Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-06-27


is hand and told me helped kill Mrs TN
'ollard. tn
/ told him to take his hand of in
ne, and Mr.. Martin said, put your
and on her as much ~ you please, I'd
nd tell her about il. l told him i br
Iidn't care how much he made Solo &c
non put his hand on me would never II
ay killed Mrs. Pollard when didn't
ill her.
He then told James, the key-turner,
20 carry me back upstairs Then he W
.ook Aunt Mary down there. CT
AUNT Many IN THE DUNGEON. y
don't know what they said or did To Z
hen, but they put her in the dungeon. He q
said that il WAS too hot in there for a
her. They would take her out and put d
the other one in there. l
they came up there to put me in A
there. ! told them TO put me in there
l wouldn't tell anybody that / killed
could p1e me in there and keep me in }
there.
stayed in the dungeon five nights {
and four days. Mr.. Blake came down
there and told me TO come and go up .
stairs. 1t was no use Of my staying
down there. and he did not know why
Mr.. Martin put me down there.
ONCE MORE TO LUNEHBURG. II
The very day went upstairs, tn y
came for Us, and brought US to Rich
mond and from there carried US to Luz
nenburg e. II. to be tried
The soldiers met us at Richmond.
We were carried TO Lunenburg @. ii
TO be tried
The trial Of Solomon Marable was
begun at once. We reached there eth
er Thursday or Friday don't know
which. They finished up with his case,
and then carried Mary Alternately in
court. When they carried her in
the jury and il went over until the
After this was gotten, they COM
menced with the case While they |
were trying them was in jail.
IN TnE HANDS OF THE SOLDIERS
was tried next. They carried me |
in the court-house by the soldiers, |
there being one on each side,two walk |
ing in front and two behind, and there
were other soldiers all around here.
They brought Solomon Marsbie in
the courthouse. He gave i'm his tes-
timony and commenced examining the
witnesses, and finishe d with them the
next day. l don't know when Solo
mon Marable sent for the people down
To the jail
When went in there Judge Orgain
said If Msrable's statement is true
there is no use going any further with
the trial.
Judge Organ asked me il l wanted
solomon brought into court TO testify
z to what Solomon said he would testify.
: And | said yes, bring him in.
MARABLE's CONSCIENCE sMorE HIN
They brought him in, and they sat
him down and took the handouts of
? him and Judge Organ told me to ask
. him any question l wanted to ask him
l asked him, did we hope him kill Mrs.
/. Pollard, and If we hope him
). kill Mrs Pollard, say we hope him kill
J, Mrs. Pollard, and IL we did not hope
h kill Mrs. Pollard say who hope him kill
Mrs. Pollard. He told them, no, we
}. didn't hope him kfil Mrs Pollard, that
e a white man hope him kill Mrs. Pol
ii lard.
INTIMIDATTNG THE WITNESS.
s BY the time he said white man
u hope him kill Mrs. Pollard, Mr.. Lucius
Pettus, who was STOPPING down in
front of him, winked at Solomon. He
had his pistol in his pocket. He was
/ saying something in a whisper to Solo
IL mon. / could not hear what he said
e Captain Cunningham saw him and was
n making his way to him and Juror
n saw him and called the Judges atten-
n ton to it.
n Judge Orgain said he saw it and was
y about to call the attention of the court
to it.
d CLEARED THE COURTROOM.
He ordered the court room cleared
- and Solomon began to testify again
'e When he got to the white man part o.
il, the jury left the stand, and the
q Judge and others got around him.
Mr.. Neblett told tire Judge to make
- him answer the questions like he asked
- him. He was telling lies. 1t was the
women, and make him saw it was the
women. There was no white man il
it, The Judge went back on his sea
and told Marable to answer thos,
q, questions.
~ Marable hung his head and cried ans
xe when he sung out again, he said tina
ae we women were in it,
to After the lawyers had spoken the in
to ry went out.
II They returned and all OF them an
swered to their names, and then tn
to Judge said, ] don't know all of tina
yn the Judge asks them and then the
said, She is guilty. They took me bacl
ey to the jail.
~ DIDN'T KNOW 1T WAS DEATH.
ey 1 didn't know what they meant
TX / did not know that they mean
re to hang me until Saturday nigh
Nv when they carried us back into tn
IN courthouse, then the clerk read TIN
re same kind of thing that Mr.. Thaxto
road nm Of orV,a uillo Than the ind o.
ay told us to stand up and asked us di
ne we have anything to say. / don't be
ay lieve / said nothing more than / air
kill Mrs. Pollard. If said anythin
else have forgotten it.
We didn't 90 to Jail anymore. w
ad stayed in courthouse until the mex
We morning when they brought us t
ey Richmond and put us in jail.
te ANGRY WITH SOLOMON.
was handcuffed to Solomon II til
We way down here.
IN He had me put in jail and locke
~, ne Just as ugly sitting up there as conl
"s be. He knew didn't know anythin
re- about the killing of Mrs. Pollard.
eRReoRY'S VISIT
ere About two days before time for I
by to be carried to Lunenburg q. II. q
nst he hanged) Mr.. Gregory came to Il
he Jail He told me that he sent for n
~ TO come that he thought it was usele
ne I'd send for Mary Alternately, she WI
ne SO much older than ! was and SO muC
:, older in the head than was she. wou
al, not tell him the truth about the ma
II ter He said he wanted to'see IL
Ary would tell him. who killed Mrs. Pc
lard and where Mrs Pollard's stole
goods were. ssf1
He said that Judge Coleman, isT
nat that the name of the Judge at Amel
ac' =, II "A ,-r,,sad a. rv-ev,t -, = ~.