Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-08-31
MARABLE'S STORY.
A FULL ANALYSIS OF
THE PERJURED
TESTIMONY.
ifOw Could a Jury Con-
vict Upon Such Evil
dence.
THE CASE AGAINST THE WOMEN.
Chances for New Trial-Counsel Conf
dent-Hunting Down the Guilty Par
ty-Who Killed Mrs. Pollard 2

1he cases OF Mary Abernathy. Mary
and Pokey Barnes continue to attract
| widespread interest. The record IN
the case has been received by the cour
sci Tor the women, together with q
statement from the judge and com
/ document is most partisan one. and
has tendency to help the women
rather than to harm them. although II
| was intended that the effect should be
| otherwise.
| Ex-Congressman George D. Wise
| ex-Judge Henry w. Flournov and
| Capt A. B Guigon are confident ot
success. The case is the most UNIQUE
! in the criminal annals of the state.
There is no record of there ever
having been one like it.
There is not one scintilla of law
which has not been carefully gone
over 10y this able array Of legal tai
ent, and they are thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with every detail of the case.
1t would be well To state that each
and all of them are convinced of
the innocence of their clients
MR. WISE LEAVES ron LuNENBuRc.
Mr. Wise left for Lunenburg County
| last Tuesday, and will remain there AS
long as necessary, gathering such in
| formation as he desires, ex-Judge
Flournoy and Captain Guigon are dai-
| ly poring over the law in the case
Friends continue TO visit the women.
and they are kept weli-supplied with
| food and clothing They need a trunk
into which to place these things and il
is hoped that one Will be given them.
We visited them last Monday and
found them in good spirits. They pro-
tested their innocence of the crime.
| expressed hope that the murderer of
Mrs. Pollard would be captured and
| then told of their gratitude over the
kind treatment they were and had
been receiving.
1t is now plainly apparent that to
hang these women would be judicial
murder, to incarcerate them in the
penitentiary would be the rankest in
injustice. Solomon Marable whiles
away his time in any way that his fan
cy indicates.
MARABLE's PRESENT STATEMENTS.
He is positive in his assertions, and
outspoken in his declaration, that the
women are not guilty and that he was
forced by David James Thompson. a
white man to put them into it. He
never wavers in his statement that this
man Thompson killed Mrs Pollard and
got the money
AS a further sequel to this truly re-
markable case, it would be we'll to re-
fer again to the statements of the
Times correspondent
1t should not be forgotten that Mr..
Clements, his son, and old man Pol
lard did not see Mrs. Pollard's bod v
which must have been laying right be-
| fore their eyes in broad daylight If
she had been murdered previous to six
| O'Clock. That they did not see il is
| proof that it was not there.
MR.. PoLLARD's PREDIcAMENT,
Now Mr.. Pollard did not leave his
house after MIR. Clements had gotten
the corn, until he gave the alarm.
Then Mrs. Pollard was killed after
| Mr.. Clements left, MIR Pollard then
was there, and must have known all
about the bloody transaction.
On the other hand the women were
not there after 6 O'Clock and the case
| against them falls to the ground as
completely as though they we're not
| in that county at the time.
AS it is the defense can prove an
alibi on the part of all of them, even if
| the murder took place before that time.
But the Lunenburg "tommittee on
! Facts" dwells on the Marable's first
| statement or statements. AS he told
| forty lies and was designated the
"prince of liars, !" it would be we'll to
analyze his sayings.
The Times correspondent:
The Committee on Facts in speak
ing of Solomon Marable's testimony
says this:
"A great deal has been said and writ
ten about Solomon Marable's testi-
mony. He has been called the chiet
of liars and many other hard names
and yet the chief of liars can some
times tell the truth under certain cir
cumstances, and men of brain ought
to be able to separate truth from false
hood
This is the whole point in the case
to separate the true from the false
But when we attempt to do this. we
are confronted by two difficulties.
The first is to determine whether Sol
Omon Marable has told the truth AT
all ; and the second, if he has ever told
the truth, ia which of his many state
ments the truth is concealed. For if
seems to be just to say that if he has
told the truth at all. that it is the pro-
verbal grain of wheat in a bsshel of
chaff, which can be found onlv nv
threshing the old straw of this case.
Now, Solomon Marable has proven
two things which / admit to be true
one, that he got some of Mr. Pollard :
money, but decline to accept the
statementas to the amount; and the
other, that he knows the truth abont
the murder of Mrs. Pollard, but ] de-
cline to accept his statement as to the
circumstances of this murder
assert it as a fact that this is ALI
that Solomon Marable did prove the