Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-05-07
A Jury Viii Probably be Got Here IN
Richmond.

To freghon the minds Of regular
readers Of the D,spGtch and 10 give
new subscribers M insight INTO the case,
the following brief history Of the Re
servoir Tragedy has been prepared.
Facts are stated rs facts and surmlses
as surmises. There is no effort 70 sus-
tam Euybody's theory no attempt 10
adjust the evidence to conjecture OF
possibility. The aim If to present 70
the intelligent public the truth as far as
the same Is known. What hurts and
what helps the prisoner is gwen with
equal pointedness. The object If to tell
the people, concisely, all that we now
know. and so prepare them to better
understand and more correctly estimate
the value Of the evidence about 70 be
produced IL court upon the trial Of the
prisoner.
LILLIAN AND TOMMIE,
MisF Fannie Lillian Madison and
Thomas Judson Cluverius (Kla'veers)
were second cousins. She was IN her
twenty-secons wear he Is IN hif twen-
ty-fourth. They formerly lived IN
King William county, and had known
each other from childhood. They had
met under her parents roof; at their
aunt's ,Mrs. TunstRll's); at her IN
cle's (Mr. John Walker s., and else
where.
The parents Of both are living.
Both families are IN very mode
rate circumstances, though connected
bv blood and marriage with many Of
the best people III hing William and
hing and Queen counties.
EDUCATION.
Lillian and Tommie were both largely
indebted to Mrs. Tunstsll for educt-
tionsl advantages. Mrs. Tunstsll is q
widow Of means, and she sent Lillian
10 the Brungton Academy and him 70
the law-school Of Richmond College,
where ne EiaOuuAcN IA 4 op--s
SoNith her means and with manifold
other help Mrs. Tunstall prepared niece
and nephew for the journey Of ife-s
tourney that ought 10 have been plea
SAINT and prosperous. but has proved
teInpestuOus IN an extraordinary de-
gree.
LAST Al HONE.
Lillian and Iommie were on good,
pheasant. cOuslnly terms, and she was
known to be deeply attached 10 him,
but they were not generally spoken OF as
lovers. II any engagement OF marriage
existed il was kept quiei. In fact, the
neirhborhood talk was tina; ms ahec-
tions and aims were in sn altogether
different direction.
July the Sth. 1854, Lillian len her
parents' home, near ManquIns TO 60
10 the house Of her grandparents and
uncle. near by--a place where she was
as much al home as with her
father and mother. While there,
through the influence Of relative IN
Bath county. she secured the position
Of school-teAcher al Mrs. Dickinsons'
near Millboro'. Several times during
the summon she was visited al her nn-
cle's (aif. Walker by Tommie Gu
venus. October the 10th, 1854, she
left King William for Bath r'a Rich
nond. She was near her parents
home. but did not 70 back 10 tell them
goodbye. A relative drove her to
Richmond lsome twenty-five niles, and
here she remained few days al the
residence Of 81 aunt.
Long afterwards il was discovered
that while she was here II Richmond
Tomnis was here too. II is surmlsed
that they met, but, ii so, where or ex-
aetly when Is not known.
HER MOUNTAIN HONE.
Bv the middle OF October Lillian was
located 81 her new home in Bath county.
She found Mrs. Dickinson living II q
beautiful place on the Cowpasture
river. some four or five miles from
Nillboro'.
Mr.. Dickinson is = weli-to-do cattle
trader, and is often away in West Nir-
ginia making purchases. They hnveno
children Of their own, bat Willie Dick