The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-17
FURIOUS GIRLS
CHASE OFFICER
WITH SHOTGUN
Bon Air Home Scene Of
Another Serious Mutiny and
Attack on Inmate
ASSAULT RUNAWAY
AND INJURE HER
Probation Officer Wheaton
Flees into Woods for Safety
and Asks Richmond Po-
lice For Assistance

Reused to uncomfortable fury by tn,
sight of Probation Officer Wheaton,
and Marie McNemar. whom they beliey-
| ed to have been unfaithful in running
away, the thirty-s six inmates at the Eir-
ginia Home and Industrial School for
Girls, near Bon Air, yesterday set upon
and badly beat Marie and chased
wheaton away with a shotgun.
! Wheaton and his charge had just
gotten to the main building in the
grounds when the young Amazons
/ poured out from every door and win
dow. With a wild Shrek that curdled
| Whealton's blood they charged, and
within a second he was the center of
a cyclone of flying stones and brick
bats. Marie was torn from his side.
and the girls fell upon her like starv-
ing wolves on a weaker comrade. Her
clothes were half torn from her body:
she was bitten and scratched. and
she was bleeding when she finally
broke away and gained refuge with
Mother Light Wheaton was stricken
with surprised terror. He fired his
pistol three times into the air. but
that alarmed the girls no more than
a puny popgun. One of them ap-
peared with a double barreled shot
gun. and when Wheaton saw that the
last ounce of his remaining courage
oozed away, and he turned and fed
lincontinently. All the gates to the
grounds were barred behind bin, and
he made for the eight-foot fence.
knowing that climbing 1t was his only
way to safety.
Shrieking and yelling and uttering
maniacal curses and cries. the furious
girls pursued him in solid phaianx.
Stones flew about his head, but he
never wavered in his course. never
stopped to look back. He jumped
-. T.
way scrambled over it and the bareed
wire on top.
/ Girls Still Pursue.
But the girls were as quick, and
were over right behind. Wheaton
said afterwards that he realized that
his only recourse was to take to the
woods, and he lodged into the first
bushes and underground in his path.
He got off the main road which leads
from the home to Bon Air. and found
himself on q strange by-path in the
woods. The girls were still behind
him. their hair flying In the wind.
uttering weird cries. Ahead OF him
! ne saw a turn in the road. and hoped
that he might reach II in time to
hide from his pursuers; but he had
gone only a few steps further when
he saw a crowd of girls, armed with
stones. waiting for him. They knew
the road. and had cut him of. There
were girls behind him, and girls In
front. He turned aside. and drove
deeper into the woods. Finally. az
ter he had run until he was almost
ready to drop from exhaustion. he es-
capped His pursuers, content with
having chased him far enough away
so that there would be no fear OF
his coming back, let him alone. and
marched to Bon Air.
wheaton made his way to tho
home Of DIR. NJ. r. Rudd. two miles
from Bon Air, and telephoned to po-
lice headquarters From the house
he could see the girls marching TO
the village. He got Acting Captain
of Detectives Bailey to the telephones
and asked for help to come tmme-
diately. Acting Captain Bailey got
into communication with Major Wer-
ner. and there was conference De-
tween the chief of police and Mayor
AinsIe in which 1t was decided TO
send relief at once. Captain Bailey.
Detective Sergeant Wiley and Mounted
officer Ryan got into the police au-
tomobile. and raced out to Chester
| field county. lust as they were leav-
| ing a telephone call for assistance
came from Mrs. Johnson. the tele-
graph agent at Bon Air, This Is no
! Joke" she said. The girls are in
| Bon Air and running wild. Send help
quick"
Major Weihei ,,r, ard
ohcer fiyhH, anu 'o ~ , ,.as roti-
then Masls'ra,e =. VI 10. a.
partment automobile met Constable
Flynn on the ROAD anu p.araa
up. ana near Bon AL ana two
| Iohstanies jar e1I, - =. - .ha,r
others in an automoolie' atso on 'heif
way to the home.
| Bring Banks BACK nome.
By the time the city ana county
/ officers reached Hon Alr. noWevsr.
| the wild girls had gone. everyone
was in doors. The girls had been IN