The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-05


! STATEMENT or MY MOVEMENTS IN RICH-
MOND DURING THE DAY AND NIGHT OF MARCH
18TH. 1885
! left the Davis House about 9 o'clock in the
morning and went on Main street. Saw Mr.. III.
II Pollard and after about five or ten minutes
talk with him | went TO Morgensterns on
Broad streets. between Fourth and Fifth
streets, 70 get breakfast | came back TO Ninth
and Bank street little after 10 o'clock (see
McGinniss) and went 10 bankrupt court Oifice
met gentleman did not know. who told me
the clerk was not in.
| went then up to the State Library. as the
most convenient place 10 get'a City Directory.
to try ii | could find the address of two gen
tlemen (Wlliam Wood and h. w. Baker, who
had an interest i'm tract of land i'm my county
that a Mr. Bray wanted TO buy, he thinking
that they lived here. Coming out on the steps
of the Capitol, had a casual conversation with
one of the guards, who told me of Governor
Cameron lOsinga horse short time before. etc.
This about II O'Clock. Went from there to
Grigg's shoe store on Eighth and Main streets,
TO get a pair of shoes for my aunt (see Hem
ley): carried the shoes to my room at the
Davis House. Got there about 1880 o'clock.
Went TO my room; put the shoes in my satch-
el after came to the reading room: stayed
there awhile: wrote a check on the Planters
Bank for - (the amount of my bill at the
Davis House,; left about II O'Clock; went to
the bank and got the money (see Spencer and
all; went from there TO bankrupt court again.
This time saw the porter, who told me that
the clerk was sick; that he had the Office key,
but knew nothing about the papers. | went
then 20 the mOney-Order department at the
pOstoffice about l2:l5 or l2:30 to see could
! get Il money-Order TO Ayletts. Had TO
wait for two persons before me TO get
through; then examined the books. and
found Ayetts was not a mOney-order
Office. As | was leaving the Office (be-
tween l2:30 and o'clock | met and spoke
to Mr.. B. W. Henley. | went from there
to Lumsden X Sons, jewellers between
Eighth and Ninth streets on Main. to call for
"A lI.n f-r,iu / fpr Mre nr
Bland, and left there TO have fixed coming
back | met college mate, NJ. B. Harrison,
attOrnoy-ai- law, about ] o'clock, near the
corner of Eleventh and Main streets went to-
gether into Shmns, corner Eleventh and Main,
had "a glass of mineral water and a smoke; ;
stayed there near half an hour or about talk
ing over college days, &c. Parting there |
went TO a restaurant next TO the 'Dispatchn
office; there ! met Mr.. LipscOmb of King
William county, in company with DR.. Whiting,
West Point There got dinner; left there be
tween 1870 and O'Clock; went to Dime Mu-
scum. where | saw Mr. r. p Bagby: left
there about ) or $50 at the close of the per
tOrmance went up Seventh street, above
Broad, to a barber shop used 10 be Oliver q
RObnson) got shave. Coming back bought
COPY of the Staten on the street: came 10
Davis; went i'm the reading room; read that
also New York papers-there. Went TO my
room, brushed my hair, etc; came down, got
supper. and left there about o'clock: went up
to FOrd's Hotel TO see If Mr.. Pollard was
was looking after the same papers in the bank
rupt court that / was. He was not stop
ping there. | went TO the st. Clair Hotel
to find him, knowing that he had stopped at
both of these hotels while in the Legislature.
Not finding him, | went around 10 the Dime
Museum; got there after the performance had
commenced and stayed until the close. | was
passing out i'm the crowd saw Mr. Bernard
Henley with another young man. | spoke TO
Mr. Henley, but did not shake hands,
my attention being called inst then
to the falling Of Il little child in the
crowd. ! went from there to Norgenstern's;
had oysters. etc. also a box OF fried oysters
fixed mp for lunch next morning. Came back
90 the Davis House between 1890 and - eat AN
apple with Mr.. Davis paid my bill. went TO bed;
the hotel for the depot about Twenty-lifth
and Canal streets about 4. NJ: there met
with Captain 4. Bagby, Dr. Whiting and 9th
ers. and left the city with them about o'clock.
This Is a statement OF my movements during
the day and night of the 18th oi March, 1880,
with the people that ! saw. ! am willing 10
stand ON t i'm time and eternity for, beiieyidg
that, If some day, be il early or be il late,
must stand before the judgment throne of Al
mighty God. can say that my hands are clean
and my conscience is clear
THOMAS JUDSON CLUVERIUS.
NoTE.-Twenty-tifth and Canal should
be Twenty-hfth and Dock, where the
York River depot was at that time The
words "see Henley" McGinnis,' etc,
in brackets, refer to friends who testified
in the trial in the attempt to prove an
ulibi