Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-02
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gone the note was torn up and thrown
in the hotel waste-basket, whence it was
afterwards rescued, and the name oi
Cluyerius on the envelope finally read.
The note was thoroughly and fully
identified. The next question is whether
It was part Of the res gesta, and this
led Mr.. Meredith to consider the true
definition Of this term. lie quoted
several su:horities-the Hayden case
among others.
THE HAYDEN CASE.
While Mr. Meredith was quoting the
Hayden case in connection with the torn
note Judge Hinton asked him to 60 back
little. In the Hayden case the court
admitted what the girl said upon leav-
ing home about her going to meet the
prisoner. Here, now, the girl Iillianl
does not say upon leaving home that she
was going to meet the prisoner, but was
going TO meet an old lady to 60 to Old
Point.
Mr.. Meredith insisted that it was not
necessary that the name Of the prisoner
should be mentioned; that all it was
necessary to DO was to show that it was
a step in the crime. lie referred the
Court to Mason's case.
Judge Hinton said that he did not
contend that it was necessary to men
ton the name Of prisoner; all he
wanted was to hear Mr.. Meredith dis
cuss that point.
SUICIDE.
Mr.. Meredith thoroughly considered
the probability Of suicide. lie stated
the case from his standpoint calmly,
clearly, concisely. With great power
he ranged on one side the evidence
pointing to murder and against it put
the theories of suicide. lie showed the
intimacy between the two by the OBJ
scene poetry in his writing found in her
trunk. lie pointed out the oppOrtuni-
ties which Cluverius had-snd no
other man had-to seduce her. Then.
with as much rspidity as was consistent
with perspicuity. he sketched the testi-
mony as TO their correspondence while
she was in Bath Of her January visit to
Richmond Of the fact that deceased,
when she returned to Bath, told Mrs
Dickinson that she had been met by
Cousin Tommie -; Of the stratagem
Of the Laura Curtis letter ." of her
visits 10 Richmond under the name OF
" Merton" and Of his coming to the
hotels and looking for the name Of
" Merton -; Of his taking her to the
bawdy-houses. and of all the host OF
facts going to inculpate the prisoner.
THE LAST NIGHT.
Mr.. Meredith's claim was that the
two were on Belle Isle from H. to near
; that some time between | a2d ,
they were at Clara Anderson's That
then she went TO the American Hotel
and he to the Mozart Hall matinee
And it is remarkable that this is the
only time In all that day that the
prisoner accounts for himself. But tits
said that we do not account for her be-
tween 6 and o'clock. No. we cannot.
Does he account for himself: Non con
stat that she was not with him. But
about s o'clock 1.-THE old man re-
tuIns with her to the hotel. After that
prisoner comes, and with him the girl
is last seen.
Two white witnesses Treat and Dill
lard saw him at the hotel that night.
Ty Ter (cOlored) took prisoner S card to
No. 81. lie did not find her in her
room, but saw her coming up the steps
with an "old man."
Then followed that remarkable con-
versation detailed by Tyler at the
CoToner's inquesp which foreshadowed
the strategem afterwards proved to have
been adopted by the discovery Of the
Laura Curtis letter.
Mr.. Meredith next traced Cluverils
ard deceased from the hotel to the
street-cars on Main street; thence on TO
Reservoir street; his conversation with
the street-car driver; his meeting and
with DR.. Stratton, &C., &c.
Mr.. Meredith was discussing the watch
key and the value Of the testimony Of
Mr.. Joel, when, at p O'Clock, the court
Mr.. Meredith will have about ten or
fifteen minutes this morning in which to
finish his speech.
Judge Crump, the leading counsel Of
prisoner, will conclude the argument
and the case will be submitted to the
court.