The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-23

lIS ihids Tor KILLING an OH-
oltunaGe Sister who APP
peaIed 10 Him to Take
Her from a Life of
Shame.
CNCINNATI, ONO, Sept. 1.-THE En-
quirer publishes the following special
rem Danville, Virginia:
The trial of Thomas Deiarnette, who
| murdered his sister in a bagnio last
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jury was got, composed Of eight white
and four cOlored men. Dejarnette was
cool and selt-poSseSsed. The trial viii
possibly occupy the court several days.
Great interest is manifested in the case.
Deiarnette's affianced has been devoted
in her attentions to her lover.
Thomas Deiarnette's crime was an
unnatural and deliberate one-the mur-
der of his sister because for one week
she had been living in 4 house OF
shame About u 80 o'clock on the
night of July Sth, the gay inmates of
the house known as "BlOnde HAIL. in
Danville, were called to the front door
by loud knocking. When it was opened
a young man asked to see Miss Mollie
Dejarnette. She came out and recOg-
niZed him as her brother. At his re-
quest she went upstairs to her room
with him. n few minutes later repeat
ed pistol shots We're heard in that quar-
ter, and then all was still. Several po-
iicemeD rushed into the house and
found the door to MOllie Deiarnette's
room locked. Upon demanding admis-
sion a mans voice said he would not let
any IN, whereupon the door was forced
open. The sight which met the gaze of
the officers was a sickening one.
The floor of the apartment was liter
ally pond of gore, and in it lay, her
white wrapper bedabbled with its GRIM
son flow, Mollie Dejarnette, while over
her PROSTATE figure stood her brother,
looking steTnly at her. She gasped for
breath. His hand still clutched the re-
volver with which he had done such
fearful execution. One of the police
men Immediately grabbed him, while
the other went to the side OF the poor
girl. The young man did not make any
resistance, but said, very cOolly, that he
had done what he came here to do, and
he was satisfied and ready to meet any
fate, whether the penitentiary or the
gallows. He said, further, that his sis
ter had diSgraced her family by leading
a life of shame, AMI he had shot her to
wipe out that stain upon the honor of
the Dejarnettes. The wounded girl
was conscious, and, as her slayer was
hurried off to jail, she begged that no
harm might be done TO him. The ply
sicians who were called in At once pro-
nounced her case hopeless, and at her
request Rev. Z. a. Peterson, of the
Methodist church, was sent for.
She said she had only recently adopt
ed a life of sin and shame, and that she
had fallen victim to the duplicity of a
libertine eighteen months before. lie,
under promise of marriage, betrayed
her. Il acknowledge the justice OF my
fate she continued, "and l wish every
virtuous woman in the world might see
me now, that they migh1 be deferred
from fUiloving my example" She ap-
peaTed to be more concerned about her
brother than herself, for she frequently
broke of in her narrative to beg that he
might not he prosecuted. She spoke
with great difficulty, her speech being
broken by great gulps of blood from her
mouth. Her medical attendant did not
think she conld possibly live through
the night. but on the morning OF the
next day she was considerably better,
and the mayor of the town, accOmpa-
MED by the commonwealth attorney,
took her statement. She was asked If
she knew her condition, and replied:
'sHes, / know l am bound to die in
short time the pain is so severe L can
not stand it. My brother shot me, but
/ | do not blame him, for have disgraced
| my family, and l am the only one for
three generations that has. l wrote to
/ my brother yesterday morning, but he
did not answer my letter. He came in
person. | wrote to him that L would
rather get on my knees and ask forgive
~ 4 In I e
fered. He came last night and came
into my room. He took out his pistol
and shot me first in the breast. | ran
behind the bed, and as | did so he shot
again. / threw up my hand, and this
saved my life. l beg you not to con-
Idetnn him. | love him and every drop
of blood in his heart. want to see him
now, notwithstanding he has treated me
brutally. / know l shall die, for there
are two bullets in my body and | am
bleeding inwardly. | wrote to a lady
in North Carolina, offering TO keep
house for her, but did not hear from
her. | could not stand but one week of
this life, receiving i'll treatment from
those who had worse blood in their
veins than l. L hope this will be a
warning to my little sister, who is
Younger than l am" After making
her statement, the 9lrl Degged tnaC She
might be permitted to see her brother
again, which wish was also granted.
When the young man was brought
from the Jail that same GOODNESS which
had characterized him up to this time
was noticed. He came INTO the house
and sat down i'm the hall, after which he
tcoollv asked for match, and, lighting
La cigar, began TO snoke it. When he
entered the room ir which his sister lay
she showed great emotion, but his face
was still calm. He took chair near
the foot of the bed.
"Oh, brother" she said, 81 feel fOI
you more than you do for me. L am
bound to die. | feel it coming on me
and l would die happy If l knew you
would forgive me, and that you would
not be condemned" "Mollie," he re-
piled in measured tones, al have done
it; | knew what L was doing, and L am
willing to take the consequ nces." The
wounded girl then said, "Oh, brother
love you so much; you have been a
good brother to me-say that you for
give me" He replied, saying he knew
She could never undo what she had done
land on this account he had rather see
her dead After this remark he paused
for few minutes, and, turning around
TO the men in the room, said "Gentle-