Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-03
POLLARD HAS ENCOUNTER
WITH REAL ESTATE AGENT
Percy Glinn Removes Coat, but
Friends Prevent Blows Being
Exchanged.
TRIED TO SELL LAND TO STATE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Held That Appro-
priation for Maintenance OF Bon
Air Home Could Not BE Used to
Buy Glinn's Property.

BriStlins with exciting details was
eacn Of several versions of a personal
encounter between Attorney General
John Garland Pollard. candidate for
Governor OF Virginia. and Percy Glinn.
of the firm of McVeigh e. Glinn, which
were an absorbing topic OF conversation
in Richmond yesterday afternoon and
last night.
IN hotel Hobbies. on street corners and
in the clubs the varying versions of the
affair were told! retolu, amplifed. mag
nifed and coiorcd until ii became a
spectacular narrative in which the At
to"rey General was coinmonl! reported
20 have engaged In a fierce hs,ic combat
with the rcal estate man. terminating
IN - rough-roi1 -and-tunbie knock-
down-and- drag out finish
That an encounter If - very disagree
able nature occurred on the Ninth
street hill. about 10 o'clock in the morn
ing, when Attorney General Pollard was
unexpectedly confronted by MIR. t;linn
who was accompanied by two friends
Dennis o'Sulli"an, ana another man
whose name could not be learned from
amy OF the participants IN the affair--is
admitted by tho Attorney General Mr.
fiinn, when approached on the subject
d? reporter, was obviouslv Iaboring
n 4
grievance, and emphatically refused to
enter into details.
GLINN DECLINES TO
MAKE ANY STATEMENT
When Informed that the stories OF tho
encounter all related that he had abused
the Attorney General and challenged
ms vcracity in no gentle manner, the
rcal cstate man was vehement in his de-
mails. He demanded to know whether
attorney General Pollard had accused
I MIN OF using the cpithat 'lin~." and
upon being assured tina: Mr. Pollard
mao made no other charge than that ho
had been very uncouth III his address
he said:
II have nothing to say abou, il :
Will make no statement for publica
ton"
Attorney General Pollard. although
reluctant to discuss tho unpleasant af-
.air WAS more communicative. He ,c-
knowiedced that Mr. Glnn had ad
dressed him in an offensive manner and
'nat tie real estate mans attitude was
ocliiscrcni; that Mi. Giinn had bv HE
aggressive speech and hostile demeanor
attempted to force fight up0n him,
turther expressing the belief ,hnt he
would have been assaulted b.. the real
estate man had not the latter while ox
citedlE pulling off his coat been seized
by Mr.. OSuliivan and his other COM
panion.
'RoNS OUT OF FiII.l'RE
TO SELL LAND TO STATE
The trouble grew out OF the failure
or Mr. CHM to transfer 20 tho board
Of trustees % the Virginia Home and
Industrial School FOR Girls. in Chester
hcld County. last Saturday n tract or
land owned by him adjoining the
grounds OF the institution for incor-
rigiblc girls.
The deed had been drawn. the trus-
tees having agreed 10 pay Sio5OO for
tho Glinn property. Tie first payment
was TO have been made with $500
when remained in the treasury OF the
institution at the end OF lis fiscal year
expiring Saturday. Under the law un-
expended balances from the annual APP
Precipitation made by the General As-
semb!H to state Institutions revert to
the state Treasury ~ tho end Of the
fiscal %ear The trustees negotiated
With Mr. Glinn under the impression
. that they could make the purchase
with this money y; the eleventh hour.
however. they learned from state
Auditor Moore that this uneXpcnded
balance was unavailable for the pur-
pose ior which they Intended Il; be-
cars" the appropriation was for tho
specific purposes Of "ml!ntenance
;EsanSeineht. etc The purchase. Of
real estate, h" explained, was no;
among the stated purposes. and he
WOULD therefore not honor a warrant
drawn 20" tho money 10 the credit OF
the institution lie further Informed
tho trus,,rs that the money would re-
vert NJ tilr close OF Saturday to the
state Trcn:Iry.
BROUGHT DEED To POLLARD
S.TIR Dti AFTERNOON
Saturday afternoon Mr.. Glinn sought
to have Attorney General Pollard put