The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-10-10
TIGHTENING THE COILS
Managing Evidence Given in the Trial of
Benjamin B. Brock.
COMMONWEALTH'S WITNESSES HEARD,
william Hughes. Jointly Indicted
with BrOck. Tcs,iiics for the De-
i"nSe-JudGc Brooke Notes I'm
ecptions s-ScW Lawyers Appear TO
Assist Cornnonwcu cuIth's Attorney.

for SIN hours yesterday Benjamin Il.
stock sat In the court room in Princess
Anne county and heard some of his
warmest friends of former days tell "A
Jury of his fellow cuuntrymen that il
Vas he who fired the two shots which
"tnSed the death OF George Hale at Nir-
slhla Beach on August ith. The pris-
Sler looked on with pallid face and en-
hiDlted no motion. Occasionally n.
would lean over /" say something to
Judge d., fucker Brooke his counsel
but. unlike the previous day, not a sin
siIs person shook hands with him
Ills pretty wife, who ON Tuesday sat
silently by his side the entire day. did
not enter the room during tn. mornin..
session, ana there We're those present
VINO thought that she did not care to
hs,ei To the evidence which is to de
cue her husbands future fatc-evi-
utnce upon which the jury may declare
that ne should suffer the death pcnaltv
Tor taking the life OF II fellow man
Inc trial of benjamin h. Brock is one
"hlch has awakened the interest of
every resident of the county. and snyo-
raj hundred of them We're present vc.;-
'"fdaN To witness he Scond act in the
dark tragedy which made Il mother
husbandl"Ss and seven little children
futhcrlcSS
All day long the good farmers of In.
county VINO at this season of the year
usually put in their time in harvesting
Inei crops. stood about in groups and
ION was divid.H som. v.,,,,,;,,., ~,T,,'r DIii-
beiiei that III" dead man was killed in
Sef-d"iensn. as claimed BY BrocI<'s
couhS"l, "hil" others were harsh in
'heir expressed sentiments
All OF ihc lawyers engaged I'm tho, case
were i'm their sotts ..nriy rn,n,,,,
wealth s-Attouey White who evident
y realized on Tuesday night that he
had Il Di. Job ON hand I'm rnn,.,,'iiiio
against the brilliant array of rni,,',..i
representing th,. defense hnd ossHri.,,
I'd with him Yesterday tvyn ,c,,,i,,,,,,.',
in the casr-AIr. Y I Wool ,f pn,,.
mouth. and Mn. John q. Triton of III.
city. The Halter Of who,n rnu,l,,ct,.d
most OF the examination Of Witness
Tor the Commonwealth. firing questions
a.. 'i"S,' VINO testified with such rapidi-
- that thrN at times showed great
ooni uS'o'', som" Generating several
Stt"Hus ptl"r" answering. ana all
seriillhE!y uhdtr tn" impression that
.ut young lawyer was trying To eu-
lIaP tntih' even though they Were his
oNn witnesses
!, Not ohc" curing the day did Captain
HurIouAhS 'ak" part in IN" proceedings
re Sut near th" ram. ANA paid close at
tehuoiI 10 Wh"t was said, gathering
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evidence. /, is possible thn; ,hrsn ,..,,.
ords in the event OF u couyictin, ~ III
play an important part
Twice. during the day JUDGE I;ronln
noted executions ana frcuucnily he
objected to the line of qucs,ioninr piIr-
sued by Mr. Tilton
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