Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-08
MAY Be SENT TO ASYLUM
FOR CRIMINAL INSANE
Clay Drewry Must Appear In Hust
ings Court To-Day for COM
mitment.
WAS RUSHED TO wEsTBRooK
City Police Kept in Ignorance That
Commission Of Lunacy Had Been
Called In Case OF City Employee
Under Indictment.

According to the statement Of Com
monwealth's Attorney Tolkes on Sat
urday. Clay Drcwry. former superin-
tcndeHt OF the West End hands and
carts force. now under indictment on n
chargc OF stealing the citys money by
padding the pay rolls and since adj
Judged insane. will be brought to the
husttngs Court this morning on n capias
10 race such procedure as Judge Rich
ardson may decide
AS Drewry Is under indictment for n
felony II lies within the power of the
court to have him transferred to tho
Asylum for the Criminal Insane. at
Marion. as was done decently In the
case OF e. b. Rixey. the Alexandria
BANKER. whose case was carried to the
Supreme Court of Appeals
WAY DE TRIED WHEN
HE RECEIVERS SANITY
Chapter 313, acts 1914. page 542.
amends section 1852 of The Code of
Virginia to read:
~ any person who is charged with
or indicted for. any crime he found in
the court in which he liz SO charged
or indicted. to be insane mt the time APP
pointed for trial of such Indictment
the court shall order him to be com
United to the department for the Grim
maj insane at the proper hospital
where he shall be kept in custody and
cared for until he has been restored
10 SANITY If any such person so
removed to the department for the
criminal insane at the proper State hos
pital is. in the opinion OF the supcrin-
tendent. not insane. or when such per-
son. II insane. has been restored TO
sanity he shall forthwith be brought
back TO the jail or custody from which
he was removed. where he shall he held
III accordance with terms of the pro-
cress by which he was originally com
mitted or confined.
The superintendent shall. from time
to time. or as often as the court may re-
quire. inform the court OF tie condi-
ton OF the said person while confined
In the hospital"
POLICE NOT NOTIFIED OF
LUNACI PROCEEDINGS
Drewry's alleged dcfalcatlons were
discovered on February "a. and he left
the city after having promised CITY
Engineer Boiling that he would go over
his accounts with his superior officer
The matter was reported to the Ad-
ministrative Board, and, after "a thor
ough investigation, Drewry was sus-
pended, and on the next day Detective
Gordon j. Smith swore out n warrant
charging Drcwry with theft Later he
was indicted by the Hastings Court
grand jury on charge OF stealing
more than $50. which constitutes n
felony
After search instituted by the po-
lice, Drewry's family learned that he
was In Atlanta, and he was brought
back on Friday by his brother-in-law.
II. L. Benson. Attorney D. G. O'Flah-
erty and Sheriff j. Herbert Mercer met
them In Petersburg, and when the
train reached Richmond the sheriff
placed Drewry under arrest He was
Immediately taken before Il commits
sion OF lunacy al the office of DR. g. d.
Tucker. POS East Franklin street, the
commission consisting OF Or. Tucker
Or. Greer Baughman and Magistrate
J. d. Lyle. After Drewry had been
declared insane. he was bailed In the
care of his mother and then transferred
to the Westbrook Sanitoriun The
Iolicc Department was notified on Sat
urday afternoon that Drewry had re-
turned. and Informed what disposition
had been made Of HIM