Norfolk Landmark, October 17, 1891

The Cape Charles Murder.

Moral -- MurderMoral -- Other violent crime

Sheriff S. A. Jarvis, of Northampton county, was in the city yesterday. In a talk with a LANDMARK reporter he said, in regard to the attempt to lynch George Drier, the Pole, who murdered Mrs. Fannie Fadden Monday night, that about thirty people applied at the Eastville jail Wednesday night for the keys, but could not get them as he, hearing rumors of the attempt, had taken them home. Jailer E. W. Blanks was in charge of the jail at the time. The crowd, after finding that the keys were in the hands of the Sheriff, dispersed, thinking the job a bad one.

Sheriff Jarvis was on his way to Richmond with Sidney Seals, who goes to the penitentiary for ten years for an assault on a little girl named Cecil Dennis, aged 13 years. Seals had not done so before, but made a confession to Police Captain P. M. Mordica in the station-house yesterday and then afterwards to Sheriff Jarvis.