Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-04

cribed to him. When II was lndited. II
u was indited by him. we do not know.
But speak Of his walk and converse
ton IN all these years as a lawyer in
the face Of the public. more or less at
tracing attention. In all this time
those who knew him best-his closest
friends andnearest neighbors-testify to
his uncommon excellence Of habit. And
yon are asked to believe that that man
was guilty Of this deed: that he did it,
in the language Of the statute, "wil-
fully, deliberately. premeditatedly,"
ant against that presumption. that pre-
posterous and unsupported presump-
ton. | raise my earnest protest.
1 pass from that question. because
there are no facts to warrant this as
cription Of motive.
THIS BOY THE APPLE or MRS. TUN-
STALLS EYE.
This girl did not stand in his way.
He need not have feared any effect upon
that aunt, whose favor it Is supposed he
was seeking, by anything which might
have transpired between those two.
You saw, We all saw. that that boy was
the apple Of her eve. You saw and
marked that when these troubles arose
at her home FIVE or six years agO-when
she was not an experienced woman of
twenty-one, but a thoughtless girl Of
sixteer--she was sent 20 the home Of
7 this accused and lived in the house
with him. When trouble was brewing
and violent discussions had led her
father TO send her from home he sent
her TO Mrs. Tunstall's. and sent here TO
the companionship Of this accused.
where. with his young blood, she passed
unscathed. And now. when it is plead
that he seduced her. gentlemen, what
Of opportunity had he:
HOW THEY NET.
Just think Of il He lived twenty
five miles away from that girls home.
Months would elapse without his visit
ing her or going into that neighbor-
hood, and he never went into that
neiehborhood. as this evidence dis
closes, except when he went to court
once a month, or when he had special
business. She lived at her fathers
house until July. Il has never been
proved that there was the slightest op-
portunity or attempt at all at her fathers
house. She moved from her fathers
house after the 4th Of july think on
the 7th Of Julv-and came to her
grandfather. where she was living on
the llth Of July. when the accused pail
a visit TO the house.
THEIR MEETING AT WALKERS.
Now that j the time he Is said 10
have Scduced her. The testimony shows
that he got there late in the evening.
Mr.. John Walker came in from his
work in the fields and found him there.
Mr.. John Walkers father and mother
and the boy who lives there were at the
house. They sat together throughout
that evening and they retired at bed
tmC-the accused and John Walker
going together and sleeping in the same
room. And the charge, and you are
asked to believe it. that in the dead
hour Of that night he got up from
his bed. opened door. walk
ed into an entry. opened an
other door, and walked into another
room. and walked through that room
and opened another door and entered
the room Of the deceased, and there, in
that room. in a wooden country house.
where possibly you could touch with
your hand the ceiling, it is said that he
d,Gauched her. AID her grandfather and
grandmother sleeping in the very room
below and the uncle sleeping in the
room which he left, he passing through
three rooms and opening the latch Of
each in order to accomplish this pur.
pose. and You are asked TO say upon
your oaths that he then and there Sc
duccd her. Sirs, can you say it:
HOW THEY THINK IT MIGHT HAVE
BEEN.
And II is suggested that perhaps thi:
thing occurred in the morning. JOhr
Walker says he got up and went out e
attend TO the stable and to the milking
and was gone about an hour after the
dav had broken. Ii might have hap
pened while he was milking the COWS ol
feeding the horses. And you are asked
TO believe that tins unhappy girl-thii
deceased girl-was capable Of lendin.
herself 70 that sort Of intercourse undel
the circumstances that surrounded her
Now, ask every disinterested mar
who hears this case to remember upoi
this point Of seduction that this accused
, never visited that girl but once a month
, when he attended the courts or wa
, there on business; that he lived TWEEN
e. ty-fye miles away from her, and tha
the theory Of the Commonwealth Is tha
be debauched her by quitting the room
, in which her uncle slept, passing through
. three doors Of communication and hold
ing intercourse with her over the room
p in which her grandmother and grand
, father slept; and that Is the merest
, the purest. and the widest speculation
unsupported by single fact in thl
= case. except where the mind IS prepare
TO believe all that the fancy may fur
, nish in the form Of accusatory conjec
ture Il will not call il evidence agalns
r this accused.
ONE LITTLE FACT.
There is one little fact for you. mel
Of age and reason, in this case that /
conclusive 10 my mind that there neye
had been criminal intercourse betwee'
T. them. Sirs. they found one letter 0
his in her possession. That letter Wa
dated in September; | think Septem
Der 10th. Mark you, II Is charge
that this thing was done IN July, possi
blv in August. But here IS lette
D written by him to her in September
u and there is not line in II that an a.
= fectionate and a decent cousin nigh
= not have penned--nOt one. New,
2 appeal TO every gentleman on that jur
d who has had a years experience OF lii
n to say if man coresPonded with
d woman with whom be had Illicit intei
{: course but shortly before, would ther
e not. between the lines OF that CORE
! spondence. be something TO disclose
? in some shape or form: Would nc
e that desire kindle blaze in his bosor
.,d its fame be seem Would he hay