Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-07-04

/ suppose; then left there. going toWarus
the saw-mil TO work on my way came
across Thompson on the roadside. ne
was leaning against fence, win MS
elbow resting on the rail. and MS manu-
up TO his face This was about one nun
dred yard. from the depot. Thompson
saws. Good morning. Solomon" said.
Good morning. Mr. Thompson?' MT.
Thomson asked, Where are you going?'
/ replied. ~ am going 10 the saw-mill
Thompson replied, mo. you amt; you
are going with me. Come up beside me-
I went rp beside him, and ne said: do
Won know anybody at Mr.. Pollardsy'
I answered that ! knew some people
working there. He asked. Who are
they?" told him that Mary Barnes
had been working there.
rs that an?" Thompson asked. / re-
nlicd NO: that Mary Alternately had
been working there. and that Pokey
Barnes lived on the line fence. Thompson
then asked me If they were All, to which
| answered. Yes. SIR" Then he said.
THAT Is all / want 10 know.
HEARD THE BELL RING.
lie took me then TO an old house near
the spring. The house had fallen In.
He sat down there. After sitting there
awhile we heard Mr.. Pollard's bell ring.
I don't know what It rang for. After
awhile the bell rang again. We stayed
there a long jime after the second bell
ring / saw Aunt Mary Barnes coming
towards the spring. and 7 called Thcmp-
sons attention to her. He asked II any
body was with Aunt Mary. and / told
him no. A little later / heard some
body speak to a horse. and Thompson
asked me from which direction caus
the sound l told him from towards Mr.
Pollards.
Some time after this Thompson told me
to come on and started towards the Pol
lard house. Before reaching there he said
IL am going 10 make a noise at Pol
lards door. and when any one comes out
you grab EN-" He did not distinguish
who ! told Thompson that none Of Mr..
Pollards people had ever done anything
to me. and | wanted to do nothing to them.
Thompson turned around quickly, and
said: God d-n 1t, that isn't what l told
you TO do. If you don't do what / tell
you III shoot your brains out" He re-
peated the same words over again.
We went up to the house and Thompson
made a noise at the door, and quickly
passed by it and on around the house.
MRS. POLLARD CAME OUT.
Mrs. Pollard came TO the door, and
seeing the shadow Of Thompson as he
walked backwards watching it, She
didn't see me until she stumbled against
me. Then / grabbed her hands. AT the
same time Thompson came from behind
the house and walking up 10 Mrs. POI
lard. asked her II she knew him. She was
about to recognize him ! thought, when
Thompson said: II came here TO XIII
old Pollard. but as ] don't see him I'll
lust kill YOU" He then put his pistol
in his coat pocket and / turned Mrs.
Pollard loose. Thompson said TO me:
where i'm the HI are you goingY l
answered / wasn't going anywhere.
Thompson then struck Mrs. Pollard three
times across her head with the helve OF
an axe. She fell. He then hit her with
the eye Of the axe
DETAINED HIM.
started away. He said: where are
Won going now?' / replied that ] was
going home. Thompson said: mo you
aint: have got to have more talk win
YOU" lie caught me by the hand and leu
me in Mrs. Pollard's house. lie went 10
a trunk and reached his right hand into
one drawer and got something and put II
I'm his rocket. ] don't know what that
something was. He next put his left mana
I'm a lower part and drew out roll OF
| paper money We then left there ana
went TO the forks Of the road from foT'
Mitchell TO Bernards gate There he
handed me two twenty-dollar bills. He
/ tor5 me TO 20 to Chase City to spend
this money. and not spend 1t In the neigh-
borbood of Mr.. Pollard's, as it might give
me away: that ] must not spend all the
forty dollars, but must save some 10 regis
ter back TO myself
Thompson said If / should be caught l
must tell that Mary Abernathy. Mary
Barnes. and Pokey Barnes killed Mrs.
| Pollard. and II didn't tell that the wo-
men did Il ne would Kill me on sight J
/ left Thompson then and went home
STAYED there all night. got up next morn
| inc. and went to Chase City. There
was hungry and called at the Wootton
woman's restaurant and bought a lunch.
! I handed her one Of the twenty-dollar
notes and her girl went out, got II
/ changed. and gave back my part.
/ Marable received a very pathetic letter
/ from his wife, at Stovalls. n. c., last
/ night. When II was read tC him by the
/ Dispatch reporter he burst into tears.
/ Marable's body was shipped by express
| this evening to DIT. Paulus A. Irving. Sec
| rotary Of the Anatomical Board at Rich
mond, Va.