The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23
Times-Dispatch Bureau,
d Bollingbrooii Street.
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Petersburg, Va, February 20.
The police of Petersburg to-day
made a big catch in the arrest of
James Hart, negro, "a would be muir
derer and noted thief and the rccov-
cry of large quantity of stolen prop
erty. About twenty minutes before
/" o'clock Chief Ragland received
phone message from l;ttricl< that a
negro who answered the description
Of the man who night before last
shot and wounded Private Railroad
Detective j. II. Bailey. OF Richmond. ut
Dunlop's. was in hiding in the woods
near the EttriclS Cemetery. The chief
lost no time In placing Detectives
Eanes and Heelan in an automobile
ana directing them TO rush with all
speed TO the spot and bring the sus-
pect back. IN less than an hour the
officers were back at the station house
with their man
On reaching Ettrick, the officers,
armed with shotguns, picked up Con-
stable Consino. similarly armed, and
with him proceeded 10 the place of
conccalment and branched out to sur
round the negro. They soon got sight
of him, coming in the direction of the
village, as he said, to get something TO
cat. They halted him and commanded
him TO throw up his hands. The negro
raised one hand. but kept the other
OH a "A calibre Smith Wesson pis
tol strapped to his hip. He finally
yielded to the commands of the officers
to raise both hands, was placed under
arrest and the pistol taken from him.
The negro confessed to the shooting
Of Detective Bailey, but denied that
he had robbed car ut Dunlop's, for
which he was arrested by Bailey. He
says ne thought the detective WAS :;
hobo who was trying to hold him up
and rob him BAILEY is in the hospi-
tai here, under treatment for tie
wound he received at the hands OF the
negro
Under tho commands of the officers
the negro told where the suitcases he
had when he shot Bailey were con
cealed in the woods. and they were
found
ON the night OF the 18Th Of this
month tho commissary store Of the
Einporia manufacturing Company was
BROKEN into ana robbed or a large
quantity Of goods. Among The articles
silver watches. two suits Of clothes,
jcwclry shoes. shirts. cigarettes and
Two suitcascs These were the suit
cases recovered by the officers to- day,
and In thom were found The watches.
JcNclry clothing, ctc. stolen from the
iinpor!a company. Entry was effected
INTO tho cvmmissary building by cut
tiug . hole through the noor The
I tools used ~ cutting through the floor
| were, Left by the thicf They had been
stolen fron tho Camp manufacturing
COMPANY. iiar; confessed to commit
Ting this robbery, but implicated no
\ ono ciS".
/ James Hart. the negro under arrest,
~ IRON North Carolina aud is n tray
! cling thi"f and goes well armed. Bc-
/ sldcn carving The big pistol at his
/ ia" 10 meet al emergencies, he car
lFlcd another in hib grip. The Grcnncs-
~" auui"rliics are anXioug 10 get
/ nim ~ IL Understood that lac will first
ne turned over to tho Chesterfield au-
thoritich 10 be- tried for shooting De
''ctiNc Bailey. Hart In about forty
yc"rb OLD. - - man of forbidding fea-
lures. and * evidently Il desperate
character. Tho arrest attracted a
great deal OF attention. and crowd
wae Haihcrcd about thn station house
for several hourr