Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-05

told her that her Cousin Tommie Clu-
vcrius had written to her (Lillian) to
come to Richmond on trip Of
love to see Mrs. Tunstall, who. he
said, was not expected to live. She
couldn't play this game twice, and the
Curtis letters were written. When
Lille came back from her visit to
Richmond in January she told Mrs.
Dickinson that she had met her Cousin
Tommie in the city.
HOW lie LOOKED WHEN ARRESTED.
The speaker referred to the fact Of
the coolness Of the prisoner when ar
rested. No cry, no screams, no excite
ment marked the occasion. Mrs. Tun-
stall, the prisoners brother, and the
members Of the family all took the
matter coolly, a matter that certainly
involved a charge Of murder and conse-
| quences Of character so serious as to
arouse the public everywhere.
THE TORN NOTE.
Mr.. Meredith took up the discussion
Of the torn note, and showed how patent
this was as proof that T. j. Cluverius
was here in the city Of Richmond on
the 18th day Of March, and at that time
was in communication with Fannie Lii
Ian Madison; The idea that proof was
wanting to show that it was 7. j. Gu
yerius that the note was addressed to
was disposed Of by the fact that when
| Fannie Madison came back to the hotel
she asked the clerk, Mr.. Dodson, if
there was not note there for her. She
asked what had become Of the note,
and this showed that she had seen the
man and he had asked her about it.
Seven men had identified her as being
at the hotel, aud the prisoner had been
placed with her near the hotel.
The note was sent to 7. j. Cluverius,
and when she came back to the hotel
she asked for the note. Didn't this
show that the man she addressed the
note to had seen her, and did not the
note show that it was addressed to the
prisoner at the bar?
THE BELLE-IsLE WITNESSES.
Old man Martin, man who had held
positions Of trust in Manchester-a
man OF respectability-had testified
that he saw a couple on Belle lsle---a
man just like the prisoner and woman
like the deceased, and as they passed
him he heard the woman say, " Why,
Cousin Tommie "
At this point the prisoner leaned for
ward and looked anxiously at Mr..
Meredith. There was on his face a
most painful look, and the excitement,
the force and effect of what was said,
was shown so plainly that a reporter
had his attention called to it by
a friend who sat near and who
said, Look at the prisoner" His
troubled look was pitiful enough to ex-
cite sympathy. Old man Martin had
looked at the prisoner closely. because
he thought he had seen young lawyer
before that looked like the man.
Mr.. Meredith went carefully through
all the Belle-ISle testimony and showed
that none of the witnesses had any
prejudice against the prisoner. Several
Of these Belle-lsle witnesses went down
to the Jail and without trouble pointed
out the prisoner. All picked out the
same man. Wasn't this wonderful was
there ever a case of stronger circum-
stantal evidence? And mark you,
gentlemen, this is the man that has
been proven to have seduced the wo-
man! Seven mcn had all picked out
the man to whom the note was address,
ed. and none of them had ever seen
him but once before. If there had
been any confederate in Richmond,
would it not been probable that
he would have turned up in Richmond
on the 18th of March, and would he
not have been the man that she would
first have seen? Here were absolute
facts-seven men identifying man to
whom note had been addressed in the
morning by the dead. She was last
seen at Belle Isle little after 1890
o'clock, and old man Dodson says she
was back at the American Hotel some
short time after | o'clock. She had
plenty Of time to reach the hotel at that
time.
lIr. Meredith said it was natural
that the prisoner let her 90 to the hotel
to get her dinner, because he didn't
want to be seen in a restaurant with
her. At 2 o'clock she was with him
at brothel on Fifteenth street. Jo-
seph Dodson had seen her in the dining
room eating dinner with her hat on,
and Diggs, the head waiter, had also
testified to seeing her.
HE WAS THE MAN.
Mr.. Meredith said that he had shown
that the prisoner at the bar was the
man the deceased came from Bath to
visit. Now, if he was the man identi-
fed as being at Belle Isle with woman,
why did he not produce the woman
Isaacs, one Of the Belle-lsle witnesses,
had identified the woman dead at the
almshouse as the woman he had seen at
Belle Isle with the accused.
The testimony of Mr.. James that he
saw Cluyerius and Miss Madison near
the American Hotel, and his identified
ton of the deceased from a photograph
of her showed beyond doubt that
the accused and the deceased were
together about midday in the city OF
Richmond near the American Hotel on
the 18th of March.
THE CURTIS LETTER.
Tuesday night after the tragedy the
witness Tyler testified before the Coro-
ner what passed between the deceased
and young man who called on her at
the hotel.
The words that Tyler repeated were
found in the Curtis letter, and were only
known to the writer and Mrs. Dickin-
son. up in Bath county. Now, how did
TYLER found out this? Yet he repeated
Just what had been agreed upon in these
letters. Didn't this back Tyler up?
Again, Tyler said to Sandersen that
night, after he had put out the lights in
the young lady's room, "Ain't you
the young man that took out the young
lady from the hotel tonight" This
was before Jack Wren had taken a
hand in the case, and Tyler knew no
thing OF the murder. 1t was strange that