The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20
Some Testimony Allowed.
About Rose and the jug.
CAMPBELL CONTRADlCTED
BY THE REV. MR.. CARSON
Says He Never Told Him He Was Doing
His Full Duty-what Rev. George
II. Ray Had to Say About the
Historic Liquor Receptacle.
Or. .Tunstall Not Allowed
to Justify Himself.

Following the rulings OF the COMMITTEES
Tor Courts OF Justice. which so confined
and restricted the prosecution that It
was useless or impossible to proceed
with the examination Of several OF the
twenty witnesses brought down on re-
buttal, the Campbell Investigation late
yesterday afternoon came to q sudden
and rather unexpected close so far as the
testimony is concerned. Both sides
wound up their case and got everything
IN shape for the argument which the de-
fense, despite the illness OF the pros cUt-S
ing attorneys. tried to have heard yes-
terday, but which was finally set for the
latter part OF next week. MI
ne lnqulsition is now at an end The
spectacle on which the people have FEAST
ed during the past few weeks has be-;
come thing OF the past. The door
county We're ratified in the search hing
wind OF the investigation has been
slammed shut again and finally the pub.
lie stands on the outside apparently we'll 8
content to have an end OF it all OBJ
Vlously this public was growing weary
or the ceaseless overturning OF the dust
piles, TO see what was concealed under
them. however startling and sensational
the revealment has proven to be- Il
Crowds thronged the Investigation hall
until the very close. it Is true. but 1t was
evident to the most casual observer / that
the thing was beginning TO 3pall on them.
To-day the investigation stands closed
book. There Is but one moro thing on
tho programme and then the whole re.
Emarkable business will be through. This
solitary unfinished thing Is the Argument.
and one day next week will settle that
For six hours the counsel for either side
VIII lock- horns assd do lordly battle over
the testimony they have adduced Only
for six hours, however-three to each.
Then the case Will so to the COMMITTEES
and then little later on the committee
will submit It's report to the House OF
Delegates This will be the end or thu
beginning.
THE SESSION YESTERDAY.
So far as the testimony alone is con,
cerned. but little can be- said Sof the las,s
day Of the investiga Il The evidence
was essentially OF a sea- tterIng nature
SO scattering, In fact. that 1t could all
be gathered up an stored away comforts
ably In q nut shell.
Tho feature of the day. however. was
the position taken by the committee with
reference to the line OF examination to
be pursued by the gentlemen of the pros
ecution on rebutta1. It is largely to this
decision that the scattering nature Of
the testimony is due. It seems, as 10
were. as II the committee reached out
the hand and took out the heart from
the case Of the prosecution and left
few ends and morsels to be patched up
as best they could be. The patchwork.
like all Of It's kind, looked skimpy and 4
unsatisfactory when 1t was done.
The thing began in the early nlorIl-5
ing and continued throughout the day.
From the very start! the path OF the
prosecution was strewed with the objec-
tions submitted by Major Conrad. until
1t seemed that the entire session was to
be consumed In argument over the pro-
priety OF questions. In nearly every in
stance the chairman OF the committee
or the committee itself ruled against the
hotly-contestIng prosecutors, until the
examination was narrowed down strictly
to certain things. Anything else, 1t was
held. would not be rebhttal. Upon one
occasion, however, It took the commit
tee over an hour In executive session to-
decide. There was evidently not an
entire agreement. .s
In view OF the stand taken by the
committee, Judge Loving was forced to
abandon the examination he had pre-
pared and to ask his witnesses only
questions pertaining to certain matters.
Even under these conditions. however,
he succeeded In elicitng three or four
important facts. One was a denial from
the Rev. Mr.. Carson that he had ever
told Judge Campbell That he thought no y
(CampbelD was doing his full duty in
connection with the whisky fights in
Amherst. Another was the high char
acter given by several witnesses to the
man Bowen. whose veracity had heen
called into question BY the defense. A
third was the statement OF three or four
that they saw the man Rose go to Days
store with a jug.
Much OF the really important testi-i!
mony--or so 1t was viewed by the pro-
secution--had to be eliminated, however.
The committee would not permit the
petitioners to go into the sensational y
Jury affair." holding that 1t would not
be in rebuttal Three or four OF tho
Witnesses brought down We're not exanl-
ned at MI, Three of them were to
state what they had testified when Day
made application before Judge Campbell
In Amherst for renewal of his license: /.
Mrs. Otto l.. Evans was to tell what
she had seen of the conduct of tho Y
Campbell-trlat jury In tha court-room,
Mrs. j, T. Bowman was to testify that
Judse Campbell had a "prescription'
bottle. which he used continually. s5
But all OF this was barred out. Even
Or, Tunstall could not present his af-
fldayit from the man Bryant. who de-
nied what he had said here before about
buying whiskey at DR.. Tunstall's drug
store In Nelson county, 81 &.
Therefore. as said. the investigation
came Ia a sudden and rather lln expected 4
end. The sur-rebuttal consisted OF but
one witness,
When the testimony was finally closet
there Immediately arose a discussion oyet
the question Of the argument. Mr., 6trodk