The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-29
dead NEGRO'S BODY
HAS NOT BEEN FOUND
Detective stacy Take. Coroner To View
body Of Man He Killed, But Ii
Was Gone, No One Knows Where.
MAY DOUBLE HopEwELL FORCE
Make Total OF $4,000 Operatives
<e,essary-Second Black hand Let
ter Received In Petersburg.


ter Received In Petersburg.
Petersburg Va. eeyt 2A--The
+ mystery surrounding the disappear
ance OF the body OF negro who was
shot and killed by Detective Stacy. of
/ the Norfolk and Western force. near
( Poe, Prince George County. at late
hour last evening. mas not been clear
ed
The shooting was done by the Of
iicer in seff-defense He had gone to
the scene In investigate robbery of
freight car at Poe, arriving there
he found that the car had been
broken into and robbed OF two boxes
Of meat. a cake of cheese and some
other articles, He soon located four
negro men hiding IN the woods near
by who fed when he appeared. The
detective tried To halt the negroes by
firing his revolver over their heads.
Later, while crossing "a field Detec-
tice Stacy ran into a negro who drew
"a Colts revolver and attempted to
shoot but the detective being The
quicker OF the TWO bred first and is
supposed to have killed the negro
instantly, After satisfying himself
that the negro was dead and taking
his pistol, the officer hurried to Peters
burg 10 inform County Coroner Har-
grave OF the affair and in company
with DIR Hargrave and several friends
! he later returned TO the spot where
the shooting occurred to find that the
body had disappeared 1t is suppose
that the other three negroes returned
ny tfIp ~cene ard took the body off ana
dumped il In the river or disposed OF
II in some manner.
Ncgress Draws Ten Years.
Today's session Of the Septem Der
term Of the Hastings Court. Judge
Mullen presiding, was taken up with
the trial of the case of the Com
monwealth against jamie Griffin. coll
cred, charged with the murder of
Susie King. also colored. on July 90
last commemorative Attorney
Samuel w thinner conducted the
prosecution and at the request OF the
court. T G. Johnson, colored. APP
peared for the defendant, The ac-
cused was found guilty of murder in
/ the second degree and her punishment
! was fixed at ten years in the State
/ perltentiary.
win Double Its Capacity
/ Information has been received here
/ from an apparently authentic source
that the Dupont Powder Company will
enlarge Its Hopewell plant to double
the capacity which was determined
upon some months ago when the "B
! plant was constructed The latter
I plant has never been fully completed
and the delay 1t is now stated was
due To the fact that the Dupont Com
panv had not fully determined upon
the extent of construction work that
would be done. For some weeks the
/ company has been busily engaged IN
erecting an enormous plant for the
manufacture of sulphuric acid. With
the addition now contemplated, which
! viii lie rushed 10 completion in at
possible haste the plant will be nearly
double the size Of anv which the
| Dupont Company controls and II VII
require about ae, 600 operatives
second niackbnnd letter.
A second attempt al biackhand has
been made in Petersburg. which ha'
Just been made known by : loca
police Department Mr. Samuel Levitt
a Washingt on street merchant wal
" ha nded a letter by a negro boy Sunda,
afternoon demanding that ne depos
$40 at given point nearby. The deati
penalty was threatened for his fan
ure to comply with the demands o
; Levitt that he had been paid by
stranger whom lie did not know 4
deliver the letter
Certificates Filed.
The certificates of incorporation o
, two new real estate firms have bee'
admitted TO record in the office o
, Clerk Robert G. Bass. OF the Hustine
Court as follows
The Virginia Real Estate Corpora
= I ~
mum capital of $50 600: minimum, $40.
600, TO be divided into shares Of $40
each. Iffcers--Louis Applefeld. pres
tdent: H. II Lavenstein, vice president
> Samuel Applefeld, secretary and A. /
Lavenstein, treasurer, all of Peters
tburg. who with Louis Applefeld o
Baltimore. and Moses II. i.ayenstein. o
Petersburg. constitute the board OF dt
} rectors.
$ The Whitehead Development Com
pany incorporated. Is the second wit
a maximum capital of $50, 900, mini
mum. SIS 900. 10 be divided into share
OF 500 each. The officers are !, {
shore petersbure. president: r. l.
HufYines. Rocky Mount. n. C.. vice
president, j. w Farrell, Greenvilit
! n. G.. secretary and treasurer. Direc
, tors-~The above officers and f.. V, Fer
rell OF Grecnville. y. c.
HOpeweil Heights Company.
The Hopeweil Heights development
Company, Incorporated has been or
ganized with III. following officers
President, sachs; vice president, DR. n
q Leigh, secetary and treasurer,
Fisher, Other Petersburgers in.ereste'
in the corporation are Messrs. j.
/ Hanrahan !. A. Murtchen. Joseph r
Nenabie, y. Rosenbloom. ii RI. Gold
stein. f. G. Kent and A. T. Richardson
! The capital is placed at $4,000 an,
a charter will be applied for at once
Mrs. Oteiim Zaruba.
Mrs olela Zaruba, wife of Mr., Johl
Zaruba Sr, died very suddenly at he
home near the Crater In Prince Georg
County, about I o'clock last evening
Mrs Zaruha was seventy -four year
of age and besides her husband is sur
vived by two daughters and three sons
I The funeral Will he conducted from
: the resident at 3;30 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon,
dith-Satterwhite.
Miss Ethel Meredith, the attractiv
young daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. w ]
Meredith, and Mr.. Willies Clearance Sat
terwhite. were united in marriage a
fine home OF the officiating minister
Rev, Fred W. Moore, at o'clocl
last evening The ceremony was wit