Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-05-26
TURNER NOW IN
RICHMOND JAIL
Moore's Slayer Moved Frcm
Winchester by Federal
Officers
FOURTH JAIL FOR HIM
Alexandria Government Officers Con-
yey Prisoner to Henri:u Teddy
Trip by Motor and Train

William II. Turner, colored, confca
sed SLAYER Of Thomas Morgan Moore
and also assai:ant of Miss Pear
Clark of Washington, who is secre.
tury to Representative Fred Britten OF
Illinois, is now a prisoner n the Hen,
rico County Jail, Richmond. Turner ar
rived at that Jail this afternoon where
he will be kept until he is placed or
trial before Judge Edmund WaddiE
Of the United States Court for tho
Eastern district of Virginia.
The prisoner is now in custody OF
the United States authorities and was
brought to the Henrico County jail by
Fred G. Duvall, L. S. District
attorney of Alexandria; William 5
Schoeni, deputy U. S. Marshal, this
.;tv and A. S. Jackson, Norfolk, as
s;stant u. S. attorney for the East
ern district cf Virginia.
The trip with their prisoner was
made from Winchester, Va. at 6.3u
O'Clock this morning. Alexandrians
and their assistant motored from Win
chester 20 Staunton, Va, and at Staun-
ton boarded train for Richmond
This was done owing to the great DIS
tancc from Winchester to, Richmond
which is more than 800 miles.
AS already stated in the Gazette the
negro was removed Yesterday morn
:ng frcm the jail at Leesburg- Va, 10
a point not made public, but which late
in the afternoon was known 20 he Win
chester. The officials declined to give
out the destination Of the prisoner
owing to the intense feeling against
him.
He reached Winchester yesterday
evening and was quietly placed II the
iail at that place under the direction
of Sheriff Luther Pannett Of Fred
erick county, who me; the l.9udoun
County officials who conveyed HIM
from Lecsburg.
The Alexandra officials did not ar
rive in Winchester Until 10 o'c!ccE
last night and decided to remain ove'
fer their quarry until this morning
and making the start at 6.30 oclock
tbs morning they arrived in klch-
mond, after boarding the train al
Staunton, late this Afternoon.
The papers for Turner's transfer
were drawn up by Assistant U. )
District Attorney Duyall and the Gus
tomary warrant for the custody OF tht
prisoner turned over to the sheriff
Turner's case now is entirely out ol
hands of the state authorities and II
is expected that he will be given /;
speedy trial before Judge Waddi!l.
The date for his case will not. OF
course. be fixed upon until he is N
dicted by a federal grand jury. Ii Is
expected that an indictment, however
soon VIII be returned.
The trial it is regarded as more thar
likely will be held IN Richmond owing
70 the intense feeling against the nc
cused.
Under ordinary conditions this tria
would be held in the federal ecu"
here.
Turner had compliance last night o
severe pains from his wound n tn;
thigh where he was shot by Morgan
Moore. Apart from this he had moth
irg further to say and he appeared t
be suffering from the wound accord
ing TO information received tGda,
from Winchester.
THIS is the fourth jail Turner ha
been in since his arrest shortly hcfor
3 o'clock Sunday morning in AlcNan
dr:a county. The negro first wa
placed in the Jail at Fort Mye
Heights. Next ne was placed in III
jail at Leesburg. forty miles ava.
and the third jail he was placed i
was Winchester and now he is in III
Henr!co County jail in Richmcnd.
The federal authorities have alb
solutely no apprehension regarding hi
safety in the Henr;co county jail.
That Turner was net victim o
mob violence is due entirely to TIL
sagacity of Judge Samuel G.. Bren
I of the circuit court for AleXandri
county. Judge Brent realizing the in
tense feeling against the negro en-
tered the order directing his remova
to Lsssburg, Va, and the necsssar.