The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-31
OFFICER IS STABBED
N BREAST BY NEGRO
Ratrolman Walter Slaughter confined
to His Home as Result of KNIT
Wound
DREwRY ANNOUNCES HIS CANDI-
DACY.
Senator Representing Petersburg and
Dindidtiie County VIII Stand for
Reelection to State Legislature.

tSbaAS a. <haJ AlEOAHi0H
Walter e. Slaughter, of the local po-
lice force, will be confined to his home
on Grove Avenue for several DAYS as
the result OF stab wound in the
fieshy portion of his right breast. in
fiicted. by Willie Tucker, a twenty
fve-year-old negro, about 10 o'clock
last evening.
Officer Slaughter had placed Tucker
under arrest tor firing a pistol during
a row at a house on Wallace Street
the police patrol at a call box when
the negro suddenly whipped out a
knife and sprang at the officers throat.
Patroiman Slaughter detected the ne
gro's intentions in time to defect the
blow, and before the. negro could strike
the second time he was thrown to the
ground and disarmed. The knife PEN
etrated the officers coat and under
clothing. infiicting only a slight wound
in the breast. Tucker was lodged in
jail and sa soon as Officer Slaughter
is able TO appear against him he win
be given hearing in Police Court on
charge of carrying concealed wea-
pons and ASA ulting an officer.
Drewry Again I'm Race.
Senator +. II. Drewry. of the dis
trict composed of Petersburg and the
county OF Diuwiddie. has announced
his candidacy for reelection and has
given to the public brief review of
his record in the State Senate and
expressed his view with regard to
future legislation.
Senator Drewry, while an opponent
of the enabling ACT and of prohibit
ton. declares himself unequtvocally in
favor of the enactment of effective
III kRf
sets forth that 1t is his earnest desire
and states that ne will support a bill
looking to that end. He also favora
an optional system Of the ''Torrens
System" Of land registration, although
he admits that communities in which
this system has been tried differ great
ly as TO its utility. Other effective
and beneficial laws to which Senator
Drewry directs the attention of his
constituents bear upon game. educa-
don and public roads. @lt is not be-
lieved that senator Drewry will have
opposition as II is recognized that 1t
would take an exceptionally strong
candidate to defeat him.
To Cnveil Tablet.
A bronze tablet. erected by the State
of South Carolina, in honor of the
herioc dead of EIliott's South Carolina
Brigade. which lost 225 men July 80,
1854. in the Battle of the Crater, will
be unveiled Tuesday afternoon in Old
Blandford Church.
Numerous survivors of the brigade
will attend the ceremonies and "A. +.
Hill Camp, c. V, will render fitting
honors. A request has been made by
the camp for the loan of about thirty
automobiles TO convey the veterans
to the Crater and thence to the scene
of the unveiling. Among those who
will attend the exercises will he w. A.
Clarke, commandment Camp Hampton,
n. $50, L. c. ". and chairman OF the
tablet commission; members OF the
South Carolina division, U. G. ", with
General B. II. league. commanding.
members of the Ladies' Memorial AS
sociation of Petersburg and A. p. Hill
Camp, c. V.
The order of exercises has been ar
ranged as follows:
Assembly call. by l.. II. Jones. hu-
gler Invocation. by Rev. f. P. Dan
bridge; tablet unveiled Mrs. D. A.
Harrison (nee Davis); hymn, Amer
lea" by choir, address, Captain w.
H, Edwards, 18th S. G. regiment;
hymn tselected) by choir; tablet pre-
sented to the Ladies Memorial AS
ISOLATION by w. A. Clarke; acceptance
and response on behalf of the Ladies
Memorial Association by DIR. L. Nj.
Roper; hymn, "Blest Be The Tie That
Binds" by choir. benediction, Rev.
f. r cambridge, taps, by L. III. Jones,
bugler.
southsider Gets Appointment.
Henry c. Southall a well-known
Young Petersburger, was notified on
Yesterday of his appointment as COM
mander OF the Second Brigade OF
the Sons of Veterans of Virginia. The
appointment was made by Division
Commander Speed. of Roanoke, upon
the death of DR.. w. T. ellis. ce Fai m
willie. The selection of Mr.. Southan
will meet with the general approval
of camps of the Second Brigade COM
prfsing the Third and Fourt Con-
gressional Districts.
G. r.. Lambkin Injured
G. r. I4ambkin, a well-known resi-
dent of Grove Avenue. this city, was
painfully, If not seriously injured
about 5 O'Clock this mor!nging by the
bursting of pipe at the DUPONT Conn
pany's plant at Hopewen. Mr.. Lamb
kin was fearfully burned with caustic.
He was rushed to the Petersburg Hos
pital for treatment.
Licenses were issued by Clerk Rob-
ert q. Bass. of Petersburg, yester-
day permitting the marriage of Rich
ard Henry Grammer, twenty years
old, a machinist. of Richmond, and
Ida Orena johnson. ninteen. daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs Henry Johnson, OF
I1346 Rome Street.
Leslie Thomas Wheeler, eighteen.
a machsnist, and Susan Ellen Smith,
sixteen 121 Hinton Street
Charles McIlwaine Moody. widower.
twenty-five. a trunkmaker, and Nora
II. Gay, twenty, daughters of Mr.. ana
Mrs John e. Cav 215 North Jones