The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-27
FULLER IS
PAINFULLY INJURED
Young. Man Employed BY Seward
Trunk and Bag Company Has
Narrow Escape From Death.
DOES BLOODY MURDER
Lid at Hopewell Is Nailed Down
Tightly Sunday For First Time.
Magic City Dealers Taking Note Of
Warming.

Petersburg. Va, July 26.-Ran-
doIph Fuller, a young man employed
by the Seward Trunk and Bag Com
pany. is at the Petersburg Hospital
in a painfully wounded condition as
the result of having been thrown
against a large pulley when ian
belt. which he was repairing or ad-
justing broke about l O'Clock TINS
afternoon. Mr.. Fuller Is suffering
from a broken arm, u probable broken
leg and other painful bruises. and
lis very fortunate in not having lost
his life. He was given surgical at
tention by DIR. j. Boiling Jones. and
Is now resting as comfortably as could
be expected.
Nesress Stays Another.
Susie King, a young muiatto wo-
man, was instantly killed this after
noon by jamie Griffin, colored. In the
rear door of an old pool room, which
Is not now in use, on st. Pauls Alley.
between Bank and Old Streets. The
woman was found dead with stab
wound extending from about the col
larbone four or five inches in length
directly across the heart. inflicted by
a knife or some sharp instrument.
Soon after the body was found, the
Griffin woman was arrested by Of
ficer George Brister and lodged in
JAIL She had considerable blood on
her sleeve and admitted having been
with the dead woman but disclaimed
having murdered her, stating that she
had been cut by negro whose name
she did not know, and who, after the
cutting, went westwardly on Old
Street. The police do not believe the
woman's story and have witnesses
who will testify that she had threat
txraA sxyffh 10 nae eft
few days to murder the King woman.
The body was examined by DR..
Hoy and an inquest will be held by
Coroner III. @. Leigh.
Arrested at Hopcwcli.
Aaron. alias William, Stackhouse
an escaped convict from the North
Carolina road force. was arrested at
Hopewell yesterday by Detective Aid
ridge, of the Petersburg Police Force.
and Is being held here for the arrival
of officers who will take him back.
Stackhouse was convicted about three
years ago for the murder OF Henry
Lilley, colored, near Maxton, N. c.,
and was sentenced to fifteen years in
the penitentiary, but escaped some
time ago while at work witsa the State
road force.
@a@~ "Dr.'' Carter In Trouble.
DIR" w. H. Carter, a coIored
patent medicine vender. widely known
in Petersburg. Richmond and the sur
rounding counties. Is under arrest on
warrant charging him with house,
breaking and the larceny Of furni-
ture to the value of about 5000, the
property Of Mary Tucker, his
mother-in-law The larceny is alleged
to have been committed on June 4,
since which time Carter has been
away from the city. The accused man
has been in the tolls before on sew
eral occasions. but has always man
aged to secure acquittal. little
more than a year ago he was arrested
here charged with the murder of DR."
H.H. Cox. a competitor. but when ar
raigned after being held In jail for
several months, pleaded self-defense
and was acquitted. During his con-
finement In jail his wife went yio-
lently insane and died at the Central
State Hospital before his trial came
off. He was later arrested and taken
to Georgia and tried on a murder
charge, but was acquitted and shortly
afterwards returned here.
Brought Back For Trial.
Walter Mitchell. white stranger,
arrested In Washington, d. c., for the
local authorities on grand larceny
warrant, was brought back here yes