Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-07-27
Women Innocent.
FROM FIRsT PAGE


,ere to get Mr.. Pollard. l can't get Il
aim I'll kill you Then he hit her one - =
lex He turned her loose. Then he :
Marable) started OF.
This white man asked him where he
was going He told him he was going
home He told him no he wasn't. Tie
caught hold OF him and then he and {
the white man went through the house
He reached up on high something
and got the keys and made two steps
up higher and got something out ana
nut in his right pocket. Then he reach
ed up and got some paper money out
and put it in his left pocket. Then ne
and him went away.
TUX LITTER BE SENT HIMSELF.
Then after he got away, he gave him
two Dieces of moneyand told him not
| to spend it there but 60 go to Chase |
4 City and spend it, change his name
and spend all but enough TO send
back to Finneywood TO
himself (Marable) in letter tie
went on and did what he told tim.
i He changed his name at Chase City,
but sent il himself and as Solomon
Marable at Chase City, in order that
they might think he got register
ed letter.
That's all he said. Before he got
hack to Finnywood he was arrested.
! We decided to employ counsel for
] these unfortunate people, whom we
& became convinced were innocent ana
I /! accordingly called mon Hon George
sstD. Wise Tuesday afternoon.
a A PECULIAR SITUATION.
h AS there had been no exceptions tax
II en- and no counsel represented the un
n fortunate women, it was difficult tC
T. tell what could be done.
The ex-COngressman was highly IN
Idignant over the alleged trial and de
lclmred their treatment 90 be an outrag
NJ Had he known in time, he would hav
photographed the judge that he woul'
come up and represent the women
He would look into the case and W
=. were to call the next day "Wednesday
a According to promise, we called and
=. was thought the case could be gOtte
- before the Supreme Court of Appeal
= He consented to take the case and e'
40 Judge Henry w. FlOurnoy, ex-Secr'
~ ltary of the Commonwealth, was ais
- consulted and was retained as counse
We agreed TO raise the amount nec'
sary to defray the expense OF II
same.
MARABLE ExoNERATEs THE WOMEN
We visited the Jail, and Mr. Epps i
formed us that Marable had reitters
ed his confession to Captain Frank "
al ningham generating the women q
ay, claring that they had nothing whate
her er TO do with the murder.
ms, We proceeded upstairs and fou
yes variable seated in the Sergeant's OIL
but with numbers of white gentlem
Ter around him
'om We asked him few questions a
cd, he made the following statement;
au 81 came to Lunenburg County If.
aIs' North Carolina three weeks OF Chrl
'eN' mas. I have brother named Viii
but he goes by the name OF Lev
after the man who raised him. u
and Mr.. David Thomas, Cor Thompson
white man that day by the side o
.hee fence at Fort Mitchell. He asked
where I was going. / told him '
going To the saw-mill He said,
.. you amt, damn it, you've got TO
;. with me and he drew his pistol on
Their and sold me to come up beside h
that he had had some words with
rem Pollard and he was going To kill h
He went down there at the old no
~ TAT the spring branch, and kept his
FOL drawn on me until after and
parted.
me who was living around there,
th;sI him Mary Barnes was working u
NON, and he asked me who else was Oh
col and told him Pokey Barnes was
hava ing right there at him on the line
rs m. the fence. He asked me who else
Coo told him Mary Alternately was liy
-, ora on Mr.. Pollard's place and he said
we . was all he wanted.
tha, Then he said that il told it in
'nrg diffe rent way than he told me TO
,n;H' it, he was going to kill me on n
III = sight. He told me to take that mo
so be where ne gave me anu r rps W spei'
spend it. Leave enough to send
p in a registered letter TO myself and
name myself something else and W
it back to myself.
He told me to tell that N
Alternately, Mary and POkey Bal
, fine killed Mrs. Pollard and if / told it
and different from that he'd kill
When / was on the stand and told
Mr.. Lucius Pettis. white man wiz
icrch at nae to change it back as Mr.. Thoml
sea- told me. Yes, Mr.. Pettis is a rels
of Mr. Thompson think Mr. Thoml
cave was not at the Court house during
,nrcb trial and not at the burial either.
2o5 He is a drinking man and mi
rough fellow.
n the Yes. / saw Mr.. Thompson strike
ngust He hit her with the axe-helve, the
thine. He told her he couldn't g
sd;as chance at her husband, but he wa
b;ng1 ing tc kiln her and he struck her b'
she said anything He is ma
man. His wife is a young looking
xcur- man.
On via He then hit her with the eye OF
night, axe.
When he went to strike her l j
. xU;l ed up and he said, Oh it, whe
Nj YOU going2' Then he took me by
: ~ arms and carried me through
u''e house with him and had his
drawn on me all the time. He ret
ng the on the side there and got sOmeth
riends don't know what it was and put
his pocket. was crying. l saw
, hoh with the paper money saw nc
=. III or silver.
&c VIII He gave me two pieces of
money, but didn't know how M
abeth, was until got to Chase City a
rother was two twenty dollar notes. l v
spend ! % years old, if live the second {
er the Christmas, Dec. q, 1895.
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