Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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Fredericksburg. Officers eiec'eoI
were: State councillor, w. I. wade
Clifton Forge; vice councillor, A. L.
Sampson. Richmond; treasurer, A. II
Bradlev. Richmond; conductor, W.. D..
Lassiter, Berkeley; warden, ). +.
King. New River Depot; inside senti-
mel, T. w. Brooks, Newport News
o1tside sentinel, j.. w. Martin,
e~wansonyille. c. j. Ashworth, Bros
Vile; J. /. Mears, Richmond and T.,
&. Moore, of Galax, are trustees.
The council voted to subscribe for a
certain number of Liberty bonds and
10 prompt subordinate councils to 40
50.
Mrs. Mile Campbell has been
held for tie grand jury in Amherst
County and is now in the county lall
charged with the murder Of her nus
band, Lewis Campbell, whom she is
olleped TO have shot and fatally
wounded on Monday near Lowcsville.
lie died Tuesday. 1t is said they
had been living apart and Campbell
returned home for his personal effects
when. it is allegde, Mrs. Campbell
fred two shots with a revolver, one
taking effect just above the heart and
the other in the back. 1t is said that
a twenty three year old daughter and
2~evcral younger children were wit
nesses to the shooting.
Percy l.. Burnett, 4 young brake
man on the Danville and Western
Railroad, was arrested in an autom0-
bile at Danville last might and taken
in charge by officers. An hour later
he led them to his rooms and there
confessed to stealing $4,000 from
the safe of the Southern Express
Company while it was being brought
to Damvillc from L~cakSv!lle, and then,
opening a trunk handed the officers
practically the complete mount
wrappeasup in newspapers. Obdurate
Mt first. Burnett finally quailed be-
fore a third degree and said that he
lad taken the money. He stated
that between Bu?ord and Oakhill he
got Williams to leave the express
ar. Selling the opportunity he
went in. opened the safe and took the
money. The young man was placed
in Jail. All of the money with the
exception Of the $500 which he had
paid for the car was found.
Judge T. N. Haas, in Circuit Court,
at IIarrisonburg, has overruled Il
motion for a new trial in the case Of
Robert Monger. who was found
guilty Saturday of murder in the
second degree and given eight years
in the ncnitentiary for the killing of
j. Milton Hensley on August 10.
Attorneys for Monger have noted an
appeal. The killing of Hcnsley re
suited from a dispute over Il line
fence.
An American, James Dewey Firing.
cr. of Roanoke, is the latest victim of
German frightfulness. Hewas killed
by shrapnel from a U-boat's gun
while attempting to escape in a life
boat from the sinking ship on which
he had been a hostler. The steamer,
the name Of which is not made pub
lie. was of British registry. She
was attacked by two submarines,
being Shelled without warning. There
were 4 number of Americans in the
crew. All the other Americans on
board the ship was rescued and Dono-
hue is expected to recover. Fringer
was buried at sea. Another State
Department dispatch reports that
John Hildred. colored, of Newport
News, is missing. following the tor
pedoing of Il British vessel.
OAii!iltiy ,Uuu ulstIlS vi llU-
aor are being received in Richmond
weekly, according to officials of the
express companies operating into
this city. despite the operation of the
Federal statute prohibiting the I'M
portation Of liquor into dry" terri
tory. All whisky now being shipped
into Richmond, and Virginia, i for
"ncdic!nal' purposes. but nothing is
required of the purchasers but their
statement rs to the use for which it
is ordered. Previous to the opera
tion of the Reed "hone-dry", law,
shipments of whisky into Richmond
totaled about $500 quarts weekly.
Under the State prohibition statute
every male adult could receive a
quart Of liquor every thirty days. The
Federal law. however, prohibited the
shipment of liquor except for medi-