The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-01

had been rincd, AMI whose wife had been
murdered In full view OF the gate though
which ne had entered the house. ana VINO
was even then within twenty-five or tnir-
~ feet Of him. had not suspected that
anything wrong had happened. or that
there was any reason 10 investigate this
unusual state OF affairs. which could not
or had not escaped his attention.
In that chest at the time OF the rob-
berry there was between $50 and $500
In money. and Mr.. Pollard who has the
name of being a close and certainly eco
nomicdl man. II would seem must have
Investigated the matter TO see whether
or not that money was stolen. But he
said that he kept his money and bonds
In different places, and so he did not
notice that this chest had been disturbed.
] asked how IT was that he failed TO no.
tice these things. and he said that he
had been fixing a bond for MIR Clemens,
and he supposed that this was the reason
that these matters escaped his attention.
1t must be also stated in this connec-
ton that Mr.. Pollard has no cook or
other female domestic. and that II is ex-
ceedingly rare that any one save himself
and Mrs. Pollard entered the house at all.
! asked him If the colored women. Mary
Alternately and Mary Barnes, mad been
In the habit of coming in the house, and
he replied that they had not lie said
that up TO the date OF the murder that
Mary Abernathy had never been IN the
mouse but twice, and that Mary Barnes
HdN DttI IN the mouse Uipit lHdh
eight or ten times. He said that Mary
Barnes had once or twice, when bringing
water from the spring to the house, pass
ed through the house. but that he had
told her that she must not do this, and
That afterwards she went around the
house and brought the water into the
Itrch from the yard
STRANGE. STRANGE INDEED.
There are no adjectives which can de-
scribe the state Of establishment into
which one Is thrown by the mere recital
OF these facts The bell cord down, the
chests and trunks rified, and their con-
tents in confusion, his wife dead in plain
view and yet he sits in that ROOM which
was the very scene OF the robbery, ana
sees nothing TO excite his apprehension
or TO cause him to make an investigation.
Ii Is possible that either one Of these
things might have escaped detection tenn
porarily. but that all three Of these com
u'tions Should have existed at the same
time. withOue causing not only detection
but conster alton and alright, Is more
remarkable Singular fatality, indeed,
that the man whose wife had been ruth
lessly murdered, and whose body lay in
full view OF the gate through walch re
had passed. whose strOnghOlds ana safe
boxes had been forced. and whose goods
had been r'hed. should have sat Gown In
tint very heart Of the evidences OF snis
crime, and yet have failed TO notice them'
HAD Sor BEEN MURDERED.
This could not be. and 1t is. therefore,
absolutely certain that when, at go or
thereabouts, sir. Clemens drove OF WIN
his corn. and Mr.. Pollard returned 10 LOOK
over his bonds and papers before put
ting them away. Mrs. Pollard had not
been murdered. Just how long MT fol-
lard remained i'm the house after Mt
Clemens left, before he went into lnc
ward and dssCO Vcrcd the remains OF hs
wife. he could not tell, but sara
that IL was probably ten MIN,
utes. IN this time Clemens han
driven off with his corn over the usu,
al country road. rad stopped to open ai.i
close two gates between Mr.. Pollard
house and the main road. and nae pasSth
out OF hearing OF the alarm whlch N"s
sounded when Mr.. Pollard found the poiS
OF his wife.
I asked Mr. Pollard If he thought u
was possible that any one could nave
been concealed about the house or yard
and have murdered Mrs Pollard during
the time they were over at the corn
hause and he told me ne did not think
so He said that during the time that
the wagon was being loaded. he was
standing just at the courthouse door. ana
that Mr. Clemens and his son were hand
ing him the corn. and be was measuring
IL before II was dumped into the wagon,
and that no one could have entered the
yard without his knowing n.
/ then asked Mr.. Pollard II he knew
exactly the time that he found the body
OF his wife He said he ala not. but that
ii was sometime before shutdown, and