The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-11

mo GRAND Jury
AT MARCH COURT
Several Cases on Docket Will Be
Transferred to Dan
vile.
\ CHILD IS FATALLY BURNED
Autoist Drives His Blazing Car
to Fire Department Station
for Help.
CHILD IS FATALLY BURNED
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Lynchbure: Va. March 1o.-The
March term of the United States Dis
trict Court will be convened to-mor-
row morning at $50 o'clock In the
City Council chamber in the city court
house Judge Henry Clay Mcdowell
recollection OF the officials of the court
no grand jury will be present. several
cases on the docket having been trans
ferred to the DanVille court for con-
sideration OF the grand jury that will
be necessary for that court later dur
ing the month.
Among the revenue cases to come up
tomorrow Will be three or four OF
the Piny River people who were In
diced here last fall for illicit distill-
Ing on Piny River, these defendants
having been caught in tho raids made
by the large force of revenue men who
went from here to tfat section about
n year ago. There are = number of
important cases pending on the civil
Docket also, but 1t IS not known
whether many OF these will come up
for trial or not
Chud's Burns Arc Fatal.
Anna Belle, the siS-ycar- old daugh-
ter OF Mr. and Mrs Robert Martin,
died Sunday afternoon at the home of
her parents. 33 Arthur Street. death
being due to burns received Saturday
The child's clothing caught fire from
an open crate. and she was so badly
burned before her mother could rush
10 her aid that 1t was apparent from
The first that she could not live The
mother was Il work In the kitchen and
the child's father had just stepped out
of the room for n moment when the
accident took place.
II isn't often tb:tt tho TyDrbburr- fro
department has : fire brought TO il
for Succor, but that happened last
night, when one OF the touring cars or
the Long Transfer Company was car
lied to the department. for the purpose
nf eXtinguishinE Il blaze. The machine
was damaged about s7oo by the blaze,
but the loss is fully insured.
The car was taken into the com
pany's garage lost night about $50
o'clock when the driver discovered
that the top had caught from the rear
light and was burning rapidly at the
Time of the discovery. Turning to the
telephone he notified the men at the
No ] station that he was bringing
them fire. suggesting that the com
bination chemical wagon meet the
burning car en- route.
Then the driver backed his machine
out of the garage and started for the
fire station with the flames shooting
from the rear of the machine The
firenen quickly subducd the blaze with
The chemicals.
The tor was badly burned. as was the
upholsterng of the rear seat while one
of the tires was consumed
Dcnounces Loan Sharks.
Eev. w. \. Cooper, pastor OF Memo
rial Methodist Church. last night at
that church vchemcntly denounced the
loan sharks of lynchburg In n sermon
that was heard by crowded audito-
rum
President Henry Louis smith. OF
Washington and Lee University. has
accepted an invitation To address the
boys department Of the Lynchburg Y.
NJ c. r. here on April 4
Captain Upton n. Jennings who has
represented Lynchburs in the House
OF Delegates for u decade has an
nounced his candidacy for nomination
In the June primary. He will hardly
bo opposed
Judge Frank 4. Christian. Of the Cor
poration Court, went to Bedford city
to-day TO open the Circuit Court there
for Judge Campbell, who is under
treatment al Washington hospital