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NEGRO KOE) SAFE RICHMOND JAILAttempted Assailant of Mrs. Taylor Arrested in Louisa.SPIRITED AWAY FROM THEREWas Driven Across Country to Coium bia, and Brought Here on dames River Division of C. .O.—Fear of Lynching Was Groundless.With his wrists tightly manacled by a pair of iron bracelets, his face besmeared with clotted blood and clad in a suit of threadbare clothes, which resembled a sieve, as a result of hundreds of bird shot, Jerry Kimbrough, the negro who is accused of having attempted criminal assault upon Mrs. Butler Taylor at Dos-well last Monday, stepped off the Chesapeake and Ohio train at the Main-Street Station last night a few minutes before 7 o clock. lie was accompanied by Sheriff J. F. Bickers and Deputy Clerk J. E. Porter, o£ Louisa county. From the depot he was hurriedly taken to the city jail on Nineteenth Street, where he will lc-main until next Wednesday, when he will be taken to Hanover county for trial.The negro was captured early yesterday morning by a trio of sturdy farmers only a short distance from Louisa Courthouse, turned over to the sheriff and brought to Richmond in a roundabout way for safe-keeping, it being feared that the citizens might make an attempt to 1\ nch him if he remained in Louisa Jail, which is said to be insecure.Before Kimbrough surrendered himself the contents of three heavily loaded shotgun barrels had been lired into his head and back, but despite this he is not seriously injured and showed little signs of pain when he reached Richmond last n;ght.DENIED IIIS GUILT.Shortly after being jailed Kimbrough made a statement to a Times reporter, in which he denied most strenuously that he was guilty of any crime or attempt at .sit?h, although he admits that he is the man for whom the citizens of both Louisa and Hanover counties have been scouring tlie woods lor the past week. 11c tells a decidedly different story from the statement made by Mrs. Taylor, and there can be no doubt but that he is the guilty party. His statement is not at all well connected, although it shows that Kimbrough has given the matter the deepest thought possible for one of bis limited intellect in attempting to explain his presence about the Taylor home on the morning of the attempted assault.The negro says that ho learned that Mr. Taylor was in need of help and went to his home to get the jon. but found •the captain away. He left the place, returning the following Monday about 10 o’clock, and again the captain was not at home.The lady told me that her husband was across the field about a mile away from the house, and I started over there to see him. Kimbrough continued I walked about a quarter of a mile and decided that I didn't want the Job, so 1 returned to the house to tell the lady that I wasn’t coming back. I thought t..is was right, because 'the captain wag expecting me to go to work for him.When T walked up the lady was in the back yard, and I told her I was not com. in- back, and she didn't say anything except to tell her little girl to look tor the cow. I turned around to walk away, and in a minute she came running alter me snapping a pistol at my head. ThenT T*fl JI * *I TOW TIE WAS CAPTURED.After leaving the scene of the att mp elt;i assault Kimbrough tramped his way out of Hanover county into Louisa, and lastWednesday morning put in his appearance at the home of Mr. X. F. bmlth. He asked for work, and was employed, alter giving what appeared to Mr. Smith as a good account of himself. He caia his name was John Rollins, and that ue came from Shelton's Mill, where his peo-llved. Mr. Smith had not heard ol ^ crime in the adjoining coun-r.While the negTO was at work in the rnlleld Mr. Smith called on a near ■i-hbor of his, Mr. R- L. Dickerson. He d him about the negro, and lmmedi-cly upon hearing the description the iter was sure that the negro was no her than the man wanted in Hanover r attempt at assault. He told ms iend of his convictionr. and tog«*n.-r cy Journeyed to the place where Kiin-ough was at work, and then Mr. Dickson was sure that he was the man anted. Forthwith a plan was made torheF n^gro retired early at night, ana L soon fast asleep. Shortly after xnia. ~ Mr. Smith. Mr. R. L. Dickerson id* Mr R S. Dickerson surrounded tne thouce where the negro was sleeping.I armed with shotguns, heavily loaaeu ith bird shot. Mr. Smith left his gun ith the other two men and -went to here the negro was sleeping. He waked m up and told him that it was time to. at work in the field.Kimbrough responded readily to tneII and followed his employer to tne :lCe where the other two men were con-ah-d with the guns. Upon seing them imbrough dashed off at a rapid pacealthough called upon to halt several paid no heed to the warning thatPeppered with shut.hen it was that the three men pulled vn on the fast-Ueeins negro. He « •rallv peppered with shot. He idered himself, and wasitaken to LouisaI turned over to Sheriff ^*c^rs-earing that the negro would be Inched, sheriff on an order °™driipii the negro away from the jail anaa private Conveyance he was driven rty-one miles across country to Colum-wliero yesterday afternoon at 4.~o lock he was placed on a Chesapeake i Ohio train and brought to Richmond • appears that Sheriff Bickers' fears of cldng were not well found. Mr. George Haw Commonwealth s attorne of nover* county having seen Mr. Butler vlor, who says that he Is perfectly Ung that fiho law should take uslr^'Haw has an office in Richmond.shortly after he left Hanover yester-} morning for this city a telegram was him from Louisa announcing the ar-of Kimbrough. Upon reaching Rich-1 he learned of the arrest and Imme-ely wired the authorities of Louisa wait his arrival, when it was Intended the prisoner to Hanover. He de-ci immediately for Louisa but when •eached there the negro had been spir-away to Columbia. r Haw states most emphatically that •o was no danger of lynching, and that citizens of Hanover are pertectly ing that the law should take itsdgo Redd, of Hanover, will call the ember term of court next Wednesday, vhich time the grand jury will Indict ibrough and he will probably be tried same day.
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Richmond Times
Richmond, Virginia, US
Sat, Nov 15, 1902
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