The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-24
-FOUR GIVEN HEAVY
SENTENCES YESTERDAY
White Ntolators of Mapp Law Draw
rs Heavy Sentences AS Blacks
Previously Tried.
NEGRO HrGHwAYMEN ESCAPE
Two Of Same Gentry Attempt to Hold
Up Young Woman. Who Finds
Safety iu flight-Carriage Horse
Killed.

! Petersburg, Va, Jan 23.-Some
parts of Virginia and Petersburg may
be as dry as Sahara. figuratively
speaking, but tho Hastings Court
| room here today when Judge Mullen
reconvened the January terms OF the
| court, represented one OF the best
/ stocked barrooms. minus the glasses,
the water and the licensed privilege.
to be found anywhere in this section.
The would be patrons and the bar
| tenders were there by the DOZENS, but
| the tremendou stock OF booze hauled
up from police headquarters In
! trunks. suitcases and handbags re-
manned intact while its owners to the
number of four, were tried, and each
( OF them was convicted and sentenced
| 10 serve terms in jail, with fines at
| tached.
IA on the day the first liquor cases
were heard. every trial resulted in
| conviction, and the four violators OF
the Mapp prohibition law heard the
verdIcts in their cases as follows:
/ Antonio Morea. arrested WITH sew
enty-five pints OF whiskey IN his pos
/ session. purchased in Washington, D.
C.. was defended by Attorney Toomer
/ Garrow, OF Hopewell: was found
guilty. given thirty days In Jail, with
a fine of 500. Mr.. Garrow moved
the court to set the verdict aside and
grant Morea a new trial Argument
will be heard on the motion on the
27th instant. Morea was allowed bail
in the sum of 800,
Mike Kanas charged with having
in his possession six quarts and sixty
one half-pints of liquor, was found
guilty and given sixty days in jail
with a fine of 500.
W. G White and w II. Lemons.
both white charged Jointly with hav-
ing in their posse ssion In bottles CON
cealed IN trunks and suitcases twenty
nine gallons of whiskey, were tried
separately and by different 3uries
They were defended by Attorney
Charles Pollard. Both were found
guilty. White was given four months
in jail, with a fne OF 500, and Lem
ons' punishment was fixed at three
months in jail, with a fine OF $3.50.
All OF the cases tried today were
against white persons, and a large
crowd gathered to hear the trial OF
the cases. Contrary TO the expressed
opinion OF numerous wise ones"
about the city. the cases were prose-
cuted vigorously by Comm onwealth 8
Attorney thinner and conviction was
secured IN each case, with heavier
fines than were imposed in the cases
OF the negroes tried some days ago.
HiChwaymen Have Escaped.
No trace has yet been found Of the
two negro hiThwaymen who held up
and robbed Waterman Hezekiah An
pdrews at the Appomattox box shook
plant Sunday night. and later muir
dered Mr.. Nathaniel n Davis with
the revolver which was taken from
Mr.. Andrews.
An inquest was held over the body
OF Mr.. Davis last night, the Jury re-
turning a verdict TO the effect that
Mr.. Davis came to his death from
pistol-shot wound inflicted by come
person unknown to the fury
Funeral OF Nathaniel u. Davis
Funeral services were conducted at
the grave in Blandford Cemetery at
$3.50 O'Clock this afternoon, by Rev.
E. V. Carson. of the Memorial Meth
odist Church. assisted by Rev A. r.
Love, OF the West End Baptist Church,
for Nathaniel d. Davis. who was muir
dered by two unknown highwaymen
while on duty at the Seaboard Air
Line pumphouse at Abbotts pond
just west OF the corporate limits of
the city.
large crowd attended the ser
vice and numerous floral tributes were
in evidence. The following gentle
men were pallbearers:
Messrs. Thomas Mayes. George
Brockwell. Villa Wilson, James WI.
son. Leroy Marks and clifford Hud-
gins,
Funeral OF James A. Mcmahon.
Funeral services for patroiman
James A. Mcmahon were conducted
from the Good Shepherd Episcopal
Church at S;so o'clock this afternoon.
In the presence OF large assemblage
of friends and relatives, including
members OF the Police Department,
who attended in a body The ser
! vices were conducted by Rev. r. c.
Rbble. rector of Good Shepherd. as
sisted by Rev Fred w. Moore. of the
Second Baptist Church. Many rich
floral tributes attested the esteem in
which the popular officer was held
In the community. The pallbearers
were from the Woodmen Of the World
and the Police Department. as fol-
lows:
From the Police Department: Ac-
tive-Messrs. w. L. Hudgins, Charles
l. Worrell Ernest l., Heath, William
A. Gallon. Richard b. Owen. Clyde
J. Curtis. waverly r. Belchsr. Grover
I. Pully.
Messrs B. B. Jones, J. w. sherer.
w. A. HArville. w. f. Halloway. IN
terment was made In Blandford
| Attempt to Hold Up Young Lady.
Two negro tramps or highwaymen
attempted yesterday afternoon to hold
up the young daughter Of Mr.. J. f.
Kirkland. whose home was recently
destroyed at Keniiworth and who has
since resided at Lassitsrs farm.
short distance west of the city. The
attempted hold-up occurred near
where the Seaboard Air Line Railway
crosses the Ferndaie Park line of the
Virginia Railway and Power Company
and only short distance from the
scene az the murder of Engineer Da-
vis ss5ntay night. When the negroes
eai8st ~ H.as Kirkland to halt she
raf sessss and reported the attempted
fs1sE~s. 70 her father who went In
sssse9s ~ tire men. armed to the teeth.
s9s. ~ ssse@ Of them could be found
HorSe Killed.
a sss carriage horse belonging TO
James VI. Wikerson. the well-known
essors1 undertaken. was killed on
Ws.. Washington Street this after
noon, when a pair Of horses attached
u n carriage took fright at an At
iantic Coast Line shifting engine and
shied into a westbound car In charge
Of Motorman Rufus Barrett. The ac-
cident Is regarded as unavoidable and
no possible blame can be attached to
M IN