Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-05-29
Friday. March Is. The teller thought the
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prisoner had slight moustache.
WHERE AT IL O'CLOCK NJ.
Five workmen at the Belle Isle Nail
Works, ION little island in James River
opposite Richmond, and reached by foot
bridge,) testified positively to having seen
Cluverius. with short, stout young
woman in delicate condition Of health,
visiting the works on Friday, March 18th,
her last day alive. They staid from IL till
/ O'Clock. He wore hat similar to the
one found at his home by the officers, and
which he did not want to wear to Rich
mond when arrested. He had hand
satchel in his hand. The woman appeared
in low spirits, and Cluverius was laughing
and gay. OF the five witnesses, three Wis.,
tied the Jail at different periods after his
arrest and without previous information
picked him out from among a crowd of
prisoners standing together. This identl-
fication seems hard tor the defense to
overcome. Two hours before this visit,
Cluverius YVES az the Planters Bank,
where the teller was under the impress
sion that he had slight moustache. The
Belle Isle workmen thought he was clean
| shaved when he was there.
WHERE AFTER O'CLOCK P. M.
Mrs. Mary Curtis, the occupant Of
| house of ill fame on 18th street, testified
that between IL and 2 clock T. M. on Fri
day, March 18th, the prisoner came to the
house with woman dressed in a black
| dress, blue Jersey and red crochet shawl
| (Lillian's exact costume) and deeply
yelled. Clara Anderson, another occu-
pant, testified to recognizing the woman
as having been there with Cluverius early
in January. On the January visit, the
woman had sat fully ten minutes before
the fire. Witness fully identified her as
the same woman.
| WHERE AFTER 2 O'CLOCK PM.
A witness testified t. having seen Gu
verius at the Dime Museum and spoken
to him after O'Clock. Friday the 18th.
WHERE AT O'CLOCK p. M.
A. R. Jones Was acquainted with pris-
oner. Saw him Friday, March 18th, be-
tween II A. M. and P. NJ, standing
near tho American Hotel apparently wait
| ing for street car. With him was a
! short, stout, pleasant faced lady, having
| something red about her apparel. Wit
ness Identified photograph of Lillian as a
likeness of the lady he saw that day with
| the prisoner. At that moment prisoner
looked clean shaved, like he had just come
out of the barber shop.
WHERE AT s O'CLOCK Pm
The night clerk at the Amer ic an Hotel
identified the prisoner as the 10 an who call
ed at the hotel Friday, March, 18th, at or
$50 P. M. and asked to see tn occupant of
''Room No. 21," Lillian's 70 om.) Sent up
his card and was shown into the parlor.
Had on at the time light colored over.
coat and SLOUGH hat, (suc as the Belle
Isle witnesses described he had when
there). Thought he had a moustache.
Picked him out from amor lg other prison
ers at the man. A comm rcial traveller
who was acquainted witt the prisoner,
also identified him az being at the hotel
at that hour.
WHERE at O'CLOCK P. NJ.
The colored 'ooy who dri yes the 18th street
tug horse to the street cars, testified to
having seen the prisoner, wearing light
overccat, with hand satchel in his hand,
standing with a lady having on red
sh?.Wl. near the American Hotel, Friday
Tight, March 18Th, at 9 O'Clock. Prison.
( er called to witness to stop the car for
/ him and witness did it. After prisoner
and the lady got on the car, witness rode a
little way with the driver and looked we'll
at them through the window. Posi- lively
identified prisoner.
WHERE AT 9:35 P. Al.
The white driver of the street car testi.
fed that he could not say where the man
and woman got on the car, but when be
stopped the car at Reservoir street, the
end of bis run, at 9:35 o'clock, man, like
the prisoner, got out with lady who had
something wrapped up under her arm. AS
they got out, the man asked where Reser-
voir street was, and the driver told him
he was on 1t. The couple then started
down Reservoir street. The man had on
light overcoat and SLOUGH hat. Witness
could not and would not swear that this
man was Cluverius. Dr.. Stratton, q phys
ician, testified that passing along Reser
vOir street the same night between and
10 O'Clock, he saw a man and woman, the
man wearing dark overcoat and the wo-
man with something under her arm and
wearing tight fitting body. He was be-
hind the couple and the man turned sud-
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ing tone, "What street is this?" and
fWhat time is it?" Answered both cues.
tions, and the man in going off remarked
to the woman, II know that fellow, but
he don't know me-" Witness could not
swear it was Cluyerius, but if it was him,
witness knows of but one place he could
have seen him before, and that was at
Richmond College in 1882 where witness
was student.
WHERE HE WAS AT THE HOUR OF THE
MURDER-A MUTE WITNESS.
No living tongue will answer this ques-
ton. The only witness the prosecution
had was mute one-a watch-key found
on the fatal spot. OF this key Thomas
Nowlan, the jeweler, testified that he had
not seen one like it for twenty years. He
had tried it On the watch of Cluverius
and it fitted it exactly. The key did not
look like it had been in use for more than
ten years and the new steel pipe that had
been repaired on to it did not seem to be
more than three years in use. Herman
Joel, a jeweler of Richmond, who also bias
a shop in King William, knew the prison
er and had repaired a watch-key for him.
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