Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-24
AFF|DAv|Ts ARE MADE
FPUBL|C BY Mayer A|NSL|E.
Tell OF Visits to Price Farm and Of
Warning TO Him to Get
1 Rid of Liquor.
SWORN TO BEFORE NOTARY
Mayor Gives Out Entire Evidence on
Which He Eases Removal Of Chief
OF Police Sowe!i and appointment
of Sherry nS Head OF Force.

ssS Oh fOllCc SOWe!l anu appointment
of Sherry aS Head OF Force.
With his letter removing Chief
sowen from Office and announcing the
appointment OF Captain Sherry as
;hief. Mayor Ainslie made public the
following ai'idavits. each one OF which
5slas been sworn TO before Miss V. T..
Atkinson. notary public:
Statement of Frank y. Waller.
During the last sIeet storm, we had.
Iaboui four months ago. l walked into
{Ghe lobby OF the Lyric Theater and
|knet Major Sowell about $50 l.. NJ. |
IHad a couple OF gentlemen friends from
{get tickets 10 go into the jhcater Ma
3or Sowel called me aside and asked
me il knew Jacobs on Fifth street.
told him that knew OF HIM, didn't
know very much about him. He said
chat message came 10 him that
9acohs was going 10 prove charges
and Major Sowcll said. Il want YOU to
go to see him and don't fail 10 go to-
.know Jacobs wcll enough TO so there
and talk to him myself, | got into COM
nunication with 6. 2. Smith and ex,,
alained the above to him and asked
house with me we wen, 10 Jacobs $
house and cot there about $50 o'clock
mouse Mir. Jacobs called MIR. Smith
aside and told him that before he said
anything he wanted TO let him know
that policemen Allen and Frayser had
been sent there, by whom he didn't
know. nlr. Smith said that we would
not say anything that we wouldn't
mind anybody hearing. Then / told
him that Major Sowel had sent me
there to see him.
I asked him had he preferred any
charges or was he going TO prefer
whisky. He said that 1t was absolute
Nv untrue, and asked him what was
his idea in making statement, Of
never made any such statement. He
told me that he knew that | was ac
Suatnted with MIR. "A; l. PRICE on the
owed him some money for whisky and
|he wanted me to see if l could get
Priee to pay him hin: ME- Smith M; a as
hold him $3.50, that there were liz
quarts that had been stolen from
(Jacobs. We told him that we would
30 down to sec Ny. Price and ask him
why he didn't pay Tor this whisky If
he owed il TO him. We went down to
bee Mr.. Price and asked him how much
he owned MIR. Jacobs, and he said that
he only owed him SIS. that Jacobs had
been there and gotten about seventy
fcur quarts OF IT, leaving ihirty-nine
huarts.
Jim Smith had previously told Mr..
bwn or OF anybody e!se's that he had
That Comm iss!oaer Peters's men would
pc down there to search his place Mr.
Prise then rotiaed Jacobs TO come and
Nanted 70 Keep down any notoriety OF
his friends in nc Police Department
and taat 4e would set rid OF So and
get rid Q. Jacobs. although he owed
J@cposs house and he would not ac-
cepl tae SO. Then Gordon smith and
trA nSzlt son wasteEer. but mat we
know that N-. Price has been good
friend 70 =. o. us Smith told Jacobs
that u ne charged Price with the theft
AL tac police from the chief down
Summoned Is witnesses, that they had
sac ! would borrow SO TO make UP
the $50 borrowed $50 from the
E! e Loan CO, sixth and Main
MIR sweet TOOK this amount with the
other $40 he had gotten from Mr.. Price
and gave II 70 Jacobs and got a re-
s sf5o, made out to Mr.. II. L. Price for
| carried Major sowell down to Mr.
Prices place twice. The frs, time he
got tomato plants and eggs. and on
peacock. subsequently. Price came
- In the police car with me and
lor CAPTAIN sowelL and 100 tomato
plants. While he was there Major
soweli told Price that as lie was good
would give him little blue United
States steel pistol About three weeks
ago Major Sowell waited for me until
came on duty At Poles. iicad9uartcrs
ana SrouEht me out 10 ,Elsrenth and
Broad Streets and said 10 me: these
whisky cases are starting up again
and II you all are summoned 20 court
as witnesses for Gods sake don't saw
that ! have ever been down 10 Price's''
Nobody has ever paid me back the SIS
borrowed 20 pay Jacobs
Given under my hand this i4th day
of May, 1918.
(Sisned) f. SMALLER.