The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-30

short time after. Mrs. Points hau visited ner
house Sunday, and told her that her hus-
band had Just struck her on the arm with
his cane, and that the night before he had
choked her. She further said that he had
threatened her life on several occasions.
From her window had heard Mrs. Points
ask her husband not to strike her again, they
being then on their back porch. On Sunday
night, when she asked Mr.. Points what was
the matter with his wife, he replied that she
had headache. He had shown no feeling
In the matter. ~ -
Miss Kate Lohr and Mrs. Meyer, who per-
formed the final offices for Mrs. Points.
said in dressing the body they found no
bruises or marks OF violence. The former
remarked that she had seen many persons
die, but none died in the way Mrs. Points
did. ,.5t.
THE ONLY EYEWITNESS.
The next witness was q little daughter OF
the deceased, aged about nine years. She
was dressed In white, with a Grape rosette
and black mourning sash, having been
dressed for the funeral OF her mother, which
was postponed on account OF the inquest.
She was q very intelligent child, but was
frightened until DIR. Points, her uncle, took
her tenderly in his lap and reSssured
her. She understood the nature OF
an oath clearly. sShe testified that on the
fatal evening her father struck her
mother on the back OF the head and the
mouth with his cane. AT the time the
mother was sitting near the fire attending
to the baby, and the father was sitting in a
chair little way off from her. The provo
cation was that she had asked him to stay
in the other room until she undressed the
baby. Her mother afterwards went into
the next room to make up the bread, but
was too sick to do it, and came back TO put
some camphor on her head, and then lay
on the bed where her father was then
lying. Then she tried to get up, and fell
over on the floor. After her mother
fell her father asked her mother il
she wanted to get on the bed. He did not
halloo at her. When he. struck at her while
sitting in the chair he fell out Of the, chair.
When her mother fell witness told her
father that she might be dying, and he re-
plied that she was no more dying than he
was: that she could get up II she wanted
TO. When she started to call Mrs. Harman,
after her mother fell, he caught hold Of her
so she couldn't get away. Her father took
the baby to put it to sleep, it being. walked
when her mother fell. She said her father
often treated her badly, sometimes twisting
her arms. Being asked IL she loved her
father she said she liked him; and the ques-
tion being repeated, she said, II would
| love him il he treated me better" :" So, :
The brothers Of the deceased having re-
ouested it, the jury, later in the day, again
met, and were present at an examination OF
the body by Dr.. Fain tleroy. After care
full examination of the head and neck, DR..
Fauntleroy stated to the Jury that he could
find no evidence Of any blow having been
received sufficient to cause death. ANY
such blow would have severed the connec-
tion between the skin and skull, but he
found all the connections of the scalp intact.
It was his opinion that it was some other
cause than the blow that caused her death.
THE VERDICT OF THE JURY.
The jury then retired and agreed upon
the following verdict:
Upon review OF all the testimony we,
the Jury, find that the death OF Mrs. Adele
| Points was not caused by any lnf1lctlons OF
violence, but resulted from natural causes.
[Signed] James 81. Waters foreman), j. =.
MARQUIS, F. If. Young, John B. Scherer, j.
S. Gillian, and NJ. P. Funkhouser.
THE ANXIETY IN THE TOWN.
The intensity of the feeling which has
been dispersed by the action or the jury
may be inferred from the fact that the cor.
oner was besieged with applications to hold
an inauest, from both known and anony-
nous applicants. Here is one OF the anony-
nous ones:
srAUNToN, September 2G, 8 A. M.-Mr.
George Harlan: Sir,-There is q report in
town that Mrs. Points, near Mrs. Harman's
came to her death by a blow on the head
from crutch in the hands Of her husband
Report came through one OF her little
daughters, Mrs. McG-, Mr.: H, and
others. The credit Of the city demands
investigation it may or may not be true.
am not resident Of the city, but give you
this letter for your own reputation as q cor
ner. - AGRiCoLA.
P. S.-The burial is at 10 this morning.
THE FUNERAL. gsE ..s4
Mrs. Points was buried on Tuesday after
noon at O'Clock from the Episcopal church
The coffin was covered with flowers sen,
by numerous friends, Of whom she had
large circle, and the attendance at her OBJ
sequies was large, in token OF the esteem in
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