The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-26
TWO BADLY HURT;
AUTOMOBILE JUNK
WRECK RESULTS FROM RECKLESS
RIDE AND RIDERS MUST PAY
FOR MACHINE.
FURTHER INDICTMENTS
APpoMATTox TRUST COMPANY AT
FAIRS TO DE pROBED DEEPER
By JUNE TERM GRAND
FURTHER INDICTMENTS

Especial to The Richmond Pirginian.)
PETERSBURG, VA. May 2s--Rob-
ert Atkinson. and baggage master
named Kingsley and u man named
Rice. of Richmond, In a car borrowed
from the Atkinson garage on West
labb Street, took an automobile ride
Wednesday night. and as a result, two
| or the parties are suffering serious
injuries and will also have to pay the
owner of the automobile for a prac-
hcally destroyed machine which was
valued at $1,000
Kingsley Is suffering from frac-
tured arm and bruises and Atkinson
was hurt internally. Rice escaped
without injury.
The car. an Overland, had been pur-
chased but few days before from
The Overland Sales Company by Mr..
Shore, of Petersburg. and was prac-
lticauy new. AS a result of the ride
1t is now fit only for the junk pile.
Just how the accident occurred can
not be ascertained. The parties only
know they ran into a ditch on the
Richmond Petersburg turnpike and all
were instantly dumped out, the ma
| chine was fund wrongside up and the
throttle wide open.
Mr. Weeks, manager of the Over
land Sales Company has stated that
| the riders must have been speeding
at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
| Mr.. Atkinson. who is a well known
| young man of the city, and reliable.
| Is said to have ordered a new ma
chine for Mr.. Shore
! At Work on Fair Buildings.
| Work on the excavations of the
| foundation for the new fair buildings
at West End Park have been COM
pleted and work will begin soon on the
construction OF handsome fair build
ings. Mr. ]. H. Patterson, secretary
and manager Of the fair, is highly
elated at the progress made. MIR. Pat
/ terson has just returned from Surry
county and states the people are much
/ interested In the project and viii lend
| o. liberal patronage IN the matters OF
displays.
Further Indictments Expected.
Further indictments in the old Ap-
pomattox Trust Company are expect
ed when the Hastings Court recon
venes June i. The May term took a
recess Thursday until that time. The
grand jury found indictments against
Bertha Coles, Carrying burglary and
manning; Richard Wynne. charged
with car breaking. and John Tyler,
charged with felonious cutting, before
adjournment. Judge West has pre-
sided during the sessions owing to
the absence of Judge j. NJ. Mullen,
who has been In Roanoke in the trial
OF Mayor Cutchin.
Invitations Out for Wedding.
Invitations have been issued to the
marriage of Miss Florence Nellie
Young to Mr.. Clement Douglass
Barksdale. at the First Baptist
church, on Thursday evening, June 8,
at 9 O'clock. Miss Young is the niece
! OF Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Irby Scott,
of this city. and Mr.. Barksdale In a
prominent young travelling salesman
of the Virginia Trunk and Bag Com
pany with headquarters In New York
city.
Speak at Sunnyside.
Mr.. P. H. Drewry and Professor r.
l.. Blanton. of Richmond, were the
speakers at the commencement exer-
c!ses at> the. sunnyside Academy. IN
! Dinwiddie county. which closed Its
session this week. Mr.. Drewry's ad-
dress was on the life of General Will
liam II. Rroadnax, which was OF par
tirular interest to citizens of Dfnwtd-
die.
Professor Blanton spoke along ed
ucational lines. The attendance upon
the closing exercises OF the school was
unusually large. The academy Is un-
der the charge of Mr.. Chambliss,
graduate OF Hampden Sidney College
and teacher OF wide experience.
Finance Committee Works OH Budget
The finance committee OF the Com
I mon Council met Thursday night at
the Offices OF Mr.. N. T. Patteson, the
chairman of the committee, to make