The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-15

COMPLETES
HIS DEFENSE,
Prosecutor to Resume
on February 18th.
HE TELLS OF HIS
FICHTS.IN AlMHERSTi
Reasonfor KlckingMr. Evans
Aged Father Years Ago.
HAS SHARP. WORDS WITH
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY|5
4 Demand from the Accused Judg&
That He Receive the Treatment to Z
Which a Gentlenan'ls Entitled. #
Resents Remarks Of Judge
Loving-Details Of the
Days Proceedings.

With closing scenesnow spirited 81
action and fiery, now weird and strange,
the second act in the Campbell investis
CATION was brought to an end yesterday
with the setting Of the sun, and the cur.
tain dropped between the public and
that snding panorama OF Amherst coun.
ty history upon which SO many have
feasted their eyes during the few days
Just gone. ii
As was to be expected, the action
moved toward climax and finally cuI-
minated in tho scenes which revolved
around the defendant as he sat in the
witness chair and gave an account Of
himself. While the day gradually wore
on to q close another sands began to es.
haust themselves, this imperturabla Wit.
ness sat on and talked on, while hun.
dreds stood around and hung upon his I
words. The chief actor in the events, he
seemed yet to bee perfectly at his ease
Now and again he grew Characteristic
cally emphatic and animated, and at
one time he threw a cash of cold water
in the face Of one who pressed him in "a
manner he did not approve. Piled By
the questions OF the nerciless cross
examiner, he dug into the very heart OF
his official life and turned it up to the
gazc of the investigators. At one mos
ment he gay; dramatic account of
n ro1 ~, ffoi,
ing of fire and birthstone.
When, after nearly seven hours Of
ceaseless firing, the prosecutors Withdrew
from the field, Judge Campbell arose and
the hearing came to an end The de4
fense had closed its case.
Il am done," said the Judge. You
have heard the prosecution; you hays
heard the defense. No, / have nothing
to say" q VI :. :--g:
Both sides have had their say. Uponl
Wednesday, next, when the committed
reassen,bles, the rcbuttal will begin. &.
THE SESSION YESTERDAY.
EL for a short hours recess the hear4&
ing yesterday was continuous from 10
o'clock in the morning until O'Clock
in the evening. Through all this long
time Judge Campbell kept the stand
and parried the thrusts of the cross.
examiners, who pressed him without
mercy, Here and there he stumbled and
showed signs Of weakening. but taken
all in all, he was a remarkably good
witness for himself.
All that he said was interesting-ons
thing was intensely 50. Dramatically IN
keeping with a dramatic affair, he gave
in detail a history of his personal difs
ticulties in Amherst, all of which except
one were connected with one family
that of Otto l.. Evans, the present Com.
monwealth's Attorney in the county Of d
which the witness is the judge. The old
family feut, in which pistols and knives
figured only too prominently, was laid
bare, before the committee.
To give q summary of Judge Camp.
bells testimony on cross. examinat tion
is impossible, Judge Loving and Blr.
Stode Went at him S,th hammers and
rakes and hesitated not to pull him
about in every conceivable way. The B
witness grew animated at times md had y
frequently to be called TO order by the
Ni'uil Hlsii VI zig LIliiIiINbCSs. uSll
he would become pre1eynaturally calm,
stick his lemon in his mouth and suck
it tnonchnlontly while he told the gentle
men laboring over him to please repeat u
that question. M
Once Judge Campbell got mad-diis,
tinctly mad Mr.. Strobe the young at.
torncy for the prosecution, had taken
him in hand and had declared that he
would read to the witness a. law which
"even you' cannot fail to understand.
''Now here Mr.. Strode,a called out the
Witness as he wheeled in his seat and
shot steely,cold glance full into tha ls5
attorneys face, f'let me tell you am
going to treat you as q gentleman. and
You must not reflect upon me here Of 8i
anywhere else. Judge Lov, b
ing has treated me as a gentlem.n, and
you must do the same thing"
u beg your pardon, ! disslaim any ina
tention-
sIaeeept your apology, Now 60 on and
don't do so any more. apologize to thu
committee il I am wrong, am going ii
protect myself as a gentleman
u There the excitement calm ell down and II