Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-25
WILL FIGHT TO CLEAR
THEIR K|NSMAN's NAME
Estes [, Family Does Not Believe
]. Judge L'vng's Story and VIII
Contest In Court.
The TRIAL PROBABLY MKT MAY
ieoetor Who Attended Miss Loving
s.and Other Principals Decline to
u Talk, But Some of the Details of
the Oak Ridge Sensation Are Creep
Ing Out.

Ing Out
(By Associated Press)
r. .DANNll.LE, VA, April oI.-A
statomcnt has been sent out 10 VAR.
idons newspapers signed hy John u.
| ,Shipman of Lovingston. Nelson
county, Va, on behalf of young Estes,
f.wlp was killed Monday afternoon by
Judge w G. Loving. protesting
! ! against the accounts of the tragedy
hitherto published, which he says are
LfUaccnrate. He declares that the
i statement of the daughter of Judge
flt1Ying was drngged and assaulted by
fssouns Estes, Is false and further
more that Judge Loving in his state
Llmsnt before the ball commissioner
did mot make such an alleation.
On the morning after the buggy
srids taken by Miss Loving and Estes.
ne says. the latter called nj the home
Isof County Clerk L. L, Kidd to take
her; nome but she was unable to 20
;on account of indispositon.
Sbipnlan Is acting in behalf OF the
{ friends and relatives of young Estes
&hofsp apparently determined TO
ssite The affair to the bottom He
claims that the only provocation
Judge Loving had was That Miss Low
1ngShad become intoxicated from
a slfg whiskey given her by young
Estes.
Nelson People Close Mouthed.
ss.i a lar L0.TrESIyLLE VA, April
eau lion 3 arks every
Iutterance of the people OF Oakridge.
Nelson county, Who more than any
other people in Virginia, know the de.
tails of the killing of Theodore Estes
and the circumstances leading en-
Judge William G. Loving to Stay me
Young man. or course. the homicide
is attributed TO real or fancied
wrong done by the dead young mer.
chant TO the cN.Judges daughter. The
facts connected with this alleged OF
tense against morality have yet 10
be laid bare.
This much only is known today:
Judge Loving undoubtcdly thought
tnat Estes had outraged his daughter
whcn the two were out driving Sun
day night.
He brought her back drugsed and
dlshonorcd. says the accused. Il did
not act on report, but got it from her
own lips
In other words, the aggrieved faith.
or insists that he did not act hastily,
and that he made n deliberate inyes.
legation before he determined TO take
The law into his own hands.
Hard to Reconcile.
On the other hand. that is a con.
servative element in the county-ant.
IL numbers many heads Mt OakrIdge
VINO cannot reconcile Estes conduct
what they fancy would be the attituoe
OF man guilty OF rape or attempted
rape. IL Judge Loving was careful
thoughtful and calm in the manner
III which he made Inquiries about the
supposed crime. and in his plans for
me shooting, Estes was no less so III
me manner in which he went about
MS business that fatal day He ap-
pafcntly showed absolutely no signs
Oh Il guilty conscious or OF aDprehen.
SiFcness, and worked hard in the
freight car which few hours LATER
was to be his death prison and for
many hours his bier. IL should be
explained here that Theodore Estes
was no common laborer, but a well.
connected, thrifty storetecper, asso.
GATED IN the merchandise business
Win his aged father, Sheriff Estes.
ne latter did little work and relied
almost entirely on the Judgment and
industry of his twenty-five year old
son.
AT Oakridge they say that Judge
Loving's victim was industrious, in
ioiiisont and steady in his habits.
one sweet-faced old gentleman, VINO
seemed absolutely non-partisan, ex.
pressed himself thus
theodore Estes was the most in
nocent boy | ever knew, ana yet
am constrained TO speak in equally
hish terms of the man who killed
him Judge Loving, though brave ms
n non, was not a man to act hastily.
as some have said I can't think
MS act was the impulse of his TEN.
per-
Had Liquor Sunday Night.
Apropos OF the charge that Miss
Loving was drugged, 1t appears from
inquiries thta the drug, whatever j,
was, was administered in spirits of
some sort. Possibly the LIQUOR 10.
self might have helped to daze or
Supply the young woman.
Condition of Miss LOVING.
No one at Cartridge seemingly is
informed as to the exact condition OF
The unhappy girl at this writing. 1t
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