The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
TRIAL ALBER !. |. |: I. R
HUNT FOR ]! ;. MURDER |'''!
Shot and J. Killed Z. Ohm ):Fl. *. x.
Parrish G christmas
HUNTS FAlM.Il, Y'BiY. HIM N.
A. Drunken Row the Cause Of the
Fight.
SLAIN MAN AN INNOCENT VICTIM u
HUNTS Y=BY HIM.
"A. Drunken Row the Cause Of the
SLAIN MAN AN INNOCENT VICTIM
Several Parties After Hunt to Pick a
Quarrel and Taking Parrish TO be Il
one OF His #Assailants He Fired
the Deadly. shot-Thc I1yi-
dence. Not All III. Court
Adjourned FOR the Day.


PETERSBURG, VA, Jan. 22-special..-
Albert Hunt was put on trial in the Hust-
ings Court to-day for shooting and kill
ing John K Parrish Christmas day.
Judge Mullen presided.
The story in brief is as follows:
Albert Hunt came to Petersburg Christ
mas morning to spend the day with Mrs.
Hyman, his sister, who stopped in this
city on her way to visit her husband $
home in North Carolina. Young Hunt
met several friends that morning and
went with them to bar-room. Alter
leaving the bar-room they went to a house
on Old street, and while in there a fight
occurred between Emmett Slaughter ana
w. p. EWynne, in which Wynne was
beaten.
Slaughter also had some words with
Hunt, and when they met "a few hours
later in the bar-room of Henry de1ne-
man. Slaughter tried to make Hunt fight,
and insisted on getting a carriage and
going to the country where they could
fight without interruption: Hunt would
not go and said he knew Of no occasion
to fight
FOLLOWED HUNT UP.
From the evidence given it appeared
that Slaughter followed Hunt throughout
the day. That after visiting several bar
rooms Hunt finally went to house on
Lombard street. and late in the after
noon, as soon as Slaughter found out
he was there he got some friends and
started there to.
On Sycamore street he met Parrish
man of magnificent physique, and q
match for half a dozen men, and asked
him to go with them to this house, but
told him nothing of the previous row.
Parrish went, and just as the crowd
was entering the gate, Wynne, who mad
gone to the house with Hunt, came out
of the door. Slaughter cursed him and
struck him in the face. Wynne fell in
the yard, and Slaughter began to stamp
him and beat him cruelty.
THE SHOOTING. sszl
Hunt came out of the door just as
Wynne fell, and seeing the crowd. and
recognizing Slaughter, who had been fol-
lowing him all day, he tried TO get BACK
in the house, but the door was bolted,
and the women refused to open it again.
He then attempted to get over the 1ence,
and as he did so Parrish touched him on
the shoulder and said he wanted to speak
with him. Hunt seeing that he twas conf
pletely surrounded, pulled his pistol and
fired The ball entered Parrish's side,
glanced upward and graZed the heart.
He fell and died instantly.
Not more than ten minutes elapsed
from the time Slaughter and his friends
met Parrish and asked him to go with
them till he lay dead in the yard. When
Parrish went with Slaughter to the
house where he was Killed he knew Moth
ing Of the difficulty Slaughter had had
with Hunt. He was at no time engaged
in the row, for he had spent the uay with
friends iii another part Of the city, and
had just stepped off the street car and
started home when Slaughter met him.
HUNT ARRESTED.
Hunt left the place OF the shooting
as soon as it occurred and was arrested
on Old street about an hour later. He
was confined in the city jail, but sub
seuuently bailed in the sum Of So. .CC0.
John X. Parrish was foreman jim the
blacksmith department of the Petersburg
Iron Works. Being man of even
temper he was never known to pro-
yoke a fuss, but had often prevented
difficulties between men inclined to fight.
His manly character and generous dis
position secured for him the respect Of
everyone He was the only survivor OF
his immediate family, and was the sup-
port of widowed aunt and her little
children.
THE ACCUSED.
Albert Hunt is twenty years Of age.
His home is in Superior, Wis. He is
highly connected, and bears the reputa-
ton of young man of splendid charac-
ter. A report from his city says that
he was always known as q sober, peace
ful citizen. That he led his classes at
the High School the year Of his gradua-
ton and later received a diploma from
Brown and Stratton Business College, in
Baltimore.
He has six sisters, all Of whom are mar
ried One of them, Mrs. Hyman, IS now
in Petersburg. His brother, Frank
Hunt. Of Davenport, Iowa, is a member.
of the Kennebeck and Hunt Construc-
ton Company: William Hunt, another
brother, is superintendent of construction
with the Mcdonald Construction Com
spany, Of which Mr.. Kennefeck, Of Ken
3nefecks and Hunt, IS also member.
Albert Hunt is foreman Of con-
struction crew at work on the Richmond,
Petersburg and Carolina railroad. Both
of Hunts brothers are with him. A1essrs.
w. r. and Robert Hyman, Of North Caro-
lima, and Mr.. and Mrs Kennefeck, are
also here to attend the trial
State Senator w. b. Mc1lwaine is ceun-.
sci for the defence. The Commonwealth
Is represented by Major I. r. Lassiter
in the absence, on account of Sickness
of. Commemorative Attorney c: 7. Las.
sitter. ST
Hint came into the courtroom
ACCOMPANIED b.. his counsel, Hon. w b.
McIlwaine, and his brothers William and
n W. Hunt, and Hon. W. r. lyman, his
brother-in-l law. The prisoner, on arraign-3
ment, pleaded not guilty. The jury was:
4 then enpanneled. The following are the.
Jurors accepted 8 to dispose ofSthe case.
Daniel b. Dunlop, Samuel B. Hall. George
w. vaughan, Rnssell H. Wallace, George
II. Badger. Samuel W. Booth; John IT.
WILCOX, Thomas S. B. Bono. &. Millard j.
Shetf1eid w. -. Boswell, IshaIn r. Dyer
4. s. 6 Ill
THE TESTIMONY.
The hrst witness examined & was Dr.
i'd Osborneswho made the poskSmorten1;
exarainat ton. He described athesna tpre Of
:Parrish's wound. itness,,a III reply toaa
question of INCL aifie. said that Par
fish httustEhave been ~ man of mort than