Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-11-06
CADDALL'S MURDER.
DAMAGING TESTIMONY or THE DE-
FENCE AGAINST FEAoLes.
The Principal witnesses Become Confessed
on Observation-Disclosures Con-
Trajectory Statements Made.

NKwByRx, Va. ria DUBLIN, Va, Novem-
Der 4.--The evidence put in by the de-
fence In the Feagies trial to-day was, as on
yesterday. more damaging than helpful
to the prisoner, and the remark was several
times heard that If the defence kept on
they would hang Feagles. Leonard Hall
stated that he was out hunting the after
noon Of the murder; guessed he went out
at 2 o'clock and came back in two and
half hours; was in the neighborhood of
where Caddall was killed, and II Feagles
had been out there shooting he would
certainly have heard him. When he (HalD
returned he found Feagles working la his
garden. Hall was very indefinite in his
statements, and gave opinions rather than
facts.
CONTRADICTORY.
The next witness, Spencer Merritt fcol-
ored), stated positively that Feaglcs was
out hunting where Hall lad not heard
him FIRE a shot. Spence said he was work
ing Feagles's garden that afternoon; that
Feagles was In there with him an hour be-
fore the news came OF the murder. but be-
fore that time he saw Feagles out in Mrs.
Morehead's field fooling with bird and q
dog for three quarters OF an hour. This is
the field In which Hall swore Feagles
could not have been that afternoon.
Spence stated that he was pulling a pillow
and Feagles was guiding il when Feagles's
wife told him the news. Feagles did not
20 until somebody else told him. Feagles
had on his coat all the time. 1t was not
hunting-coat.
On cross-examination Spence became
quite confused; said he did not know
whether Feagles was hunting with q shot
gun or rife; could not tell the difference
between them: could not tell gun from q
navy pistol, and was equally ignorant as to
what he formerly testified before the
grand jury.
Mrs. ID. p. Watson and Mayor j. Il. Bas-
kerville next testified.
ABOUT THE CHAIN.
hrs. Watson said che knew nothing
about the case, aud Mayor Baskerville
testified as to the appearance of the chain
when 1t was first found. He said 1t looked
as if it had lain in a drawer. Hugh Scales
then contradicted some statements made
by Henry Houston. Scales became con-
fused on cross-examination, and did not
| like TO admit that he and his employer, W.
| q. Faris, had been working hard TO clear
Feagles. Jackson Morris and j. b. Alexan-
der testified that there was much passing
up and down the cross-street wheie the
chan was found on the day before the
finding.
VERY PREVIOUS WITNESS.
Mag. Slaughter (colored). who cooked
| for feagles. next took the stand and hurt
Feagles's case probably as much as any
witness heretofore examined. She swore
positively that Feegles was in the garden
an hour before she saw him there; that be
could not have been out Of the garden
half hour during the whole evening; that
he did not have time 10 90 hunting that
he ate dinner at 10. hung up his coat in the
house and went out, and had worked in
the garden for an hour and half when
news came of the murder; that he had to
be told four times before he would believe
ii.
TUE FEAGLE5 CELLAR.
Shepherd Crawford testified as TO the