The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-04-18
A Man Murdered; A Woman the
Cause.

| On Saturday, in Powhatan county, near
| Tomahawk station, on the Richmond and
Danville railroad. Poolev Parker, aged
twenty-one, was arrested, charged with the
murder Of Edmund Broaddus, aged about
fifty.
A woman named Katie Harris had de-
serted the cabin OF Broaddus and gone TO
live with Parker. Thursday Broaddus
went to Parker's place and besought the
woman to return TO him. That she declined
to do, and he went back to his solitary
hearthstone TO brood over his SORROWS and
to lament the wickedness OF his beloved.
Upon Parker's return home that night Kate
Informed him OF the visit she had had. He
got very angry, OF course, and near about
midnight set out for Broaddus's cabin. He
had two miles 10 go through woods and
fields. He found Broaddus in a chair by
the fire. Sleep had knitted the ravelled
sleave OF care, and he was snoring away in
blissful unconsciousness OF evil when the
stalwart young Parker opened the door
and with a stick felled him. Broaddus
awoke. Then Parker drew his knife across
Broaddus's throat and left him bleeding.
and, as he thought, dead.
Broaddus was stunned, and badly though
not dangerously cut. He dressed his wound
and sat up till daybreak; then hitched mp
his oX-cart and started off 10 find magis-
trate TO have Parker arrested. He con-
cluded, however, first to go by and see
Parker and demand an explanation. So
he drove towards Parker's cabin. Now,
Parker mad left him for dead, and when he
saw him driving up 10 his door, his BAN
dana around his throat, and his 81 gee whoa
bo - Ltoa tho gtfi1nacp ho haA
right to suppose that II was not Broaddus
but Broaddus's ghost. However, to make
assurance double sure he seized his gun
and fired at the poor old man; this time
killing him sure enough. Parker and
Kate Harris dragged the dead body into
the hen-house, and the OK, lOosed from
his old masters guidance, wandered down
the road and calmly browsed on such grass
as the early spring had provided.
Nelson Jennings. step-iather Of Pooley
Parker, saw the OK and cart, and asked for
Broaddus. Parker replied, "Fye killed
him, and il you doan keep your mouf shut
I'll kill you too" Jennings kept his mouth
shut until night. In the mean time the
guilty pair had removed the dead body
from the hen-house to the woods. Under
cover Of darkness Jennings went to the
house OF DR.. Turpin, Justice OF the peace,
and told the whole story.
Saturday morning a constable and
number OF citizens went to arrest Parker.
They found him chopping at the door-sill
Of the hen-house TO remove the damning
stains. They asked him where was Broad
dus. He did not know. They asked him
how came it that the clover was beaten
down (where he had dragged the body into
the hen-houseL and he said he did not know.
They asked him why he was chopping that
door-sill. He said to make it smoother.
Finally. one Of the bystanders said
" II you don't tell us where that body is
I'll cut your throat" Then he led them to
the woods and pointed TO where lay the
body OF the old man.
The man and woman (both coloredD were
arrested. The evidence is complete, and
the circumstances, as related, leave little
doubt that the man at least will make his
exit from this world on galows.