The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-31
Petersburg
WORKER
is SHOT BY NEGRO
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

wooten, an employee Of the DUPONT
Powder company at Hopewell, was
shot and dangerously wounded yes
terday morning by Clyde Braant, col
ored.
The shooting occurred almost d.
rectly in front of the employment Of
fee in the presence of large num-
Der of employees of the company and
is said to have been the result OF
trouble between the two men several
months ago in South Carolina.
Mr. Wooten and Bryant both re-
Gently came to Hopewell from South
Carolina According to report, Bry-
ant was sfot at by Mr.. Weeten Some
weeks ago but was not injured. Yes
terday as they started to enter the
plant words were exchanged between
them when Bryant pulled revolver
and fred Two bullets took effect In
Mr.. wooten's left thigh and an OPP
Grafton was performed at the DUPONT
hospital today to remove them. Bry-
ant was arrested Immediately and
lodged In the Dupont jail to await
trial.
Attacked BY Collector.
f. s. Boykin. a well-known Halifax
street merchant, was the victim short
ly before noon today OF an alleged
unwarranted assault at the hands OF
a man named Bailey. collector for
local grocer. When struck by Bailey,
Mr.. Boykin fell to the sidewalk in
front OF his store, receiving injuries
necessitating treatment at the Peters
burg hospital Bailey, according to
report. went TO Boxk.n's place to col
lect bill and after receiving check
for the amount due his employer
proceeded to abuse Mr.. Boykin in the
presence of the iatter's wife. Mr..
Boykin is a one-arm man, small oil
statute and on account OF impaired
eyesight wears glasses. While Bailey
vas abusing him MIR. Boykin Is said
TO have laid his hand upon his Shout
der telling Bailey at the same time
that he assurediy did not mean to use
the language which he was using,
whereupon Baiiey struck him a blow
in the face, knocking him down upon
the sidewalk.
HopewelI Gases in Court.
Trial OF the sixty-four men and
women arrested in the raid on alleged
Hopewefl resorts several nights ago
was resumed before United states
Commissioner bartlett Roper mere
this morning Trial of several OF the
cases resulted IN three men and one
woman being held for the federal
grand Jury while other cases were set
Tor tTtat at future uAiSs.
Horpewefi Report Submitted
Or w f. Drewry, superintendent
OF the Central state hospital. for col
ored insane. yesterday submitted &c
Governor stuart the forty-seventh an
nual report Of the institution, show
Ing the daily average OF persons con'
fined in the hospital for the year to
he i.T7s or fifty in excess OF this pre-
ceding year
/ At the beginning of the year there
were hTs3 tynates-so7 men and
$40 women. During the year bss
were admitted men and az
women. There were removed b,
death and discharge during the year
5ss. leaving a total OF 1906 inmates
> a Significant paragraph of the re-
port follows:
During FIVE years, from 1919 te
{ia17, 100 OF the men or per cent
were cases OF alcoholic or tntoxicatior
insanity that 10, cases OF acute men
tai disturbance in which alcohol WA
the chief cause We are not includ'
ing the cases OF dementia or Other
forms OF mental disease. result'nt
from organic. brain and nervous di'
seases N which alcohol has earlier In
the history been causattve factor
II appears that statewide prohibition
which became effective November !
! 1913, has already been the means OF
I reducing the number OF patients sen
! TO this institution"
{ Barhnnl--SykrA-
Miss Maria Elizabeth sykes. pop
uler and attractive young worn an. ant
MIR. Theophilus Alexander Barham, 4
prominent young local business man
we're united In marriage at O'Clock
this morning at the home OF th'
brides sister, Mrs. J. c. Strickland
ilss North Jefferson street. The wed
ding was quiet affair. Rev. Lewi
NJ. Roper, n. D., OF the First Bap
fist church, performed the ceremon,
and Immediately afterward Mr.. ana
Mrs. Barham left for an extended
bridal tour by automobile. They viii
reside at 1913 North jefferson.
/ Robert Leighton Toicr, Jr.
| Robert Leighton Toler. Jr.. tnfan
son of Robert l.. and Dora Bryan
Toier, died very suddenly this morn
ing at the home of his parents. III
High street. Funeral services Will b.
conducted from the residence at
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon. by Rev
A. II. Love pastor OF the West Ent
Baptist church.
William Albert Wilmore.
I William Albert wIlmore. infant sol
and only child of William A. ans
I Amelie Coleman Wiimore. died at
o'clock last evening at the home o
his parents, 81 East Washington
street. Funeral services We're con
Quoted at the grave in Blandfor'
cemetery at O'Clock this afternoon
by the Rev. J. Il. VIM. ID. D.. of tn
Washington street NJ. r. church.
Priest Hears of Mothers Death.
Rev Father Martin J. Haier OF thi
city was informed this morning by CA
blegram of the death of his mother
Mrs. Martin Haier. at her home II
County Clare. Ireland. Mrs. Hale
was sixty-seven years of age and be
sides her husband Is survived by SIT
sons and six daughters.
] SON DENOIlNCES