Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-04
'JUST|CE IS CHEATED
BY SUICIDE OF YOUTH
James Dick. Jr., Sends Two Bullets
Into Body Rather Than Face
Infatuated Mob
RIGID INVESTIGATION HELD
Mrs. William Lamp, Victim OF Felo-
NOUS Assault, Still in Nervous
Condition rs Result OF Shock
Campaign by Auti-Saloon League.
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Especial to The Times Dispatch
WINCH ESTER. VA. April 3.-Instead
OF being corncred and taken by armed
force. James Dick. Jr. who was hunt
cd Tor two weeks or more by tho au-
thortties of Berkeley County. w Va
and Frederick County. Va. charged
with making n felonious attack upon
Mrs. William Lamp, of the Glcnrary
section OF the former county, for whose
husband he had done farm work for a
ionS time. was found dead in a cIulnp OF
pushes nifty yards from "A road between
The home OF the Lamps and that of his
parents In the same Vicinity. The dis
!. coSery was made by searching party
headed by Dicks father Two bullc;
Holes from n rifle had entered near the
heart. The authorities believe Dick
struck by renorsc or fear OF mob yio-
fence because Of dire threats made by
& lnfuriated citizens, shot himself twice
ana then lay down and died The rifle
WAS found lying partly across his
&breast Coroner Sponscller would not.
however accept the suicide theory nm
III after conducting a rigid invcstiga-
tion, but he finally agreed to the rem
uering OF such a verdict. The funeral
OF DICK was held up and an autousv
performed by Il physician. after which
the body was buried in a little church
sard In the northern section of Fred
- La
is said. Is still in highly nervous con-
dition as a result of the attack
WHIRLWISD CAMPAIGN
BY ANTI-SNIOON IEtEI'E
"A ten-dnE whirlwiud campaign is he
ing conducted in the Shenandoah Nol
icy, as we'll as in other sections OF the
state, by the Anti-Saloon l.caru. far
the purpose of presenting arguments N
show that there is n growing sentiment
IN FAVOR OF national prohibition and
curing the past week Rev \. c. Rauc.
ID. D.. formerly Of California. hui now
a national lecturer. has been ad1ressin.,
large crowds in the northern part or
the state DR. Bane declared in some
OF ms lectures that each candidate for
congress In every State in which cleo
lions are to be held this fall will h.
ask ca to answer IL series OF plain <',1
pracucal questions, stating his ~ -,
on The liquor question, al - nosil'oh
Pers and friend. CT the Anti,snlnon
1hos. .,rin be requested To vot. for
FS.fr-e candidates who favor aholishinr
the liquor traffic. The l.nruc intends
10 take the same stand with reference
10 state and local elections
REV. Jonah Lumptom Reese "A promi-
nent minister Of the Society of Friends.
nied or pneumonia AT his home in Win
chester on his seventy ghth birthday
on Thursday. He leaves u widow for
merly Miss Ann Jackson. Of this CITY.
one daughter. Miss Annie H. Reese M
nome, and sister. Mrs Ruth l.. Dillon.
OF Sterling, Ill. There was a rrc,t o,,t
pouring of Friends at his funeral. which
was held from the Friends Meeting
aiouse here this Afternoon, with Dr. ed
ward Janney. OF Baltimore, officiating
members or tho Board, Armstrong
company. OF Alexandria, this week
formed the National Fruit Products
Company. OF Winchester and n ter mr.
CHASING four acres OF land AZ the in
tersection OF the Cumberland Valley
ND f1N..
in the northern suburbs OF Winchester
announced their intention of erecting ar
once large plant for the manufactures
( OF cider, vinegar, preserves and n ren
= erai canning and cooperating business
Ihe plant VIII be one OF the largest Of
the kind In this section OF the rouutr,.
and 1T VIII afford an excellent market
for second grade fruit from scores Of
apple and peach orchards in Frederick
County.
SUITS ARE FILED
TO ENFORCE PAYMENT,
Tho Eastern Panhandle Fair ,sso-
CITATION has nled two suits Ia the cir
cult Court at Martinsburg W Y,
AGAINST Sheriff T. = Tabler and II
van Metre, two OF the stockholders
10 enforce the payment OF the first
20 per cent on their Subscription OF
one share each. while ithc Amount ~
only SO In each case: 1t is stated that
this Is the beginning Of number or
stockholders who have thus FAR failed
10 pay the first installment on their
STOCK Certain claims against the So
s Getty, II Is stated. are being pushed
and the officials think the stoci<hold
crs should pay
Julian Morris, the well-knnwn horse
man or the Gordonsville section who
mas Tor many years been one OF tho
most successful exhibitors OF hunters
ana jumpers at the shows of the Vir-
gina circuit. is hobhlinE about nv,
crntchcs with fractured ankle
caused 10y making a m!sstcp and fan
ing upon aliEhting from q railroad
train in Philadelphia recently. Mr.
MOTIFS expects, however. 10 be wcll
enough 70 take part in the FIRST shn,y
or the virginia assoCia,ion-thnt Of
me National capital Society, when
VIII be held ia Washington early i'm
May. II is understood thnt he ,l,,s
TO take a snowy aud CLASSY exhibit "a
4 the big Washington snow. WHEN {.
now tho bisges, and most iuinnrt,r,
+ even, OF tho Kind iu the I-ni,ca S,atns
atStn'e the dIScontIEuance OF The Madi-
Square Garden eNh!bitiou.
'!ni'e a large uu'uher OF men and
Y men who were for years addicted IN
~ ~ use ~ one or more OF me drup.
81 ~ forbidden by the Harrison law
& g beins treated at tho Wes,crr
s state Hospital FOR tho Insane at S,aun.
ton, under The personal direction q,
the supcrintendcnt DR. J. ( DeI,r
: nette. He has patients from AJcxa,-
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