Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-18

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.oRN. xINo GEORGE COUNTY,
= Assch n-espccial.) -The coroncr's
= ens case OF Henry Speaks. the
w1o was murdered at chatterton
saturday night. was busily engaged
10y Tuesday. and Wednesday. reach
49, Neiaict at q late hour Wednesday
n'nE Thirty witnesses were exam
ana already four negroes have been
sea IN tail on suspicion. Those COM
'seu 80 far are Henry Hall. Edgar
bell. "''N 'is's N~a'"p-
mas been developed In evidence that
sse FESTIVAL on Saturday night did not
Asou1n when the horrible murder oc-
sa're1 but that the slaughtered man
was iaid out on the ground, that the
'''ai'ous frolick continued tin late hour,
anu 'hen the body OF Speaks was dragged
into The cabin. laid out, and left alone
70 breathe his last.
autopsy performed by Drs. +. +.
N'hoe and NJ. w. Minor showed that
Speaks's skun was so terribly fractured
'na' "hen the scalp was removed the
skull bones fell apart in pieces. The
Drains now in DIR. Minors possession,
snow that Conclusion Immediately fol-
lowed the fracture.
OTHERS IMPLICATED.
Although four men have been found
guilty OF the murder. the impression is
ehat others were connected with the
awful homicide, and that new testimony
WIN come 20 light before the trial of
campbell. Hall. and the Two Cash boys
a. ronciuded. IL was a notable feature
OF lne investigation that there was ap-
I parent concert OF action among the thirty
witnesses already examined, and IL is
believed that on Saturday night after the
strocious deed was committed the large
number or persons at the festival agreed
upon certain line OF testimony, and
not one would deviate from that line.
ana mat the murder was premeditated
seems more than probable from the evil
dence. Soon after the participants gath
cred at the cabin on Saturday night. one
who some time ago had an alteration
win Speaks, said to one of his friends
,hat Speaks is here tonight, and he has
pecn oucking around King George long
enough, but after tonight his bucking
VIII De at an end" After Speaks was
Knocked down JEFF. Cash told Henry
Campbell that Speaks had kicked him
IN tina breast. whereupon Campbell said:
Never mind about that; the son OF n
- VIII never bother anybody else, for
We have settled his hash"
VERDICT.
The verdict brought in by the Coroner's
jury Is as follows: 1.-THE deceased came
10 DIS death by blows on the head IN
nicted by somo heavy weapon in the
hands OF Henry Campbell, Henry Hall.
Edgar Cash, and Jefferson Cash. on the
night OF March 10. 1894. In or near a cabin
On Chatterton farm. ;n King George"
This murder case has develoDed owl
dence Of other violations of Iaw-that OF
retailing ardent spirits In this Oocal-op-
tom county. Many of the persons at
the fatal festival were in an intoxicated
condition, and they openly and unre-
ssrYedly testify that they bought whiskey
at the festival, and paid cents drink
for It, The names of the parties who
thus retailed Intoxicating liquors without |
a license are in the hands Of Common
wealth's-Attorney Thomas H. Bevan, and |
the cases viii be presented to the next
gsand jury,
MAPPED OUT
A large number of witnesses were again |
eNamiIssd relative TO the murder of Henry |
Speaks on last Saturday night. Nearly |
Every witness so far examined testify that |
they saw the crowd gathered around the |
murdered man, saw the chunk OF wood |
fall on his head, heard the blows, and |
saw him fall to the ground. bu. each ard |
Nil declare that they do not know who |
struck the fatal blows. II seems almost |
certain. from all the circumstances that |
nearly every individual at the festival |
knows who murdered young Speaks, but
there Is some secret reason why they dare
rot tell that part OF the story. The testi- |
mony is given by each witness alike--i e.,
In studied-up. memorized way, and it Is |
plain to the spectators that every witness |
knows Just at what particular point 10 |
assume total ignorance as TO who struck
the blows. No one cen listen 70 the |
nemorlzed stories without being deeply
Impressed with the belief that after The
poor negro was murdered the festival was
transformed into a conference by which
n certain line of evidence was mapped out
agreed upon, and probably binding
pledges made as 10 what should be told,
and what should no. he told
WELL FILLED.
For the first time in many years the |
King George county jail is well filed In
addition to the slayers OF Henry Speaks.
William Douglass, white man. occupies
a cell for assaulting and threatening the
Iife OF his father-in-law, and number
Of others for minor offences. Mr.. Rowe
AIif!eton, a member OF "A well-known
and respectable family. has just been adj
Judged a lunatic and lo1ged III jail un'n
he can be- conveyed to an asylum HIS
condition IL a most pitiabls one lass
night ne tore to shreds cry piece or
bcf-clothing, stripped himself from head
10 foot. and also tore his clothing mp
into strips. lie IL TO-DAY a ravins maniac
Of the most violent kind, and the most
pnu,anageabie character ever seen here.
EXCITEMENT.
sueb wholesale law-breaking IN this
county Is so unusual that our people are
On state of excitement never before
Snovn here The county Jail AZ now be-
Inc strongly guarded day and night ana
vast concourses OF people are daily gath
ered about the courthouse and the JAN
- hourly visited by throngs of both white
ana colorcd citizens, and the guards iind
~ almost impossible to keep the crowd
mt ~ the fail vestibule. where all the
,,ys.f,ners may be seen through the great
I'm harx The muititudes gathered about
The saii arc very orderly. and so far no
threats of lynching OF violence have been
made. and II may be supposed that curl
~~0v attract these crowds to the jail
S-flv. An unusually large crowd Is to-day
IN attendance upon the Magistrates Court
n tho courthouse.