Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-30
VICTIMS BROTHER
is ARRESTED FOR
H!DE0US MURDER
DR.. A. w. Chamberlain Ac-
cused of Staying Judge
A. P. Chamberlain.
FIENDISH CRIME IN
GOOCHLAND COUNTY
Aged Jurist's Body Atrociously
Mutilated and Buried on
Farm in Pieces.
COMMUNITY DEEPLY STIRRED
Alleged Slayer, Brought to Richmond
for Safckeeping, Declares
His Innocence.
FIENDISH CRIME IN
G0OCHLAND COUNTY
COMMUNITY DEEPLY STIRRED
Alleged Slayer, Brought to Richmond
for Safckeeping, Declares
His Innocence.

Charged with a most horribly re-
voting murder, in which his brother.
Judge A. =. Chamberlain was the vic
tim. DR.. a. w. Chamberlain IS in the
Henrico County Jail. to which h w;.o
removed from Goochland lat. Sunday
night following threats OF lynchinG
by infuriated neighbors. a coroEer's
Jury. sitting al the scene OF the mur-
der. ten miles above Goochland Court
house. shortly after midnight Sunday.
rendered a verdict that the dead r,an
came to his death at the randi IF
DR.. Chamberlain. the manner OF kill
ing not being determined.
The body was found Sunday after
noon. following a three-day search.
1t had been atrociously mutilatcd. The
torso was found deeply buried behind
a building used n wine cellar on
the Doctors premises. The head and
forcarms. the legs and other parts
of the body were buried under feEce-
posts In tho back yard. The stomach
IL missing.
SAID THAT BROTHER HAD
GONE TO CHEYENNE, wYO.
Judge Chamberlain was missed Tues
suspicious. and demanded the arrest
of the doctor They also begar a
search for the Judge. Thursday az
tcrnoon DIR. Chamberlain was arrest
ed and placed in the Goochland Jail
He manifested no uneasiness at that
time. explaining that his brother had
gone TO Cheyenne. wyo., TO see his
girl" After the body was found. feel
nry hirr, int
that II was thought best TO bring the
doctor, to Richmond.
The Chan,berla.ns came to Gooch-
land County about three years ago
from Iowa. They bought a large farm
and lived peacefully together until last
May. when, for some unknown rea-
son. they disagreed and decided to
divide the property. Judge Chamber
lain moved TO a little house two miles
away and lived alone. Final settle
ment for the property was not made.
Arbitrators were called In. and de-
cided that the doctor should pay the
Judge sl.So0. The judge finally vas
compelled TO resort to law TO collect
$1,000 OF this amount It is said.
PHYSICIAN DECLARES HIS
BROrIIER WAS wAYLAID
tors own story, Judge Chamberlain
came 10 his home to collect and was
paid. the doctor being given receipt
which he now holds. 1t Is after pay
ing this sum that the doctor is ac-
cused Of killing and robbing his broth
fr.
DR.. Chamberlain maintains that ne
is innocent Flo says that when he
paid his brother the money the shades
to h:s{atsIseYspe were up and shat 1t would
have GssSf easy for providers to sec the
money. He states that he believes his
brother was waylaid and killed by
robbers after he left his house.
Judge Chamberlain was about sixty
years old. and bachelor. He had
never practiccd law or held office in
Virginia. but was. for many years, a
prominent lawyer in Des Moines. 1t
is said that he was a Superior Court
judge in Iowa for thirty-nine years
Both he and his accused brother were
socially prominent in GoochIand Dr.
Chamberlain is married. His wife left
Goochland Monday night. 1t Is said,
for the old home in the Wet
The inquest over Judge Chamber
lain's body was held in DIR. Ch1mber-
lafn's home by Dr. l.. Il. Leake Fl. 9.
Hicks. D. A. Salmons. Gus Hicks, V.
Hicks. g. NJ. Salmons. c. II. Salmon5,
Spller Woodward, Herbert Hodges, Jr,
and Jim Hicks. all neiGhbors Of the
dead man, were the jurors Many wit
nesses were examined. most being n..
gro, servants. Many Of them stated that
Judge Chamberlain was in the house
Monday night. Some testified that the
doctor and the judge had quarreled fire.
quently.
ATTEMPT AT LYSCIIING
FEARED IN GOOCHLAND
II. NJ. Vaughan. of Richmond. re
turned last night from visit to
Goochland, his old home. He stated
that the people of Goochland were still
dee v stirred over the killing of Judge
Chi : erlain, and that 1t was feared
tha Eih attempt would be made to
lynch DR.. Chamberlain when he was
returned there for trial. An attempt
was being made, he said, to have a spo
cial term of court called for immediate
trial Of the accused man in order that
the fears of the people that Justice
would miscarry through delay might be
falleviated.
Mr.. Vaughan attributed to A. ].
Houchins. Goochland magistrate, all
credit for the finding of the body ana
the arrest of DR.. Chamberlain on sus-
picion. Squire Houchins. he said, was
suspicious of foul play from tho frs.
and his suspicious were directed to-
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