Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-05-02
CONVICTED HER.
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Where was Solomon Marable2 Moth
NJ could induce him TO go there.
Where was hep
WHO sHROUDED HER2
Mary Alternately was there She
hrouded her. Who watched that
orpse that night2
Gentlemen, this evidence tells you
dary shrouded her Mary sat during
he long hours of the night.
They ask you TO take this woman and
,ommit her to death.
Gentleman, read those instructions.
Any hypothesis consistent with the in
locence, it behooves you to acquit the
prisoner.
II, under those circumstances you
hang her you take a woman who acted
from any other criminal
Marable's clothes had turpentine on
them. His shoes were down by the
water where they could be washed.
Pollard said be lost bracelets. te lost
de lost underclothing
and $500 in money.
They searched Mary Alternately and
they found nothing. She assisted.
you have the testimony
that remained at Mrs. Pollard's. Sat
urday was put under arrest Her
house was searched
NOTHING TO CONVICT HER
Not a dollar has been found, They
were watching for Pokey Barnes and
Mary Alternately while the real thief
was at Chase City.
MIR Gregory told you that he made a
visit to the city Jail of Richmond with
in three or four days of the execution
Of the sentence.
THE EVIDENCE OF HER INNOCENCE.
He said you've got no hope. Judge
Coleman has refused to grant you d
new trial She didn't know there wa.
any hope, that there was any appea
and said, Tell me where that money
is He went there to this poor ignO
rant woman with death before her
Tell me- Mary where that money is
L offer you life in exchange.
Was ever a criminal subjected to
severer test7
His Honor says that shall not Civ
the answer. It's a cruel law tina
would allow a man, it seems to me
to play with the life of prisoner as b.
would n kitten.
1t Is n CIUcl law W Ilt lndJ dilON
the words of the man who would go 4
u prisoner and say what be did and hi
words can be given and hers canno
be He went there Offering her lif
in exchange for the knowledge of tn
fnopey.
He would go to the judge, Gov emo
and get her sentence committed
Mr. Gregory failed He did not &c
the money. He searched the houst
be searched her person, he searche
her heart. You are asked to hang q
ry Alternately upon whose person n
money has been found. whose hous
contained none Of Mr.. Pollard's plur
der. ] here was one upon whom wa
found money. He didn't do as Mar
did. he fed.
THE ONE WHO HAD THE MONEY.
We know that Marable, who fed ha
the very denomination of money whic
was lost. A miserable vagabond an
a tramp who came from North CAROL
ma with $40 bills in his pocket, calm
for a breakfast that cost Scots
don't intend to skip any of this e,
idence, if my mind will hold out.
could tell you where he was bound.
know, so does my friend. But W
know this, that on Sunday, he didn
20 into Mary Wootten house ar
Wootten said that he was very restles
and nervous. You would have bee
nervous and i would have been ne
yous, il had committed that murde
de was watching all around there an
when he got to the Baptist Church, I
got into a trot.
SOLOMON RAN.
Solomon ran. All of the law-bool
say that this is the greatest proof
guilt. Mary bernaIhy didn't ru
! When she was discharged, she didn
run. Solomon ran, and in his runniI
jumped over a barbed wire fence
Now. there comes here a number
witnesses who undertas to say VIII
Mary Abernathy said TO them Tai
all of the testimony that they plac,
before you and it does not amount to
baubee.
Mr. Southall said that Mary Ate
nathy told two different stories al
set Mr.. Eubanks, the very magistra
who examined this case says that &
statement made before him and at Il
trial at Lunenburg O. III. were su
stantially the same. and yet the magi
es, the man who knew more about G
witnesses than anybody else, said tn
there was no substantial difference b
tween what was said before him and
the Lunenburg G II
1t is said that when Mary Abernatl
was talking to Mr.. Gregory, she
not tell him that she saw man in {
road. He explained the location
the road.
ONLY A FAILURE TO RECoLLECT
He says that when Mary Aber1et
told her first statement, she dlti Il
put that IN, but when she told her Sc
ond statement, she did put that in
l made n statement and left out ia
and when l meet you again put it
, do contradict myself? No.
Do you think if you had gone up
that house and that horrible murd
. had been exhibited TO you, with o.
! gashes on her head, weeping all arou
that you would have thought of
of the facts too?
, They want you to think that Ma
Alternately was calm, with weepi
and death around that she was :.
fectly calm. know plenty of perso
, who cannot stand undue excitement
! WHAT DOES IT SHOW?
What does this evidence sho
J They had no right to make her ansv
a question unless she pleased Ms
J said they got me twisted up so, IL
J forgot to tell you, Mr.. Eubanks, IL
{ | saw man on that road, and you {
asked to hang Mary Alternately |
cause she saw Solomon. / will sh
you how she saw Solomon Marab
When spoken to she said, saw mi
Suppose its true, what does it prov
, Does it prove that Mary Abernat
killed Mrs. Pollard2 Where is I
: connection between that woman a
: the murder? Where's the connectic
2 These honorable gentleman can't
y guilty of such Misrepresentation
: appear here. Mark you, they put I
la Knight in that chair as their W
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