Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-02

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people--their minds we're unemployed
and better calculated 10 recall faces.
THE KEY.
A key Of . strange and old make IS
found there by John Williams, small
boy, who stood his cross-examination
better than any witness ] most ever
saw. He carried it to Wren, and il has
been identified. Joel said he thought
the prisoner was the man whom he had
seen with the key; that the key was
the same; that he mended it for Gu
verius. lie wanted the key opened,
and defence objected.
Read Calvert Harris's order on Joel
for the watch to be delivered to the
prisoner. Didn't this identify himg
He got the old negro's money under
false pretences. He was high in the
Church, assistant superintendent Of the
Sunday school, and model Of Chris
tian men. There's character for you.
Is there any signing Of the magistrate
here? said the Colonel, showing the
order for the watch. This deserves to
be framed with the poetry, "0n the
Delaware and yet misguided
men have come here and sworn
to his good character. Walker had
identified the key to the best of his
ability because the prisoner had offered
to swap. lie had identified the key
himself by the attempted destruction
of its identity. Captain Epps charged
Mr.. Robins to look for the watch
chain, but there was nothing to it.
Oliver saw it, too. When they reached
Richmond the pendant was gone. How
lame and impotent his brothers. tale
that he brought il along, thinking it
would be important. He had furnished
the Commonwealth with evidence to
hang his brother.
The falsehood told by the prisoner
furnishes the Commonwealth with an
other Of the many misstatements with
which this case bristles. His own guilty
action had identified the key. The Tun-
stall key neither fitted nor wound the
watch of the prisoner, and the one found
did.
HIS ARREST.
Did ne ask for what he was arrested ?
The coolness of that family was some
thing past understanding. None of
them asked for what he had been
arrested. Their behavior was won
derful. II was a time for screams
and palpitaton of the heart. and
vet no one was startled. This was
q moral young man, who drank when
ever an opportunity offered, and
smoked when he could, and who had
the nerve to pray land he ought to
have prayed. lie entered upon the
trial laughing, smiling. When his
cousins clothes were laid out and Mrs.
Dickinson was on the stand, his eyes
were dry when hardly any one else's in
the courtroom was.
THE LETTERS OF THE l4rH.
The two letters dated the l4th 0I
March. one to his aunt and one to his
grandmother. were referred to. lie
made her write these letters under some
deyilish pretext. He wanted to show
| that she would be alive on the l4th
| while he would be in King William
What a skilful and diabolically con
ceiyed plan was this, that his own hanC
E should free him from suspicion. Tit
r paper and envelopes found on the pri
G soner when arrested corresponded Will
c the letter and paper of the letter
e written by Lillian. The reason h
1 wanted company on his visit t
n Richmond was to identify him a
r being away when this manufacture
!. testimony showed Lillian alive.
n At6:l5 o'clock Colonel Aylett aske
i the Court to take recess for tiv
e minutes and this was done.
t At G:30 o'clock the court resume
: its session, when Colonel Aylett pre-
y ceeded TO finish his remarks.
: THE CLOTHING.
Colonel Aylett alluded to the chang
of clothing when the prisoner was al
rested. He said even if it was test
It fed to by the brother-he wouldn't tsa
n proyen-that they changed clothing,
y was mighty bad time to chang
n clothes. lie changed his slouch ha
h for q Derby hat, and the excuse wa
that it had a hole in it. Where
e the hat that their own witnes
e (NIr. jones' saw at King and Quee
d Courthouse on Monday with hal
e mark in it. The hat produced wa
d not the hat. Again, why di
IT he write a postal-card at Littl
!, Plymouth on the 10th, and date 1t
). Tappahannock. His guilty soul wa
n restless and was beating at its doors
g make proclamation Of its guilt. Tha
is the only way to account for his writ
ing to Mr.. Walker, to whom he ha
never written before. He told MI
d Robins that he was well known her
n and could explain where h
o was, but had never done j
is He said that he could prove where b
% was and would get detectives frol
II abroad to clear him, and intimate
n that some one like him had personate
l, him. Yet he had never accounted fC
II his whereabouts between s and
n O'Clock on the 18th of March.
; COLONEL AYLETT's PERoRATIo'
- Oh. Oh, the danger that hoyers oy'
= him from his failure to account fC
! those fatal hours between 8 and II
70 NJ. Oh, the terrible peril that he
:, in from his failure to keep his promi'
y " to account for himself at that time
- OF all the men in the world he is Il
- one man who can do it. And ye
t. with all the anxiety Of friends and vii
- 20 all the fears that must hang over hin
" and with all the fidelity and ability
:, counsel, not one word is vouchsafed
!. YOU where he was between those fat
80 hours. There is but one suppositiC
- 70 and hypothesis, gentlemen, consisteI
"s with all the other facts, dangero'
y facts. in this cause--that he was out
= that reservoir there in his guilty VOL
= of killing that woman. Every 9th
:, fact in the cause makes loud proclaim
:, ton of it, and there is no escape fro
No. the inexorable destiny that chains hi
- there at that place and within that tim
=. What other effort is it that he max