The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-05-02

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two women they were whom she told that
Pokey was with the whole evening.
Il don't know nothing about who they
WERE replied the witness.
Didn't you tell Betty Ellis and Mary
! Craighead about it?'
Il never told Aunt Betsy or Mary moth
ing"
"Didn't you tell that gentleman there"
asked Captain Wise. rising 10 his feet ana
| pointing TO Mr.. Hugh Cardoza. "that You
never left Fokcy that afternoon? Hc was
! In soldier clothes when you last saw hihi.
/ bus he h. the same man. Didn't you tell
! him that?'
II I did st was because I was afraid
of Pokoy. IL 1 TOLD him IL was in The
! courthouse
You say you were afraid OF Pokey
! when thero WAS q whole regiment Of sol
! dicrs 20 protect yOuY'
Soldiers or no soldiers" said the Wit
! ness. All that Pokcy wanted was TO get
! loose ana get 20 me-"
The witncsl then began 90 tell OF some
| OF Pokcy's pusnistlc exploits but was
! stopped boy counsel for the defence. and
Judge Crute said he would see thlt she
| DID not offend again.
! The cross-cxamination Of the witness
| was spun ont 20 considerable length. ana
| few other inaccuracies discovered.
After Captain Wise got through with
| her Captain GuigOn took the witness in
| hand. and examined her particularly as
! 10 her parting with Pokey az The OLD
! gate place" She said that when pOkey
! went through there she dii not ask her
| d3llem 10 20 with her, hut said 20 her.
| hy won't YOU gO;' She also testified
| that when Pokey came back. after an abb
sencc OF half an hour she had bunch
! OF sumac in her hand.
UNWILLING WITNESS.
Judge Flournoy then took a turn al the
| witness. who occasionally showed some
| slight symptoms OF temper but was not
| able 10 extract anything new from her.
She did not seem 90 Dee a willing witness
as far AS the defence was concerned
DAVID WILLIAMS.
After few more questions she was dis
missed and David Williams was put on
the stand
lie said on the day Of the murder he
! was working for L. T.. Fore. in "a acld
! adjoining Mr.. Pollard's, and in sisht Of
! Pol,ey Barnes house.
! tie had seen Fokoy. Betsy Ellis Eilen
! Gale, Rosa Barnes. and Mary Ciaighead
! leave Pokcys house just before o'clock
/ I'm the afternoon going toward Thompson's
/ ant some time later he saw Pokey
| Barnes and Ellen Gale come back to-
/ gether.
llo did not know how long they were
absent from Pokess house, but each
! man was carrying two rows
! They had completed two sets and were
| on "a third when the women came back
| lie did not know how long the rows
/ We're. but the corn was badly missing
Judge Mann requested that the jury be
sent from Tile room, in order that the
| court might pass on question 10 which
| ne thought objection would ho raised.
| Judge Mann asked the witness whether
/ be had heard Pokey say anything after
! the murder.
SOLOMON Is KEEN.
lie said ,.at Pokey had not said any
| thing 10 him, but he had heard her tell
| ing her cousin before h,r arrest the
! second time that she wanted to see
| solomon and she didn't want To- see him.
/ she also said, witness stated that solomon
/ was Keen and IL Doe knew any thing about
nnd it out.
The jury was brought back and this
testimony submitted 10 them.
defence began 10 examine the witness
VINO stated after great cXcrtions on the
part OF captain Gu.son, to draw him
v"t t""l Ht was pretty confident that
Iokey ana Ellen Gale were not gone from
fokeE's house ON the evening of th.
murder more thdn thirty minutes. SIR
1iyde tofe was the next witness. lie
stated that be- was working with the
haNds IN TIE Held the day Mrs Pollard
was murdered.
Ihe ground. he said. was very hard. and
| the corn was about one-third mi.rlna
lie thought II would take "a man about
HI'eeh minutes 10 20 up one IOw aud
| come down another. lie didn't see po-
Key Barnes nor Ellen Gale, but Saw Betsy
| Ellis and Mary Craighead about or
o.oO o'clock, Dee supposed
This completed AIR. Fore's examination
the defence stating that they had no
questions % ask him. and Mir. A. D..
Clements was put ON the stand. lIe
again gave ln the evidence, already twice
submitted by him, i'm regard to Ms visit
to Mr. POllard's house on the evening OF
The murder.
THE LAY OF TIE LAND.
"Mr. Clements said Mr.. Southan. 'ft
has been testified 10 here as 20 an ola
gate place down the lane from Mr. Pol
lards How Tar is this place from the
house?"
oh it is seventy-four yards from the
staMe-yard.'
"How far is the sunk placey"
About forty yards, j think"
Bv the help OF the chart of Mr.. Pol
lards place. Mr.. Clements showed the
jury the different fences ana places al
luded TO in the testimony OF witnesses.
The witness testified that ponarl's
house could seen from the old gate place.
but after q person got down i'm the sink
il was not visible.
Mr.. Clements said that the length OF
the corn r0Ws I'm Mr.. tOre's field was
264 yards. according to measurement by
"a surveyors chain. he did not know
whether there were any tracks in the
lane leading from The old gate place 10
the house or not. Mr.. Clements said
that ne thought 10 would take a man
about twenty minutes 20 replant two rows
OF corn 26i yards long. when the ground
was hard. and the corn one-third miss
iug. .gr. Clements thought, however.
that Mr.. Fore, who had the Work in
charge. and had put the time az nftecn
minutes, ought TO know better than.
himself.
MR.. GREGORY AGAIN.
Mr.. ID. J. Gregory was next put on the
stand. ard testified that he went down
the lane 10 the ola eate-piace the day
after the murder, and had found three
tracks. Therewere two left-footed tracks
Of bare-footed persons coming IN the
draw-6ars toward the house, and one
going out.