CHAPTER 661
An Act for the relief of T. L. Childress.

Approved April 4, 1952

Whereas, on the morning of October twenty-three, nineteen hundred
fifty-one, a disturbed patient who was an inmate of the Central State
Hospital at Petersburg began to behave in a threatening manner and
frightened many citizens in the neighborhood in which the patient was
working; and

Whereas, these citizens summoned the State Police and other law
enforcement officers to assist in capturing the inmate and returning him
to the institution; and

Whereas, the inmate barricaded himself in the home of T. L. Childress
and resisted all efforts to dislodge him therefrom, even to the extent of

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killing a police officer, as a result of which the police began heavy fire upon
the home of T. L. Childress, practically destroying the home and its con-
tents; and

Whereas, two independent contractors have estimated that it will
cost at least nine thousand dollars to reconstruct the home of T. L. Chil-
dress and another contractor has estimated that at least five thousand
dollars will be required to repair the house; the destruction to the personal
property of T. L. Childress in the house amounted to seven hundred ninety-
one dollars and thirty-five cents; in addition the rental value of the house
for a period of three months at the rate of twenty dollars a month has
been lost to T. L. Childress; finally, T. L. Childress has been caused other
damages which together with those above stated amount to six thousand
dollars; and

Whereas, T. L. Childress is without remedy at law for the loss he has
suffered; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the State
Treasury the sum of six thousand dollars to be paid to T. L. Childress by
check of the State Treasurer issued on warrant of the Comptroller drawn
in pursuance of voucher signed by the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene
and Hospitals.