The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-28
COMPANION FOR
Hing HIN BAD EYE
|1I1bmrx Negroes Engage in Fight
with Sticks, Fists and
Pistols.
forzCE DOCKET VERY HEAVY
Roar Prisoners Taken to Pcnitcntiary.
Farmers Exchange Elects Ofiicers.
several Deaths and Funerals.
s Other Items.

negro. whose home is in Prince
M George County, and who has recently
n been employed by the Vaughan Com
nkructfon Company Oh is work AZ
III IAkemont| Park, shot and mortaily
" sHcunded Ollie Walters, "a seventeen
4 year-old negro from Hanover County
about a:39 o'clock this morning. The
d pistol used was of .22-calibre, and
I Rufsin was SO close To Walters when
ri M shot that the latteT's clothes were
Get on FIRE by the powder, The bull
II let entered the negros left breast,
n near hts heart, II is reported here
q late this afternoon that he IS dead.
After being shot Walters knocked
Ruffin down with his bare fist when
.szenrge Thomas, another negro, struck
him tWalters} over the head with "A
stick Rufiin and Thomas then fed
and al 6 late hour neither had been
captured.
81 Ruin is described as being blind in
81 the left eye, dark, five feet, seven
N inches tall and weighing about lao
pounds.
Thomas is Einger-ca,te -eolored. five
feet. eight inches tail, md weighs
I about l40 pounds. BON are be-
I tween eighteen and twenty years of
age Sheriff Boisseau. OF Prince
George and the Hopeweli and Peters
Y burg Police Department were noti-
fed. 1t In not thought that there
Will be much trouble I'm locating Ruff
4 an.
Sentenced TO Peuifentiary.
Captain White a guard at the State
3 Penitenttary, came to Petersburg to-
NJ DAY and late left with four prisoners
II conYicted at the March term OF the
Hustings Court and sentence to the
psnitentiary. as follows:
II. 4. Bridges, white, highray rob
]. berry. five years. Cornell WllliawEA
1 colored. forgery. six years; Leroy Ma
rec. white, forgery, three years; James
Hendrsckson, white forgery three
years
Clark Trihble white. convicted of
\ highway robbery and sentenced to
twelve years. was not taken away for
d this reason that Application WILL oe
! made BIZ his counsel for a new trial
on the ground ON after-dlscovered evil
n denee.
Heavy Police Docket.
Al today's session OF the Police
Court George Cornett, William Cor
nett and j. L, Riddle. three white
men, arrested at an early hour Sun
day morning, charged with robhlng
il. w. Hollywood Of between $50 and
$50, shortly after midnight Saturday
night on the Atlantic Coast Line Belt
B Line at the West End Of the city, were
sent on to the Hastings Court for trial.
Simon Walker. colored, carrying
two concealed pistols. Was fined $50
and sentenced TO ninety days in jail.
Howard Daniels, colured, WAS fined
$40 for carrying a concealed pistol.
James seay, coiored, was sentenced
3s To sixty days In jail for carrying
concealed pistol.
James Green was fined $50 and SEN
Fenced 10 six months in Jail for carry
Ing concealed pistol.
Bill Smith. crippled negro. for
& threatening to trim" Detective Aid
jail
There were sixty-four cases on the
docket. made UP largely of drunks.
u Farmer Exchange Elects.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders OF Southside Farmers Tx
4 change was held 81 Red Men Hall
q Saturday afternoon. The principal
\ business transacted was the election
OF a board OF directors. composed
a. follows: Messrs W. s. Ivey. l.. G.
Smith and w b. Gates, of Chester
field County; c. w. Blanchard and
Joseph WuQd. Of Prince GeQrge. Viii
I iism webb and G. w. Sedlway, of
Dinwtddie.
At later meeting Of the directors
e w s. Ivey was elected treasurer Of
Il the exchange and Q. &. Daniels was
reelected manager. The stockhold-
ers decided 20 increase the capital
stock from $4,000 to $4,000.
Made Search FOR Glass BOY.
Chief of Police Il. N Gray, OF Scot
land Neck, y. c. came to Peters
burg Yesterday morning and, accom-
panied by members Of the local de-
partrnent. visited and made thorough
search Of the gypsy camp In Prince
\ George County for James Glass, the
long missing child from New Jersey,
4 "A band composed OF sixteen gypsies
coming from North Carolina Joined
I the Prince George camp Saturday.
No trace II the Glass child was
found in the camp.
Funeral Of Miss Dadnum-.
a The body Of Mis- Dora j. Dadnum.
Whose death occurred at her home, the
4 residence Of her brother, Rev. II. T.
uadnum, 3l1 Berkeley Avenue Nor
folk. yesterday morning, reached here
Il at II O'Clock this morning and was
I taken direct 20 Blandford Cemetery
for burial. Miss Dadnum was forty
yearg of ages and had been engaged
Il neral services were conducted by Rev.
r. McN. Simpson. D. D.. presiding
cider of the Richmond District.
Death of Mrs. Pudne.
Mrs Lucy Ann Pudne. aged eighty
years died at 1858 o'clock Saturday
morning Al the nome or heF bf0fHSr,
A. 70. Pudue, on Terrace Avenue, OF
pneumonia. Mrs. Pudue suffered a
fractured hip August IL last, from
4 which she had never fully recovered
She was e. daughter of the late George
and Bette Woodfin. Of Chesterfield
County. The funeral was held yes
terday and burial was made In the old
family burying ground.
Death of Virgil Branch.
Virgil Lewis Branch, seventeen
nnonth-oid SOP of w. c. ana EfisI
Poole Branch, died at s o'clock yes-
morning at the residence of
His parents. 22I Shore Street OF mem
@1ngitis. The body was taken this even
n Ing to Chalybeate Springs, n, c., the
former home of the parents. for,
burial.
William IT. Taylor Buried.
The body OF william Fred Taylor,
aged thirteen and one~haIf years, son
Il Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Fred Taylor, whose
Eeath occurred Saturday afternoon,
near Lynchburg, arrived here yester-
day and was buried i'm the Ettrick
Cemetery this afternoon. Mr.. and
Mrs. Taylor, who are residents of Et-
trick. have the sympathy Of a wide
n circle 10 friends In their bereaye-