Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-07-27
ooNvIoTED THE INNOCENT


Tar conviction OF MARY ABRRNATHvl
and Poxxx BARNES, cloth colOred) at
Iunenburg, @. H., Va. last week upon
the charge OF having aided in the muir
der OF Mrs. LUCY POLLARD was unques
Itionably one OF the most hagrant out
RACES ever perpetrated upon human
beings. The evidence was not only m
sufficient, but the testimony OF SOLO
MON MARAnLR (coloredl absurd. He
declared that the women were covered
with blood and had the money and yet
not a particle of blood was Sound on
their clothes and no money. lie
declared they were present at the MUIR
lder. when they proved conclusively by
witnesses that they were elsewhere,
and readily told where they were.
Il He changed his statement and said
that the colored women were not con-
scerned in the murder, but that white
r man was and gave his name as THoMf-l
son. 1t was proven upon the testi-
l mony of the murdered woman's hus-
lband Mr.. PoLLARD that he had had an
Ialtercation with white man by that
name.
This white man has since fed the
= country. While MARABLE was telling
about the white man, LUcIUs PETTIs,
/ another white man was discovered
/. Iwinking at the witness, and Judge Or
e leAIN ordered the court room cleared.
al MARABLR has several times said that
the women had nothing to do with it.
It now transpires that the Virginia
N sense of fair-play, inherent in the white
20 men as we'll as the colored is asserting
- itself. and the officers and men con-
Injected with the militia which guarded
ed the prisoners have agreed to sign a
;. paper expressive OF their opinion that
= the women are innocent, and have not
a. had a fair trial.
!. II they. had been granted fair tria
- liz is conceded that they would have
been acquitted. There is much pathe
lie in this case. No one who has gazeC
nd upon the open cOuntenance OF poo
MARY ABERNATHY and mirth-lovini
ofIface of PoKKY BARNES will doubt tn
IN Innocence of these two people.
,orI When the former told OF her bein
ton the mother of fourteen children, tina
her character had always been gooS
mr. land cited witnesses to prove it an
;tIspoke of her little six-year-old chill
THAT she had left behind, it WAS IL
IA ldeed pathetic. PoKEy BARNES WI
leoually as mournfnl when she referre
osI to the heart-rending scene at the par
! ing with the baby girl OF five summer
civ They brought her away and lady
ths the neighborhood agreed to take ca
vot of her child for her. 1t is needless
say that they never expected to s
her again.
It is a sad, mournful, heart-rendi
story but Con has promised never
fore leave or forsake those who put tbs
re- trust in him.
and Oh that we had more Gov. OFF,
uted RArI's,-men, who would conscientio
Pre- liz do their duty and shape public 81
The ltiment instead of blindly yielding
ER is it. He ordered troops to LunenbI
wei County. from proud Richmond
mpa- sent men who have most assure,
seem taught the people a lesson in good g
rked eminent, the observance of the law q
GENT a respect for superior officers.
GRITTY We will trust our chances in
o the hands of the liberal minded Virgi
horse white man. He is a friend that '
time stick to you through "thick and thi
rious It is a reciprocal feeling produced
fidelity of the black slave who watcl
same over the departing master. cooled
italy parched lips and feverish brow and
+ un- he passed to the other shore droppe
tear with the relatives and mourn
ala with genuine grief the calamity VIII
heard had befallen them.
ciety. MARY ABERNATHY and PoKEY BAR
ey in are innocent. They must not hs
could SOLOMON MARABLE is unfit to brea
Cons free air. May he while away
thirty closing hours in penitent silence, r
50 izing fully the misery he has wrou
ELTON, both upon the blood stained vic
ANNAH and the innocent women, he so ne
all OF sacrificed. Let him repent. Let
upon name his accomplice, for some one
aid In sisted him.
Solo Let him tell who made the o
b con- footprints alongside of his own. T.
mt for we're two people. Let the white
nearly THOMPSON be found. The end is
n is a vet. Much work remains to be
tice as and the fleeing murderer of poor
IN will POLLARD must be hunted down
e the brought to Justice. Let no guilty
ention son escape; let no innocent one
eenlist punished Lynch-law must go