Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-13
TgE MAssEy.PILoT SUM.


Governor O'Ferrall and Secretary
of State Lawless were in court yester-
day in Norfolk during the Massey
Pilot trial. Mr.. Massey resumed his
testimony, first making some correc-
tons in his testimony of Thursday,
and then completed his testimony as TO
the purchase of the Charlottesville
property, for which, he said, the con-
sideration was $3.50, all of which is
now paid. He described the secret
iron drawer referred to by Mrs. Massey
as the place from which Mr.. M. got
$2,75O to give her toward paying for
the Charlottesville property. He e1-
planned that the reason that the
Graphic copy-book was permitted to be
used after the Spencerian book was
adopted was that the proprietors OF
bookstores complained that they had
Graphic ccpy-books on hand and con.
sidered it hardship that they should
not be allowed to dispose of them.
Mr.. Massey explained his Toronto
trip, the expenses of which Mr.. Wo-
mack has been charged with paying.
No one paid any part of his and Mrs.
Massey's expenses to Canada other
than himself. The witness then at
length explained the circumstances OF
several changes made in the Virginia
book lists. Referring to the statement
that he (Massey) constituted the board
of education, he said that any one who
thinks that P. w. Mckinney, R. Tay-
| lor Scott and Charles T. O'Ferrall sat
with their fingers in their mouths and
let him Massey control TIE board do
not know them.
MIR. Massey repeated the remarks
| which he made in Franklin county on
the occasion when he denounced the
man who had said he offered to bride a
member of the legislature. 1t included
his calling James liar when James
said he was the man to whom Mr.. Mas
sey had offered the bride. Just then
James struck him behind the ear, but
James came near being killed by a
friend of Massey's. Afterward the
crowd bore witness on their shoulders,
leaving James with only small follow
ing.
Captain Wise inquired about the al
legged offer ola bride by Mr.. Massey to
Edmund Parr in the legislature.
Mr.. Massey, in explaining that
charge, said 1T believe that Parr and
Dickinson were advocates of my
election to the United States Senate.
Psrr had been recommended to me as a
worthy man, who was in need of finan-
cial aid. 1 had money in bank and felt
kindly disposed toward Parr. met
him and told him 1 would lend him
$500. After this learned from friend
| in Washington that Malone was at
work and l would soon heara startling
statement, and soon I did hear some
thing, that had offered to bride Parr.
The idea of bribery was as far from me
as the North is from the South.
Captain Wise said: Sand you lost
your friends, Edmund Parr and Amos
Dickinson, by that transaction ?" MIR.
Massey replied that he lost them by the
influence of Mahone's collar wearers.
Captain Wise-"Who were Mahone's
collar wearers? Was 1 one of them ?"
Mr.. Massey-"Yes, sir. You said
| you were proud to wearit; master, lead
on; I'll follow"
Captain Wise then wanted to know
how it was that the Pilot article near.
ly paralyzed him (Massey) when, what
had previously been said of him, in
Guiding the scathing denunciation of
Capt. Hampden Chamberlain, in the
Richmond State, did not cause him to
sue?
Mr.. Massey said he was glad of the
opportunity to explain the latter mat
ter, and did so by saying that Captain
Chamberlain wrote that article after
he Massey had written humorous
article about Captain Chamberlain;
that Captain Chamberlain thought
that something Mr.. Massey had said
referred to his (Chamberlaine) having
been in Climatic" asylum, and that
he Massey was so panied at Captain
Chamberlain thinking that he refer
red to such matter, when in fact he
had never heard that Captain Cham
berlaine had been in an asylum, he did
not follow the matter further; that A.
P. Bennett, who was employed on the
State, boarded at the same hotel as
witness, and when he (Bennett), in q
conversation with witness, learned the
fact in the case he was arranging to
bring about o meeting between Captain
/ Chamberlain and himself Massey,
but Captain Chamberlain died before
such meeting was held.
The remainder of the cross-examina-
ton had reference to the old judgments
against witness and expenses of rum
ming the Ash Lawn farm, &c.