The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-06-21
NIW WITNESSES AND FURTHER
DEVELOPMENTS

The morbid appetite for details of crime
and horror which has ever been known 10
exist in the public mind was never more
cyinced than during the progress of the
Interesting trial now being conducted by
Justice NettlcS. Every day seems 10 add
% the number Of those who throDg the
courtroom and listen through long hours
With unweariCd and unhagging interest to
the slow testimony OF reluctant witnesses
and the persistent objections of indefati-
gable counsel. On yesterday, long before
the appointed hour, the crowd filled the
rncm, and anXiously waited for the COM
m.accmcnt Of the trial.
PUnCtually al l0o'Clock the justice took
III, seat, and the examination of the wit
Lr,,es for the Commonwealth was imme
Gi4tcly resumed.
Nr. ". +. Farrar was first recalled. In
reply to questions propounded by the pri-
solrr> counsel, he said i repeat that
believe the murdered woman died from
,ua5calion produced by the pressure of
l.grr> upon the throat. There were con-
u~..ns made by blunt instrument, posi-
his a list or round stick, in the abdOmi-
nal regions, on the thighs and arms. The
wounds were not of such q character as TO
Iced me to suppose that rape had been
committed or attempted.
After the conclusion of DR.. Farrar's evil
drucr, considerable delay was occasioned
hy the tardincSS of the witnesses whom the
court proposed next To hear.
Rev. W. 4. Baynham was at length
sworn, and testified: remember marry
ing, in l>o5, Emily Pitts and Mr.. Phillips,
who represented himself as being from
Sury county: | am not sure that the ac-
cu>rd is the man whom | married; do
not remember the exact date of the mar
Iiare. In, II was between the 10th of April
art I,t Of September; it was certainly
during that period, for there was at that
tine a suspension Of the duties OF the
clerk uf the court, and | married the par
tie, under permit from the provost mar
>aa,; ! have tried my best, but cannot
account tor the discrepancy between my
certificate and the marriage license; that
certificate was given under a requtsltlon
o. the military | write such q miserable
hand that J,,ly might, hy the clerk, have
been mistaken for Nay; Phillips told me
That his father owned timber farm In
~grry county, from which he had been
driven hy the army; have known Emily
PITTS al her life, but cannot identify the
prisoner as the man whom | married.
Mrs. Matilda Waddell testified am
keeper of the Virginia House, on Grace
street. | knew the prisoner in business
way while he was in Mr.. Garborough's
store, on Sixth street. This was last
summer. do not remember the exact
date, but think il was in February the
accused came to my house one Saturday
evening at about o'clock, and stayed un-
Ill SUNDAY evening. He had lady with
him, who called him her husband. did
no, hear him call her his wife. | had
good deal Of conversation with her, but
very little with him. She told me -
Colonel Johnson objected to the intro
ductiou of conversation which passed
between the witness and an absent person
unless it occurred in the presence of the
prisoner. lie hoped that the Common
wealth was not so hungry for victim as
thus TO set aside the most palpable ana
fundamental principles OF the law ol lhe
land.
Colonel Young urged that he had shown
that James J. Phillips and Emily RUS
were married, and that they thus IVeu 'o-
grthrr. He had traced them from Essex
county TO this city, and here the wle ais-
appears. Everything bearing on that us.
appearance should be heard we must get
every word which shows the relation OF the
accused 10 his wife, and though he dio not
know what were the remarks whicn the
witness was about 10 reveal, he lhsls'eu
That they should be received.
The Court decided that the point was
well taken, and the witness resumed
! saw Phillips and wife at tea on Satur-
day evening, after they had been out. ohe
said she had been sick, and had Deeh
obliged 10 stop in store, and was .hereioie
late at tea. The next morning we nad "
send her breakfast up to her. aia not
see Phillips that morning, nor until dihnel
Un Sunday. We diue between ana D
o'clock. Mrs. Phillips was better at dinner.
She staid in the room with me untll
O'clock ia the afternoon. / did not see
Phillips any more. MIS-. Phillips, while we
sat together. said "There is Jeter now"
and went ont 10 meet him. did not see him
myself after passed him ON the porch just
after dinner. Mrs. Phillips told me that
her husband said that If 1t did not ram NC
was going 10 take her out IN the country
70 sec his brother. She had SAID the same
thing on Saturday. About hiteen ininuteS
after she went out to meet Mr.. phiihpS
went out TOO, and found Mrs. Philips waik.
ing up and down the porch. She had,iel'
her bonnet OH the centre-table IN the parior.
| did not see her again after saw her on
the front porch. She said Phillips's brothe,
lived two or three miles out. / missed
Mrs. Phillips In an hour after saw her on
the front porch. They did not bring their
baggage 10 my house, but said 1t was In
the depot, and that be could not get 1t
until Sunday morning. He didn't take