Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-06-26

able and came out of the northern dining
DOM, and there the Dispatch man greeted
lin the second time. Mr.. Savage said he
wanted to go up to his room; would be
Town in three minutes. He courteously
bowed and went upstairs. Three minutes |
passed; five went by; ten were gone, and
Mr.. Savage did not return, In the mean |
time, however, the journalistic watcher
had learned that Mr.. Savage had not gone |
to his room, but to Mr.. Johnsous. 1t was
on the top foor-No. 55. A rap at the |
door. Then voice said. Come in" Re-
porting party went in, and at his heels
Mr.. Nowlin, the detective.
1t was near dark and the gas had not
been lighted. Mr.. johnson (who is the
clerk on duty at night was in bed; Mr..
Savage was sitting on the bed by Mr..
Johnson's side. Mr.. Savage is near six
feet high; young, straight, and strong; has
light complexion, and wears no other
beard than closely cropped moustache
The preliminaries were few. The re-
porter stated his business; Mr.. Savage an
swered civilly.
The inquiry was made, Was it at the
matinee or at the night performance Of tie
18th Of March that you saw the man you
suppose was the prisoner -?
At the night performance; but [ don't
know that it was the 18th of March.
Don't know that it was the 18th of
March =?
No; it may have been February. have
been thinking it over, and | will have to
look up some matters before [ can say it
is the 18Th of March.
Here Mr.. Johnson spoke up. He said
that certain day he lent Mr.. Savage five
dollars; that Mr.. Savage had Informed
him that it was the night of the day he
saw the prisoner if it was bel at the Dime
Museum: that for the loan OF the five dol
lars Mr.. Savage had given him due bill;
that he had not yet been able to lay his
hands ON the due bill; that when he found
it the date on it would determine the
night that johnson said that he saw the
young man [Cluverius supposedly at the
Dime Museum.
Well, Mr.. Savage. du6-bill might be
misdated; it is a common enough thing
for people to make the error of one day IN
a letter or other instrument of writing.
Have you nothing else to fix the date IN
your memory?
Nothing at all.
Were you at this (Ford's) hotel On
March the 18Th?
No, sir.
At the Exchange?
No, sir.
Where were you staying at that date?
Can't tell.
You don't remember where you slept
the 18th of March?
No. sir.
Was it at hotel?
Don't remember.
Mr.. Savage here explained that he had
been out of work; that he had been llV-
ing around about here, from place to
place; that therefore he was unable to say
xr-ha ba 1oarGI tho ninbt nf the 1REh
or the night before, or the night after the
18th. He made no hesitation at all con-
Tossing his inability to account for him
self on those dates.
Asked if he knew the prisoner, he said
MOI
Have you ever seen him?
No; not unless he was the man l saw at
the Dime Museum.
Here Mr.. Savage said that he would
like to go down to the jail and see if the
prisoner IS the man he saw at the Dime
Museum-the man of whom he spoke to
Mr.. johnson, and of whom Mr.. johnson
spoke to Mr.. Evans.
Mr.. Savage being asked if he was sure
that he was in Richmond on March the
18th, said that he was not; was not sure.
He and Mr., Johnson both thought the
due-bill when found would show that. If
it did not, then they would have nothing
to prove the date.
Then, Mr.. johnson, understand that
he depends upon the due-bill entirely?
Y es, sir.
And you have not yet found that?
Not yet. [ will look over my papers to-
night to see if can find it. Ii do, will
come down to your office and let you
know.
In further conversation, in which the
Mr. tn FRY fO
fresh his memory as to where he lodged
on the night of the 18th. if in Richmond,
Mr.. Savage said that he had done SO, but
could not remember. Nor did he tell
where he habituaIly lodged here, about
that date. He expressed some regret that
he had gotten into this thing at all. He
rather felicitated himself that he had not
yet signed anything.
Mr.. johnson was very anxious to see
the draft of the deposition Mr.. Brown
Evans had prepared for him to sign. Ii
was read to him from the State. Mr..
Johnson said that it was substantially
correct. He pointed out some inaccura-
cies, hut they did not affect the great
question.
The conversation here recorded. sub
stantially, was carried on by the Dispatch
man with Messrs. Savage and johnson:
Detective Nowln asked few questions.
Having gotten all the information obtain.
able the reporter bowed himself out Mr..
NoWlin remained and was trying to get
the two to go with him to Mr.. Wren s
office to see Mr.. Meredith.
MR.. SAVAGE IN CLIFTON FORGE
THE 18TH.
The following comes in response to a
telegram of inquiry:
CLIFTON FORGE. VA.,(
June 20, 1885.
To the Editor of the Dispatch
J. D Savage was here on the night of
the 18th of March. W. 9. MOODY.
Captain Moody was for many years a
conductor on the Chesapeake and Ohio
RAILROAD, and is we'll and widely known.
He is now the proprietor of the McCurdy
House at Clifton Forge.
Still another gentleman telegraphs:
CLIFTON FORGE, June 20.-I under
stand from the day clerk at the McCurdy
House (the hotel at which J. u. Savage
was employed) that Savage is registered
on the hotel-register March 18th, 18th and
18th, and that it can be proved beyond
doubt that he has not been In Richmond
since March 3d-the time he was first en-
ployed at the hotel.
Detective Wren got from Mr.. s. Mi
chaels. formerly Richmond policeman,
now hotel-man at Clifton Forge, the in
formation, also, that Savage was in Cliff.
ton Forge on the night of the 18th.
PERSONAL,
A Richmond gentleman states that he
was at Clifton Forge few days ago, and
that Savage told him that he at one time
lived with Gresham & Brown, of this
city, as travelling salesman; afterwards
was with a Baltimore clothing house in
the same capacity, and after that went on
the Chesapeake and Ohio, and Richmond