Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-11-02
MARABLE'S WIFE
TELLS A SAD STORY.
The Wkersabf utS OF Her
Husband.
THE CONDEMNED MANS
LAST STATEMENT CO
ROBORATED.
Why She Did Not Come to Richmond
The Remarkable History of Oelebrat-
ed Case.

IRichmond, Va, Daily Times, Oct. "a.
Some four miles from the sleepy lit
tie hamlet of toval N g which is in
Granville county, about ten miles
from Oxford and eight miles south of
the Virginia line. there nestles on a
hillside two-room house This is
surrounded on the south and west by
a corntield, and on the north and east
by deep forest just now radiant with
all the brilliancy of frost-bitten Octo-
ber leaves. The house is constructed
of logs, with mud stuck between 1t
has chimney at one end similarly
made. A small corn house and a cow
shed complete the premises The
house is reached by a rough, rocky
road, through dense woods and sever
al farms 1t is one of the most Sc
cluded places in that section of the
country, and is apparently cut off
from the rest of the world. Few pass
that way, and there are only half
dozen houses within circuit OF
mile, one of these being a private
house owned, with several hundred
acres of land around about, by Mr.
Brier. a wealthy northern gentleman.
who keeps up the place and stocks il
with grain for apOrt.
In the cabin lives Bell Morton and
her daughter, Fannie Marable, the
mother-in-law and wife of the man
who is now confined in the Richmond
jail under sentence of death upon the
charge of numbering Mrs Lucy Jane
Pollard, in Lunenburg county, Va.
last June.
A MYSTERIOUS MURDER
IT was 10 o'clock yesterday morning
when ] started from Stovai TO Fannie
Marable's house. Some four hundred
yards from the station the man who
was with me pointed out a secluded
spot deep in IA thicket of pines
- here it was" sa he, where Ida
Myra, colored girl about seventeen
years OF age, was murdered about
eighteen months ago Solomon Mar
able was accused of the murder, and
was arrested and tried The magis-
trate sent him on to the County Court,
but they didn't have the evidence to
convict him, and he was discharged"
Further inquiry brought out the in
nation that the murdered girl had
been outraged. The crime was com
mitted about o'clock In the evening,
and within twenty steps of the public
road, and within calling distance of a
well known citizens house. Soon af-
ter the murder some one erected a
temporary scaffold as a kind of warn
ing to the murderer, who, by the way,
has never suffered for his crime. and
all efforts to trace the guilty party
proved futile.
Fannie Marable, the wife of Solo
Marable, bears good reputation
among the people around about Sto-
vail. She and her mother. Bell Nor
ton, have been living in the neighbor-
hood for years, and both are known as
industrious, well-haved Negroes.
When saw Fannie Marable yester-
day she replied, in answer to my
questions, that when the ticket to
RichmOpd was sent her by John Mitch
ell, she could not come because hel
mother was down with the typhoid
fever, and there was no one but her
self to nurse her. Her mother recent
ly recovered from the attack, anC
even now is very weak and thin
These facts substantiated the daugh-
ter's statement.