Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-29
TRIAL OF CLUVERIUs.

In the Cluverius trial yesterday, t. Z.
Bagby, of West Point, eaid he was in Rich
mond on the 18th of March, and on the at
ternoon of that day saw the prisoner in Mo-
Fart Hall, but did not know whether or not
be,remained there during the whole per-
Torrance. He also saw the prisoner at the
Police Court after his arrest,and the prisoner
then asked him if it was in the afternoon
or at night that he saw him at Mozart Hall.
He told him that it was in the afternoon.
George r. Bagbv testified that the prison
or was at the house of witness on the 18th
of March. He stayed to tea and left about
10 o'clock. The prisoner was in Richmond
two nights in January. Witness never saw
| him with a moustache.
S. c.. Greenhow, city treasurer, testihed
that he had given T. J. Cluverius check Oh
the 9Th of January for interest on bonds.
An hour was spent in examining the cor
respondence passing between Lillian Madl.
son and Cary Madison, with u view to avoid
the reading of the letters in open court. The
result of the conference was present atlon
of a paper, agreed upon by counsel to the
following effect:
"That it is admitted that Cary Madison
was the sutton of Lillian Madison from the
sprinr of 1854 to the time of her death that
the parties never met later than the summer
of 1888 that on September -, 1854, she
wrote him letter expressing her love for
| him AS being stronger than for any one else,
aud asking him to meet her in Richmond
and take her to the fair as she did not care
to 20 with any other gentleman, and signed
herself Your true and loving Lillie,' adding
as postscript verse of love poetry; that
Cary Madison asserts that there was no &C
tual engagement between them; that in 40
letter, since September, 1884, did she express
her love for him, but did in one letter chide
him for not continuing to love her, and that
this statement is CLEANED from correspon
dence Of nine or ten letters from each.
Mark Davis, proprietor of the Davis
House, Richmond, testified that the prisoner
had been guest at his house in March. In
January he stopped at the house on the
nights of the 5th and 6 h. In March wit
ness met the prisoner between four and live
o'clock on the evening of the 18th. He did
not see him again until midnight, when he
retired paid his bill before retiring, as he
said he was going home in the morning.
B. w. Vashon, night clerk at the Davis
House, testified that he saw the prisoner
at the hotel at S o'clock on the 18th o
March, and again about - o'clock, when he
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few minutes afterwards his bell rang and s
boy answered it; the boy came hack for g
bottle Of whiskey for him, which was sent
did not notice anything unusual about hi:
appearance or manner.
John S. Dodson, proprietor Of the Ameri
can Hotel, testified that he sew the occu
pant Of room 81 twice on the 18th Of March
once when she went out in the morning
and again about one o'clock, when she re.
turned. Had known the prisoner by sight
for about two years but did not know his
name until after his arrest. Was in the
Office on the night of the 18Th, when a per.
son came up and handed card to the clerk
who sent it up stairs. Did not recogniz.
the party as the prisoner The court then
| adjourned