The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-04
THE GRANT-POLLARD TRIAL
Ell tn DAY.
TESTIMONY FOB THE PROSECU
TION CLOSED.
EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE.
HISTORY OF ."THE ARTICLE"

1 lEe examination Oh LQe witnesses LOT the
| prosecution was resumed yesterday morning.
| There was some delay on account Of the tar
| diness of counsel.
MIR. Bundy being absent Mr.. Gilmer said
he was unwilling to 60 on without him, as an
| important step was to be taken.
| Mr.. Johnson was not In attendance, being
detained 1T home by serious indisposition.
| DR.. cULLES's TESTIMONY.
| DR.. Patrick Cullen was the first witness OK
| amined. He testified that on the morning Of
the homicide he was passing from Franklin to
M lain street on the east side of Fourteenth.
| Heard very loud report of a fire-arm, sound
| ing TO him very like that Of n piece of ord
| nance Looked around and saw Captain
| Chalkley and other police officers running
along on the other side of the street. Stopped,
and then noticed a man lying fiat on the pave
ment. Not wishing to be a witness, hurried
| away from the scene of the homicide. The
| shot certainly came from above, probably
| from the height of twenty or thirty feet. His
| impression was that the gun, or whatever it
was, was fired from 1saacs's building, which
he was just then passing.
| Mr.. Ould: If 4 person Is going along the
| street, attending to his ordinary business, do
you think, Doctor, that he could tell with rea-
| sonabe accuracy whether report that as
| sailed his ears came from above.
| Witness: Yes, sir; I think he could.
| could not tell what particular window it came
| from, but am sure it came from the building
| that ] was passing. did not notice the dead
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my right eye.
| J.. N. HANNA RECALLED.
| J. NJ. Hanna was recalled by the prosecu-
/ tion He said: ! heard the splash of buck
| shot on the walls of the house, and saw the
marks which they left; nave been IN the
| that the indentations were made by the shot
| fired on that occasion.
| To MIR. Ould The marks on the wall pre-
| sent the same appearance now that they did
| than RI hair frechnpsS is
TESTIMONY OF JAMES DooLEY.
| Mr.. James H. Dooley testified On the
| morning of the homicide was standing on
Fourteenth street near the building of 1saacs
| & Co., talking with Detective Knox. Heard
| the report of gun, the Whistling OF some
| against the wall of the building opposite
| Looked around and saw Pollard lying on his
| face upon the pavement. Learned that he
| was wounded. / left the scene.
| MAJOR CLINTON RECALLED.
Major H. p. Clinton was recalled, and asked
whether he was in the habit of keeping fire.
arms in his room. He replied that he had not
and had never had double barrelled gun in
his room. Did not see any firearms there on
| the night before the shooting.
After the examination of this witness, MIR.
Bundy announced that the testimony Tor the
prosecution was closed.
Mr.. Gilmer: Of course we reserve the right
| to introduce rebutting evidence.
THE DEFENCE OPENS.
| Mr.. Ould called attention to the fact that
| certain witnesses examined before the grand
Jury, and whose names were appended TO ne
indictment, had not been called. 1t was the
practice in the English courts, and in most OF
| the criminal courts in this country, 10 require
the Common wealth to examine such VIII
| nesses. He asked that this rule be enforced.
The Court declined to make such require
meLt. Although to some extent the rule
| referred to had been observed in the English
| courts, it had not been adopted by the crimi-
| nal courts of the United States.
| TESTIMONY OF GENERAL WISE.
The first witness called for the defence was
| ex- Governor Henry A. Wise, who was on the
stand for long time, and gave very minute
description of the locality of Fourteenth and
| Main streets which he had visited at the re-
quest of Mr.. Ould. He visited the scene OF the
homicide on the day of its occurrence. Saw the
blood spots on the pavement, and so carefully
| observed the seven shot holes in the wall that
he could have drawn from memory line en-
circling them. On yesterday, by measure
ment with 4 gauger's rod and carpen ter's rule,
he ascertained that the spot where Pollard Tell
| was seventeen feet from his office door, and
| twenty seven feet from Main street. Four
| teenth street runs north, northeast by south,
| southwest. The window sils Of the third
| floor of the Isaacs building were in round
| numbers about twenty one feet above the spot
where Mr.. Pollard fell; the street was about
! forty feet wide; the line Of fire, if the shot
| were fired from the window supposed, was
about fifty feet.
| The mark on the sill referred to was three
| and half inches 10 the right of the centre OF
| the window, which was thirty nine inches
| wide. He could have sat on either side and
| fired gun III any direction not interfering
| with the angles of the building. The width
| of the desk was thrty-fiye and three quarter
| inches, its height siXty-five and quarter
| inches, and it need not have been moved TO
allow shot to be fired in any direction not
| interfering with the angles of the building
A rush chair was placed in the southwest
| corner, the back of it in the angle between the
windows nearest the corner OF Main and
Fourteenth streets. The witness gave the
measurements of the width, height and depth
of the chair, stating that the seat OF The chair
| was half an inch higher than the windows sill.
| The shots on the wall could be covered by
| figure two feet square, the lowest shot being
| eighteen inches from the pavement-the high.
est shot three feet five inches. He noticed
| stain on the granite sill of the window de-
| scrbed but could neither taste nor smell 1T; !;
but the windows in the storeroom and all the
! other windows were much more stained; but
| ar examination proved that these latter stains
were caused by blacking, as brushes We're
| lying around, and boots and shoes had evil
IDENTITY been cleaned in all the windows. Gun
! powder would not scorch granite II the gun
| had been held so low as to canse the stain, Inc
shot could not have struck where they did
| Powder must have distance to expand before
| it could burn anything that did not come i'm
| mediately in it's way, and if the stain in ques-
ton had been caused by powder the smell
| could not be mistaken on the day on which
| the powder was burned a line drawn from
| the stain in the window would strike the let
| ter I" U" in "auction store" opposite, dis
lance of eighteen feet from the letter "S,"
| where the shot struck
| percussion cap exploded in g. room might
not Scent the room, but it would the nipple of
| the gun. He thought if the gun was fired so
rs to make the mark on the sill, some of the
| smoke would escape in the room. Smoke could
| be blown from the nipple OF gun some time
| after it was fired.
| On the cross ss-eXamination the witness re-
| peated that the granite window-sill appeared
| to be pain ted and sanded to make its appear
| ance correspond with the stucco of the build
| ing. Powder would blow off the paint and
| leave the granite bare. Blaze expanded in
breadth as it left the gun, and would burn
ever 4 wider space at two feet from the wea-
| non than at the muzzle. 1--4. g
0. R. SUTHERLAND RECALLED. .at
| Mr.. O. B.. Sutherland was next recalled for
the defence II cap is exploded In room
| 1t would create an odor, but I don't think 1t
would last more than few seconds, though
| II raight be detected after longer time II the
nose were applied to the nipple. If a gun is
fired from window it would depend upon
| the state Of the air whether any smoke would
remain In the room. If the room was closed
tightly, the smoke would soon die out.
TESTIMONY OF W. ]. CLARKE.
Mr.. w. J. Clarke sworn At about the time
of the homicide made an examination of the
indentatiops on the wall of the California
| auction house. Some Of the marks were
deeper than others. Also made particular
| examination of the Fourteenth street window
| in Major. Clnton's room. Could discern
neither smell nor taste about the stain on the
| SILL The bed looked as IL some person-only
one-had been lying IN 1t. The double bar
relied gun was in the same position that IT Is
| now.
| Not cross examined. d.-----.-------------
JAMES Y. TYLKR RECALLED.