Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-12

hi. manner yss very excited and very angry.
She did not hear Balm beg Carleton AFTER the
frat or second shot had been fred not 20
shoot again. Mrs. Marks denied having SAID
m her husband before he took Carleton 10
Wakefield and before tho removal OF ba'ns
body from the Marks premises, "Are you
sIl going 10 leave without doing anything
for him iv-mearing Bain-and that Carte
ton replied: al have done all could"
The Marks letter 10 Balm was shown 70
Mrs. Marks, aud after reading IL careiu,y.
she said that she saw Mr.. BAN have II In nls
band and that she bad not resd u until now.
She did not know until early In the morning
OF the day OF the homicide that sucn le..er
va, TO be sent TO Basn. Ii was ABOUT or .
o'clock when she learned It. she did not
then know how the letter was to be deliver
ed 20 Balm. Carleton. so far rs she knew UP
Ia O'Clock on the morning oil March 5lh.
had no Knowledge OF the existence OF the
letter. nor M 10 how il was 10 be delivered
In fact. so far rs she was aware, be knew
nothing about it except what be might have
gathered from the conversation Immediately
preceding the shooting. Neither did Carle'
ton have any knowledge, 80 far as she knew.
OF the charge OF rayIsh!ng or misconduct OF
II. N. BAN towards hts sister oal!ie before
m. conversation preceding the shooting.
Mrs. Marks dld not remember having asked
Carleton after the shooting, "Carleton,
what have you done this ior!" She remen'
bered having asked bin why he had come
over. and he did not reply at all. she de.
cIared positively that she bad never ssiu 70
Carleton, "lt you had listened 10 me tnis
would never have been DONE" nor anything
OF that import. In all these particulars nrs:
Marks testimony fatty contradicts that Of
Mrs. Bain's.
Mrs. Marks further testified that the route
by which Carleton came from the bar-room
10 the piazza was the ordinary route ira
versed by him for that purpose aud that the
time when he came home was about his usual
dinner.bour. Mrs. Marks stated that tue
frat knoNledge she had Of Baln's alleged
misconduct towards her daughter Sallie was
on February 18th, the Thursday before the
homicide, aud she told no one OF IL except
her husband. She said that after that day
Of course no friendly feelings were enter
tanned by her. her husband, and sallle To-
wards Mr.. BAN. -,
On cross-examinatlon Mrs. Marks said
that Carleton came up about Ten or niteen
minutes after Nr. and Mrs. Balm bad come
TO the house; that Balm and his wife called Ior
Salie - soon as they arrived and sue came
out. The conversation between her, Sallle'
and Mr.. and Mrs. Balm had lasted fully ten
or fifteen minutes before Carleton came.
When Carleton had arrived, Mrs. MarSs
said, she herself did not say anything out
Mr.. Rain kept on talking In such an exclleu
way that she forgot all about Carleton. heI
son remained on the step in the hearing Of
what wss said by Mr. Balm minute or 1--WE
before ne moved towards the well and SAID
20 BAN that II he had treated one OF Bain's
| dougbters like Rain had treated his sister be
would have been dead long ago.
Tue court adjourned at 2 O'Clock, Mrs.
Bans croS-examination not being con-
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