The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-26
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was no power on earth that could
have withheld my hand"
Ats this point witness broke down.
and asked the court to allow him IL
few moments to control himself. He
then continued
IN that condition Of mind ordered
my buggy intending to seek this man
and put him to DEATH. II went by my
office, got my gun and took some
buckshot shells. 1sdrove alone to Low
ingston. When ] got there called
to some little boy to know II Estes
was in his fathers store. and then
1t was that Julia Hubbard told me
that Estes was at Oakridge l got
bacls}in my buggy and q rove to Ships
man saw Mr.. Tom NrcGihniss, and
asked, him If lie knew where Estes
| was He said he is here now. l had
| thought that he had escaped. got
out OF the buggy. loaded my gun and
went down to the freight car and saw
hEstes I'M the car with two colored men.
liz waved them aside, and looked at
|jEstes and said You are thu man who
Etakes out young ladies buggy riding,
sdrugs them and ruins them. II
Estes said anything l did not hear
lrim He made emotion as though to
1 go towards the other door Of the car.
and I fired. AS he fell I fred again.
\ I Went back to my buggy and got Mr..
| McCiinniss and Went and gave myself
up to a justice"
! When asked il heScculd remember
what he stated at the preliminary
trial, witness said he could not re-
l member the exact words, but that he
thad Intended to tell the story Of the
ruin of his daughter. On being asked
lf he had been drinking on the day or
the day before the Killing lie said
That he had not; that he had not
touched liquor Tor two months prior
Ito the killing. IA
I. Tells of Past Life.
Judge Loving in answer to a sques-
|tion BY counsel, told OF his early life,
when in 1887, theSy year after his mar
riage. he became drunkard: that he
Host all of his property; that his wife
lleft.{him and returned to her father,
land \he went back to his home. This
Estate Of affairs continued until 1893,
EwlIen lie took the liquor cure. Dur
ling this period witness said, he suffered
several times with lelirim tremens,
and was partly out Of his mind and
had to call in physicians.
Witness was thea turned over to the
commonwealth for cross-eSamination.
4. Witness said Mr. Snead told him Of
the trouble at Q O'Clock Monday morn Z
ling. That the surrey was sent for his
daughter ane returned without her
shortly after IL o'clock, that Mrs.
Loving went after her daughter, and
returned after O'clock; that the
family dined at 1880 o'clock, and that
he talked with his daughter after that
sltime He started on his search for
.tlsstes about 2 o'clock, or a. little after.
Witness said he drove four miles
Efrom his home 10. Lovingston, and
then four miles to iShipmnn Station
! (Oakridgel-ei miles in all.
@FIe said that a clerk in Mr.. Lelgh's
i store in Lovlngston told him that Theo-
4 dore Estes had left town. He then
.ldrove to Oalertdge and saw NIcGlnniss
!. WHO told him that Estes was In q
4 freight car. He left HIS buggy at the
I livery stable and walked down to the
car ITe saw two negro men In line
7 with Estes and waved to them. and
told them to stand aside. He had
loaded his gun at the livery stable
: and he had other shells in his pocket
The. shells he had gotten from his Of
! Ifice, where they had been since the fall
before, when he had used them fol-
deer hunting. There were ether shells
In the Office, but they We're In q boz