Richmond planet., 1896-05-02


the ircGit Court of Petersburg, which
il known ought to make any man care
full about his memory. 1t was i'm the
celebrated Randolph Williams case
Judge William Lee, admitted TO be
the abest ircuit Judge who ever sat
upon the bench in this State, the peo-
pie of the county had the honor to
have him sit on the bench in this coun
ty for 40 years
He and Me. Cardwell were sit
ting in the old Jarratt's Hotel talking.
Randolph rushed up to him and said
give me my bond or I'll blow your
brains out. I've paid it. He urged
him to give him the bond and the
Judge said that he would be reponsi-
BILE for it."
He told with tragic pathos of the re-
sui of a defective memory, of how one
of the other parties thought he had
made the tender and insisted upon it
and was aStOunded to learn that be
had been mistaken
"And yet" he said with vehemence
you are asked to take away this
poor creatures life upon the statement
of a man, made twelve months after
the lady has been placed beneath the
ground. Mr.. Gregory is 70 csd to the
prosecutions side o. this case.
PECULIAR INTEREST.
1 say that in any case in which have
been associated, extending over a pc
riod of thirty years, l have never
known a citizen TO exhibit such inter-
est to bring the punishment of death
upon anybody as has been done by him
in this case.
Now, without impeaching his veraci-
ty. l say that his heart, soul and bo-
dy are all anxious to see them take
away Mary Abernathy's life. He wants
to see the loop of the hangman's moose
dangling around her neck and she
swinging between the heaven and the
earth. You are about TO take my life
put yourself in my place.
THE FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY.
nope the court will bear with me.
hope you gentlemen OF the jury will
bear with me il sneak too long.
II should fail to say any one thing
which would have a tendency TO save
her life, L should consider it a sin to
follow me TO the end of my days and
one for which / should ever offer an
atonement
There is nothing against Mary Aber-
| nathy except the statement accredited
TO her.
Mr.. Gregory said that when he asked
Mary if she had seen anybody around
that place she had seen no one good
bad or Indifferent. And yet he did not
| think that il was of sufficient impor
tance for him 90 produce it before MIR
| Eubank. the magistrate.
| Mr.. Clements is the man who had
Mary Absrnathy under arrest and sh,
was examined and turned loosea and h,
didn't make the statement.
/ Gentlemen have you no doubt tina
these witnesses are repeating tn
words of this Negro woman exactl,
as she said them?
Now the next statement is that o
Phil Watson. She was arrested an'
turned loose.
MARY ABERNATHY's INNOCENCE.
Just after she had performed tn
tender ministration of shrouding Mr.,
Pollard, they went there TO search he
house. She opened the boxes and tur
ed over her bed and found nothing.
MIR. Gregory, gentlemen is a swii
and eager witness. He said he did nc
expect to find anything over there.
the name of God, what did he go owe
there for2 What did he take othe
people there for?
Why his very face is a mantle
prejudice.
No hungry hog was ever more am
ious for a ear of corn than is he f
I the life of this poor woman.
Now Phil says on the way over
the house, he had conversation vii
Mary.
Mary, smart enough to plan, skillf
! enough to execute and brave enough
= : carry out would make such admissiC
Q as were quoted.
And yet Robert Southall said tn
, she went to the back door and becko
!. ed Solomon Marable to come
II And yet, my friend Southall testifi,
u that she went to the side of the por
II and saw Marable crouching down by t
:. side of the fence. And then he correC
e ed himself, and said that if he was n
II crOuching, he was slightly bendi
II with his hat pulled down over his ey'
II Phil Watson said that Mary Abe
nathy said that she saw a man passi
down the side of the fence.
II And yet my friend, Southall mal
IL the statement we have quoted. I
= memory is so poor that be cannot
10 member the words of the main with,
p for the commonwealth. He NAL
&c statements which were never said
-, fore this jury.
le SUPPOSE SHE SAID IT.
20 Well, they went on to Mr.. Gle
- ments. But before / leave Phil w
~ sons testimony. Suppose she said
q Try solitary thing that Phil said
id, it is perfectly consistent that
went away from that place before NJ
Pollard was murdered
be He then commented upon the sta
a ment made by Mr.. Clemments relat
~, to the capture.
no "If had been suspected of the M
er der of Mrs. Pollard and ! was under
rest and somebody had come to IN
n said that they had caught the man y
he killed Mrs. Pollard, l think 1 sho
ey have rolled over and glorified u
WIS Jenny blew the gourd handle
m He then took up the evidence
We White.
OF WOULDN'T BANG DOG.
ng "I wouldn't hang my dog" said
* 'on such evidence, nor would per
any one else to hang, my dog.
TO Mrs. Thompson created great {
OF of amusement at my expense
he faced the minnie bullets of 500Oyanl
we but would rather undergo that e1
'ry rience again than to again attack |
ls- Thompson
Imet regular buzz-saw. He 7
his respect to her creating, unboun
amusement.
las He told how accurate she was al
les. a conversation between herself
no Mary Abernathy and yet could rem
IN Der nothing else in connection with
Dry same. She did not know the perso
ely whom she had first made the ST
lslt ment
On A TOUCHING APPEAL.
Now gentlemen of the jury, ]
ory about to retire from this case
the made US. He made you. He made
W l IL made me If there is a man on
go jury, who does not believe that she
n q ao..l L.. .Lo..lA IL