Richmond planet., 1896-05-02

said that she had seen no one that day,
suppose you had been put in her place,
would you not have been careful and
measured your words2 Suppose she
deliberately lied Is it TO be wonder
ed at that she should have said that
she had seen no one.
Yet you are TO send her to the gal
lows, because at one time she said she
saw no one there that day.
Yet she said that she did see man
down in the road on the other side of
the fence with his hat over his face.
She told her husband and it was sug-
gested that it was Marable.
1t is now said that she is to be hang
ed because she tells you that two days
befOre, the murderer came TO her house
with her s5nto get his bucket. Does
that make her liable, to be con-
victed on account of him, TO be hang
ed upon the same gallows with himY
do not intend to be sacrilegiOus, but
the holy apostle sat at the supper ta-
BILE with one Judas IscariOt. Does
that make him a murderer
| want it understood that i do not
question MIR Gregory ve' acity. do
question his correctness. 1t is in the
testimony that Mr.. Gregory came there
and wanted him TO raise the reward
from 20 to so per cent. When he de-
clined to do it. he went away saying to-
him that dollar is your god.
Mr. Gregory said he had never had
but one interview with these women
in the Richmond Jail. We have the
testimony OF three of the witnesses
that he did come to that Jail and tw ice
had an interview with the women.
do tell you that his testimony was
contradicted by four witnesses in this
case.
The commemorative attorney says
| that he did no more than you
would have done. Where are all the
men in Lunenburg County who didn't
go 20 Mr. Pollard S and make the offer
/ to raise the rewardf
Do men stop to oGemand the amount
of 80 per cent. to be raised be-
cause OF patriotic citizens doing their
duty.
lie went TO the Richmond Jail and
offered her life to confess There is
no record that she did confess.
She did not say where the plunder
was. II she were guilty, she would
have told where it was.
When she was told not inadvertent-
ly that they had gotten good news for
you, Mary. She sand, "Thank God
Thank God !" and she shouted, she
cried aloud with Joy that the man
had been found with the money on
him. He has gotten me into the trou-
BILE She said What more than half the
people of the state had said, Kill him,
kill him, without judge or jury, kill
him
/ tell you gentlemen of the jury
that have dreamed that j was charsed
with murder and that the web of cir
lcumstantial evidence was weaving
itself about me / hope that the real
ity of such dream may never come
To you or me
| DO YOU believe that woman, the
lmother of fourteen children and about
to again approach maternity who
would have killed Mrs. Pollard, drag
ged her body around the house where
it could be seen sooner.
PROOF OF INNOCENCE.
She shrouded Mrs Pollard No trem-
lulousness SIS in the midst of death. YET
| Margaret Bailey said that she appear
ed to be like all the rest.
How does it happen that the bel
rang at that very hour decided upoI
to commit the murder Was that
coincidence?
They want you to believe that she i
such a woman of intelligence, TO ar
range all OK the details in such shor
space of time
Gentlemen, it is too much to as
you believe that the prisoner commit
ted that murder.
CONVICT ON SUSPICION.
Gentlemen, the eyes of the Who'll
state are upon you tonight. Shall
be said that this state is the one fo
, the brave and the true, and would yo
send this old woman to the gallov
n on suspicion
1t Would you send your wife to tn
e gal ows on such evidence as has bee
adduced here?
n Gentlemen of the jury, / tell yo
n that this case has not been proven.
20 You have the murderer in yoJ
1T grasp. Execute the mandate of tt
re law upon the murderer and send tn
At old woman back to her children" tt
1t court adjourned.
r. Mr. Southall then spoke for the pro
8. ecution
he He declared that to prove every ste
w of this crime was difficult He the
n dealt with the evidence His stat
ne ments were so much at variance Wi
I'D the evidence that it prod uced disgu
upon the minds of counsel for the d
TO fence.
Il Judge II. W Flournoy said May
please your Honor and gentlemen
IN the jury. In the county of Prince e
"a ward, am in the home of my fatht
Ny ancestors and my kin have lived
no this county for six generations. T.
as bodies of many of them constitute t
u soil upon which we stand to-day.
OF ] have therefore to congratulate m
self that am to appear before ju
d. composed of her citizens
To-, lat ertGArs
matter. Let us consider the law whi
lr- brings you here.
" PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
n How did you come? How we're y
on selected? What obligations did y
take and what are your responsible
ice ties2 l want to tell you that
great God who died for the saving
in men had been executed nine hundI
cir years before men were tried by il
of their country-men But beft
,he that men W Mt to the death by the
IN crees of kings. But a Christian ki
lch came and he said, No man in my. xii
dom shall be condemned by my jud
ing ment alone. All men charged "
crime shall be tried by jury selec
lse from the body of the people.
III III DID THEY KEEP THEIR PRoMIsE2
ere You have been selected from
on body of the people. You have decl
len ed that you will try this case with
Sc prejudice, with absolute justice, "
an eye single to truth you will rem
M your judgement in strict accorda
i'm with the law and the evidence.
all You have the instructions of
y it court under the law oil the lano'
ig- VII, consider that testimony as 10
at quit OF innocence OF the accuseu
urt Now, gentlemen, we are all IN
Ter creatures Our course is marked
the blunders. The judge on the Der
lbt. the lawyers on the defence are hun
de- beings. And writer puts it 1t is
nee man to err But above US all slit