The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-28
- ,,nbannv woman almost eer5atim from

the unhappy woman almost or6atim from
Herndon'a statement
On Friday Iwas to come home anu ten
my wife that / was going down to Elhs oaa-
ter's to see about some money ne owed h,e.
But really was to 60 to gee woman WHY
was to take charge of Molliea at her house ana
keep her until could make arrangements;
A VISITORS coming in upset this plan, anu
I couldn't leave without suspicion. % l. l
had to remain at home that evening:
$50 about an hour and half OF sun l
went out to get turn of small WOOD, ana
Mt the same time went down along the
fence to see If could see anything OF MOL
lie. and to tell her that | could not leave
without giving SUSPICION, and could moi
see nor hear anything Of her at all. 80
went back and took up my turn u y wooa
and went to the house, very uneasy lndeea,
thinking that she had given out gong 20
Richmond, and had gone home and was
looking every minute for some OF the 1aml-
ly to come over. And Il did expect that y
would either have to run or lose my li1e,
and T had done made up my mind tnst !
would tell my wife if saw any OF them
coming what had been done, and ask her
what would be the best for me to do. 30
her brother coming right from home and
not saying anything about 1t, l die noI
know what to do or think, but got MIN 10
help me haul load Of wood anu then !
kept lookout all the time to see If could
see any of them coming. Well, night COME
and nobody come. Mollie did not come.
Well, did not let my wife know anything
about it in all this time. So we were out
of meat, and the next morning told my
wife would 60 up to Mr.. Edward foung's
and try and get some; and as had pro-
missed Jefferson Hughes to come to his
house in few days, would 60 up there
also.
"Well, the ne1tmorning about sunrise-l
would suppose it was, though my wife had
not gotten up when started on account Of
being quite unwe1l, and the baby had kept
her awake one-half of the night
started out, and took little walking path
that runs out from the house to the road by
the place where Mr.. James F. Lumsden had
ploughed up the evening before for a potato
patch. Just before I got to this spot OF
ploughed ground heard some one speak
in the direction of my stable; turned, and
saw that it was Mollie, and can't tell you
how / felt. She came up to me, and ]
asked her where she staid the night before,
or where she staid all night !; and I asked
her if she staid at Mrs. Simpsons, and she
said No. and then told me that she staid in
the stable on some straw. asked her why
she did not come to the house. Well, she
said that she could not find the fence where
I directed her to 60, and that she had been
sitting over there in the woods looking to
see if she could see any woman come, and
that no woman did not come after her, and
that if she had come to the house Mrs.
Herndon would have wanted to know where
she had been, and that she thought that
she would wait and see if she could not see
me, SO that we could make some other ar
rangement. At the same time she said that
before she would 60 home then that she
would take her own life, and told her not
to think of such things, that as for that ]
would spend the last dollar that | was
worth in the world before she should do any
such thing.
"Well, now,' said she, how shall we
arrange this thing to get me off, and it not
be found out for said she, am afraid
it will get out, and that it will give you so
much trouble
"sI don't mind trouble now, Mollie, SO
can get you off safe. Now We can't go to
that woman's house this morning. Well,
Mollie, l tell you what I can do. / can
take you over here as far as we can go
without being seen, and l will leave you
and go on up to Verdiersyille and Edward
Young's, jeff Hughes's and so on, and you
remain here until night-or, that is, until
l come back this evening and | will go
over and get one of Benjamin Quisenbury's
horses, and can take you to Trevillian's
depot on the Virginia Central railroad, and
get back time enough 80 as to put the horse
back; and / can tell Susan / staid at JEFF
Hughes's or somewhere, and she will not
make any inquiries about it anyway
Well, this then was settled down as the
place. Well, we moved on round through
the woods until we arrived at the place
where she was found dead. We had in
tended to 60 down to o shanty on Vivian
Quisenburys land where John D. Rey-
nolds built, and we thought that peoples
cows were grazing down that bottom, and
that. as It had commenced mist of. rain,
they might go to. that shanty and find her.
" She said We can fix up place that
will do for me today .sw 1't.l":
$50, at the spot where she was found was
where the shelter was fixed. The limb that
lay to her, or on her right side against that
little sapling, was there when we went
there. The piece of wood that lay on her
was placed upon the other limb against the
little sapling and then we took some small
pieces and laid across from the old tree to
these two pieces that lay against the sap
ling, putting up some pieces of bark and
sticks. / then gathered up some leaves and
put over, so as to keep off the rain, and she
crawled under there, and was to remain
until I came back that evening.
"Well, I went down that long branch, and
crossed the run on an old log went up
through Colonel Saunders's and on to Ed
ward Young's. From there 1 went to JEFF
ferson Hughes's, and Mrs. Hughes got me
some breakfast, but felt 30 unwell did
not eat much. went from there to Yer
diersyille, and there I got MIR. John L.
Rowe to write letter for me to Mr.. William
S. Burton, at fredericksburg, about some
money that was due me from a pold mine