Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-05-23

her. ! did not see the young man
when be left the hotel.
| To Colonel Aylett: Ny mind was
FIRST connected with the prisoner by the
press publications, in which it was
stated that he had been charged with
the murder. That was the following
week, and as soon as ] heard Of his ar
rest thought Of the man ! saw, and /
carried him fresh in my mind until the
time when | saw him in jail.
To Dir. Evans The gentleman and
Tyler with the card left the Office to.
gether. Prisoner was going to the
parlor to await the result Of sending
his card TO Lillian, but at that moment
she was out of her room.l
william Tyler CCoIered).
This rather stylish, young mulatto
was next sworn.
| have been living in the city since
August, and am night-@atchman at the
American Hotel, and was there on the
18th of March.
Mr.. Meredith: Look upon the pri-
soner and tell the jury if you ever saw
him before.
Witness docking at Cluverius): Yes,
| sir.
The first time ! saw the prisoner was
about 81 o'clock on Friday night, when
the clerk rang the bell, and when ! re-
sponded he gave me a card, which
was to take to 81.
THE OLD MAN.
Witness then proceeded to say that
be took the gentleman to the parlor
and the card TO 81. The lady was out.
He so informed the gentleman. Pre-
s.ntly the lady came in with an old man
who looked like " bed-pedlcr." The
old nan said the young lady wanted a
room. Tyler told him that she could
get it. Then took the lady's baggage
TO 21 and the lady followed. In the
parlor the young man and the lady of
q did not speak to each other, &C., &C.,
&c.
TYLER's TESTIMONY.
To Judge Crump: | have been at
the American since last August, and
60 on duty as night-watchman at 8
o'clock. 1t is my duty to watch the
whole house, and anything not going on
right to report it to the clerk. That
night when | was rung for was in the
writing-room. The young man whose
card had in my hand went with me to
the parlor.
Yes, sir; ! was examined at the
almshouse, and there saw the young
lady in her coffin. Yes, sir; | signed
my statement; that is, | signed my
name; they wrote the statement. |
was also examined at the Police Court
and at the Jail. The man whose card
had in my hand was just like the
prisoner.
| DERBY AND NoUSTACHE AND OVER
COAT.
He had few sandied-color NOUS
! tache didn't notice his hair. His over
coat was gray, and his hat was like
mine ia Derbyl. ] can't say that his
overcOat was a reversible overcOat.
Yes, sir, saw the prisoner at the Jail,
at the CorOner's inquest. | saw him
take of his overcoat, and il was rever-
sible Overcoat but didn't say that
recognized him by the coat. Yes, sir,
| recognized the overcoat at the jail,
! but at the hotei did not know it was
reversible. said at the Jail that it
was the light side Of that overcoat that
| saw him wearing at the hotel.
The prisoner, it is charged, wore his
brothers overcoat and Derby hat when
he came to Richmond under arrest.
When he was here March the 18th he
had on a round-top black slouch hat.l
ROss-QUEsTIONING.
Here prisoners counsel crosS-ques-
toned witness as to descriptions of the
oyercoat, &C., heretofore given, and
they undoubtedly conficted with his
present testimony.
At the Jail witness recognized pri-
soner "by the ovsrcoat" he had on.
Yet that was probably not the overcoat
he wore here on the 18th.
His own overcOat and rOund-crown,
wide-brim, black slouch hat were re-
Gently found at Mrs. Tunstall's under
searoh-wArrant.
Tyler is the only witness that de-
scribes the prisoner with Derby hat.
"THE OLD MAN"
Tyler to other questions of de-
fence The "old man" said: Here
is a lady who wants a room. Can't
she get one? told him that there
were plenty Of rooms and that she
could get one. then carried her
to her room (2l. The old man went
in the parlor and sat down. 1t was in
the parlor the old man said the young
lady wants a room. The young man
was in there too. The old man and
lady left the parlor at the same time.
| The old man went down stairs. | car
ried the lady TO her room (2D. The
young man went down TO the Office of
the hotel.
THE THREE In THE PARLOR.
The three sat in the parlor only
few minutes. The young man didn't
speak to the young lady while the old
man was present. No, sir; didn't
tell the old man that the lady had a
room nor did tell the young lady
before she went TO her room that the
young man was the one whose card
had taken TO her room. When saw
him in the office afterwards told him
that she wanted to see him in the par
lor; that she said that he was the man
who was to have come for her in the
morning.
THE PRNNsYLvAEIAHs.
No. sir; don't remember an old
gentleman and his daughter who ar
rived there that night by the northern
train. Perhaps may have seen them,
but / don't remember.
LAWYERS AFTER TYLER.
Here the counsel for defence pro-
duced witnesses evidence a. taken at the
Coroner's inquest, showing wherein his
present statement differed from it, and
bringing out the fact that "ths young
n an