Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-28
THEFORGED LETTERS.

J T. U IOIhIIf M ] IhNs
Cluvcrius. when he read the SuggcS-
tion that he (Cluycrius) was the real
author and concoctcr of the forged let
terS. was amused. Why, he said that
the thing was ridiculous and impossible.
What knowledge could he have of it, he
asked.
These forged letters. the public will
remember. were found in Lilian's trunk
and bore the signature Of a Richmond
young lady, who denies that she ever
saw them. and who, moreover, says that
they are in Lillian handwriting. They
purport to be from young lady who
arranges with Lillian for Lillian to come
to Richmond on the 10Th or 18th OF
March and 90 with her aunt to Old
Point !" for Sun-bathS." These letters
Lillian read to Mrs. Dickinson, and Mrs.
Dickinson advised Lillian to take the
trip.
\ FELLOW-PRISONEE'S BELIEF.
\ prisoner who is in Jail for failing
to give security to be Of good behavior,
and who acts as yard-master, saws he
frequently talks to Cluveriu>. He says
Cluycrius is in las good spirits aS any
one J ever saw, and no one could make
ne believe that he is guilty of this
crime unless he himself were to tell me
he lCluyeriuS) did it. He does not
make light of the newspapers. but reads
them with much interest; gets them
regularly every morning. and after hav-
ing finished reading them brings them
TO my cell and gives them to me to read.
| have been very much impressed, by
his manner and behavior. that he is in-
nOcent. | remember one day his read
ing to me the report in the paper OF his
eating a robin pie and of his buying a
standing collar. He laughed at it
heartily. lie has not had any robin
pie, bat he bought collar, which |
sent ont for. About the whiskey he
bought at Mark Davis'S. he said that
he took il home for his father, who is
in bad health, and that he himself does
not drink. lie told me that lac was
greatly surprised when they came to
arrest him on such charges. have
rat there in the yard, studied him and
booked AT him. and if he is guilty he
beats any man have ever seen !;
for there is nothing that can see
in his actions to arouse suspi-
ciSn in my mind. lie has never
asked me what | think about the case.
When Whitlock and Hopkins were in
jail they asked me a dozen times what
| thought about their case, but Cluyc-
rius has never done 80. Bdt he (Clu-
veriu>) talks to me about different
pieces of news that we see in the
papers. Mrs. TunStall, his aunt, was
to see him this yesterday morning and
remained with him about an hour.
When she left he came back in the
yard laughing and in fine spirits, but
he is always that way. You would
have thought he had been 10 see n
young girl. never saw man outside
of prison who was in better spirits than
he is, and if you were in the yard with
him you would come to the same con-
clusion."
NOTHING ~ THE RESERVOIR.
Yesterday morning, by order Of Mayor
". e. Darlington, the water in the
Old reservoir was for the second time
drawn of, and the tcrra-cotta colored
sediments that have for years remained
undisturbcd in the bottom and around
the edges Of the reservoir for the second
time within month exposed its hideoas
and filthy face to public gaze.
The reservoir. for some reason, Is
sub-disided by walls Of brick masonry,