Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-07
BOY SHOT THROUGH LUNG
WHILE HUNTING FOR NEGRO
Arthur Everett Rushed Here From
Jetersville In Serious
Condition.
CONDITION MOST CRITICAL
Ward Shot by Richard
Branch, and Crowd, Searching for
Branch, Finds Everett Stealing
Ride on Freight Train.

with a .sScalibcr bullet through both
lungs. Arthur Everett, eighteen years
/ old. of II. f. -. No. s, Box 1876 Char
| iotte. y. G., lies at Memorial Hospital.
where his death is momentarily expect
ed. DR.. B. l.. Iiillsman. Of 400 West
F.! Grace street. said early this morning;
that the boys condition was most seri-
GUS. and that there was but little hope
| for him.
few hours after Everett was
brought into the hospital yesterday ar
ternoon from Jetersvine Va where
he was shot, Andrew Ward, colored.
was brought into the hospital from the
same town. and also suffering from a
! bullet through the lung. His condi-
ton IS regarded as serious, but not
necessarily fatal.
Both men gave statements to DR..
iiiilsman and Detective SerEeants KEEL
lam and Atkinson yesterday and last
night. According to the story told bv
the men. Ward was shot Monday af-
tcrhoon by another negro, said to have
been Richard Branch, in the house OF
Jane Lindsay. colored, during a quar-
rel over crihp game. The man was
struck by one of the .3o-caliher bull
lets and was taken TO Jetcrsville, about
three miles distant, where IT was found
necessary to send him to hospital
LARGE CROWD TAKE UP
SEARCH FOR BRANCH
The news OF the shooting OF Ward
spread rapidly, and a number of per-
sons took mp the search for Branch
who had fled immediately after the
shooting. The search was at it's height
ABOUT o'clock Monday night. when "A
freight train arrived in Jetersville ON
the train was Arthur Everett. endeavor-
ing to beat his way back TO his home
IN North Carolina after making a trim
10 Europe on one OF the horse ships
from Norfolk.
Everett Informed DR. IIillsman that
he was on the train when he saw the
searching parties start at it's end and
with lanterns flashing on either side,
begin the survey of the entire train.
The boy knew he was breaking tho
law. and feared that the scarchers were
endeavorinE TO find him. he knowing
hothlnE or the shooting OF Ward Re
fore the men reached him, Everett
climbed down off tho train and crouched
beneath one Of the high freight cars.
The train started unexpectedly, and
Everett was struck by one Of the cross
beams and hurled from beneath the
car. When he came out one OF IN.
searchcrs. said to have been the sta
ton agent at Jetersville. was almost on
top of him. This man immediately
opened fire, and Everett fell beside tho
tracks, a bullet having pierced both
lungs
EVERETT RUSHED no
MEMORIAL. HOSPITAL.
iie was rushed to Memorial Hospi-
tai yesterday and arrived there shortly
after 3 o'clock The police were in
formed at once. and Detective Kcllam
succeeded in getting a statement from
the injured man. Ward arrived at the
institution later in the night, and De-
tective Atkinson got statement from
him also.
In making his statement to KcIlam
and DR.. liillsman. Everett insisted that
II was the station agent who shot him.
ne said the man denied firing the shot,
however. Everett said he did not
blame the man who shot him. and added
that the commemorative attorney OF
the county had already investigated and
mad absolrcd every one for the shoot
ing. Everett asked that his mother
Mrs. Stephen Everett, be notified at his
North Carolina home.