The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-02
STABBED TODEATH
IN JACKSON WARD
Colored Woman Arrested on
Belief That She Took Part
in Lovett Murder.
VISITORS ALSO ARRESTED
DR.. A. B. Cosby and Arthur
VISITORS ALSO ARRESTED
DR.. A. B. Cosby and Arthur
Griffin in House When
Killing Occurred.

Involving in other charges two white
colored woman. alleged By the police
10 have operated an Illegal resort at
her home, 1905 st. Paul Street, was ar
rested yesterday morning by Detectives
Atkinson and Iirengel and Policemen
Dunn, Smith and Napier, in connection
with the murder OF James Lovett, also
colored.
Lovett was stabbed in the arm, and,
though the wound in itself was not
necessarily fatal. he literally bled to
death before her eyes. The city am
bulancc was summoned, and DR.. Watts
responded. When he arrived on the
scene Lovett was cold in death. having
been dead. evidently, for some time.
He was found lying in a pool of blood.
Roy Ford, the ambulance driver. left
DR.. Watts at the house and went in
search of a policeman. lie drove the
car as far as Foushee and Broad
Streets, and there found Detective At
kinson. They raced back, and the de-
tective placed the woman under arrest.
Detective Krengel was called, and the
patrolmen were summoned, and an in
vestigation of the killing was Imme-
diately begun The Henley woman is
said to have declared that Lovett was
about to beat her when she plunged
n lang knife into his arm.
Physician Arrested.
DR.. A. B. Cosby and Arthur Griffin
were in the house at the time. They
were arrested by the same officers Sow
eral hours later on serious charges.
DR.. Cosby was bailed in the sum OF
$500. and has employed Gilbert Is. Pol
lock to defend him. Griffin had not
= l.1o haI Snta
colored. was arrested on charge OF
being disorderly in the house, and is
also being held as an important wit
ness against the Henley woman.
Clara Henley has long been regarded
by the police as woman OF bad repute,
and, 1t was stated yesterday, for three
years they have endeavored to obtain
evidence against her sufficient to war
rant an arrest.
When DR.. Watts arrived she is al
legged to have pointed to the dead negro
him. He's sick" But Lovett was be-
yond medical aid.
Life Gould Have Been Saved.
Mary Harris and Serena Brown, the
colored women, who were arrested on
charges involving the two white men
are also alleged to be characters of bad
repute. 1t is further alleged by the
police that when Lovett was stabbed
DR.. Cosby fed from the house. Had
temporary bandages been applied. IT is
said. Lovett's life would have been
saved.
1t was in the home of Clara Henley
that Detective Sergeant Wiley year
ago discovered a nine-yenr-old white
girl, who had been reared from the
moment OF her birth by Clara's mother
The old woman did her best for the
girl, teaching her prayers and such
principles of upright living as che
knew, but otherwise the little wal,
was reared in ignorance. She had never
been beyond the door OF her found
ling home. had never seen a street car
and. so far as she knew. was the only
Yhite girl in the world. Sergeant WI.
ley had heard that such a child was
being reared by an old negro woman
and he searched year before he founc
her. Then she was turned over to the
Children's Home Society OF Virginia, o.
which Rev. William j. Maybee is su
perintendent