Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-10
IsIlngs Court at Richmond, Va,
he Murderer Of FannyLilIlau
adison shall Harg Dec. 10.
|isoner is Unmoved, In Fact,
h and Expresses the Belief
flov. Lee WillPardon Him.
III ths Crime and the Pfisonor-A
cr school Teacher and
|tfrIt.r of Obscene Poetry.

||N|NNAh Ne%' F1ANNhSkA w
be hanged December 10, next.
he last act but one in the ira edy
.rIps' life. On September 80 the
court of Virginia refused the
.ed man n rehesrIng. He re-
be news with smile.
Is feporter called ON Cluverius in
fsked him:
/ Hopes have you now"
Slime 10 say anything in reference
8c. My counsel have not de-
bat steps will be taken, and until
eclded | think / had better keep
on Intend to make statement"
when the proper time arrives |
0 make statement which will
hers beside myself"
purse you will tell where you
the Right Of the murderS"
4 will"
the prisoner suddenly stopped
arked
talking too fast. l think l had
bid up."
|hc unmarked that it had been re-
ant be had refused to see news
en- which was a mistake, as he
Isedto see them at any aud at all
\ make application to Gov. Lee
Edon, and he expresses hope that
,etit.
EluH was convicted wholly upon
|artlal evidence. The body Of
allan Madison was found In the
rvoir on the morning of March
She was enciente. At that
yerius was at his aunt's, forty
pm me city. The poor girl was
bin. and had come to Richmond
BIZ mountain home, 800 miles
two days before her death. She
q falsehood as to the cause of her
saying that she was called to
ht 80 see a sick lady and would be
o weeks. She was there within
SKIS of the time when she would
come a mother. She remarked
as she got on the train that
lin, "TomDy" Cluverius, would
Ia Richmond, and though she
Q emiling, she said in q tit of
to the conductor that she wished
would run off and kill her.
gistered at the hotel in Richmond
assumed name. A gentleman
|r her at night, whom the porter
CluveriIs, but they were not
the hotel together, the only other
giving testimony as to his identi-
light being small negro boy who
bat he recognized him as he got
reet-car.
he testimony ends. Nobody else
10 him so far as that night was
Ed. The only thing that connects
the scene of the tragedy is q
BY, which has been identified as
ry much like the one he had, but
d bit of testimony WAS creating
d, Cluverlus' brother produced
key, almost a fac simiie OF the
n0, and swore that 1t was his
81 The prisoner was shown to
"a ID Richmond at the same time
Lillian Madison was here,
his failure to account
time while in Rich
helped no little in begetting
ession of his guilt. II was shown
The occasion of previous visit to
ID he had in the day time visited
Eee of prostitution with a lady
Prne Of the inmates swore to be
% Of the photograph OF Fannie
MADISON, and, worse still, piece
Ply obscene doggerel, called "On
aware," was found in the poor
Junk, and written in the hand of
6 The poetry in short simply
y with disgusting minutie the
ii Of girl on the Delaware river
ers Tor law, however, shrugged
loulders and said that while all
very bad, yet there was no legal
that the prisoner had seduced
Tia, on that he had murdered her.
were simply inferring that be-
b yonnSman had become engaged
girl he wanted to get his cousin
he way.
as here any legal evidence that
lntended to marry Miss Madison.
% was a note which Miss Madison
ri to negro boy at the hotel,
rections to wait fer an answer.
came back and told the clerk he
b nnd the party to whom 1t WAS
ed The clerk put it in the desk,
len Miss Madison did not come
tore it up and threw the bits in
ste- basket. That note was In
In Miss Madison's handwriting,
a1dressed to Mr.. T. j. Cluverius
be there as soon as possible, SO
lalt for me.
srs shrugged their shoulders
nd said people might infer as
they pleased, but there was no
aance TO convict Cluverlus with
There was no legal evidence
thaf he ever received it. But the
irred, and acted upon their in
ard found Cluverius guilty,
lRn khe lawyers cried that 1t was
" en- Justice, the verdict was re-
gitl cheers by the great throng
mad II was affirmed to-day and
Cd oy the highest court in the
uvrrlus must die. He has all
nillngly said he would ultimately
He even says now that the gov
ln pardon him; but it may be
ance for all that Gov. Fitz Lee will
lon HIM.
blow who is now standing under
low Of the gallows is a wonderful
ogical study. AT college when he
law he was known as "SmiiIng
because of his way OF always
he was considered intelligent
y moral. When he went home
81 superintendent Of the
Sunday-school and himself a
q 4 fiourishing bioie-class, many
lRlll visit Richmond to see him
4hfa he was a genuine lady-killer
engaged to three girls at one
w was the most sought-after
ne neighborhood, and yet at
pe was writing obscene dog
hia girl cousin. He sang;
toEaan's stormy bank stand
Id a rNal.N aaN"