The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-24
FANNIE MARABLE'S STORY.
The Wife Of SolOml D Marable Tells What
She Knows.
GOT NONE or The POLLARD MONEY.
She Says Her Husband Never showed
Her Any Money Except Three Dol.
lars-The Whereabouts OF
MarabIe Before and
After the Murder.

hdmlet or StOYdll, y. G., WLlcn y III
Granville county, about ten miles nJrth OF
oxford and eight miles south Of the Nir-
ginia line. there ncstles on a hillside
two-roOm house. This is surrounded on
the south ard west by d cornheld. and
on the north and east by deep forest
just now radiant with all the briliancy
of frost-bitten October leaves. The house
is constructed Of logs. with mud stuck
between. II has chimney al one cnu
, similarly made. A small cOrn-hoIse ana
a cow shed complete the premises. The
hCUse Is reached by a rOugn. rocky road,
| through dense woods and several farms.
| II Is one OF the most secluded places In
| that section of the country, and IS ay-
| parently cut on from the rest OF the world
| Few pass that way. and there are on!y
/ half dozen houses within circuit Of
a mile. one Of these being a private house
| owned, with several hundred acres OF
! land around about. by Mr. Brler,
wealthy northern gentleman. who keeps
| up The place and stocks u with game for
| sport.
| In the cabin lives Bell Morton and her
| daughter. Fannie Marabe the mother
! in-law and wife OF the man VINO IS now
| confined In the Richmond la'. under sem
! tence OF death upon the charge of muir
| aering Mrs. Lucy Jane Pollard, In LulS,n-
uurg county, Va, last June.
NYsr. EIoUs MURDER.
1t was 10 o'clock yesterday morning
when started from Stoyall 10 Fannie
| Aarable's house Some four hundred
| Yards from the station the man who was
| with me pointed out "a secluded spot deep
| IN a hlcket OF pines. There 10 wa"
said ne, where Ida Myra, a colorcd girl
| about seventeen years old was murdered
| about eighteen months ago solomon
| Marable was accused OF the murder, and
| was arrested and tried The magistrate
| sent nun on to The County Court. but
| they didn't have the evidence 10 convict
| MN, ana he was DISCHARGED 80
further inquiry brought out the infOr-
ma ination lion, mat the murdered girl had been
| oHuased. Inc crime was committed
about O'Clock in the evening, and within
| twenty steps of the public road, and
| Mllhln calling distance Of Well-known
citizens house. Soon after the murder
| some one erected a temporary scaftold as
| a KIND Of warning 10 the murderer who
| Dy lhe way, has never suffered for his
| party proved futile.
Fannie Marablc. the wife OF Solomon
| MaraDle. bears good reputation among
| the people around about StOVaU She and
ner mother, Ben Morton, have been living
| I'm the neiEhhOrhOOd for wears and bo,6
| are known as Industrious Wefl-bchaved
| negroes. " hen saw Fannie Marab BILE
| Yesterday she replied i'm answer 10 nv
quesiiohs' mat when the ticket 10 Rich
! mOnq was sent her by John Mitchell she
| could not come because her mother was
| uoWn with the typhOid-fever and there
was ho one but herself TO nurse her. Her
|
tatn' ana even now Is very weak and
lnln Ihese facts substantiated the
daughters statement.
FANNIE MARABLE's STORY.
,BeleiT is attached the story Of Fannie
;iaIaDit. Many Of the statements have
b'en verified, and the STRAIGHTFORWARD.
intelligent way I'm which the woman
SPOKE indicates that her story is true.
so iar as she could reconect.
! about three years ago. lie tnrmerlv
| IlVed near Midway, some six miles below
! StoVal. His mother was namod MarabIe
ana ms fathers name was Cooper. He
! had Two biothefs, one Of them a grown
man end the Other u young boy rhcir
| names are Tom and Aaron. When We
| were married We lived at John Sanford's
pace about hNe miles east Of StOvaii.
| Last december Solomon moved from
| John Saniords place and went 10 the
iarm oi John spencer about one mile
from tlnneyWccd Lunenburg county,
va Nhich IS ABOUT five miles north OF
Chase city, on The keysyille and West
efn railroad. After he had been al work
at John Spencer's about three weeks he
wrote Tor me 10 come up there. and
Solomon worked on the farm at John
! Spcncors until last March. lie tnen
rented house on SIR. Biil Pottus' place.
! about One-haif mile north of Finney-
| wOOu. lie then went 10 work AZ Robin
/
saw-mill on and on until a week before
| Mrs. Pollard was killed Mrs. Pollard's
house is about three miles from Mr..
| Pettus place. and Robinson's saW-mlu
| is about the same distance.
Mrs. Pollard was killed on Friday
| evening on Friday morning about lO
| O'Clock Solomon told me he was going
over 10 Fort Mitchell about three miles
| above FinneywOOd. and he left home
| About sunset De came home but didn't
say anything about Mrs. Pollards death.
| Tie piI not apucdf 10 Doe nervous or
worried and / noticed nothing unusual
about his manner. He spent the night
| at home with me and the children. I'ne
| next morning Saturday he said he was
| going 10 FinneywO0d. and thence 10 Chase
city. lie didn't say what he was going
| for. ana ne started of. That was about
5 o'clock in the morning.
fmsr ARD o. lrE MURDER.
while he was gone Rene Barnes. who
| lived with her father on Mr. Pettus'
| place, came and told me that Mrs Pol
| lard had been killed the evening before.
| and that Mrs. Thomas, the mother OF
Mr.. Pettus, had sat up with the body
| that night That was the first time
heard Of Mrs. Pollard's death. short
| time after that Mr.. Tom Spencer and
| another white man came 10 my house
| and asked for solomon. They said they
| wanted him 10 appear as a witness in
| the Pollard case. | told them Solomon
|
but would return. | thought. They went
away, and about o'clock solomon came
| hack home. and said he had been 10
| Inneyw0Od and Chase City.
| u told him Mr. Spencer and another
! man had been there to summon him as a
| witness in the Pollard case, and Solomon
| said. There Is 10 use 10 come after
! me for witness; 1 don't know anything
| about the case
II asked him If he had heard about Mrs
| Pollard being killed, and he said ne heard
il that morning, but didn't know any
| thing about the particulars lie stayed
| al home "A little while, and then started
| back 10 Ffnneywood ne said, TO inquire
| II there was any mail for him. In a
! short time ne returned, and said there was
| no mail for him at Finneywood. he
| spent the rest OF the evening at home,
! inc while there Just before dark he
wsnt away again, and said he was
| going back to Finneywood 10 get a let
| Ter from his father, who lives near Mid
| way.
pipN'T HAVE ANY MONEY.
81 did not see him again until Sunday
morning about o'clock, when he came
home Hc didn't say anything about the
| pollard killing. | don't think be had
anv money. II he did he didn't let me
know anything about IL. After he had
been home a short while he told me We
| must fix up our things ana 20 down
| home by which he meant this place. /
got my things ready, took the children
| with me. ara we walked to tinneywood.
| and thence 10 Chase City.
| At Chase City crowd Of men got
| after Solomon, and he threw me his
| pocketbook with g in il. and ran down
the railroad toward Five Forks. took
the train at Chase city and went TO
| I.ullOckS and from there walked over