Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1885-06-26
DEATH sEYrEYoR or oLUVKRIUs.

DEA TIL SENTENCE or CL UVERIUlS.
The Judge of the Hastings Court, at
Richmond, Va, before whom Thomas J.
Cluycrius was tried and found guilty of the
murder Of Fanny Lillian Madison, has pro-
nounced the sentence of death upon the
doomed man and fixed the Goth day OF No
vember for its execution
II remains to be seen what the Court of
Appeals of that State will do. This Court
convenes on the End of November, when
this case will be considered at once, it hav-
ing been taken up on exceptions noted dur
ing the trial. The Court below exercised the
greatest care in its rulings and it is hardly
probable that any additional argument be-
fore the highest Court in the State will
change the existing status, unless some new
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. isdiscoyered, which
has been recently claimed TO have been
found, which will be inquired into to-day
on another motion for new trial.
Whether or not the evidence produced at
the Trial was sufficient TO warrant the find.
ing OF verdict Of guilty is question we
will not at this time, consider. II Is claimed
by large portion OF the press that the ver-
dict was given more in anticipation of pub
lac sentiment than by reason OF sufficient
testimony. BE this as 1t may. we have yet
TO hear of any one who either read or heard
of the evidence and circumstances attend
ing the tragic end of that unfortunate glrl,
donbt TOR one moment ss 10 the guilt Of
Cluverius Let as assume. however, that
Cluverius did not commit the act, that he
was absent from Richmond on the night af
the murder-that Lillian Madison persisted
by Lillian Madison's own hand, and yet we
contend that Cluverius was accessory to the
act and as such should be hung. He wnn
the affections Of that confidng girl only to
ruin her-haying accomplished his purposes,
he left her with the burden Of her shame 10
drilt through life No one can doubt that
Cluvcrius was the architect of all of this
poor girls unhappiness, and if on that dark
night in dark and secluded place she
sought to perish by her own hand, the
hellish acts Of her betrayer drove her 10 the
act and he should be hung by the neck until
he he dead.
No other criminal case 10 many years in
Virginia has excited so much and so gen
eral interest as the Cluverius case The
crime FOR which Cluverius has been con.
victed was a peculiarly atrocions one--she
was his sweetheart, his cousin, and then be-
cause his base purposes could be no longer
concealed, he murdered her
II seems strange that man brought up
under refining influences, and having the
advantages OF good education and excel
lent religious training could be guilty of
such cold FLOODED murder There is some
little excuse for one who, in the hest of
passion, stains his hands In human blood,
but there is none where the foul crime of
murder il deliberately planned, and the
pre,ense OF love or friendship is kept up
until the moment for the execution OF the
awful deed arrives. j! the theory of the
State in the Cluyerius cass Is right, Cluverius
maintained the attitude Of lover until he
was ready to rob Lillian Madison of her life
at the Richmond reservoir. He began To
put into execution his horrible purpose
even while he spoke words OF love and
called % his victims face The smile Of con
fdence. Poor girl, well may il he said of
her
Betrayed too early and beguiled too long"