Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-04-05
LILLIAN IND CLUIERIVS.
New Facts N the Matter Of the Roser
vo;r Tragedy.
THE EVIDENCE OBTAINED.
Iwllis Il a Reporters vislt to the Tewa
Il vsa Point.

The grand jury Of the Hastings Court
viii meet On Monday, and before they
aajeurs fer the term viii be called upon
= consider the case Of Thomas Judson
eluvsrius, whs 10 held in Jail on the
charge Of numbering Fannie Lillian Madi.
cen Il the Old reservoir on the night Of
March 18th. Mr.. Charles v. Meredith,
wAs Is acting as Commonwsalth's at
tsrsey, will probably have the indict-
nsst ready by the time il is needed
H"a true bill " is found land II Is
pretty certain that it will be, since .
grand jury hears only one side Of the
sasc.) the trial may possibly come OF a
this term ofthe Hastings Court. Thai
10 she desire Of the defence, and thai
win be the course preferred by the Com.
nsswealth; but inasmuch as witnessed
are to be brought here from Bath
Ksssx, King and Queen, and King vii
han counties, it is difficult for any one
70 say with certainty when the presence
or all these can be had, and therefore
When the trial will be begun.
Personal.
Mr.. Meredith has been hard at work
IN the ease ever since he took hold Of
IL. II requires nearly al Of his time
and the most painstsking attention,
bat he will not spare himself.
In the hands of Mr.. Meredith and
Cslenel w. X. Aylett the interests OF
The Commonwealth are safe.
They make . strong team.
Mr.. Witt, before retiring, which he
was advised that IL was his duty to do,
inasmuch rs il was ascertained that the
prisoner was kinsmnn Of his, applied
irst TO Hon. George ID. Wise and then
10 Colonel John b. Young to prosecute
the prisoner, but was unable to Sc
cure either. lie then got the next best
man for the position, DIR. Charles V.
Meredith, and the public are well salts
fed with his choice.
The accused man has superb counsel
in ex-Judge W. W. Crump, A. Il.
Evans, and II. r. Pollard, Esq.
LINE or DEFENCE.
The line Of their defence is kept a
secret; but il is probable that should
the Commonwealth reinforce its evil
dencc enough TO show that it was Cluve-
nus who was seen with Lillian walking
towards the reservoir on the night Of
the 18th. the prisoner will endeaver to
break it up entirely by proving an
abb. That he was at the Davis House
about \ p. n. and again about l23 A.
d., and that he told the officers who
arrested him that he went to the Dime
Museum that night is about all that
10 known or so far limited at on this point.
THE WOMAN.
If IL were fully proved las it is not
that Cluyerius was the man with a
lish, moustache" who, in company
with woman, got off the street-car at
Reservoir street who asked the street.
car-driyer several questions, and who
went on a little distance further, and
asked DIR. Stratton some other ques-
tiens, and who with the woman) was
sesn near the reservoir, the prosecution
is still deficient in proof that this wo-
man was the deceased.
II may be that they will have wit
nesscs on this point at the trial. They
had none before the Coroner's jury.
On his way to Richmond under arrest
Cluyerius threw out the idea that he
had been personsted here by some one,
and declared that he would get de-
teetives from New York or Chicago to
usravel the mystery.
NO TAGGING.
The newspapers have not for several
days been as full a. usual Of this case,
bat the officers Of the law have not been
inactive.
Acting Sergeant Tomlinson has been
at work in King William and King and
Queen under the direction Of Dir.
Aylett. The river here has bsen
searched and in places the stream drag
sed for the wrist-satchel Of Lii
lian; the satchel which was supposed
TO contain the nste Cluvsrius wrote to
her at the American, her money and
trinkets, her scissors, needle, &c. But
it has all been in vsin. The little
satchel is still missing.
Nor has any better results crowned
the search for the missing colored mes
senger-boy. For three or four days
Detective Wren had Tyler, one of the
servants from the American Hotel, in q
hack with him going all over the city
locking for the boy. But the boy is
still absent and unaccounted for.
Ditto the old man."
TnE ARGUMENT OF THE GROUND
Those who have visited the Old re
servoir since this tragedy are nearly
unanimous in the opinion that it is mex
10 impossible for young woman |
stranger in the city, on a dark night, e
find her way from the American Hste
10 this place. II she were making FOL
the reservoir direct she would hav'
found the gates locked. II, then, sh'
turned TO the left TO enter the Hospita
grounds she would have found that gat'
locked. II she knew that by goin,
twenty Or thirty steps beyond the gat'
and nearer Holly wood she would find
panel Of the fence down, she Of cours
could have entered the hospital ground
BY that opening. But thea before sh'
got to the hole in the reservoir-ground'
fence, for al abe knew, she would en-
counter man guarding the hospits
buildings. n she met ne watchna
she had 10 pass right alongside the grave
yard Of the smallpox victims. IL sh
had nerve to pass that place and to en-
ter the hole IN the reservoir-sround'
fence, she had in the darkness of tina
strsnse ground 10 ersss a ditch on