The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-08
RUNAWAY STOPS IN
GOVERNOR YARD
Frightened by Police Auto
mobile Horse Dashes
Through Square
TWO MEN ESCAPE
SERIOUS INJURIES
Great Excitment Occasioned by
Animals Wild Run After Be
ing Frightened in the
Shadow of the City Hall.

Frightened by the police automo-
bile when rounding Eleventh street at
the City Hall at 1890 Wednesday
morning. horse attached to buggy
in which were seated J. T. Eacho ana
J. p. Peay, dashed through the gate
of the Capitol Square. throwing both
men out and demolishing the buggy,
The horse was finally captured In
the rear yard of the governors man
sion.
Messrs. Eacho and Peay have filed
formal complaint with the police de-
partment. alleging that they signaied
TO the patrol automobile to stop. ana
that Driver Pond paid no attention
TO their signal. They ask damages
In the sum OF $125.
The runaway created great deai
of excitement In front of the CITY
Hall. attaches OF the building run
ming franticaily into the street. The
two gentlemen named are painfully,
though not seriously. injured. Mr..
Eacho lives at 2422 yenabie street
and Mr.. Peay lives on Twenty-elghth
street.
everyone Excited.
Having brought all of the PRISONERS
from the station houses 10 the pens
in police court and afterwards re-
turned to West Broad street, the splen-
did automobile patrol was making It's
way back to the city hall in answer TO
a call when 1t Is alleged 10 have
frightened the horse attached 10 the
buggy. The machine came down Cap
itoi street and turned into Eleventh.
The buggy had Just left Broad street
and was going South on Eleventh
street MIR. Echo says that he held his
hand up and asked the driver OF the
automobile TO stop. but that the ma
chine sped onward and that his horse,
frightened by the auto, plunged into
the sidewalk. running one side OF the
buggy against the Old Fords Hotel.
Both MIR. Echo and Mr. Psay were
thrown out.
Ran on Two Wheels.
The horse. with the buggy running
on two wheels, dashed across Capitol
street straight for the nuare, Through
the small gate that leads into the Walk
near the Mcclure monument the horse
ran. The busy struck II part Of the
gate, one wheel was taken OF and II
was overturned. In rounding the mon
ument another part OF the vehicle was
dropped and after making semi cir :
!, sac tn the Square and having left sss~
hind him all of the harness and the
buggy, the horse took a notion to visit
Governors Mansion. Through the gate
and along the beautiful walks he romp-
ed uurnoiested. The front entrance did
not suit his taste and he accordingly
went around to the rear where the sta =
BILE Is located. An automobile was In
garage nearby and when he scented
this the animal stopped.
Several people caught the horse and
the city hands. helped by the force al
work i'm the CanttoI Suuarr cleaned
the place OF the remnants of what was
once a good buggy
Bruised and Shaken Up.
Mr. Eacho was bruised about the
body and Mr.. Peay was pretty badly
shaken up. IL was remarkable that
neither was injured more seriously.
Less than five minutes after the run
away. Mr.. Eaeho appeared In the Of
flee OF Chief Werner and filed formal
complaint against Automobile Driver
Fond. In his complaint he also set
serth that he wanted s1zs dam
At the monthly meeting of the board
OF police commissioners Wednesday
evening he will be allowed To make a
statement. telling all he knows OF the
accident.
Mr. Pond, who has been driving the
police automobile patrol for some time
and who was running the machine al
q low rate of speed at the time the
horse was frightened, claims that he
10 entirely innocent OF any blame.