Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-07-31
DOUGLAS NoT Guilty..

o'clock the jury returned a vei diet
of (" Not Guilty having been out
only six minutes.
The .strial opened on Tuesday
evening, July 2lst, with Messrs.
Bans y Barns and Chapman &
Gillespie for the Commonw, alth,
and y. j. May n S. ID. Max and
Mr. b. Il. Long, ofStatcsvilk N. O..
for tlh defendant. The story OF
the murder, IN told 10y Witnesses
Tor tho Commonwealth, is snbstau.
italy as follows:
On Saturday, the LIST of Fcbr,l.
airy last, at snndown, Mr.. William
Honaker, coming from Bhrke's
Gatdenj met two men some dis.
thncc down. the mountain. One
wns tall, gray haired, weak looking
and seemed to be peddlcr, as lie
carried two budgets of knapsaclSs.
The othor was II slender man OF
about twenty five years of are;
weighing about 100 pounds, With
peculiar shoulders and habit of
Jerking them as he walked. hi,
hmped as if lame. Both shots
We're bad, and tho right ohe was
tori 5pcii 80 that d rag of some
Kind stuck out. He wore b light
Or dirty whit6 hab dark coat and
shirt, antl what seemed to DO over.
hllsl His hait wis rather dark,
his mosthche d light red, hud lie
hail ten days nf two weeks growth
of hcafdl His c5mplexion Wis
dark. Carried d sack with about
- peck of something in it. Goliig
further do&ii the mountain MIR.
Honakef MET Mr.. Joseph Meek
goiiig Ill the same directibh M
tliesc two mon. About this time
parties down the mountain heard
two shots ilred, and after an inter,
val another one. Mr.. Mock, about
three fOurths of ~ ihile lloih the
top OF the mountains, SAW man
lying MIC downward by the side
of the road, but did not get down
to examine him. yhouh he heard
groan Or snnrc. Thet night q
horse wis STOLEN frcih DIM. The
Commonwealth showed by n mum.
Der of good witnesses, that two
men, who were undonbtrdlv the
ones met on the mountain by NH.
Honakcr, had PASSED near Cant.
w. d. Pecry's place, cast of.town,
tho same afternoon, goiug. the
road to Burlsc's Garden, and were
seen by dozen or NOR, people at
various points aloug the road. .
AT the Pecry place The young
imam was some distance behind The
other, but seems to have caught
up with him after nile OF two,
and they Travelled together past
jngy's house, ut The foot of the
mountain, where thay were secn
by the Hugy's, father aud son.
Young llagy went to North Caro-.
, lima and identified Douglas as the
I young man with the peddler out of
thirty men ~ ~ railroad car. On
the same evening that the two
went up the mountain together and
that the old man was seen by Mr.
Meek lying Beside the road, the
young man passed through The gap
into Burk's Garden. The ncxtmor
ming the body WAS found 10y others,
aid Mr.. Floyd Gillespie held an in
quest over it, FROM this evidence
and that of DR.. Hicks it is shown
that the man was lying OH his face
Ivy rho road. In one OF His bundles
he had lot OF kniucS, and about
AZ cts. in money on his person,
whereas Joseph Hagy testiiles that
ee saw about five dollars in his
wocket gook. There WAS bruise
on back of head, aud u ball had
bseu fired through the breast.
ranging downward, which DR.. Hicks
thinks caused lido death. The balls
taken out apparently belonged to
IL SO calihre pistol. He @as about
ssvehty years of ago. There we're
signs of n struggle SOME Seven feet
from the body.
On the morning after the murder
about 8 O'clock, Mr.. Meeks horse
WIS left tied up in a tbiesct near
the house of Mr.. MarG6abf; six
miles soutnSeast OF Marion, Va. The
h6fse slowed that IL had iseen rid