Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-04

by, Of West Point, the simple ques-
ton WAS IL in the evening or at
night that you saw ne at the Dime
Museum
THE RESERVOIR.
Going out to the reservoir, Mr.
Crump said the source Of the death OF
this girl is as unsolved as the problem
Of the Egyptian Pyramids.
The body was found in the reservoir
6ropned. and Coroner Taylor says that
TIE medical facts are consistent either
with murder or suicide, but that the
death was unquestionably by drorni"g.
II is fancied that struggle took place
that her shawl and bat were torn oil
and her gloves removed; but DIR. Tay-
lor says that her hair was perfectly un-
disturbed, and her person was as neat
as il she had just come from before the
iooking-glass.
Does this indicate any struggle? Then
look at the distribution Of her clothing.
You may conjecture from now until
doomsday, but you can't remove the
fact that her shawl was found on Dun
stan's fence. and here Mr.. Crump dis
posed Of the stickle-grass on the shawl
by theory that it came from the coun-
ty Of Bath. Then, no murderer, he
said, would have put body IN the
reservoir. II was certain to be found
there. The shawl couldn't have been
put at Dunstan's except by somebody
who knew where the Dunstans lived !;
and thus he argued that Lillian's clothes
were either distributed by herself OF by
some one familiarly acquainted with the
reservoir grounds.
A SUGGESTION.
Mr.. Crump strongly advanced the
theory that somebody put that hat IN
the dead-house between the date Of the
finding Of the body and the Tuesday
when the hat was discovered. 1t is i'm
possible, that If it had been in that
house all the time some one Of the
thousands Of people who visited the
locality would not have seen it.
THE UNMKAsURED TRACKS.
Mr.. Crump charged that the Com
monwealth has been fagrantly negligent
in this case. They did not measure
those tracks in the red clay soil, and
now they seek to visit upon US the pen
alty Of their remiSsness. And that Is
Characteristic Of this case, said he.
Because the officers who made the ar
rest did not place the link and chain
beyond reasonable doubt we are held
to accountability.
Nobody measured the tracks between
the embankment and the fence. All
that is said by the workmen is that TO
their ewes the track Of the man was
large" but the prisoner wears a No.
81. and ifan overshoe it would be light
G; shoes. which TO the minds Of Train
ham and Hutcheson. would have looked
small.
So that, gentlemen Of the jury, you
cannot believe beyond reasonable
doubt that the tracks were his.
Right along here Mr.. Crump called
10 mind variations Of time, as Illus
trated in the evidence Of several wit
nesses. and, declared he, you must
give him the benefit Of the doubt"
This was made specially applicable
TO the alleged Belle-Isle visit. where the
Commonwealth cOntended she was with
prisoner between 1890 and or .
O'Clock. and where two Mr.. Dodsons
declare that she came into dinner about
] O'Clock:
Remarking on the evidence Of the
visits Of prisoner to the American. Mr..
Crump showed that none Of the white
men lhe called names not mentioning
colorl were able 10 identify him posi-
lively. Tyler lcolored) said prisoner
had a Derby hat on; that prisoner was
half head taller than witness. Such
is the testimony given TO you. and it is
for you to say whether it identi6e,
Cluverius " beyond reasonable doubt.
The evidence Of Tucker. the ting
horse boy talso coloredl, Mr.. CrumI
quickly disposed Of. Tucker proba.
bly, made no impression on the jury.
So the only remaining witness is Mr.
Williams, the car-driver, who didn't
posifirely identify prisoner.
Said Mr.. Crump: Il don't believe
that that girl ever went out there will
any man.
HE WENT TO THE DIMEMUSEUM.
He didn't believe she ever cam'
back 10 the American after G o'clock
With Mr.. Dodson, he believed tina
she never came back 10 the hotel aftel
she leit there with her baggage after
=. NJ. If he and she did 60 saunterin.
out towards the reservoir. can 1t b
possibly believed that he had a mur
oerOuS intent:
But Mr.. Crump's argument was 4
show that be was not with her tia
he went 10 the Dime Museum that, IL
great calmneSS. in usual demesncr, hI
returned 10 his hotel about II; tina
/ he sat down there and ate some ap
pies that he quietly returned to HI
home next morning and went about tn,
pursuit Of his profession. as no guilt!
man could have done. No scratches a
all on the hands were seen by thos
with him on the cars. The old gentle
mans account Of how the scratche
were received was natural was toll
in a natural manner. and he could no
be broken down by cross-eXaminatlon
said Mr.. Crump.
THE BELLE-ISLE VISIT.
Ii is absurd to suppose that this cou
pie would have gone TO Belle Isle to
1 gether any more than they would to tn
Dime Museum, and in an examination
Of the testimony Of the Belle-lsle wit
nesses Mr.. Crump found that Mr.. Isaac
only got to Belle Isle about quartz
10 ., and he saws he saw them.
50, gentlemen Of the jury, you knO'
they were not this couple. He her
also commented upon the lack Of pos
tiveDeSs in the testimony Of all th
Belle-Isle witnesses. and pressed upo
the jury their obligation to throw int
the scale in behalf Of prisoner ever
! doubt.
THAT REMARKABLE KEY.
The finding Of that key at the resel
voir Mr.. Crump characterized as one {
the most remarkable things that eve
happened. Saturday morning, Marc
1 the i4th was a colA frosty mNrniug