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Nelson County Murder Case Will
Exceed In Interest The HcCus
and BgWa|sPs' Trials.
Ju1eE LOVING BEING CONDEMNED
Even He Friends Admit That Per.
hsps He was Hasty In Killing
Z Young Estes. Blu. He VIII BIO Given
) q Fair TrIaI-FrIcnds VIII No.
Talk Case.

WASHINGTON, May virgins.
ians who have come to Washington
during the past few days from Nelson
and surrounding counties say that In
dications point strongly to the coming
trial of Judge Loving for the murder
OF Theodore Estes as being the most
sensational and spectacular In the
history Of the State. They say that
although tho trial OF. McCue of Char.
lottesville, about two years ago and
the more recent trial of tho Strother
brothers on the charge of killing BY
waters. were in turn among the most
interesting cases ever tried In the
State, that the Loving case will ex-
coed them In many respects.
So highly are both the Loving ana
Estes families regarded by Nelson
county people that II Is almost impos-
sible to secure statements from thom
regarding the affair at all None
will speak for publication and those
who have told the real feeling that Is
there have refralned from having
their nnmcs used In connection with
the matter In any form.
1t Is almost certain. from what can
be learned, that the Estes family will
employ other counsel to assist Com.
conwealth's Attorney Whitehead when
the case is called for trial. Although
Sheriff Estes, tho father of tho MUIR
dered man, has stated that he will re-.
~ entirely upon Mr.. Whitehead, the
Meriffs friends, 1t Is thought, will
insist Mt the proper time upon his
retaining counsel to assist Mr.. White.
head. The ncople Of that section of
the. State where tho homicide was
comittcd have the utmost faith In
their prosecuting attorney, but It In
now believed that because of the
hard fight Judge Loving will make,
: assistant counsel Will be employed to
help the State. ,5,
Was Judge Loving Hasty2
Some people who have lraen here
from the section around Nelson couu.
ty, do not hesitate to say that while
they believe in the unwritten law. as
IT was administered In the Strother
case. that the Idea is going too far
{ and too many good men are liable to
lose their lives without due proyo.
cation unless some limit Is sell Even
the friends Of Judge Loving are in
some instances condcmning him for
not Mt least having given the man he
KILLED chance to make some cxpla.
nation about the matter. They say,
too, that had Estes been guilty of
"dishonoring" the daughter of Judge
Loving the trial would have been to
large extent n mere formnllty, but
ms nothing of that kind appears to
have happened and as the most Sc.
rious charge with which Estes could
be confronted was that of giving the
young lady whiskey, tho unwrltten
law has been carried too far.
These same people will stand by
Judge Loving until the evidence that
Is to be brought out in the trial oil
the, case proves him to be at fault. II
II does, and In that case none will he
more eager for the law to take It's
course than they.
viii Have a Fair Trial.
Judge Loving will have fair trial
and the people of Nelson county have
determined that an innocent man
shall not be punished, but at the same
time 1t Is recognized that the muir.
dered man had rights also and these
Will be protected to the fullest extent
which the law provides when the case
is called for trial
1t is doubtful IL there. has ever