The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-27
HEAR WITNESSES
IN MURDER TRIAL
Many Testify in Case of IA Viii
hanson, Alleged Uxorcide
in Petersburg.
OTHERS NEWS OF TOWN
Pennsylvania Battlefield Commits
sion Hold Session-School
Board Meets.


When the Hastings Court, Judge j..
NJ Mullen, presiding, opened at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning, the ex-
animation of the witnesses Tor the
Commonwealth In the case of Junius
A. Williamson, inaltted for the muir
der of his wife, was resumed
The witnesses thus FAR examined
are Chief of Police Reuben r. Rag
land, Rowlett Sherrett, j. t.. kiersey,
father of the woman alleged to nave
been murdered; Charles h. Archer,
Detective Jonn j. Heelan, Miss Ger
trude Baugh and Mrs. Della Brooks.
Archer is a prisoner in the city jail,
having been committed for selling IL
quor without a license.
The Pennsylvania battlefield COM
mission held what Is likely to be their
last session in Petersburg in the New
Shirley Hotel Wednesday. There
were present:
Md.vr isaac r. Brown Of Corey,
Pa, president; Colonel Milton A.
iarrrbick, Of Carlisle, PH-; Captain
George w. Aughen baugh. of York,
Pa; Rev II. w. Whitaker. of Mt.
Carmel, Pa; George S. Seabold. OF
Annville. Pa, and Major A. G, Huid-
ekoper. OF Meadvile, Pa. who was
the chief marshal at the unwilling of
the marker at Fort Steadman in
Prince George county. and the nonu-
ment at Fort Malone. in the same
county last May.
The mem ers Of the commission
drove out to Fort Steadman and also
to Fort Malone and along the lines
in that vicinity which were occupied
by the army of the Potomac. With
the commission Were Major Phillip
Twning OF the Fiftieth New York en-
gineers, who helped to construct the
Federal earthworks in front of Peters
burg In 1854 and who has not been
here since the surrender in 1865
Major Twtning is from Binghampton.
n. Y, and lost an arm at the battle
Of the Wilderness.
school Board Meets.
The school boar dof Prince George
county held meeting at the county
courthouse last Monday and decided
to recommend to the board of super
visors of the county levy for school
purposes fir the next fiscal year. 4
slight increase was asked for by sew
eral of the districts for the purpt~~ OF
building a new high school at Dis
putanta. The board of supervisors ot
the county held meeting the same
day. and levied the respective amounts
dsheu loT Dy lHt several uiStt'NtS aio
the IS cents on the 500 OF Nalne
asked for school purposes The board
also fixed levies fer general govern
ment and district purposes
students Hear Lecture.
DIR. Bardin, Of the staff OF the Central
State Hospital, delivered an interest
ing lecture Tuesday night at the
southern Female College before the
sociology class of the college. His
subject was Physiology of the Brain. -
DR.. Bardin Will give another lee
ture in the chapel of the college next
Friday night on Specialization OF
Function and Association
William Radcliffe Reasley, soliciting
freight and passenger agent OF the
Norfolk and Western Railway Com
pany. in Petersburg. has gone TO Gin
cinnati, o., to attend the annual re-
union of the traffic managers.
Decentralization.
The home of Mr. ana Mrs A. Elan
ton, at Blackstone. Va, was the scene
"Wednesday afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock
of very pretty marriage. the con-
tracing parties being their daughter
Nellie Young Blsnton. to Mr.. George
Carroll Taylor. The color scheme was
white and green Miss Annie Gillian.
of Chuckatuck. Va. was maid of hon
or She was goWned in pink crepe
meteor, with :tearl and crystal trim
mings, and carried sweet paas. Mr..