The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-27
Hub ,rd Will Make No
otatemen Mt Until Adj
vised by Counsel.
NARROW ESCAPE
FROM LYACHING
Prompt Action of Officials Pre-
vented Summary Action by
Mob-Remains of Murdered
Man Taken to His Home,
and Funeral Will Be
Held To-Day.
tspeeial to The Tlmes.p,spateb.l

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l
L~yhchourg. Va, September 26.-Ben
Hubard. who yesterday shot and kill
ed DR.. j. a. Petit, 1T ~Lovingston, !
again refused when seen at the Jail
here to-day to make n statement 81
to the cause of the tragedy. though
he admitted frankly that ne did the
killing. Further than that he could
not be made to talk. He says he Will
make no statement until advised "a
do so by counsel. None Of the mans
friends has bnen here 10 see him yet.
AS TO the motive for tho shooting.
81 was learned to-day from a rela-
tive of the murdered man. who is a
resident OF ~Lynchburg, that DR.. Petit
was called in, last spring to attend
Eubard's wife. who was in a delicate
condition. HUBBARD had arranged for
a negress to attend mis- wife, an 4 did
not want a physician. Hubard's
father learned of the woman's pre- !
>carious condition. and sent for Dr..
Petit, who did not want to attend
objection. but fnelly waH persuaded
40 do so. and it developed that the
woman would have died out for bis
attention.
After this occurrence DR.. Petit
stated that Hubbard had threatened
his life for this. but he did not fear
him, The physician stated a short
time ago that he was not AFRAID of
Hubbard unless he should slin UP from
behind and attack him. and this proved
to be the case yesterday.
VIII Not Talk.
With unusual adroitness Hubard
checkmated every effort to draw him
out this. morning. the effort being ~
rected 20 ascertain from HIS lips what
was the cause OF the grudge he held
agains, the man whose life he snuffed
out yesterday afternoon. nut he always
came back with the reply that when
he had counsel his counsel could pre-
pare q statement so much better for
him than he could talk IL"
That was all he would ray.
To show the skiltul manner in
which the man was able to take care
OF himself, when he was asked II he
did not have a brother or sister at
one time in one OF the state Insane
hospitals. he said Would It delay you
much for you TO get that information
from some other member of the fam
ily?'
And that was ali Ben Hubbard would
say. excepting hat - did not enjoy
being confined in one OF the small cells
OF the city jail, though at the same
time he had not found the place so I'M
comfortable.
This morning he was without tho
heavy coat he wore at the time he
was locked up here last night, and
the blood which spattered on him when
he was firing the last shots into the
head OF the victim had been removed.
Narrowly Escaped LynchinK.
A resident or ~Lyachburg. who was
an eyewitness to the shooting, stated
to-day that II was only the prompt
action Of Magistrate Loving. who was
quickly or the scene after the shoot
ing, that prevented a lynching.
The one condition that prevented the
m m adilfA SnrrninU al IN wal --az L.. 4
the man who did the shooting was
hustled away TO jail before the crowd
could learn the particulars OF the
Shooting BY the time the details were
learned by the people twenty men had
been sworn in as special deputies. and
these were placed at the jail. This pre-
vented trouble, but in case q mob had
formed and attacked the Jail It was
believed that many of the guards
would not have resisted an effort to
TAX Hubbard from the tall, because
their sympathies were against the
prisoner.
One of the striking incidents of the
afternoon was the quick disappearance
of people who lived in the vicinity of
DR.. Petit. Up to the time OF the
shooting there We're MAN. men from
the Roseland section, but a short time
after the murder these could not be
found.
II was reared mat THESE men by a I
prearrangement had returned to their
homes and were arranging TO organize
a mob to lynch tho mar last night.
1t was for this reason that steps were
taken to take Hubbard away from the
Lovingston jail.
So quietly was this Zone that even
the residents OF the village did not
have the slightest idea OF what was
transpiring. until HUBBARD was well out
of the way and on route to Shipman.
Six special deputies were sworn in
to accompany Deputy Sheriff Estes to
Shipman. and the deputies in charge
of the prisoner left the Jail by n rear
door. The party then started, and by
q detour of more than a milo in the
opposite direction from Shipman. final.
ly reached the road to the station. con-
siderably more than a mile from the
courthouse.
1t was the intention of the authorl-
ties to take Hubbard away from Ship
man By the first train. but they missed
the local going to Charlottesville on
account Of the slow trip through the
woods, and because of the roundabout
route they took to avoid detection. |
This, therefore. made the trip to
Lynchburg necessary, and HUBBARD will
remain here until the day for his trial,
which has been set for October 6.
Funeral VIII Dc Held To-Dny.