Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-29
Case Is SaId 10 be Turning ID
Favor Of Defense on What
She Told.
ACCUSED NAV FORMALLY INDICTED
.Lawyers Argue For Change Of Venue
-one Side Contends Jury Must Sit
In Nelson Because IT Is to BE Taken
Over Road over Which Victim and
Girl Rode.

& 1LoNINGsTON, VA, May 2St--A
true bill has been returned against
Judge w. G.. Loving for murder by
tile grand jury. II Is the same Jury
that was dismissed yesterday that re.
convened this morning. II was in
session less than nm hour and heard
hui three witnesses, the negro labor
Z ers who saw the shooting and DR..
5Tunstall who examined young Estes
body After some brief argument tho
defendant was arranged, The indIct.
ment Is. I'm the usual form, and Judge
Ioving, while 1t was Icing rend,
stood perfectly erect and cool, looking
steadfastly In tho face OF tho clerk
After some BRIEF argument on the
question of bail that matter was post
poned and the reading of affidavits
I on tho motion of change of venue was
begun.
Fight for Change of Venue.
Everything In the Loving murder
case waited on Judge Barksdalc who
arrived ut oloven o'clock from Lypcli-
burg to Coax Ridge ana drove over
The fight over the change of Venue,
VIII begin Immediately, and nobody
knows how long 1t will continue.
5 or course, there Is not tho faintest
.'h''pthhipi vi, INV
Will decide after hearing tho evidence
OF tho argument. Tho LAWYERS for tho
defense are confident that they Will
be granted a change of venue or Mt
least that II jury will be summoned
from another county.
Lawyers, however, hnve the hnbit
oil being confident, aud nothing &c.
cisivc can be doduccd from the Or
ions of these gentlemen.
On one side It Is argued that the
jury must sit because 1t will bo taken.
at the request OF tho defense, over
The Cove road" on which young
Estes and Miss Loving drove the even
Ing before the killing. to show that It
was practically impossible that any
serious crime could have boen COM
Snlitted.
On the other hand. 1t Is contended
that practically all the county officers
arc related or connected IN one way
or another with ono or the other Of
mo two old and respected families
involved In the tragedy, that tho two
notes nero are conducted tw cnnncc
5tions of one family or the other, and
ttthatatt VIII he impossible to place or
keep the jury where 1t would not he
tNysNpN''N''' w aicN VI
Probably all these considerations
will be presented to the Judge. ana
80n the other hand, there is promise
of n cloud of nfridavits from various
PARTS Of Nelson county to tho effect
that there is no such condition of
public feeling MS will Justify going
elsewhere for an impartial jury for Il
fair trial.
Peoplc Actlno wefI
The temper and bearing OF the
8pecple here are admirable. Tho gen
eral attitude is one of dignified rc.
thence. Probably. ono hundred ana
fiftS men have ridden or driven into
tho little hamlet this morning. They
arc scattered about in groups on the
corners, on the porclies OF the stores
and hotels and around the court.
8 house green, and the Loving case.
while, of course, uppermost In ell
minds, seems to be the one topic
avoided by common tacit consent
There Is not the falntest indication
of pnfisan snirit, bitterness or ex.
scltement Confidence in the court evil