Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-13
THE GRISSOM CASE.
A LARGE NUMBER or WITNESSES, IN
GLIDING PREACHERS, EXAMINED.
One Of the Prosecutors Asks investigation
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investigation was continued to-day.
ereat MANY witnesses were examined with
reference TO the character and general
Kindness of DIR. Grisson. Many OF these
were former attendants. Some ministers
OF the Gospel were put on the stand,
among them Rev. DIR. Atkinson, Rev. Dr:
W. s. Black, and Rev. J. II. Gordon, all OF
whom testified that they held. religious
services in the institution, and that Dr.
Grissom was rarely ever absent. They had
had an opportunity TO Observe the rela-
tions between DIR. Grissom and the patients
durinC frequent visits, and had been
struck with the kindly relations which
almost rosemblcd those Of father and
children. One lady witness testified to-
day that she had long known Mrs. Lily Per-
kinson and that her character was not
good. (Mrs. Perkinson is the party whom
DR.. Grissom kissed through sympathy
SUPPLIES.
w G. Fletcher, the housekeeper, testi-
fed that he had sent various supplies 10
the superintendent from institution stores
and that they had not been charged; that
he had instructions from the matron not TO
charge them. 49,. 3,
The matron, Mrs. Lawrence, testified
that she was in the room once or twice
when DIR. Grissom was making eXamlna-
tions FOR Miss Burch.
nc testimony OF III tABtIl was tshh'h
to-day with reference to the possibilities of
the range Of vision when looking through
the key-hole Of the matron's room door.
In the beginning of the morning session
the following letter was read by Mr.. Whita-
ker. Of counsel for the prosecution:
"M-. Spier Whitaker and Colonel A. NJ. Wad-
deR:
Geptlemen.--In the cause Of the trial
Of DR. Grissom now in progress at the
North Carolina Insane Asylum, have been
frequently attacked by inslnuatloDs and IN
ueudos. and it has been intimated that
have been unfaithful 10 my trust as second
assistant physician of the North Carolina
Insane ASYLUM. In view OF these facts
desire YOU 10 request the Board of Direc-
tors to investigate my conduct at the in-
stitution at their earliest convenience.
Respectfully yours,
DIR. Rogers is one Of the prosecutors OF
DR.. Grissom.
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
The Board Of Trustees Of the College Of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts went into
executive session yesterday afternoon for
the election Of a college faculty. After a
session lasting till 113OP. NJ, Hon. Thomas
j. Jarvis was elected president. He was
formally advised of the action Of the board
this morning, hut declined to accept the
presidency. Among those now prominently
spoken of for the presidency of the col
lege is Hon. w. A. Graham, OF Lincoln
county. =,
The directors Of the North Carolina rail-
'oad were in session az Greensboro yester-
1av. The entire board are unanimous for
grand new depot at Raleigh, and a COM
mittee, consisting of Hon. 7. nj. Holt,
General X. A. Hoke. and w. II. Pace, Esq,
WAS appointed to confer with the Rich
I ~ oil
ton railroad authorities with view OF ar
irving at the proportiOnate share OF ex-
pense TO each of the companies.
DRAGGED TO DEATH.
James Sykes (colored) yesterday un-
hitched his horse from a pillow and started
home about sunset. He was riding the
horse, when the animal SHE'D and threw
him of. A tracs-train wrapped around
his leg. and in this condition the horse ran,
dragging him about one and half miles
over a rough road. Sykes was dead when
found, his clothes were torn OF. and his
body terribly msngled.
Mr.. c. A. Webb. who recently graduated
from the University of North Carolina, has
been unanimously elected TO college
chair in Tennessee.
A. J. Morrill,. Of Onslaw county, died at
his home on Monday very suddenly, in his
seventy-frst year. He was man of proml-
he was clerk and master of the Court Of
Equity. He represented the county several
times in the General Assembly and has
been chairman Of the Board of County
Commissioners since the war
The Richmond and Danville railroad
has nearly completed laying new steel
rails from Raleigh to Selma.
RESCUED.
Yesterday while some one was drawing
IL. IRl1
more's ward, at Hendersonville the curb
ing tilted and a little child of Mr.. Gala
mOre's fell into the water fifteen feet be-
low the surface. The water is five feet
deep, but the little fellow foated till q
colored man present went down and res
cued him. He came out uninJured. lie
was only three years old
Yesterday Mrs. Charles G. Clontz, Of
Monroe, was IN IA field with no one with
her but her little children. She was sur
prised when "a stone thrown by some I'M
seen hand fell near her. Seeing no one
she thought some one was in the woods
near by trying TO frighten her, when
another stone was thrown from the woods,
striking her on the forehead and cutting
cash about two inches long. She made her
way 10 the house as quickly as possible IN
a fainting condition, and her case is now
critical. She did not see who threw the
stones.
The representatives of the Weldon Fair
Association have offered to give one days
gate receipts ~ the next fair towards the
fund for buhdfnga soldiers home.
Heavy rains are doing damage in Arson
county Few bridges in the county are
left unchanged The new bridge on the
Wadesboro' road, known as Gatewood
bridge, was washed down the stream about
two hundred wards. A mill belonging to
Mr.. W. b. Jarmon, situated on Jones's
creek, was washed entirely away. The
crops are fearfully damaged.