Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-10

$ lmmer. .v UvuIs ueClued not TO
make public the cards contents until
Lieutenant Summer arrives from the
Norfolk Yards. 1t Is reliably reported
that It is nothing more or less than an
apology for challenge to a duel sent
Sutton.
After this incident passed, Mrs. Set
ton identified letters written by her dead
son to his younger BROTHER Rodondo,
now at West Point, in which Jimmie"
spoke of his prospects aud his anticips-
tion Of going with the big feet.
"Don't ever tell a lie for any man or
womau," wrote Sutton to his younger
brother, "alwsys be on your honor or by
God you lose me Roddy. Better cross
hsdes on a rotten log than tell lie."
Charles II. Russell testified that the
day after Sutton died Lieut.. Robert E.
Adams sent some bloody Collars and
cuffs and shirt to bis laundry.
Mrs. Rose Sutton Parker, sister OF
the dead man who worked up much of
the evidence that they hope will prove
Sutton did not commit suicide, came
next.
She told OF her journey east TO bury
her brother. Her brother could not Oe
buried 10 consecIated grourd, she said,
with the verdict of The naval court that
he was a suicide, for the family were
Catholics. This bit of testimony was an
insight into one reason for the fight to
clear Sutton's name.
10 lionel Doyen told me had best
not see Jimmie's body" she said a
moment later, and everybody leaned
still further forward in anticipation. Ht
said it was in bad shape, that the fore.
head was bsnsged, the nose out OF place,
aud there we're big Jumps under the jaw
and other bruises"
She stated emphaticslly that Adams
had confessed to her that he hated SUIT
ton, that be would have beaten him still
longer on the night of the fight had h'
not been pulle1 of, and that he, Ad-
ANS, told her that everybody 10 Annap.
oils seemed to believe that he had killed
Sutton.
Adams, when on the stand, had de-
MED all this.
"Adams told you, did he not, that hi
life would not have been worth anything
had Satton lived"
eyes, exactly so.
"What did you say?"
al replied; Lieutenant Adams de
you realize what you are SAYING" Dom
you know you wouldn't get of If yOr
said that before jury %
Then Adams said eyes, Mrs. Parker,
but am not before jury"
Adams also told me that when Jimmie
was down, he, Adams, caught him BY
the throat with his left haud and bea
him with the right He was still beat
ing him, Adams said, when somebody
kicked, Adams, Ia the ribs and then he
got up.
81 asked him why he would hit q
mau when he was down with two or
three men on top Of him and he said he
vas too infuristed to know anything"
Mrs. Parker said she paid Oapt.
Mark $85 that he claimed her brother
owed him, though Adams had told her
not to pay the money should tho claim
be made.
Boston, Aug. l0.-OOrrborsting in
almost every detail the contention Of
Lieut.. Sutton's moths, that he Wss shot
at Annapolis by bother officers, add
practically accusing them of con-
spirscy to hide the murder, Sergeant
Archie Todd, corporal of the gpsrd on
the night OF the tragedy, Is here today
ready to remove the blot of suicide from
Sutton's name. Todd declares he ssW
the shot fred that pierced SuitOn's
brsio. Following the receipt OF tele-
gram at the ObsrlestOwn navy yard that
Todd was wanted at the Annapolis TO-
quiry the sergeant Was located at the
State rife range and willingly told OF
lbe tragedy.
81 was corporal of the guard the
night that Lieutenant Sutton was shot"
said Todd. 81 wss on duty at midnight
and from the place where | was standing
saw the figure OF man about $50 feet
away. saw Lieuts. Adams aud Oster-
man aud recognized them. The man
In the shirt sleeves started to run and |
heard voice cry; Stop running You're
under arrest The psn paid no attention
aud ran ou, and then the next moment
| saw fash and heard a revolver re
c)rt. There were three other shots,
d the men who was running dropped.
81 ran over to him aud bent over
Inn. Il was Lieut.. Sutton. saw .
ole In The mans forehead and another
1ck OF the left ear"
UNNA DEFINES A CAUSE.