Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-01-28
What LIZZIE Would Do if He Did Not
Send Her Funds.
BOTH THE ACCUSED TALK.
Virgil Makes Conflicting Statemcnts-Stcp
By Step the Case Grows Clearer, and tho
Web Is More Firmly Weayed.

there was bitter feeling between Walton
ana jenkins and indicate that the for
mer was very much annoyed over the
constant attention Of jenkins to the Wal
tiers woman.
Another very important fact that a
Dispatch reporter learned yesterday Is
that Detective III. X. Yeats. who has
been at work on the case for seyera'
days, some time between october l'th
and November 4th cav Jenkins on Bar
ton Heights. nnd IN "a conversation that
Cnsued between them the latter said mat
he was not then visiting the woman as
Lizzie and her clan were down on him.
On the morning Of December 18th, at
$50 o'clock Detective Yeats was met on
Franklin street between Twenty-hrst ana
Twcnty-second by Lizzie Walters. The
woman asked him ~ he knew anything
Of the whereabouts OF jenkins. The re-
ply OF the officer was that he had not
seen the man inquired Of for three or
four weeks. Lizzie. according to the
statement OF the detective. then re-
marked:
when do you think you will see
jerks"
Il don't know" was the response OF
air. Yeats.
"When you sec him again" the woman
roJoined. "ten him that l am In great
want. and II he does not come and give
me some money / VIII raise - with
him"
These facts tend strongly to show that
there was some feeling toward jenkins
on the part Of both Of the accused, and
circumstances bearing out this theory are
turning up almost daily
WAITONS STORY QUESTIONED.
A number Of other things have come TO
urht that have tendency 10 make sus-
ricion point more and more strongly TO
Lizzie and Walton. 1t will be remembered
BY the readers Of the Dispatch that in
nm interview with Walton after his ar
rest he claimed to have been up town II
work am day. January 9th, that he did not
~ 20 the womans house until after dark,
and that Jenkins was not there then. Wal
ION reiterated this statement Is the Com
monwlalth's Attorney ana officer Yeats.
When asked FOR whom lie was working
that day he said he was employed by
negro named John Is. Harris, who owns
the house in which Lizzie resided. wal
,or assured these gentlemen that he was
engaged in painting the house Of Harris,
and when asked II he was doing work on
the outside of the building on the 9Th.
during the snow, he said. "Oh, yes II
f. understood. however. that the Common
wealth IL prepared TO prove that walton
was not thus engaged that day. ana that
he was seen carrying buckets OF Deer INTO
the woman's house on the evening OF the
9th. contrary to Il very positive statemeht
made by him TO Il Dispatch man III jan
the day after his arrest.
Another remarkable thing in connection
with Walton IL the numerous ways III
which he accounts for himself on the highl
az the arrests. He first said that he went
on down Seventeenth street and slept In the
house of an old man and woman aileT
having made his escape from INC
.onnlid apartments of Lizzie. While ne
vas being talked to in the county jan 'he
nex, morning by Commemorative Attor-
nev Sands and Mr.. Jewell, about TINS very
matter. Detective Yeats was inquirihg OF
ali the houses on Seventeenth street IL
,,,,ch 8 man as Walton did spend any por-
lion OF the previous night In any one OF
them. Al each place he received u mega
tive reply.
SLEPT AT MANY tlSAIf"o'
The Commonwealth Attorney remarked
% Walton in the course or ms cohNeisa-
tjon that morning that the detective ha1
been sert out TO ascertain ID nv nav WV
the truth about TINS 49,,
Here walton turned somewhat .sLe' anu
trerublingly said; - r..
~ told YOU n story about that' LOT
silent at the round-house.
Detective Yeats made inquiry AZ one
-, ,be round house and there was gwen
mn Information that the prisoner hao NOT
been there that night. In explanation "a
,vbv he told his first story the accuseu
III bo ala not want IL known that he
had gotten down so low as TO nave "
sleep In the round-house. .,
IN, WAS located however, by DETECTIVE
Yeats on the morning after the arTes.S
of Lizzie and Lowry, IN lunpkih . ho'-
tom. i'm the upper story of a house occu-
MED by negroes, and his Apprehension was
cifecbed about noon IOHiloii"e Siii' .
Attorney Sands, Mr.. Jewell, ana the Olhv,
officers taking part In the case, slatteu
70 the house of the woman about that
hour 10 look for Walton, but before reach-
,np the Mace saw their game coming
nm seventeenth street toward theni' Wh-
ION had rot observed them then. out d
moment later he saw them aih aprup'y
turned and went down an aliey anu en-
tered I.Izzie's house from the rear moss
engaged in the prosecutions are reine'''o'
Ing all these little points.
MAY CHANGE POSITIONS.
From the attitude that the case Is now
assuming II begins to look as III LaH@ic
81, no, very much longer remain prirci-
nal and Walton accompiice. but mat ulNy
win simply change positions. Every udy
hrings forth some bit of evidence or soino
circumstance that apparently haStehs '''''
shift. .a ran
walton Is now 81 years Of age. ana can
only, or does only. account Tor a htuo 10 80
than nine years OF his life. HE says nc
MAS born at North Bend. Albenario
county, Va, and that he has two prothers
and three sisters, one OF his brotners, no
adds lives about four miles from ~
thaum's River station. on the CHESAPEAKE
end Ohio railroad. Walton declares nc
came here about year ago from i'm
lottesyiIle, and that he resided IN the
latter city six years. lie went 10 new
port News, but only remained there
week He lived in Basic city, ne says
two years, and In Staunton nve OF siH
months The remainder OF his natural
existence he will tell nothing about, anu
30 far AS the authorities here Know q.
present. he may have been induisihs III
little nap of at least equal duration with
that OF Rip Van Wrinkle. He admits that
he was arrested once In charlottesville for
being In disorderly house. ana says
mat he was fined $50 and had TO serve
h out In fail. He Is sort OF painter.
iIo,,gh he does not follow that trade
rre,,iarIy. He seems 10 have fondness
FOR Ioafnx, and with the exception OF
the little work referred TO on the nense
az John Harris cannot specify anythihg
shat he has done for some time.
WAS FOND OF LIZZIE.
Il IA being gradually developed that the
,cIatlons between Lizzie and Walton nave
Secn very close and intimate. The fond
meas OF the man for the woman u shown
n that no was doing q Job OF painting
The compensation for which was 70 be
eceredifed on the rent due BY Lzxle.
Waiton has stated positively that ne only
sad 4 room rented In Lszie's house. Tor
moi he paid her fifty cents week.
~ : receipt Tor her rent given by Harris
"a walton, was found In his possession.
Win m these facts before one WAL
e6S,e pA1nayk made on Friday 70 Dis
psich uo0ortss that ~ rs nos STUCK