The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-03
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been proven by testimony heard in TIL
case
As tie question was prepared afte
careful con situations by both sides. i
Is important as being very full state
inanr OF tht- case and also as ndicat
Ing the line OF defense, and negativci.
the plan OF the prosecution, although
lined The question follows:
A homicide was committed by Two
brothers. 1lairty-seye.i and twenty-five
years old, respectively. under the fol-
lowing circumstances
The deceased when killed was thirty
Two years old. and was the second
cousin OF the who killed him. The
brothers belonged TO an honored ara
htsalS-respc VEGETABLE family. Their father
died In 1909. and their mother in 1905,
ard on her deathbed she conhded 10 tire
senior brother the care anc protection
OF her youngest daughter, 4 sweet ana
II innocent country Sirl. who WAS then
about twenSy-one Years OF age. All OF
the girls brothers We're devoted 10 her.
Tflc relation existing between herself and
the Two mentioned. Were always affec
tioaa,e, and after their mothers death
E were particularly tender and loving.
Tho younger brother and the sister in
Qs.astion, with another unmarried sister.
continued to ike at The old home after
Iale mothers death. The deceased was
k-iS Gous!II intimate associate oil til
children, and he freely visited the home
he protested the waElnest friendship for
al OF lis Inmates; he offered 10 stay at
1lfe house and look after the sisters
3 when their brother was absent, and he
. often did SO. The Older brother lived
three hundred miles away. but never
Forgetting the injunction OF his dying
mother, he made frequent visits 10 the
Old home and always responded 10 the
I'd request OF those there, and for them,
he a.
Ike manifested constant and soicitous
affection. The deceased was regarded
as the ahrc1irer and suitor of tho young
girl, and IL was supposed that after a
4 while they were to have been married
3A NO suspicion that the deceased was be-
traying their confidence was entertained
by either OF the brothers until an oc-
currcnce on November list. 1906, made
them fear that such might be the case.
Their suspicious were allayed by invcsti-
Y cation. their sister protesting her perfect
innocence and begging her brothers not
TO humiliatc her By calling on the de-
ceased for an explanation They were
somewhat doubtful, but their anxiety
To be convinced was such that they de-
ternined TO make. no further move.
About December VI. 1905. the brothers
obtained the fullest proof that tho de-
8 ceased had scduced thcir Young sister q
Little before their mothers death; that
under the family roof he had used her
nj Tor his iustful purposes whenever ops
portunity presented; that in September.
1906, she found that she was pregnant,
a and then and repeatedly afterwards in
FL vain implored him 10 marry her; that he
declined to marry fc! then. but prom
ased TO do so at some indefinite time.
81 that he persuaded her 10 submit TO the
II dangerous operations 10 produce an ahor-
4 zion; that these criminal operations We're
performed in Washington city. where
he had carried her and placed her In The
KILT midst OF strangers, aud We're performed
8 under circumstances of great brutality;