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The negro stated that after the shooting he went a short distance from the Bay and hid in the swamp until he caught the freight train to New Orleans.
The capture of Richardson ended a long manhunt in which sheriff s officers and posse of citizens joined for ten days and which led the searchers throughout South Mississippi in Louisiana and Alabama. The negro declared he never went into St. Tammany parish nor Honey Island swamp nor dressed as a woman as had been reported. He read the daily accounts of the manhunt in the papers.
Court In September
The regular term of circuit court will be opened in Hancock county at the court house at the Bay September 17. The grand jury will convene the same day and it is expected that the trial will be held the third week of September.
Reward Divided]
The reward for $650 offered by city, county, state and sheriff, will be divided three ways between the negro who found Richardson and the two officers who effected his capture, it was said.
Several negroes are held in the county jail as accessories in the case against Richardson. Two arrests were made Sunday night when Clarence Williams and his mother Harriett Williams were put in jail. Ben Richardson, Father of the alleged slayer and his brother from Pass Christian have been released.
Sea Coast Echo, September 21, 1928
GUILTY OF MURDER AS CHARGED, REPORTS JURY IN RICHARDSON CASE
Alleged Slayer of John Dambrino to Be Sentenced by Judge White Saturday Morning -Jury Was Twenty-Five Minutes
After being out twenty-five minutes the jury in the case of State versus Silas Richrdson, negro, of Bay St. Louis, charged with the killing of John Dambrino of Bay St. Louis, brought in a verdict of guilty as charged. This was shortly before 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon.
Richardson’s attorneys, when questioned by the newspaper men, replied they did not know whether they would appeal the case.
Judge White told the Echo reporter he would sentence Richardson Saturday morning. He said this would be the second time in his judictal career he would sentence a man to death, although in the first case the man died in his cell from natural causes before the day of execution.
District Attorney Colmer and County Prosecuting Attorney E. J. Gex were vigorous in their prosecution. The plea was Richardson was either guilty or not guilty and if he were, as they had every reason from evidence to believe, then they wanted the full penalty.