Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-07-11
SAID TO BE TWO MEN.
oovuoNwEALTH MAKING DIsCLo'
suREs IN THE ELLIS CASE.
TWO CITIES TO FIGURE IN THE CASE.
- Effort 10 he Made 90 show That
che Young woman visited Peters,
burg and Lynchburg mt various
Times.

Tho officers OF the Commonwealth are
how'd at work gathering evidence in the
-.s, ~ Mrs. Lizzie Miller Ellis. charged
,..b the murder OF her infant daughter,
.-5 10 is asserted authoritotively that
much OF paramount interest has already
ben discovered.
Tho authorities have sent 10 Petersburg
.-f Iynchburg. in both OF which cities
,t.v have traced the movements Of Mrs.
Wis and Commonwealth's-Atto
RICHARDSON has in his possession the
,.~es OK two well-known men who, It is
,r.srered. know a great deal more about
,,s case than they viii be willing TO
...-fu,Iy testify 10.
y- richardson has gotten together a
,me OF testimony. but the question
,.. Dim viii be how best 20 handle It.
r. is 10Th 10 introduce anything that
vl le painful TO the Allen family, but
his prepared 10 make oUt a strong case
..rst che young woman IL the occasion
...- re has not as yet determined
GIL, kind OF q verdict he will ask Tor.
-l .rs defence can show any paliaunS
instances he viii content himself
Gin .. appeal for verdict Of murder
.- Oh. second degree. which means a
,.,n % imprisonment in the peniien-
..r. but he fears now thet he will have
consist on the imposition Of the extreme
,.-..y Of the law.
NO EVIDENCES OF POISON.
% - IS not clearly established before
Oil. rry that Mrs. Ellis took the poison
..-.... and insanity is not proven, the
.sa resolves itself into one Of cold
,...ft and premeditated murder. and
-- vsvIor who as Coroner was one OF
..a f-st % see Mrs. Ellis after the crime
r. give expert testimony, setting forth
,,.. SD FAR as ne could see she had taken
r-r. ~ the poison.
The Coroner has made an analysis OF
,.. llbys stomach. and though he has
sound traces of laudanum, he says that
ts r.I not testify 20 traces only, and he
Sill therefore be forced TO assert on the
sand that he found no laudanum In the
organ.
.- interesting feature Of the case, and
,.. -r1t has not hitherto been brought
.., is tho finding of a letter in Mrs. FL
r..s ,rurk addressed TO her by her sister,
mrs osborne. of Burkeville. In this let
.- Airs Osborne referred TO the charges
s immortality made against her sister
I'D. expressed the hope that they were
-- true. though advising her II they
VII. true 10 so TO her husband and make
, t--rk confession. This letter Common
q .-1's-Attorney Richardson found IN
o. bottom of the trunk when he search-
r To- and he now has II IN his posses
He is inclined TO doubt the au-
...-ticitv OF the letter Mrs. Ellls is az
,-5 IN have written her mother ana
,. 40, her trunk. In this letter the young
-.D wrote that she would commit sui
Pill. and that she would be dead wheh
WAS IT THERE THEN2
,,- RICHARDSON searched the trunk
..-..-r and through for letters. but ala
-.. s-f chat one. Yet, after the trunk
r.. f..r delivered to Mrs. Ellis at the
.r .rs r-oil,.i it from its recesses'
,.. c.rr.rw. -rh's Attorney will con-
-.-5tla. Dad .ta letter been in the trunk
,.tsr be- searched 10 he would have found
r r~f ta uu further contend that hau
-ts v.r.e woman written the letter with
.F.w g.. rs being found by her mother
She would have placed il in a conspl-
c.o.s r-e. in the trunk.
Oh. MYSTERIES surrounding the case are
-Hr being cleared up, and when the
mil takes place day after tomorrow
SOM. .t.rtling facts will probably be ad-