The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-06

friends and witnesses without exposing
my papers to the
EAGLE-EYED GLANCE
p. OF the prosecution. The aged gentleman
who is officiating a. Sergeant OF this city
on his oath says that ] have been treated as
every other prisoner has been treated.
Pardon me il / remind him that the gem
tleman is in error. ! have not had the
privileges that other prisoners have had in
this that others had the right and privi-
lege 10 communicate with whom they chose /;
that they had that right without any inter-
ference on the part OF the jail authorities.
Independent OF that, other prisoners had
the right to shave themselves il they
wished II, and had the li9ht 10 have their
hair cut il they wished. Sir, with me,
A STRANGER
i'm your city, | have been denied the right
Of either OF those privileges. have been
denied the right to shave or cut my hair.
The venerable gentleman, the Sergeant
of the city. who has one foot in the grave
and the sands OF time crumbling beneath
the other, said in his affidavit here that
was treated exactly as othe. prisoners have
been treated. hope he may never have TO
realize how it Is to lie so treated.
Marvin went on to assail in 4 vindictiye
way a number Of officials and witnesses.
As II is not for the Dispatch to become the
vehicle for his slandcrOus tongue, such re-
marks are omitted.
lie went on 10 say: Every single move
made by me whilst in prison has been eX-
aggcrated.
lAl PERSON mas. BEEN. VIOLATED
without law or precedent. Probably he
referred TO the time when lie was eXam-
incd for the tattoo-marks which identified
him rs the eX-conyict from Auburn, a. /.
Marvin From the circumstances Sur-
rounding my case lam almost forced 10 the
conclusion that the saying is eXempliled,
"There is a law for the rich, law for the
poor, law for the stranger. law for the
Citizen
is that Justice? Is it justice 10 confine
me i'm a murdcrer'S cell when | am charged
with felony? / care nothing for the cell,
but it is the principle.
4 distinguished cOmmcntatOruponla law has
said that no laws should be upon the law
books of any country except they be
founded in justice, and any state that per-
mits any law differing from that interpre-
tation dsgraces itself and its statutes.
Sir, the law has been disgraced. il
doesn't sanction such treatment. Locked
in an irOn-bOumd cell, forbidden to cOmmu-
nicate with my friends or witnesses, | had
about as much opportunity for defence a ii
with milestone tied around my neck, my
hands tied behind me, | were thrown into
the sea, and your exponent Of the law says,
"swDI IF YoU CAN"
The law preSumcs a man innocent until
he is proved guilty. In my case | have
been declared guilty in advance. The
CnuS prObdndi has been thrown upon me,
and that, too, when | had no opportunity
to secure witnesses.
Marvin then went on ut great length to
say that the prosecution had not been
alone i'm this matter Public sentiment
had been arrayed against him, so that il
was utterly impossible to get a fair trial in
the city OF Richmond. The sleuth-hounds
OF SANDER Lad been vigorously invoked
and engaged in dciaming him. Not alone
here. but all over the United States the
people had been preiudiced against him,
so that the chance OF justice was remote.
The sleuth-hound, OF SANDER had been
employed, and
THE GOLFERS OF THIS STATE
the mother OF the most distinguished Pre-.
.idents this country has ever knOwn-had
! almost been depleted i'm subOming wit
: nesscs. knowing this, and with his hand
, i'm She mouth o; the lion, he had sought tC
remove it in the easiest way possible, and
to receive as little laceratiOn as possible IN
I the removal.
, The speaker went on 10 claim that he haC
had no information that the case OF forgery
was 10 be the first case TO be taken up agains
him until Tuesday. lie said before he wa'
+ half through his speech that he had bu
| little more to say, and then went on to re
mark that he wished TO say that he would
. rather suffer the pangS Of thundeT-bol
y than TO suffer as the conScienccs Or thos'
: who had betrayed their friend.
TUE GUILELEss MARVIN
E T>ce letter belowl proceeded to speak Of TIN
witnesses who, he said, had been brough
10 prosecute him because their pocket
+ nerve had been atlcctcd-the pOcket-neryc
which is the most sensitive in the who'll
human body, and affects the whCle system
! and. said he, the prosecuting attorney
not ignorant Of the power Of gold, and th
I witnesses who had been brought here Wer
D not ignorant OF the power OF gold. Mos
men were influenced by a certain amoun
D OF argument, II it was made sufficient.
e eloquent and when il possessed weight.
consideration. rs his counsel OR. Page
D had said few days ago, certain region o
e this country possesses class OF men up0i
r whom no argument in the world was so in
tlucntial. so potent, and so powerful, as tn
almighty dollar. The secret Slandcrcr
= with his
y vENONED TONGUE,
had been busy not only I'm the city Of Rich
mond. I'm New Haven, where he (llaryin
9 had lived above rcproach, his name ant
. record were as brilliant and prominent 70
honor and integrity u any man who drew
0 Gods air i'm that state. A year ago thcH
were witnesses i'm this courtroom VIII
! made their afiidayts that they had know
a him for years, and had been intimately &C
e mainted with him and with his persona
/ friends. and that there was no man who's
f, reputation was higher in that city thai
1 General Morton.
I One Of the witnesses [he alluded &
4 Judge Birdsall was so positive, 80 assured
In his own heart, that he offered
I EVERY DOLLAR
! me Do>sessed (aud he claimed that he wa
l worth SlSO.OOO That gentleman was her
as a witness to prosecute him, and il wa
because the PinkertOns OF New York ha,
! gone to him end arrayed public sentiment
D and he. like the rest Of mankind, wanted
I to be on the popular side in his friendship
2 one witness he spoke Of As having salt
he dhe witness) had been compelled T.
| come here and testify against him, becaus
E if he did not he would
LOSE us POSITION.
{ II was, said the speaker, the pocket-nerV'
| that ue,yed him TO come here 10 appeal
l against him. It was not the desire TIA
Justice should be rendered. Another wit
ness was here on the same principle. iii
, employer had said, you must go or lost