Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-27
EUGENE T. M|CHELS
IS CHARGED With
BEING ACCESSORY
Police Chief and Captain
Wright Interview Hines
in City Jail.
SHERRY FINDS CURTIS
GUN IN WORKING ORDER
Young Wife Of Accused Visits
Husband in Cell in
Prison. IS
WILL. NOT TESTIFY AGtuySr my,
WILL NOT TESTIFY AGAINST HIM
Eycwtnessc" Arc Sought; Trace own
crshfp of Cap nnd Author of
Threat Letter.

with the arrest yesterday after
noon Of Eugene Il. MicbeIx. 81 x.
"id' 500 Everett Street, the police
WROTE the second chapter In their
cnort to aS responsibility for the
murder of Policeman Washinrto,
IRVING curtis, who wns shot down or
hts beat Mt Sixth and stockton Streets
carly Monday morning.
Mtchels IN held without bnti M IN.
FIRST station. charged with being nm
ncecssory after the fact. The arrest
was made about , o'clock by Detec-
tive Captain Wright, Detective Ser
Scants Wiley md Smith nnd Police
men Anthony and Butler. The detep-
tion of MichcIs In considered six-
nihcnnt. In that the notion wns tnken
Immediately after Chief sherry anil
Captain Wright retursed from the
City Jail, where they nre suid to hnye
interviewed Walter Hines. h,,s NJ,
the charge Of numbering Curtis.
Tho natire OF tho warrant under
which Michels was arrested indicates
that the police do not consider Thar
nc haa an active part in the murder.
but rather that he Is held as ore
who may be OF material assistance
III clearing the murder mystery. He
is said by the police to have bcen
the driver OF Hines high-powered
ear AT the ,tinrr OF their arrest som.
Time ago ON u bootlegging charge.
Police lnterroEnte Hines.
Though several trips were maas
by Major c. ~ Sherry, Chief of po-
lice, and Detective Captain A. s
Wright to the City jail, where thev
are reported to have been in CON.
! versation with Walter Hines. and ssv-
or"' persons are known to have been
questioned during the day at Police
iicadpuarters. little new facts re-
saruihg the murder OF Policeman
W. l. Curtis Monday morning in a
vacant lot near Sixth and Stockton
streets were unearthed
Little doubt that the murdered man
"as fatally shot while engaged in
desperate struggle with his assail-
iore he could draw his own weanon
In self-defense. existed in police cir
cics following the personal examina-
tion or Policeman Curtis revolver
ny Major sherry, who stated that the
weapon was in perfect working or
der. This declaration was an out-
standing feature of the days inves-
/. tigation by the headquarters per-
sonnel In their efforts to unraycl the
mystery that has surrounded tho
actual shooting.
In Standardization OF Theory,
TO subtantiate their theory, the
OFFICERS point out that the revolver
was found by those first to reach thc
scene of murder but few feet from
the officers body. which. they saw
indicates that 1t fell from his holster
while he was graphing with his
assailant.
Mrs, Hines visited her husband In
the city Jail during the afternoon,
put refused. in an interview, to di-
vulge The nature of their conversa-
tion or to say whether it concerned
plans for the trial She substan-
tiated the statement made by Can
tain Wright that she had been held
at the Second Station on her own
volition. She stated that she "djd
not believe her husband guilty OF
the crime, and certainly would not
testify against him. and did not be-
lievc that there was any law that
could compel her to-"
Questioned regarding the state
ment purportcd TO have been made
by her, and which is said TO have
further !ncriminated her husband, she
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