The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-08
Will. CHASE ENDS
IN W|L|EY'S FAVOR.
Detective Captures Negro Who
Escaped Posse in Cu1-
pepper County.
TRIED TO MURDER G#l.RHL
Left Greanor Meals Little Child
in Buggy as He Attacked
Her Nurse.

u Concealed in the bottom OF car
rnge while the driver dashed the
4 horses to mad flight for fifteen blocks
Detective Sergeant Wiley after a SEN
sational chase, yesterday leaped from
the vehicle on Linden Street, with a
drawn pistol and captured John Lee,
10 negro, wanted In Culpeper county,
for felonious assault upon Lille Rowe,
a colored maid. employed in tho house.
hold of ". Greanor Neal.
In obedience to request made by
Mr.. Neal to apprehend the negro, De-
/ tective Scrgeants Wiley and Wiltshire
were scouting for him Yesterday af-
and franklin Streets, they saw the
| fugitive passing along the street. They
/ gave chase.
wild CnrrlnEc Race.
For two or three blocks the detec-
! tives kept in hailing 6istal ee of the
ssrseant Wiltshirs some distance, but
far in the wake of the negro, who ran
WITH the swiftness of a frightened
hare. When his brrath was almost
horse carriage approaching In an in
slant the officer halted it, told the
drlNer to turn around and follow the
negro. He then leaped in and sat in
the bottom of the rig to hide him.
self.
Up West Franklin street with the
horses whipped into run the carriage
s saras, IN pursuit pursuit., Of Lee From Henry
with the light-footed negro a safe dis
lance ahead Of the carriage, the en-
cited driver and the detective, who
quietly but firmly kept calling for more
ed into Floyd Avenue and scurried
down an alley and then into Linden
Street, with his wind apparently good.
and determined to distance his pur-
suers.
Taking in the situation, the detec-
tive commanded the drive to wheel
into Main Street and then drive at
terrific speed into Linden Street and
overhaul the running negro AS the
thoroughly frightened driver applied
the lash to the horses then running
madly through the street Detective
wiley saw his quarry dart toward an
alley running westward on Linden
Street. Without moving from his stoop-
ing posture. the officer shouted to the
driver to stop.
Quickly Arrested.
AS the coachman ierked his horses
upon their hind feet in an effort to
obey, Sergeant Wiley stood UP in the
carriage with his pistol in the hand
and , pointing It al Lee. who apparently
mad not realized that he was being
followed by the carriage. commanded
MIN TO throw UP his hands Hurting a
curse at the driver for aiding the
ponce, the negro raised his hands
ffeluctantly. as Detective Wiley jumped
from the carriage and quickly snapped
the nippeEs upon his wrist
on have got hold OF one of the
toughest men you ever arrested" said
Wiley took the prisoner to police
headquarters. He met Sergeant Wit
SHIRE on Franklin Street. near Monroe
lark, stu running. but left far in the
rear by the mad fliEht of his brother
office in the carriage.
At police headquarters Lee was
.aesh s,1. up on a charge of felonious
psper co and Is being held until cui-
Lee left Richmond about ten DAYS
ago and went to Brandy, Culpeper
county where Mr.. Neal has a summer
home home He had paid court to Lille
had not seen her for some time be-
cause she had gone to Brandy as i,
maid in the employe of Mrs. Neal.
Discovering that Mr.. Neal left for Rich
girl was out driving in little phaeton
Did Not Harm Child.
about one mre from the village OF
Brandy Lee leaped from clump OF
bushes, where he had secreted h.mser.
and as the little shetland pony at
tached to the vehicle trotted alins
with Lille Rowe and the two-year- old
daughter of Mr.. Neal, the negro grab
bed the woman and dragged her from
the phaeton. He then threw her in
the ROAD and with some sharp instru- !
ment inflicted dozen or moro wounds
upon her face. shoulders and head
until the blood poured from her
wounds.
He then ran after the pony and the |
phaeton. The little animal kept trip
ping, along with the lines dangling at |
his heels, and the child seated In the !
rhaeton thoroughly enjoying its wild !
ride. Lee stopped the pony and turn /
ed IT over to a colored man who was
passing along the road and told him to
drive It back to Mr.. Meals home. Lee /
then disappeared.
The. OLD man started the pony with |
the child seated by his side in the !
piaeton, toward Brandy A short dis !
taneetance down the road he found I
the Rowe woman in {, semi conscious
state and covered with blood. She |
managed to explain what had happen- |
ed, and the old negro hurried to I
Brandy. where ne notified the residents
and posse of twenty five .or thirty !
men was formed, and for several hours
searched for miles in that section of I
Culpeper county for the negro.
Mrs Neal, when informed of what
had occurred, summoned physician.
and the injured girl was given surgical
attention.. Fo. several DAYS she was I
ir a serious condition. but has now
about recovered.