The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-31
ALLEGED BANDITS ARE
HELD FOR GRAND JURY

Petersburg, Aug. 3o.--After having
been given a hearing before Magis-
trate Simon in Ettrick, Jim Gould,
Mon Pride. Waverly Pride. V. W. Far
ney and Jim White, colored, are today
lodged in the Chesterfield county jail
awaiting trial at the next term or
court. All five of the men were held
for the grand jury of that county.
Only one of the three army officers
of Camp Lee who were held up by the
five men on the Petersburg turnpike
about seven miles from this city on
last Monday morning, testified at the
hearing of the men.
It was brought out at the hearin e
that the car in which the highwaymen
made their escape after the robbery
belonged to w. A. Bragg, of this city.
The car. a Buick roadster. was stolen
from in front of his home in this city
several weeks ago and nothing was
heard of it until the hearing. The car
has not vet been located.
According to the evidence offered by
the men themselves at the hearing. the
robbery was prearranged affair. with
Monk Pride as the leader. The other
men claim that Pride got all the money
taken from the officers and Pride, not
denything this. appears to take the
matter as a big Joke, notwithstanding
the fact that he, along with the others,
face a long term prison sentence.
Gould, the owner of the car in which
the officers were coming from Rich
nond, together with Pride, arranged
with Faruey, the chauffeur, that he
should slow UP as he neared the bridge
and sound his horn three times. This
plan was followed.
Jim White, the negro boy, who went
among the officers. lived on the Pride
! farm and was forced by the white men
to go with them and collect the money
| Gould who is a young married man
/ and from a wefl-known family OF
4 Chesterfield county, covered the ori.
GERS with the shotgun while Pride used
the pistol The negro boy was the
first one arrested and he ts the one
who gave the officers the clue or
which the other men were arrested II
is thought that he will not be prose
cuted for his part in the robbery, he
being made to do what he did.
The guns with which the Officers
were held up were borrowed from q
nearby farm house and Waverll
Pride, the seventeen-year-old nephew
of the leader of the gang, acted al
chauffeur of the highwaymen's automo
bile.
Services In City Jail.
Il Next Sunday afternoon religious
services will be held In the city jail b,
Arthur y. Dunseth. of the nationa
service commission, under the super
vision of the war camp communit,
service.
The first of these services was hell
in the Jail last Sunday afternoon. con
Y Quoted by Mr.. Dunseith. assisted b
! Mrs. r. J. Wright, of this city. VIII
sang and also made short talk t
the inmates. Due to the lack OF
chapel the services will be held II
the corridor of the second floor of tn
jail.
Discharged After Treatment.
! Eight white women and one whit
man, who have been confined in tn
, local Jail undergoing treatment as dis
, ease suspects, were in police court thi
morning and were discharged by Jus
tee Clements, they having been undo
treatment the required time.
More Cots For Army Club.
Seventy five cots for the use of sol
diers have been obtained by the wa
camp community service and will b
Installed on the third floor of the Arm,
club in this city, This floor will b
, ref tied as a dorrnitory where the sol
diers on leave from Camp Lee ma
spend the night free of charge,
Band to Play mt Community Sing.
The music for the community sin
: to be held in Central Park Sunda
a fternoon under the auspices OF tn
ar camp SSfSAIct ~iA' ~
furnished by the band from the in
{ fantry replacement camp, Camp Lee
. Several prominent speakers are unde
. consideration, but as yet they hav
7 not been announced.
The government printing ONCE
Washington has Just published 1872
page booklet on the button industr
in the United States. And yet tn
!. newspapers are told daily that the
must save paper.--Charieston New