The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-23
Not Enough From Frede-
riCksburg Venire to i
Complete Panel.
MRS. MARSHALL
EXPLAINS LETTERS
Declares the Only One She Wrote
Was a Brief One and Mat
ter Of Business, and That
the Longer One Was
Pcnned by Some
one Else.

Especial from STAFF Correspondcnt) @
til CHARLOTTESVILLE VA. october ~.
For tho third time within a week, the
Corporation Court OF Charlottesvie has
failed 10 secure sixteen nten competent
to sit in Judgment upon N1cc;ue. the al
legged murderer OF his wife.
Ono hundred and thirty-nlne men have
been summoned and nll but possible
half dozen have been subjected to
searching examination. Three different
and distant cities have been visited and
the State has gone to grent expense. The
court and Its officers have racked their
brains In an endeavor to set IN motion
Y the ponderous machinery OF tho law and
still there Is no beginning A
/ Once or twice. 1t has seemed that all
obstacles had been overcome. but Ut tue
crucial moment. the COG would slip ana
back into It's old hamilton would sink
the half-stnr,ed revolution upon which so
much depends.
The State Has Been Stirred.
The situation is Unique ard as Q COM
mentary upon the now famous case. Is
significant. There could be no Imagined,
no more striking evidence than this OF
the manner in which tho murder Of this
little charlottesville woman has stirred
Z tho State to It's very depths. Into the
court have come the prominent m9n from
= homes far removed from the scene OF the
tragedy. From the different directions
they have come and yet not sixteen out
OF i3e could ,nectEtne reontreme ents of the
4 law. Some objected 10 conviction on
& circumstantial evidence and few were
opposed. to capital punishbcnt But
S every man had read of the case and the
great ma jor!ty OF them entertained an
opinion OF some sort-that Is docD-root.
ed or tentative. AS for tha opin'on IT
self, II was easy to read that It was
consistently against the accused. A Few
Insisted upon blurting out this fact to
able AIcCue.
4 But Three From Fredericksburg
Tho Fredericksburg contingent prom-
,ised much at the start, but proved even
tually that It could do no more than
those from Richmond and Petersburg.
At one moment during the day, the
panel was complete, but one Juror had
to be excused on account of sicl]lcss
and another was ruled out on n tech
EAcalyty. The Bnp thus created. was
not filled and, after the utmost eXertions,
the court was compelled to admit its
failure. When tho session ended. three
new names had been added to the list,
/ and ono old one had been stricken off.
This left a total OF fourteen men.
Rogers got down into the hard and
stony road again. and Is nc " securing the
countryside In soEle direction near or
remote for the others,
The three new men nre S. 3. Quinn. Jr.,
Nelson Decker and Samuel Beale. The
one allowed to return home is r.. u. L..
4 IInrgrave. OF Petersburg,
Day OF Great Interest.
The day In which these frsgmontnry
results were accomplished. proved, how
ever, to be the most Interesting OF the
three. There was nothing tame or dull
about the Fredericksburg venira Ono
K man insisted on informing the court that
4 ho believed AIcCue guilty or else knew
who killed his wife, In the case OF an
other. there developed an interesting sit
uation, In which the defense put It un
to the court to decide and in which the
court promptly accepted the challenge.
IT was evident from this incident that
i Judge Morris is taking no chances with
possible successful exceptions to his rul-
ings. and thatshe intends throughout TO
proceed with tho utmost care. Still an
other Of the Fredericksburg men was de-
( ton to the effect that he was Interested
In the female Iii tho case
Finally the court itself figured In n
little Incident One Of the counsel for
tho defense limited that somebody had
been dropping remarks intended for tho
cars of the jurymcn. Judge Morris de-
clared sharply thnt such an offense was
not only not decent. but placed the Of
fender In contempt OF court. IIe Issued
D n p, pu hot I,o
one doing such thing he would deal
with him most harshly and in all likcll-
hood send him to jail.
Case OF Mrs. Marshall.
So much for tho day in court, On the
outside there Is an absorbing topic, and
L that he peculiar circumstances surrounds
Ing tho case OF Mrs. Lester Marshall the
young woman whom suspicion charged
with sendlny nyc-lettdrs TO McCue in
Jail, AS the days 30 by, moro and more
light Is thrown upon this mysterious
affair, but ms yet the bottom has not been
reached. That there is something beneath
this entire matter not Yet graspel BY tho
2 public at large ] nm lirmly convinced,
At this time however, when quiet lnves-
legations arc being made In quarters un-
expected, 1t Is not possible to indicate
beyond n suggestion what this something
might he. M 5.
Mrs. Marshall Is u young woman and
IN eXceptlonall lly good looking one Before
her marriage she was Miss Hattie Davis,
of Orange county, She was married VIXEN
seventeen years of age. She Ia now bout
twsnty.two. SHE married Marshall against
the Wishes OF her parents Her, life has
not been Il happy one, The man has been
In court for drunkenness and disorder,
and It is said that during q brief resi-
dence of the couple In Richmond he ap-
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