The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-03-18
LOCAL MATTERS. ,
MURDER Iy THE FIRST DEGREE
Verdict of the Jury in the Case OF
Charles Henry Lee. Charged
with the Murder OF Dan.
icI Miller, Both
C0IOrcd.

In the Henrlco County Court ycstcr-
day-.Judge Newman, Of Hanover. pre-
siding-thc jury sworn 70 try Charles
Henry Lee for the murder OF Daniel Miller
by first striking him three blows with an
axe, and then placing the body upon the
Fredericks burg railroad, where two trains
ran over it. came in and answered TO their
names rs called by the clerk.
The clerk (Ir. WaddilD asked: Gentle
men, have YOU agreed upon verdict?
The foreman (B.J. Kollum): We have.
The clerk Charles III. Lee, stand up.
Lee. who is young man, black. tall,
and ugly, arose, looked around at the
Judge and jury quietly, and seemed alto
gether an unconceTned spectator. That is
the way the negroes usually do. Death by
hanging has no horrors for them. As a
general thing murdcrers of this class suffer
neither from remorsc for what Is done nor
from apprehension of what is TO come. The
great crowd looked at Lee curiously, but il
didn't bother him at all. He was the most
uneXcited man in the room apparently.
The clerk went on TO say How say you,
gentlemen, is he guilty Of the murder
whereof he stands indicted or not guilty
Every eye was turned on Lee, but he
didn't finch at the question, nor indeed at
the answer of Mr.. kellum-
Guilty.
Mr.. Kellum then handed the clerk the
indictment, and the clerk read the endorse
ment as follows:
We. the Jury, find the prisoner, Charles
III. Lee, guilty OF murder in the first de
gree. as charged in the indictment.
b. +. KELLUM, Foreman OF jury.
WHAT NEXT?
The prisoner then took his seat and
leaned over and spoke TO his counsel
Major Gregory, and uttered few words
of inquiry as TO what would be done with
him now. Then he Strengthened himself
up i'm an erect position and looked slowly
around at the crowd.
Judge Newman ordered the sheriff to
take charge Of the prisoner and convey
| him back to prison and put him in solitary
confinement, and to see that he was properly
secured.
NEW TRIAL ASKED.
The jury was then discharged, and
Major Gregory gave notice that he would
move the court for a new trial and file his
motion on Tuesday next ut 10 O'Clock. lie
asked TO be heard at that time, and his re-
quest was granted.
THE CROWD.
After the prisoner had been conveyed
back TO prison in the county Jail the crowd
beoan TO leave the courtroom and TO gather
IN groups in the court-yardS, where they
! discussed the verdict. In one OF the
groups very intelligent cOlOred man was
| heard TO say that he thought the verdict q
very lust one. but that the woman Barbara
was rs much implicated in the murder a
| Lee, and that she ought TO be hung too,
and that il they did not hang her Lee
should not be made to swing. Another
declared that he was well acquainted with
the father Of Barbara, ard that the old man
| had told him that she was Il nOtOriou,
| liar, and he would not believe her on OATH
and that she had lied all through her tcsti'
monv in endeavoring to shield herself from
| harm.
BARBARA's CASE.
The grand Jury that indicted Lee was
adjourned over last week, and will meet
| tomorrow, when the case OF Barbara and
that of her mother, Lucy Wilkinson, will
J be examined.
! II is thought a true bill will be found in
the case OF Barbara, and that her mother
who was arrested on suspicion, VIII be dis
charged.
The cause Of Lucy's arrest was state
ment made ty her that Lee and Barbara
would soon get rid Of Daniel, as Barbara
was tired OF living with him. There was
nothing in the testimony in the Lee cast
that implicated her.
Members OF the jury said that she de-
| serves death rs much as Lee.
| The i,lrv reached a verdict in Lees cast
ten minutes after getting to their room.