The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-18

ing solely by Tho position IN which the
hods WAS lying, decided that the shpt
WINS fired from behind n fence near the
barn
The dogs were taken to this spot and
started to searching for the scent.
The lead dog, unieaslicd. picked IL
up at once and started off IN the direc-
tfon OF clyde Norris's house. The
deputies. holding one dog. which Wa;
strainina at IT'S leash following the
scent, hurried Off after the free leader.
Meanwhile, fred jenkins had been
given his breakfast, and when he came
out on the porch In charge or Deputy
Judd and Jarr. who had taken turns
in guarding him during the night. the
hounds had disappeared from sight.
Pursuit of the Dogs
Leads Jenkins to Confess
Coroner Lewis told Fred the beasts
had taken up the scent and were fol-
lowing II To his house. Little moro
was needed to induce him TO agree to
tell all he knew. The Jurors who had
stayed at neighbors houses during tho
night had come in by this time. Seal
had moi yet been arrested, nor had he,
come from his home to the house OF
the dead man, where the inquest was
being held. Coroner Lewis assembled
the jury again, and Fred Jenkins was
resworn.
$40 you wish to make another state
nent?" asked the coroner.
"Yes. sir said the young man. who
looks like nothing but an Ignorant
mountain boy. He is twenty four. he
spoke without hesitation, ana not once 1e',
hid he give sign that he appreciated
The horrible brutality of the story he
was telling.
mir. Seal told me to do ,,t this" ,1 he
aa or aha eot eyer Sunday
night. He asked me to borrow Mr..
Norrs's orchard together sunday
there and he stayed in the orchard.
Norrs's gun. Him and me went over
ris to lend me his gun and come back
to where Mr.. Seal was. We Went on
towards Smiths. and when we got to
the top of the hill, he told me to take
the gun. 1 told him / would not take
I'll kill you II you don't take IT.
drink If I'd take it. and he took
bottle out of his pocket and gave it to
Il poured the whiskey. out on the
ground He asked me what I poured
it out for. 1 said he had had enough.
He lowed it was his liquor and he'd
drink as much as he pleased.
"I'll pay you for what poured out
i told him.
".You won't have to pay me- he said.
AZ you'll Kill Smith there won't be no
VnHrpe.
"Givc Me His Farm
If Would XII Smith"
II told him | wouldn't do it. and
Seal said he'd kill me If / didn't
told him he'd have to kin me then. /
told him they would hang me. He
said: oh, no they wouldn't lie said
he would give me his farm If would
kill Smith
'Mr. Seal asked me If he went down
and killed him would l say 1 did 1t.
said: No. but would say he did not
do it. Just so you don't own Up
was with YOU Mr.. Seal said. Then
he went down and called Smith out,
HeShad asked me IL Smith asked who
was there could he use my name and
told him no.
Smith answered when Mr.. Seal call
ID. and when Smith came out Mr..
Seal told him TO step up to the fence.
Smith tcamsaup the path towards the
fence and bushes, where Mr.. Seal was.
Ehen Mr. Seal shot him Then Mr..
Zeal come UP to where / was standing.
If anybody says anything to you
about this you be sure to say YOU
aid it, he says to me. says to him
wouldn't: they would hang me- He
faid: They wouldn't.
story of the Witness
Confirmed by Dogs
jenkins then went on to tell how
they Lteoll tile gun back to Norris's
and left it without the owner knowing
sbout the shooting
II was not long after Jenkins had
finished his confession that the depu-
Ties returned with the dogs. They
told how the brutes had followed a
scent for about two miles, and the
Jurors saw that the story told by Jcn-
kins, or at least that part relating to
the movements of Seal and himself,
was absolutely correct.
Seal showed up about this time and
was placed under arrest. But he has
not yet been told of the confession of
his -spnstn-lnw.'
There isn't much more to tell re-
eardinS the happenings of to-day.
The jury brought in at once a verdict.
at the hands of William Seal. and
Fred jenkins guilty as accessory in
the first degree.
1t was we'll along in the afternoon
when the verdict WAS reached. and the
officials at once started with their pris-
oners for the fourteen-mil drive from,
Slate Mill, where the crime was com
mitted, to, Culpeper. Nobody showed
much feeling when the time came ia
start. There We're lots of women gath
one baby in her arms, and most of them
With one or more at her skirts as we'll
Nobody wept Jenkinss young wife
had baby ST a month or so in her
arms. There. ARE -nany chances' it will
never kndw It's father
Prisoners Are Taken to
the Jail Mt Cnipcpcr
Jenkins rode in a buggy with Dep
uty Barr; Deputy Judd had Seal in the
buggy with him. The procession. con-
sisting of the vehicles carrying the otti-
GERS and prisoners the Commonwealth
attorney. members of the Jury. specta-
tors and The Timespispatch CORE.
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