in the police patrol.
His body Is now in the city morgue
and has been viewed by the coroner,
who will hold an inquest tomorrow
at noon. 1t is said that he had been
drinking.
EoreSaw Capture.
While the shooting occurred at the
home Of Mrs. Mary Winslow. No. eos
Brewer street. young Joyner did not
cut his throat until he had run down
Charlotte street TO Bank and had
turned into Griggsby place. He Was
being pursued by a young white man,
and realizing that he would be over
taken when Ben Whitehurst. a coll
ored driver for DIR. Sheppard, Joined
In the chase. he drew his pocket
knife and slashed his throat while he
was holding his would-be captors at
bay with the pistol.
Couging hts throat several times.
he walked toward the corner of Bank
street and Griggshy place, where he
sat down on the curhing. and was
found there by Detectives Sprat and
Cotton, who were sent out IN answer
TO telephone call,
He was still gasping when the pa
troll wagon drove up with Captain
Ford and Detective Wilson, but died
before the vehicle had gone far. and
was carried 10 the morgue at the
Central station.
JOINER fired fSe shots at Mrs. Maud
Robinson and her sister. Mrs Minnie
belong. who are living with their
mother, Mrs. Mary WINSTON, and then
turned the gun on himself, but every
chamber had already been emptied
and his attempt with the pistol was
futile.
Double Crime Planned.
That he intended to XIII Mrs. Rob-
inson and commit suicide was indi-
Gated in his threat over the telephone
that he would kill her, Kill himself
and end 1t all.
1t was evident that he was deter
mined to carry out his threat, when
when he held OF two pursuers at the
point of a pistol until he could In
fiict the wound that ended his life.
AT the home of Mrs. N'inslow the
front door looked like a target when
a reporter for The Virginian called
there shortly after the shooting had
been reported to the police. Mrs.
Robinson Mrs belong and Mrs.
Winsiow were excited over what had
happened faw minutes before, and
in the presence of the sister and moth
er and her two small children Mrs.
Robinson told the story OF the shoot
ing and the things that led up TO it.
. Declined InvstsrJ9n.
We have been knowing Mr. Joyner
for some time" said Mrs Robinson,
AN dhave thought lot of hirrss~ be-
cause he seemde To be such nice
young man, ard was SO good to all OF
US, especially our brother. He called
up over the telephone this morning.
and when my sister answered the
phone he asked her II she would go 10
Ocean View with him He then asked
me, and / told him | could not, as
was the mother of two children,
with a husband living. and did not
think ii would be right for me TO be
seen on the streets or at a resort with
him. unless some OF the members of
my family were along, and as ms
brother was not at home / would have
to refuse him