The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-26

Bo. Oapl. Wlse couteDded that the
witness had lied all through his testi.
mony.
Andrew Parish. ohum of Massey
aud his political manager, said Mussey
WAS poor, ami when Parish at one time
was put on tho stand was not usked as
to this statement of Parish as To Mns.
sey's poverty-thus couiessing the
truth of Farish's statement that Mas.
sey was poor. Soon after that Massey
has S3, 900.
We do not hold that Massey having
aroli of money in hls hand when wltu
Womack proves bribery, but il does
prove an Intimacy between them at
thpt time.
You have, as evidence. that Massey
wrote In the record OF the Board OF
Education that there had been book
adoption on Mgch 18th, and Womack
at once leaves town. 1t turns out
afterwards that thero wss no book
adoption at that time.
We see him dealing in booms, and
| soon aiterward there appears in the
New York World that Massey has boep
brihed.
After knowing TINT Womack had
been indicted for bribery, Massey has
no no more caution than to travel with
Womnck.
l will show you that this man (Mas
sey) Is rs guilty us hell, outside OF his
own dnmniDE testimony.
| "Ihonsands that got from n secret
drawer" Gays Massey, but they were
thousands thRt no one elso saw in that
| drawer.
Wasn't there something suspicious
about these lnrge deposits Just at the
time oil the book contracts, and about
Womack travelling With him? be-
lleve yet That Womack paid Masseys
Canadian expenses, and WHY? He
charged the State of Virginia so for
going to see HE wife in 4 Alabamn. and
IN his accounts ouly has down So for
trip OF himself and his wife to TO
ronto, Canada. They stayed there
some time, and then went around
through Massachusetts on the way
| home, and he says it all cost but Sg5.
| If he paid that much of tae expenses
tue balance must have been paid by
| Womrok.
Much has been said about the family
affairs being brought out IN the testi.
mony. didn't know that those
delicate facts were In that book. He
Drought the book here. ] notice, how
ever, that while he has his wlfe's
bridal present To his wife. 1t was not
until | took him by the collar that |
got the facts of this ense out OF him.
lie has been II convicted slGnderer for
many years-the fact that the damage
given against him was ouly @ cent
doesn't cut any figure.
lhe plaintiffs counsel have come in
Whlmperlng and ask you not to try
him on figures. but on general lines,
Il they had said on general living" it
would have been Just as reasonable.
Reierring to the fact that hlr. Mas
sey SAID that he had been almost para
lyzed mentally by the Pilot charges.
Capt. Wise nsked the jury if they had
| noticed MIR. Msssey's condition on the
witness stand since he made that state.
ment. "He is one of the toughest
pieces OF mutton | ever tried to chew
on-and | had to chew long time"
Cspt. Wise next brought out his card
board aud said MIR. Massey never mar.
ried darkey couple that he didn't put
1t down IN his accounts, and while his
grandchiid was In the Miller school he
went there and charged SO for prench.
lng-for preaching to his grandchild.
Alter reading from another of his
placards Of MIR. Massey's accounts.
>"PS =" iSC npohc vi .hhsteN DeIDU
q minister of the gospel, and then, in
the most dramatic style and with great
yehemence, Capt. Wise recited the fol-
lowing scripture, shaking his finger in
Mr.. Massey's face the while:
''Lord, who shall abide in Thy taber.
nscle? Who shall dwell in Thy noIv
hill? He that walksth uprightly aud
worketh righteousness aud spegketh
tho truth in his heart. He that back.
blteth not with his tongue. nor doeth
evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a
reproach against his neighbor. In
whose eyes vile person is condemned.
but he honoreth them that fear the
Lord. He that sweareth to his own
hurt and changeth not"
l DON'T LIKE HIM,
Capt. Wise, after this outburst.
quoted down and went along with his
figures for q while, and then, seeming
to remember that MIR. Massey had said
on the stand that he respected him till
ho had proved traitor TO Virginia.
lie stopped suddenly and said, This
old creature says | don't love Virginia,
While [ WAS bleeding on her battle
fields before was old enough to go
into the army he was dealing in to-
baoco III Richmond. Yirginia's past is
a poem, her present problem, her
future prayer with every throb of
nv heart. Virginia is nearer and
dearer TO me than anything else in the