The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-12
THE FEAGLES JURY HANGS,
Six for AcquittaI, Five for Con-
viction.
One Juror Was Undecided-The Defense
to Demand n New Trial Immediately,
stronger Evidence Against the Pris
oner May be Produced at the Next
Triai-Mr. PolIock's Summing up.


ladies' being present as yesterday. AS
soon as the jury was pollcd D. S. Pol
lock, the commemorative attorney,
began his summing up of the case.
Mr.. Pollock said that the time had
arrived when it became his duty to
present to the jury the case of the COM
monwealth against Williara A. Feagles.
He congratulated the Jurors on the
patience with which they had thus far
listened to the witnesses and counsel.
and expressed the hopo that thew
would also listen with patience to what
ne should say. If they expected him to
entertain them with anecdotes thew
would be mistaken: this was not case
for laughter, but for tears. This trial
marked an epoch in the history of
Pulaski county. 1t was an important
trial, and the people would hold it in
memory Ions after the jury and the
speaker had passed away. No other
case that ever arose in the county was
possessed of so much intense interest or
was marked by more sombse color. 1t
was without one soft ray Of light or one
palliating circumstance.
lie made beautiful reference to the
dying words of the matchless Christian
Knight, Stonewall Jackson, under whom
John Ii. Caddall and at least one of the
Jurors, Mr. Crumber, had served during
the war between the States. The Juror
had his right eye shot out and was
otherwise disfgured and the attorney
referred to him as bearing the honor
able scars OF warfare. lie said of the
lmm ortal jackson that he never en-
Of
duty without first asking tho divine aid.
and said he would ask tho great supreme
Judge OF us all to give tho jury q clear
ard commanding view of duty, as firmly
liked as the polar star, by which the
mariner guides his vessel on tho angry
ocean and into port. 1t was solemn
duty the jury had to perform. Intelli-
gent men were never associated for n
mure solemn and weighty purpose than
they, having the power, as they did, to
say that the life of the prisoner at the
bar should be forfeit to the State.
He thought that Mr.. Williams, of
prisoners counsel had made remarks in
his address to the jury yesterday that
were not called for, and remarks that
reflected on the speaker. He had never
dreamed of Feagles having committed
the crime with which he now stood
charged when Feagles was placed on
the witness stand in the Smith and
Goings trial. In referring to the find
ing of the chain Mr.. Williams declared
that something is rotten in Denmark +"
lie and his associate counsel had not
sought to cast any imputations on the
friends OF the prisoner as to having
caused the watch chain to be placed
where it was discovered by Henry
Huston.
lie then came to a consideration of
the testimony that had been presented
in the case. The corpus delecti, the
body of the crime had been proven, he
believed, without the shadow of doubt,
and admitted by counsel for tho de-
tense. lie desired to pause moment
In sorrow and sadness over the brus tai
ity of the crime. Pho bullet of an as
sassin laid John II. Caddall low, and
then his brains were beaten out with q
rock. The counsel for defense had told
the jury if they should convict the pri-
soner they would break the heart of his
aged mother aud bring sorrow to his
wife and children. The picture had not
oeen overdrawn. But if the prisoner
was guilty, what then? If we may not
punish crime, society must be disbanded
and civilization perish.
opportunity and the conduct of the pris-
oner. all pointed unerringly, he be-
lieved, to his guilt. The articles taken
from the body of Caddall were scattered
back to Newbern, when, if the muir
derer was from elsewhere, safety for
him lay IN his going in some other di.
rectlon. These facts went to show that
Caddall was murdered by somo one who
lived in or near Newborn.
Counsel for tho defense argued that
search was not made for the murderer
for some time, and that the murderer
might have returned by night and
placed the articles where found. He
showed the impossibility of this prop
osition.
AS to the watch chain found near
Feagles' cellar, counsel for the prisoner
argued that some enemy of the prisoner
placed 1t where found. Could there be
any conceivable motive for such q thing?
lie argued that there was not. Mr.
Wysor had suggested that the chain had
been put where 1t was found through
the fundamentally OF the prisoner
Mr.. Williams had very properly said If
some friend OF Feagles put i, on or near
the dirt heap, God save us from our
fri ends. He did not say friend of
Feagles put it where it was found. As
to time and place. all tho testimony
pointed directly to Feagles. The same
was true in regard to the tracks found
near the scene OF the murder.
y AS to the claim of tho defense ths.
tho States counsel had not measured
the foot Of Feagles to see if tho tracks
fitted to his, he said he conceived that
he had no right to do that against Fea-
giles consent. for the law was clear that
an accused person could not be obliged
to testify against himself
AS to means. it was shown by album
dant testimony that the accused had a
.32-caliber rifle The ball in tho head