Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-25

IMpLICATEs A WHITE MAN.
Marablc Vow Declares the "o'"c"
MD Not XIII Mrs. Pollard.

Solomon Marable. the Lunenburg muir
derer and expert liar now In the Guy jan
for safe-keeplng, Is again tciiing th'
white-man story and exoneratcs the thfec
women-Mary Alternately and iokey anu
Mary Barnes-who were convicteu o. pe
ing concerned with him IN the hhui"e. VI
Mrs. Pollard.
The account he now gives IL elmost
Identical with his original tesuinohy,
which he afterwards denied. lie VOWS
that he IS now telling the truth ana sly
ne will adhere to this story. come what
NAV. -
a Dispatch reporter called on him az
the Jail last night and had MN Ten tnc
store in its entirety He says that about
10 o'clock in the morning or tho day OF tnS
murder he was going from Fort Mltcheh'
where he had been 10 purchase moiasses,
TO the saw-mill near by. On the road NJ
was met BY a white man (whoSe name
he gave. who halted him, ana at the
pistols point commanded him TO do. as ne
told him. The two stayed aIongslde t .h
road until about O'CLOCK, Wheh uIe
kill Mr.. Pollard. and wanted the negro
to assist him. They then Jourhe!tu 70 .ne
Pollard residence. and on me VIZ ~.
white man told Marable that II ne d,dn /.
do exactly as he was told he would dow
his brains out. He then gave the negro
his instructions. and when the par az
rived At the house MlraDle was sta IN.
behind a tree opposite the front "Uoi
darted around the house. and when Mrs.
Pollard came out and went to look ior
him Marable crept up Denlnu hcr ~. ~
choked her. He says the Whlte IldIi w -
came from behind the house armed WIN
an axe. and confronting the prostrate
woman. asked her II she knew him, Hgr
rrply was. You are a white man; he
then asked her where her huspdhd Wa" va,
and upon being told that he was IN "a. tne
field said he had come there 10 XII al .I;
Pollard but as he was not there ne Mn
her lie thereupon struck her over tue
head with the aNe-helye untli shs Ios. In
seriousness. when he turned the instru-
ment around and struck her several TIMES
with the blade Of the axe. solomon IN tne
mean time han loosened his hold or NIT,
Pollard and was crying. Inc wiilte il No,
cursed him, he says, and catchlnS hlIn
by his left arm put the pistol IN his race
then went into the house and the money
thenk went into the house and the money
was soon found. The so Solomon says
was given him there, together WIN III
structions to go TO Chase city and naii
s. back 10 himself. and II caught 10 I'M
plicate Mary Alternately ana the Two
Barnes women. ~ -
the white man, and when he did 90 so
ne saw another white man, whose name
he also now gives, winking at MIN, anu
he again became frightened ana shllteu
the blame back on the women: ,,o,,
An effort Is now on foot 10 secure new
trial for Mary Alternately and Pokey
barnes. 4 number OF colored persons
headed by Alderman Mitchell nave IN
terested themselves IN the case. Ia C0H-
gresham George u. Wise and Judge
1Ienrv ". Fiournoy. Of this city. have
been engaged TO represent me women an, anu
secure a new trial If possible solomon
Narable, having been sentenced, Is uiiItr
the law no longer a competent witness
and he could therefore neither testiIy lor
nor against the women IN event OF Il
new trial.