The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-18
AIDS WILLIAMSON
TO ES.CAP { JAIL
Aunt Of Prisoner, Richmond
Woman, Arrested in
Petersburg.
FORGERY CASE CALLED
Suspected Fugitive From Justice
Found by Of
ficers.
FORGERY CASE CALLED
Dispatch Bureau.
100 North sycamore Street.

Petersburg. Va. June IL.
Al, exciting incident in Junius A.
williamson's case occurred here this
afternoon. being the arrest and I'm
prisonment of Mrs. Annie Ttbbs, OK
1910 Buchanan Street, Richmond. the
aunt of Williamson, on warrant
charging her with aiding and abettfng
Williamson to escape from Jail. The
aiding and abetting were confessed both
by Williamson and Mrs. Tibbs
It seems that on Saturday last Mrs.
Tibbs conveyed to her nephew two
twelye-inch saws- On Sunday night
Williamson succeeded In saving
through the inner case OF his double
steel cell, but failed to saw through
the outer case. and being detected ny
the TALLER. he owned UP and implicated
his aunt, Mrs. Tibbs In conveying the
saws to him.
Mrs Tibbs came over to petersburg
this morning to testify In behalf OF
Williamson on his trial for forgery.
In all OF his manifold troubles. under
charges of wlfe-murder. bigamy and
forgery, she has stuck to him like
mother, and aided and assisted him III
every way possible. even TO aiding him
to escape an arrest and now to escape
jail, and his betrayal OF her does not
win sympathy for him. Williamson
once before escaped from Jail. enlisted
In the army and was caught out in
wyoming.
Mrs Tibbs says she provided the
saws on Williamson's earnest appeal.
She was lodged In fail and will to- NOR
row be taken into the Police Court for
| trial The penalty for the offense with
which she is charged is either heavy
/ fine or Imprisonment or both. Much
sympathy is expressed for her.
Williamson Case Called.
The case of the Comm onwealth VS..
IJunius A. Williamson for forgery, was
called in the Hastings Court this morn
| ing having been set for trial to-day.
The accused. through his counsel. Peck
! &. Peck. of Richmond, and Robert Gill
| liam, Jr., of petersburg. rendered plea
duly certified, setting up that as he
| had been sentenced at the last term
1 of the court upon the plea of guilty
of the charge of bigamy. to four years
and six months in the penitentiary. he
was a convict and not within the jurs-
| diction of the court, and therefore
could not be tried for the forgery at
legged to have been committed BY him
until after he had been discharged
from the penitentiary upon the convic-
ton and sentence at the last term.
| Commemorative Attorney Mann
moved TO reject the plea. which was
argued at length. While the cour,
intimated that 1t was inclined to be-
lieve the plea a good one. it expressed
i the desire. without passing upon it, &c
4 have 1t tested by the Court OF Appeals
and for that purpose 1t sustained the
motion of the ComHonwealth's attor-
ney to reject the plea, and set the case
Y for trial on June 81.
1t is understood that the accused
will in the meantime apply to the
Court of Appeals for writ of prohibit
ton.
4 Whether or not Williamson will BIZ
. tried for the forgery and later for the
murder of his wife before he is dis.
/ charged under the sentence for bigans
]. depends therefore on the action OF the
Court of Appeals on the application 70,
a writ of prohibition
Dividends Declared.
!, The Virginia National Bank has de.
, clared a semi annual dividend on it.
capital stock of per cent, amounting
in the aggregate to $4,000
The Petersburg Banking and Trus
Company has also declared a semi