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

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o'clock, the jury returned a verde
OF +" Not Guilty. having been GA
only six minutes.
The. strial opened on Tuesda,
evening, July 2Ist, with Msssrs
Baras y Barns aud Cbapman &
Gillespie for the Commonw. alth
and \. j. May x S. ID. May and
Mr.. B. +. Long. orStateSvilh n. &.
for tile defendant. The story ot
the murder, as tola by witnesses
Tor the Commonwealth, is substau
italy as follows:
| On Saturday, the LIST of Fcbr,l
airy last, at Snndown, Nr. William
Honaker, coming from Bnrke's
Garden, met two men some dis.
tanee down the mountain. One
was tall, gray haired, weak looking
aud seemed to be peddler, as he
carried two budgets Of knapsaclxs.
The eth0r was slender man Of
about twenty five years of aye.
weighing about $50 pounds, Will,
peculiar shoulders aud u habit of
Jerking them rs he walked. He
hmped as II lame. Both shots
were bad, and the right one was
tori Opcii so that q rag OF some
KIND stuck out. lie wore h light
Or dirty whit6 hab dark coat and
SHIRT, AMI what seemed To dc over,
hllsi His hait wis rather dark.
his mosthche d light rel, and lie
hail ten days nf two weeks growth,
of heafdl His complexion MSs
dark. Carried d sack with about
peek of something in it. Goiiig
further down the mountain Mr..
Honaker met Mr.. Joseph Meek
going in the same direction AZ
these two men. About this time
parties down the mountain heard
two shots hred, and after an inter.
val smother one. Mr.. Meek, about
three fourths Of n mile iloM the
top OF the mountain, saw man
lying Moo downward by the side
of the road, but did not get down
To examine him. Thouh he heard
groan or enore. That night a
horse wis STOLEN frclA DIM. The
Commonwealth showed by a mum.
Der of good witnesses, that two
men, who were undonbtedlv tho
ones met on thc mountain by Mr.
Houaker, had passed near Cant.
W. Il. Peery's place, cast ofiown.
the same afternoon, going the
road to Bwlsc's Garden. and were
seen 10y dozen or morr people az
various points along the road.
AZ the Perry place Che young
man WAS some distance behind The
other, but seems TO have cmtrht
up with him after Il mile on two.
and they travelled together past
jIagy's house, at The foot Of the
mountain, where thay were seen
by the Hagy's, father aud son.
Young Hagy went to North Caro-
lima and identified Douglas as the
young man with the peddler out of
thirty men 10 a railroad car. On
the same evening that the two
went mp the mountain together and
that the old man was seen by Mr.
Meek lying beside the road. the
young man passed through The gan
into Banks Garden. The nextmor
ming the body WAS found by others.
nhd 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 on his face
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he had lot or knincS, and about
40 cts. IN money on his person.
whereas Joseph Hagy testihes that
ee saw about five dollars In his
wockct gock. There WAS brnise
on back of head, aud ball had
been fired through the breast.
ranging downward, which DR.. Hicks
thinks caused ttG death. The balls
taken out apparently belonged to.
38 calibre pistol. He %aa about
seventy years Of age. There were
signs of struggle some Seven feet
from the body.
On the morning after the murder
about 8 o'clock, Mr.. Meeks horse
was left tied mp ia tbiekcs near
the house of Mr.. MarchaDf. six
miles sontn,east OF Marion; Va. The
horse showed That it had Teen rid
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