Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-04

VIRGIL WALTON, THE ALLEGED AC-
COMPLICE OF LIZZIE WALTERS.
defence from knowing the evidence IN
hand for the Commonwealth.
From the time the Dispatch first printed
the impression that jenkins had come to
his death from poison administered py
some other hand than his own. the public
has been kept fully posted as to every de-
velopment In the matter. and much In
terest has been shown In the case
WILL BE A LONG TRIAL.
From present prospects the trial Of LIZ
zie and Walton will consume several days.
az there will be large number or Wit
nesses and many important papers for the
consideration of the court The Common
wealth has almost made up its side Of the
case, and counsel for tile accused are
gathering evidence for ne defence every
Gay. The prisoners se not at all COM
municative about =. @ affair, though Wal
ton has attemr.ed TO discuss 1t from the
standpoint e being absent himself when
| the dead LIQUID Is said TO have been ad-
n.inis.e led. The man who Is accused OF
bci.ig Lizzie Walters's accomplice In the
murder OF Jenkins Is almost an anomaly.
1 He il not at all embarrassed when caught
| In n falsehood, and on these occasions,
irstead OF blushing for shame he will walk
to the rear end of his cell. and presently
return and ask his interviewer for
chew Of tobacco. The case has certainly
been a mystfying one throughout, and the
public will continue to remain In more
or less ignorance concerning Jenkinss
death until the report of DR.. Chalkley,
who analysed the parts taken from the
body OF the deceased, Is published.
MIR. JEWELS MIND CHANGED.
-
the insurance company in which there
was a policy on Jenkins's life left the
city for New York last night. after having
been here for nearly three weeks. with a
slight intermission, at work on the case.
He expects to return TO the city next
| Tuesday. Some days ago he took little
| jaunt down into South Carolina, and on
! returning surprised those engaged I'm the
3 investigation of the case by asserting that
| ne had come 20 the conclusion that Jen-
/ kins committed suicide. and was not muir
/ dered at all. Mr.. Jewell had. before leav-
/ ing here, expressed IL as his belief that
/ the authorities were at work on the right
4 lines, and that the web Of circumstantial
| evidence, which he assisted in weaving,
was growing very strong against the wo-
/ man and man. whose arrest he advised.
and assisted In having made.
! THE INSURANCE-POL1C
! As before printed In the Dispatch there
is a provision in the in 4nce-policy to
/ the effect that II. the person insured COM
mitted suicide the company should not
! be required to pay the policy.
| AS yet there has been 10 intimation
on the part OF the company that the
policy will not be paid. or that the
| question OF suicide will be raised In the
settlement Of the insurance. The policy
is row in the hands Of the counsel of Mr..
| Peter Paul, Messrs. James Lewis Ander-
son and George L. Haw. and these gen.
tlemen have held a conference with Mr..
J Jewell with reference to the adjustment
of Mr.. Paul's part OF the Insurance. Up
/ 10 the present no agreement has been
feached.
1t has been decided by the Supreme
Court Of Appeals OF Virginia, so counsel
in the case claim, that printed provisions
on the back of a policy or contract to
which special attention was not called at
the time 1t was made, cannot hold good.
Therefore 1t IL not believed that the sui
eide theory can in any way affect the
payment OF the policy further than to
bring about litigation.
PICTURE OBJ WALTON.
The Dispatch this morning prints a very
good picture of Virgil Walton. one OF the
alleged murderers. The photograph from
which the cut was made was taken by
one Of the artists from Campbell G. Co 8
gallery. late in the afternoon OF an ex-
ceedingly-cloudy day. The photographer
and a Dispatch reporter arranged a tempo
rary gallery in the office OF Jailor Lew Fus-
sell, and brought the prisoner down by per-
mis- sion. 1t was under these circum-
stances that the picture was made.
Jenkins. the deceased, is said never to
have had a likeness Of himself made.