The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-30
Petersburg

! Especial to The Richmond Virginian.)
| Petersburg, Va, Sept 29.--The vet-
F, diet of the coroner's jury which met
/ last night in the parlors of j. T.
| Morriss and Son. undertakers. to in
| quire into the cause of the wreck of
the Seaboard Air Line passenger
| train Saturday was that Engineer Z.
| r. Smith, Fireman Harry Ferguson
and jim Hobbs the negro tramp
came 10 their death as a result of an
| accident caused by an open switch
which had In the opinion of the jury
been maliciously tempered with by
some person or persons unknown to
the jury.
Hobbs the colored tramp was a
! fugitive from justice being wanted by
! the Brunswick county authorities for
shooting and wounding ANOTHER negro
some time ago. All three bodies were
| horribly mangied. Smith s body was
sent to Ashville, n C., Ferguson was
| forwarded to 3oykins, while that Of
! The negro was sent to Mckinney. T.
/ Rloodhounds in charge of Detec-
| tive Wilkerson and Officer McGec
, were put on the trail of the train
! wreckers as soon as the cause OF the
wreck was determined. They follow =
| ed the trail through the woods to the
| crossing of the Seaboard with the
| electric line. Here the tran was lost.
A total of 1903 members was Sc
cured in the late campaign TO in
close the membership in the local \.
| M. C. A. OF the present membership
of the association 1854 are men and
| 249 are boys. Secretary pennepacker
| is busy getting ready to raise $50, 900
| for the "Y".
j, Oscar Dyson for several years a
member OF the police force died last
night in his home on West street. fol-
lowing an illness of ten days. He
was sixty-five years old and ia sur :
vived by his widow, two sons and
t two daughters all of this city. His
obsequies were held from his home
this afternoon at four o'clQAk X, Rev
Herbert Osburn, OF St Johns. officiat-
ing.
A conference OF Episcopal church
| leaders will be held in St. Paul S
| tomorrow and Wednesday in the in
| terests of the nationwide campaign
Tomorrow night Bishop kinsolving, OF
| Brazil and Bishop Tucker of Japan.
will speak and other speakers dur
| ing the conference will be Rev. Luke
| White. of Montclair. N. j., and Rev
| H. Hadley. Of Syracuse, N. Y. .
| This Morning I'm Police Court
| Fred Holmes, colored, was fined
| s25 and costs and given twelve months
| in Jail for operating a gambling Joint
on South avenue. Unable TO furnish
| the $500 bond required, he is still in
! Jail Eighteen negroes pulled" in
| a raid in Holmes place Saturday
night were each fined $25 and costs i
/ w. z. Pickett was given six
months in iail by Justice Clements
| this morning for fatally shooting
| Oracle Lee IA waitress III the Chop
| Suey restaurant Saturday night. 1t is
| alleged that Pickett beat the girl
once before in Hopewell
Three prominent druggists wero
! fined SIS each by magistrate Clements
! today for selling kodak films on Sun
! day.
Charles Smearda while trying to
| Cross the A &. l.. tracks in an auto
| mobile at Centralia yesterday was
struck by local passenger train and
! his escape from death seems maracul-
| Gus. His injuries were slight. but his
| car was hurled some distance from
the track and badly damaged
| Lieutenant Charles Jackson reach
ed here last night from overseas. He
| is son of Mr.. Montgomery Jackson
and "A graduate of West Point He
has just returned from the battle
I fields of Europe where he acted as
interpreter for prison commission,
| He has been assigned to Camp Ben
ming. Ca
The files OF The. Times. a paper
PUBLISHED in Petersburg many years
ago contain many quotations of prices
on foodstuTs