The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-16
TWO DEAF, TWO HURT
RESULT OF SHOOTING.
eHas. L RAMSAY rs SENTENCED
Found Gaiiiy ~ Highway Robbery
He Is Sent Ia ss~sis ses Eoar Years
Unfortnnas~ Mcsass, Illus b = n q
Dead. Essassa wasssewsax With Babe
In Her Ar4ssss

=
In Her sssass
petersa0sx. IA. Tss is.~-Two
negroes. Douglas gsg@eh and ose
Kirk, are dead an3 Two others,
4sberon Mildgun &R& James Hampton,
ARE in the Feyerxss@xg Hospital proc
ably nsort&lly wounded, as the result
OF pistos duets In reea hentas yestsr-
day afternoon aaa AZ sss Dunlop
Street this nserasnS.
shortly before ia clock this morn
ing the poasee received hurried call
ito the home ot willie Morgan on
Dunfop street. ard when the patrols
with Offlcsrs Wrlsht. t:aaes and Eel
cher. arrived they fo&ad Lynch iyins
dead across q chair With revolver
lgraSpess in his hand in when were
three empty cartridges. Gong mex
dopr the officers found Mitdron prop
ably mortaiiy wounded. With a buiieI
Wound IN his sedemeu After
search his revolver was found III
safe with six empty cartridges lh ~
According 10 the statement es 'pe
Morgan woman. NadF2n was stuls
shy. the fire In her home when Lynch
entered and began Shooting at him
Mildron. across from his seat reached
upon mantei secured his revolver,
land fired Mt Lynch six times, leaVlhg
him upon the chair where he fell.
deck of cards wss found in the cnalr
beneath I.ynch's body.
1t liz said that he shooting grew
out OF a quarrel which comm enced
last night over a woman.
The shooting between Kirk ana
Hampton was the result Of quarre
lover woman, Kirk firing the FIRST
..4t,s TON effect
I'm tho latter's leg, wheralHlon he drew
"a revolver and fired bullet through
lone OF Kinks eyes into his brain
Kirk died at the petoranurs HoSpitA'
this morning and Hampton IS IA i
precarous condition
Allen On Trial.
At todays session of the Police
court the preliminary tr~si 81 tho
lease ~ the Commonwealth vs.. r. II.
Allen. former superintendent OF the
tNet .opolitan life Insurance Company
Iof New York for this district. resulted
in the accused being sent on 10 tue
Hastings Court for trial. Allen, whe
has resided in Petersburg for NUN
thar OF wears, was arrested last ff3day
gupon warrant charging nlni W'h
the larceny of s4s9, the amount "7 "a
death claim on the life OF AnaerNoH
.rolored. was the Beneficiary. u " AZ
legged by Foss Marable who was
former servant IN the Al.en home ana
ro relation to Davis that she did not
know Of heng beneficiary IN the poiicy
irarr,ed nv Anderson Davis until she
yeas rcoucsted by the home Office OF
, ithe Metropolitan 10 acknowledge the
: lprompt payment Of the death clam
; Several witnesses were examined ny
Az
iboth the Commonwealth ATTORNEY
i land Robert Gillian. ar, counsel .or
, 1.-THE defendant. following whieh Jns,sse
7 Clements certified the case TO the
iUustings Court,
Ramsey Is Sentenced.
A, tcfag.s session nf The Hastings
: rr4trt Judge Mullen oserruied mn~
! ton in the case Of Charles H. ita'n-
sey. convicted at this term anu sen
FENCED 10 four years IN the renae''-
thar, for highway robbery ana Ilfi'i'
diatelv passed sentence Ramsey wa*
represented h. Mcssrs. tsopeft '''''ia"''
s,F-a ta,l- L. u, Gillian
THE motion for new trial in the
case of John Hill. convicted OF Erano
larceny and given one year IN me
nenitentisry was overruled ny the
court
In the case of libby White. colored
| convicted of grand larceny and given
| i've wears in the penitcntiary, the
r verdict was set aside by the court az
> excessive, and upon 1hs dccoseu p'eao
ing guilty his punishment was nAsu
at two years IN the pehitentidis pun
.. Hill and White were represented W
Attorney Paul Pettit.
A motion for new Tiai IN .hs
case of Van Green, whlte' eohVicteu
t of cutting and woundtng patrolman
Thomas NJ Evans. of the local pe-
lice force and gwen thfee Years nv
the penitentiary was oVeffatAe W
J the court. Robert di'ilam' 'F" way
counsel for Green.
Judge Mullen VIII ahlourh we Jan