The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-30
CLARK-FEWELL.



Areporter from the Alexandra Gazette
held an interview with Clark in the Brents-
vile Jail on Wednesday, and when about to
leave received the following from the hands
of the prisoner for publication:
BretspiHe, Prince Viliam Co., "a,
August 27.--I am here incarcerated in Jail,
denied the free opportunity of advising
with relatives or friends, or of engaging
counsel to conduct my defense. | have
never had so much as preliminary exami-
nation before justice of the peace have
never confronted with those witnesses on
whose testimony alone my prosecution
can hope in any contingency to base my
| conviction; have never had an opportunity
to converse with or to have examined a
single witness in my behalf, and have under
these circumstances been compelled to
listen to declamatory denunSiatioDs of the
people, and permitted to read newspaper
articles written to embitter public feeling
against me, and to create in the Judgment of
the people my conviction of crime, before
L have been even arraigned therefor, in any
criminal forum of the county. | know how
sensitive pub3ic opinion is and how easily it
is operated upon to the prejudice of any one
charged with q crime Of this character, but
surely it is bare justice to withhold popular
outcry against me until have been convict
ed before jury of my countrymen. Espe-
cially does this seem to me a right which
| can confidently expect to have recognized
by the press, since in no article that have
seen has my previous life for rectitude and
integrity in such matters ever been as
sailed, and since came to the community
where arrest might reasonably have been
expected, and have never shrunk from any
investigation of the case. | feel the deep
most unfortunate affair, and no earthly i'll
will towards any who are engaged in an
effort to rivet upon me a legal conviction,
and to place me in felon's cell. But
am not guilty of the charge against me,
and when the case is fully investigated and
all the facts fully developed, l have no
fears Of a conviction by a jury. If have
violated any law let that law punish me
through its recognized and sworn agencies.
| am in the custody of the law and expect
to be discharged as the law directs and
don't ask discharge in any other way.
E JAMES E. CLARK. 81
Judge Sinclair, who was appointed Com
monwealth's Attorney for the county when
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