The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-08-11

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him knew Mary Barnes and her daugn.
tiers. and the Abernatheys. He repned.
THAT is all | want TO know. re ,hAr
said to me: II don't like MI follatu;,
have had some words with MIN, anu
am going. TO kill hin" lie ma1e me NE
go with him to an old house down on ,ns
branch by Mr.. Pollard's spring. re sa'
down there with me until the pen 'au a,s,
and then he told me TO come Win NE,
over TO the house. He said: II am going
TO make a noise. and II anyone comes out
you catch him" | said. Il don wan, 70
have anything 10 do with II. they
haven't hurt me. and don't wal, 10 hus.
them" He replied. III you don't 90 az
| tell you. | will blow yoLr danlneu
head Off" He then went up TO the mouse
and knocked az the back door. Mr.. TOT
lard came TO the door and saw MS shau-
ow as he went around the back OF dc
house -,
When she was standing there her back
was TO me- | caught her by her hands
and as I did so ---- came around run
the back OF the house and asked ner
II she knew him. She said: You are
white man." He asked her how 'ong
MIR Pollard had been gone. He said, i
came to kill Mr.. Pollard, but ne am .
here. and am going to Kill you lie hlt
her three times on the head Win ths
axe-helve As he started 20 LII ner
jumped away. He said, ,ere III ny
hell are you going2" | told him tnat
Tve cot 10 talk 10 YOU" Mrs. Pollard
was living on the ground. He then struck
her several times with the eye OF .nS
axe He then caught me by the arm
and carried me into the house. We went
into the big room | was CRYING, anu
don't know all that he did, but saw MN
get something out OF a chest ana put III
his pocket He then took me up 20 'n1
forks of the Burnsgate and Fort Mltch.n
roads. and told me II they caught me 70
put it on Mary and Pokey Barnes ana
Mary Alternately. and said N did not
do this he would kill me on next sight
He then gave me two pieces or paper
money, but told me not TO spend 10 around
there but 10 go to Chase city. lie said
that when | got there ! must spend
some OF II and put the rest Of IL IN
registered letter and mail II 10 myself az
FinneyvOOd, and when II came that /
must say my brother sent 10 10 me from
North Carolina. He then left me, and !
went straight home. The next morning /
went over TO Chase City and spent some
of the money. and ! put five dollars IN a
registered letter and sent II 10 myseli
at FinneyWOOd. When | was over at
Chase civ | gave the name of Osborne
Marable. | gave one OF the notes 10
colored woman In Chase City 10 pay Tor
a lunch ! got there. She sent her daugh-
ter out 10 get IL changed and that now
until she brought the change back what
kind OF a note II was. went nome that
evening, and when | got there they told
me they were going 10 Whitecap all the
negroes there TO find out who killed N.ss.
Pollard so | left home and stayed down
on the railroad all night. Sunday MORN
ing | came back home and stayed all
the morning. Then | went and put my
wife on the train, and sent her homo 70
Stovall, Granville county ~ {. Non
day | went up TO Five Forks, and That
night | stayed with an old colored man
up there near Five Forks. ON Tuesday l
was arrested. | have not seen -
since that day. He was not at the trial.
When | was I'm court, and while |
was telling about the white man. | saw
Mr.. Pettus standing or squatting In tho
courthouse I'm front OF me. lie was
making motions with his mouth as n he
was saying, TEL them II was Mary Aber-
nathey-Abernathey
| had been told that ne said he was
going to kill me If 1 said II was Thomp-
son. and so | got scared and put it on
Mary and Pokey.
How much OF truth, II any, there Is
| in this statement. only time can tell,
| but one thing is certain. that there are
| some portions Of IL which could hardly
| have suggested themselves 10 Narable 5
unasslsted imagination.
| might begin what / am going TO say
with the statement that personally | do
not believe either Of these statements
| because there are many things which
prove conclusively to my mind that Solo
! mons statements are false.
/ shall take his statements I'm the order
| In which they We're made, and so begin
with his statement duplicating the ~o-
| men.
In the first place. It is untrue that hC
met Mary Barnes at the spring on Thurs
day. the day before the murder Mr.
| Pollard himself proves this 10 be untrue
| for he says that Mary worked with hin
| in the field that day. and that she die
not go TO the spring at all
| In the second place. 1t is untrue that
standing down at the spring. he coulo
| have seen Mary Alternately standing n
| the backyard reckoning him 10 come M
| there. From the spring YOU cannot se'
any portion of Mr.. Pollard's yard. mol
| even the top Of the chimney OF h. house
| This is conceded by every one TO be true
and so proves his statements 10 be false
| In the third place. Marabe testified
| although II does not appear IN this state
ment, that Mary Barnes, Mary Aberna
| they, and POkey Barnes were STANDING
in the backyard. and that Mary Barne:
ran out of the house, handed Mary Aher
nathey bunch Of keys, and then RAJ
| back out OF the front OF the house.
| ! have so often shown that II Is impos
| sible for this 20 be true that II Is almost
an imposition upon the public TO repea
| IL. But | will be as concise as possible
Mr. Pollard says that when he left the
| house Mary Alternately was seated y
| the front porch. his wife was sitting Jus
1
| Mary Barnes was carrying an armful O
| wood into the house. Mr.. Pollard wen
| straight on out 10 the cOrnneld. an,
by the time that he had ploughed one
| short row of corn and turned 10 come
| back, Mary Barnes was standing AZ th'
end OF the row. So she must have lef
| the house within a minute or two afte
| Mr.. Pollard II this Is so, then Mara
| bles account Is false again, for In so shor
| a time Mary Alternately could not have
| fpf tho backward from the
| OF the house. met Pokey Barnes, calle'
| Solomon Marable up to the house. dnt
received the keys from Mary Barnes.
Nor could Mary Barnes have gotten tn
| keys, for Mrs. Pollard was sitting In The
| very room in which the keys were kent
| and she would not have allowed thOs'
| Keys 20 have been taken, nor would
| Mary Barnes have attempted 70 have
| taken them I'm the presence OF Mrs. Pol
| Lard / say that this statement or Solo
| mon Marable bears upon its face th'
| patent evidences of its untruthfulnoss
| and that no amount OF explanation car
| make true what IS false In It's inception
At one time. too. Marablc sNcars ina
| the murder succeeded the robbery. ana a
| another time he says that the murder
occurred first. and the robbery after
| wards. II this statement implicatnt
| these women were true, IL Is impossible
| that so glazing a discrepancy IN his ties
| timony should have occurred.
And there Is another fact that mus
| be considered In connection with this
! and that is that with the exception Of
| Solomon Marable. liar. thief and muir
| derer that he is. no one saw PONey Barnes
| at Mr.. Pollard's that day. while at leas
| two persons have said that she was not
And TO my mind there are TWO most sig
| nhcant facts IN this case. one Is. tina
| the money has never been recovered an
| the other Is that no blood was found upoI
| the clothing OF the prisoners.
II can hardly be imagined that II Mary
q MarN Aharna fhaN md DnLr,