Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-02


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OF dogs that Aaron Watkins heard, and
when he heard them he fed.
. feel as IL I was insulting your IN
telligence to dwell on this part Of the
testimony" said Colonel Aylett, "and
leave it,
When a murder is committed, who
Is TO be bcnefteds Think Of this.
When mans throat is cut on the
highway, what is it for If not gold or
venom? When woman soon to be
mother is murdered, who is 20 be bene-
fitted if it is not the man who is the
father Of the child?
A DOUBLE MURDER.
And now, gentlemen, who was the
father Of that child? say the prisoner
at the bar was that father, and that he
committed double murder-that of
his offspring and the woman he had
deceived. Again, the most damnable
thing in this entire matter is the fact
that 1t has never been shown that the
prisoner ever done one kind thing for
the poor dead woman. He was en-.
gagged to Miss Bray, and he had to put
Lillian out Of the way.
Now for the motive. Can you i'm
agine case that motive does not more
thickly crowdg All gentlemen, had
his crime ever been known, would not
his old aunt have hssed him from her
home? Would he not have been sent
out from his place as assistant super
intendent Of the Sunday school at 0livet
church, and have been driven from his
place as lawyer at the bar? Disaster,
financially and professionally-ruin
dark and hideous-would have bursted
upon him wherever he turned.
CoMPLIMENTING COUNSEL.
Colonel Aylett paid counsel for the
defence a high compliment, saying that
under the depressing influences of the
trial they had done their work faithfully
and efficiently, and continuing said
The prisoner advised her to "marry
that fellow" and at that time she was
in correspondence with that honest
man Mr.. Cary Madison. Yet the
prisoner wanted her-poor soiled dove
to throw herself anywhere. To escape
the grave she perhaps wrote to the
boy Emmett Williams. All these
letters, harmless as they were, had
been preserved but his cruel, heart
less letters had been destroyed, except
one, and along with that came the low
est and dirtiest thing that ever befoul-
ed the English language-that so-called
poetry On the Delaware. - lie ought
to be hung for ever sending such a
thing to a yirtuous woman-a compost
ton so foul that the boys had to be
sent out of the courtroom be-
fore it could be read to the jury
UTTERLY HORRID.
| watched the jury and | can say
here that while it was being read that
they looked like they were in the pres
.ence OF a corpse, so utterly horrid and
atrocious was the language.
Afternoon Session.
The court resumed its session at 4
o'clock. when Colonel Aylett resumed
his remarks. lie said he had dropped
his argument at point where the mo-
tive for the murder was being discussed.
Seduction was prominent, and he
wanted to show that the boy carried her
TO Walkers for this purpose. The
presence Of Rose lIilliard was not to be
discussed. Lillian was proved TO be
twenty-one years Of age on the 9th .oi
July, and shortly after having been
with Cluyerius at Bruington she left hel
parental home and went to her uncle's'
No calamity could ever have befaller
her if she had remained in her parenta
home. Doyou recall, gentlemen of the
Jury, that Walker recited the fact thai
She went to Cluyerius for advice! Su
perior mind, education, and yilliany
gave him mastery over her. What h'
is is not shown by evidence, but by his
letters and that poem.
? BIGGS, AGAIN.
Where is Biggs? They have no
dared to put him on the stand. At al
early period both were guilty, and they
carried in their bosoms a common
secret. the degradation Of which boil
: knew.
The most damning proof was the tim
+ when Miss Bray had declared off tn
, engagement in July. lie then playe'
the other string to his bow. Then h
! went back to his old love. If | coul'
have seen his eye moisten with tea
for his poor dead playmate and cousin
q | might have believed him guiltless
You have seen efforts made to blackel
her grave and make her name hissinI
, and by-word.
l BASE FALSEH0OD.
Do YOU not know twas a base an
, guilty falsehood, made to shelter hin
from the coming doom? He came t
Richmond and put up at the Dayl
House. She registered at the Exchang
as Miss Merton-the name he gave a
college. Claggett Jones recognized he
at the Exchange as Miss Madison
What was she doing there? Mr.. Archie
recognized him. Henrietta Wimbusl
-, recognized him. They denied the nous
tache. bu: we think we have knocked tn
black out of the moustache. 1t wa
, not what men don't see, but what the.
= do see. Men had sworn that they ha'
= not seen a moustache, but there wer
three or four others who had sworn tina
they had seen him with moustache
Two of his college-mates had sworn t
a his wearing a moustache. He had see
n him pinching and twisting and patting HI
: lips as if he had a moustache. No on
= could deny this.
S Cary Msdison's and Emmett WI
liams's letters are chaste and yirtuou'
o but all of his were gone. Why are all
q his gone except the letter advising her
s marry and that abominable piece
i poetry that makes the blood boil wher
It ever it is thought of: If she was
d trouble with her father and mothel
j. ought he have taken advantage of 1t
Il What man of honor would have po
n luted and defiled her instead OF 'eekin
,e to rescue her? She went to Ba' to