Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-20
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J. W. M1CHAELS,
Head Teacher.
HE SLEPT WITH PROFESSOR HUM
BERT.


The night Annie Riggs says / entered
her room / happened to be in the institu-
tion library Ii was between . and $3.50
o'clock. | remember this on account OF
the former investigation. which was made
al a time when dates could be easily look
ed up. Professor Humbert and others
were In the library at the time. | am
sure he will remember it distinctly, and
remember. too. that | left the library
with him. and with him spent the entire
night, sleeping in the same bed.
Annie Riggs is simply a misguided girl.
An apology / offer the public for what
am about to state Under less trying
circumstances | would consider myself
mean and ungentlemany indeed TO refer
in any way. shape. or form to any ones
aflictiOn. But it is true that while In
school this girl for the most of the time
suffered from a very bad head-trouble,
causing running at the ears. This trouble
must certainly have affected her mind TO
make her so ungrateful to me. who was
never anything to her but a kind teacher,
especially so on account Of this affiiction.
/ understand that this witness also states
that / ruined four other girls. She stated
either that she heard so, or they
told her. This charge l have
already denied in general way,
10 emphatically deny il again. i ask the
public TO stop and think. In any legal
tribunal in the land, would such heresay
evidence be taken, recorded. and pub
lished TO the wide wide word? If such
a diabolical statement be true, there
must be evidence and conclusive evidence.
The burden is upon my accusers.
WORD AS GOOD AS THEIRS.
My word, as my whole life will prove.
Is certainly as good as any of theirs.
am perfectly willing that II be weighed
In the balance with theirs before any just
tribunal on earth
L deny ever having offered Annie Riggs
any money. j deny having said or init
mated to her in any way, shape. or
form. what she should say or should not
say concerning this matter. or any other.
Her charges are false from beginning
to end.
ANIMOSITY or RANDOLPH.
AS TO John Randolph. 1 have but lit
tie TO say. i know him to be a sore
headed, disappointed applicant for posi-
tions. He entertained an animosty to-
wards me long before my conduct at the
Virginia institution had been questioned.
IL is said that back Of every human
action there is a motive. II the above Is
not the key, and MS motive Is not
revenge and hatred then L know not
what impelled his slanderous and false
statements. In the language OF one
hsghly respected, living In Norfolk,
Va, he is a man who thinks evil evil,
and tells II as the truth
Randolph swears that l, while a
teacher put my arms arounc Ethel
Blankenship, now his wife, while In
class at the blackboard, during the ses-
sion OF 1SSl-'S5 His attention was called
70 the time specifically. and he was
positive as to date. ] was not there
al that time, and the records or the
institution viii show IL.
A LETTER FROM TUCKER.
The next witness against me is Ar
thur C. Tucker.
This witness, according to newspaper
reports named several girls who sat
ON Teacher Yates's lap in 1883. some
az them Is years old. When an investi-
cation OF Mr.. Yates was projected
Ts,es maid the way Of Mlchaels down
TO Luray TO tell the girl, who was ia MISS
Riggs'g room when Yates went In, what
20 say when the sub-investigaung COM
mittee should see her. yates az one
time had struck witness, ana witness
wrote Captain Doyle about It, but Cap
tain Doyle only read part OF II, ano or-
dered witness out OF the room:
The above report OF Mr. fuckers evi-
dence appeared In the stauntoh ''noica-
tor OF February 9sh.
The only further answer wish 70 make
10 this Is the following letter, writ"