Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1901 — Killed by a Highwayman. [ARTICLE]

Killed by a Highwayman.

Richmond, Va., dispatch: John W. Scott, one of Virginia’s wealthiest and rilost eminent lawyers, was attacked by a highwayman at 1 o’clock a. m„ receiving wounds from which he died at 9 o’clock in the evening without having regained consciousness. Mr. Scott had left the Commonwealth club on Franklin street half an hour after midnight, and half an hour later he was found unconscious and dying on the veranda of Major E. D. T. Myers’ home, with his skull fractured by several blows from some blunt instrument. When found his watch and purse were gone, and this substantiates the theory of robbery. Scott was a son of the late Major Frederick R. Scott, and for many years the family has been one of the first in Virginia society, in banking and railroad circles.