Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-05-14

about ten minutes walk from the
hotel. Miss Madison returned to
Bath county January 9Th.
HER LAST AND FATAL TRIP
to Richmond was made March Is.
At her home, in Bath, no one motto
ed that the poor girl was about TO
become mother. She bore char
acter above reproach there, rs she
had in her former home. But the
time Of her delivery she must have
known was near at hand, and the
presumption is that she went to
Richmond to hide her shame. On
the train going to Richmond she
said to the conductor that she did
not care if the cars ran Ofi'the track
and killed her. She registered at
the American Hotel as "lllss +. L..
Merton, Roanoke" the same name
that she registered on her visit in
January. A young man, identified
as Cluverius, called to see her the
night of her arrival. The day fol-
lowing was Saturday. All efforts
to trace the boy who carried the
note from Miss Madison, addressed
to Cluyerius, failed. A well-known
Richmond merchant swOre that he
saw Cluverius standing with LADY
that Saturday in front of the Amer.
lean Hotel. The merchant identlh-
ed likeness of Miss Madison as
the lady he saw with Cluverius.
The next time the couple appear
they are on Belle Island famous,
as a prison for federal soldiers dur
ing the war, now the site OF pig
iron works. \ number of work
men identify Cluverius as the man
who was on Belle Island Saturday,
in company with a lady. Some of
them noticed that she was preg-
nant, and commented on that fact.
4 few of the n who saw her dead
body, recognized her as the lady
who was with Clnverius. One wit
ness heard the lady say to the
gentlemen as they passed him,
"Wby. Cousin TOmmiew
The ii ne of the visit is placed by
these witnesses as being between
twelve and one o'clock. Then the
testimony Of the two inmates OF a
house of ill-fame is to the effect
that between the hours of twelve
and two on that day Cluverius Wis.
tied the house with young lady
closely yelled and wearing exactly
the description of clothing worn by
Miss Madison. Then they are lost
sight of until between the hours Of
eight and nine o'clock Il at night
Lillian Mad sons last night alive.
A coIored boy who drives the tug
horse to the street cars identified
Cluverius as the man he saw about
nine o'clock that night near the
American Hotel in company with a
lady. She We o a red shawl and
was closely yelled. The boy stop
ped the car for them, and they got
on. The Main street cars run to
Resery DIR street, the terminus Of
the line. The car.drlver says the
prisoner is very y ch like the man
who got on his car that ght about
nine o'clock witt a lady clio jely
yelled. The couple got out at Reser.
voir street, and the man asked him,
"Can you tell me where Reservoir
street is?' The driver pointed them
to the street and saw them on it.
This was twenty-five minutes to
Ten o'clock. The last witness who
connects the couple with Reservoir
street is a physician. He met a
couple about Twenty minutes to
ten o'clock walking in the direction
of the reservoir. The man turned
around and asked him the name of
the street, and when informed asked
the time, which the doctor told him.
Then, when they moved OIL, the
witness heard the man say, 81 know
that fellow, but he don't know me-"
The physician can only say that
the man he saw that night had a
figure like Cluverius, wore an over
coat and SLOUGH hat such as Gu
verius wore, and his general de-
scriptiOn of the lady also CORE
sponded to that of Miss Madison.
They we're some distance from the
gas lamp, and there was not enough
light for HIM to distinguish the
features of the parties.
Without going into details, it
may be stated that the witnesses
heretofore alluded to conceded in
their description of the general APP
pearance of both Miss Madison and
Cluverius. But with one import
ant exception, which is, indeed, one
of the strange features of this mys-
ferrous tragedy. That is in refer.
ence to his moustache, Many of
the witnesses say he wore a slight
moustache. Many others say he !
did not. His intimate friends show |
conclusively that he kept his face |
clean shaven.
The evidence that connects Gu
verus with the reservoir is clrcum'
stantial. A cOlored man who lives
some distance therefrOm, swears
that he heard, about eleven o'clock
Saturday night, two cries in the
direction of the reservoir, and then
a voice say "Oh, Lord y
A KEY AS A CLUE.
The watch key found in the reser-
voir grounds, Just at the hole in
the fence, has cansed no little
contention among the counsel in
this case; and although members
of the jury that convicted Gu
verius state that they reached their
verdict without the aid of the key,
vet ii has been considered as hav-
ing a great bearing upon the ques-
ton of his guilt or innocence.
When the police arrested Gu.
verus they noticed particularly
that there was no key on his chain,
although there was hanging from
the chain small pendant bit of
chain, such as usually attaches
keys; but after they reached
Richmond with their prisoner and
attention had been called to the
fact that there was no key on his
watch chain, his brother produced
one which he said was the property
of the accused, and was lett at
home on his bureau. The key thus
brought forward was quite similar
in size and appearance to that
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