The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-22
y,,e C,nrka County Tragedy.

mai or LYCURGUS LlTTLE COSTISUED'-fVR-
-;,gy EvIplNcE pOR THE CoMMoSwEA
TIKI BROTHERS OF TIE ACCUSED ANXIOUS FOR
HIS ACQClTrAL
fr,rt,,ponocnca OF the Richmond DSpatch.]
BKEgYyILLE, October Il, 1878.
The trial Of Lscurgu, Little was OF more
interest to-day than it has been on any pre-
ccdng day.
The first witness. DR.. Somcrvl!e, testified
more particularly to the medical questions
involved in the, case, which was fuller but
pretty much the same as the testimony on
Yesterday.
For the first time during the trial evil
dence was introduced to-day as to the occur
renee, hut ~ yet none OF the immediate
family have been examined, who alone were
conyersaut With the causes which LED 10 this
terrible tragedy.
The brothers from Washington city, who
j, was thought would absent themselves,
have all made their appearance, and are great
" interested in securing the acquittal OF the
arcu.ed, although their evidence before the
coroner. which is of very damaging nature,
has been preserved, and it Is thought 1t will
be hard for them 10 get over 1t. None OF
them have been yet called.
Miss Pritchard. VINO was visiting the Lit
lie family Mt the time Of the murder, testi-
ned to-day that she and the female members
of the family took their breakfast before the
Others, and hat she and one or two Of them
went 70 III appe-lree in the yard, where
she heard one shot only, which seemed IN
lh,. house; that she went to the house, ana
SAW Oscar and Lycurglls Little, the prison.
crs, going towards the barn, but that they
returned very soop, Oscar limpins. She
also stated that rs far as she could see the
family were all 90 good terms, and gave eX-
aunpIcs, &C., TO show this. She saw Clinton
..ficr death, but did not know anything OF
the cause OF it. She helped to attend to Us
cars " ound when he returpcd from the barn.
That Gilbert was Standing on the porch look
Ing 10 the barn with gun !; but did not hear
auv firing except the first shot she heard
when ut the apple-tree. She heard talk the
day before OF tue boys having shooting
match, and saw Lycurgus from her window
in the morning putting up mark.
Colonel Washington Dearmont testified
that at suu-up on the 5th Of July, the day
Of the murder, L}curgus cane to his house
10 borrow Il pistol, saying his brothers had
come from Washington city, and were brag-
ginr that they could beat them shooting,
and that they were going to have shooting
match. He kent him pistol, which he
identified ny the same as the one which Was
shown him.
James ii. Bitter testified that he was
called TO Mr.. Little's on the 9Th of July, be
living few hundred yards only from there;
that be there found Clinton lying on the
floor of the diDing-room, in the basement of
the house, and his brother Gilbert was at
tending to him; that they remained with
Clinton and had charge Of him until the doc
tors came. He seemed to suffer intense
agony, and insisted on it that the ball was in
his bowels. A number Of questions were
asked him preparatory to asking one inVolv-
ing a dying dec aratlon.
When il came to this, great objection was
made by counsel for the prisoners on the
ground that there was not sufficient PROOF
that the deceased was under such al impend-
ing sense Of immediate death as the law re-
quires. II WAS sought to introduce the decla-
ration itself as proof Of this, and the Court re-
quired the jury to be taken out, and heard the
statement, which was, "They hare killed me
,rthout cause" The argument on the adj
mission or rejection OF this was very long
aud exhaustive, having tour speeches on it.
Najor Conrad had just concluded his speech
for rejecting it when the hour Of adjourn.
ment for the day arrived, and the Court
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