Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-02


Mr. Thompsons. Pokey and l walked
some OF the way. and then We turned
back. and we got to a place l did not
exactly know. / said: This don't look
like the way that we came She said:
NO. II don't We kept going on until
we got TO an old gate place. / said:
I'm not going this way; I'm not going.
She said: 'Whyg | said: Because I'm
not going this way She said: Well, you
hold on for me at the gap right at the
back or my house: I'm going down this
way a little ways: I'll be back In "a Few
minutes ! waited at the gap, and, after
awhile, I don't know. j guess II was
about half an hour, she came on pach'
She did not say what she was golns
down there for. l did not ask her about
what she was going for when she came
back she said: 'If I'd known all TINS
sumac was out here I'd have gathered
il last YEAR
Then we went on back to Pokey
house and lay down again. When Mary
Craghead. Betsy Ellis. Pokey, ana ] got
down 10 the fodder stacks by the renee
the 4 o'clock train was blowing. don
know how far IL was that we went win
Betsy Ellis and Mary Craghead. we
went outside of Mr.. Fore's held. tuIn-
ed back because didn't want 10 go AVA
anyShG.-e. ! only started out 10 wan a
B,fte uav Wo kept on going till we got
10 an old gate place. which Is pach VI
Mr. Pollard's house on the north sue
l don't know how far. but II Ism very
far. That was the place l turned Da IN,
/ looked back and saw Pokey once, Sno
was walking along very slo"-~ai aims
down towards Mr.. Pollards' one nsu
then crossed over the sunk part Oh inc
land in the lane"
LED TO Mr.. PoLLARDs.
q Where did that lane come from and
90 to? ,so uoods
II came from out OF the WOODS
and the other end Of it runs right up 10
MIR. Pollard's stable. Pokey hau on
eort Of an old blue dress that DAY. "heh
7 left Pokey / went back TO the gap
right In front OF her house. IL was on
MIR Fore's line fence. and right In sight
OF Pokey's house. II was the me ieioe
between Messrs. Thompson ana fores as
they had but one fence. Pokey was eohe
as near as / can Judge, about nan ah
hour. When she returned 10 me she ulu
not come the way she went put caiiIe
around the fence. IL was warm weather.
and she was lust tolerable warm. There
was one snag in her coat. That was an
I noticed about her clothes. turned pacn
because / knew that Mr.. Pollard mao
ordered Pokey not TO come through there'
and. moreover. that IT had peen
said that she had been taking some oil
Mr. Pollard's chickens-some nine or Ten
of his chickens-and I did not want 10
90 through Mr.. Pollard's place with any
body like that. We got right over une
fence and went back to the gap in front
Of Pokey Barnes's, by going right up Ine s
sunk place In Mr. Fores held. we gu
not return the same way we came. We
crossed the branch at the same place poth
times. | don't know what time we to'
back TO Pokeys house. AS soon as we
got there l picked up Pokeys chliu .
dress. spread It out upon the moor ana
Law down on IL. | don't know how long.
The witness told of Pokey's conduct
from the time she returned until the
alarm was sounded by Mr.. Pollard.
Pokey then called TO her mother 10 run
TO the house, as there was something the
matter with Mr. Pollard.
Ellen was asked whether she mad not
made the statement that she mad seen
Pokey Barnes all that afternoon to ser
eeant II. L. Cardoza, one OF the Rlch-
nond soldiers at Lunenburg Courthouse
upon the occasion of the trial in the Luz
nenburg County Court
Sergeant Cardoza and Major j. II. Der
byshire. the latter Of whom was in com
mand OF the military at Lunenburg Court
house. were I'm the court chamber ana
Ellen. after looking long ana doupuuly
at the Sergeant. remarked that she
might have told Mr.. Cardoza such d
thing. hut II she did so she was AFRAID
of Pokoy Barnes.
Civde Fore testified that he was work
Inc in tbe field opposite Mr. Pollards
ON the afternoon Of the murder, and saw
Ellen Gale and Pokey Barnes returning
10 Pokey Barnes's house about O'Clock
that evening. He further stated that II
would take a man about 10 minutes 70
replant one Of the corn rows in That
field which questions was a subject OF
such interest during the afternoon.
CORN ROWS INTRODUCED.
Mr. E. A. Clements, the constable, who
arrested the women. went over his STORY
about taking dinner with Mr.. ana MIS-
Pollard or the day OF the murder. he
said that the corn rows on MT Fore
Mace were 264 yards long. He gave much
other evidence regarding the distance
and location OF objects surrounding foi-
lard's premises.
The next witness and one of the most
important Of the day, was MT. u. !.
Gregory who testified that early Satur-
day morning. after the killing, ne went
into the lane leading from Mr.. Ponard's
stable to the old gate place. on the north
eide of Mr.. Polards house, and there
near the draw-bars found three barefoot
tracks. two coming I'm and one going
ont A stick was fitted in these tracks,
and Ellen Gale and Pokey Barnes were