The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-17
AAS LOST ALL ITS SNAP
The [IOs2ediNgS Yesterday Were Very
URlNleIGSllng.
TIE WITNESS A WONDER
IS Physical Endurance HaS ASlOnIShGd The
Spectators.
CONTINUED on The Stand FIVE Days
He viii be Called Again To- Day. q
large Number of Witnesses on
Hand. Gov. O'Ferrail and
Others Returned Last
Night.

Night.
The Massey Pilot suit has lost all of
Ns snnp and liz now bnt little more ut
Inactive than the readIuG of nn Invoice
Sr adding up Il column OF figures. Mr..
Massey has been on the stand nearly "a
week aud has named SO often the
money invested US well us the money
spent i'll connection with his farm oper-
stions and family support that tho jury
knows what he paid his cook, his furm
hands, what his personal expenses
save been for the last ten years,
Shey have been told where he got his
meuls III Richmoud, where he slept.
Nhut his food consisted of. what he
gave his children. his wife and charity.
Ills personal affairs for thirty years
back have been Iud open for public
Mr.. Mussey as they know no other pub
tic man i'll Virginia.
He has been made 10 say whether he
WAS married with ring or not and to
tell the price Of the diamond earrings
ne gave his wife as IL wedding present.
His accounts have been added up and
the jury told how much he and his
present wife lived on during the first
yeur Of their marriage.
If there Is anything to ask Mr.. Mas
dey; II there Is anything that he can
tell Of himself personal, political or
oti icial, it will doubtless bc brought out
before he is allowed to retire from t O
stand. Iherels one thing very certain
= that the venerable witness has been
put to the severest tax ever known in
history of the courts Of this city, aud
men have marveled how a man of his
age could stand SO prolonged cross
examination, especially at this season.
A lawyer said yesterday that he did
DOT believe that nny OF the counsel on
either side could stand the strain put
upon Mr.. Massey.
J'he witness ls, however, breaking
down physicaily, being worn out, as it
we're. The questions that he has been
asked. not taking into account those
that he has been compelled to repeat
not taking inio account the wraugles
between he and Mr.. Wise--can be mum
uered 10y the thousand. The report OF
the Official stenographer Of Mr.. Mas
eey's testimony will make good sized
book.
When Mr.. Wise will get through
nobody knows. Yesterday he had
coached 1890 III an itemlzed statement
Ienses. 1t will in all proba
fiiug of the suit. When he leaves
the stand there will be renewed in
terest. New witnesses will be intro.
duced. Men who have been brought
from the interior counties anu have
been in court for the pnst week will be
put upon the stand.
Cnpt. Giles w. Il. Hnll. prominent
popniist politician, formerly Demo
crat. of Rocky Mount, Franklin county,
IL here to tell the jury what he thinks
oI MIR. James, also what he thinks of
MIR. Massey. There ~ also here MIR.
Hartwell, n leading Republican, law.
ser who practced at the Franklin bar,
and knows Mr.. James, Mr.. Parr, Mr.
Dickerson and MIR. Massey. Other
witnesses are present and each will
nave something Of interest to talk
about
1t IL generally believed that Cover.
nor O'Ferrnll, Attorney General Scott
and ex.Governor Mckinney will not be
&ept long. Certainly they will no. be
put through any prolonged cross.eX
animation, When these arc through
the testimony in rebultal will be intro.
duced. This will be about as interest
ing as any part of the trial.
The witnesses from q distance are
getting impatient. They like Norfolk
well, but do not fancy lounging around
a Norfolk court when they could be
rolling in the surf at Virginia Beach
or angling for the speckle trout in the
nountGins.
TIL. NINETEENTH DAY.
Yesterday was the nineteenth day OF
the trial. The crowd ut the opening
@as sufficient to more than comfortably
ill tho room. Judge Prentis was a
few minutes late and tho court was
ready for business when he arrived.
Capt Wise appeared to be in a
hurry to begin the examination. His
seat was that occupied by him for
some days past on the end of table.
After the usual good morning with
which MIR. Massey las been greeted
lor the past five days, Capt. Wise said
lou swore that when you made the
deed transferring Ash Lawn to yonr
brother that 1t had no tefereuce to