The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-08


opened the argument for the State.
May 1t please the court and YOU
gentlemen OF the jury" he began
before I proceed 1 wish to say hat
the duty owe to the high moral char
acter and standing OF my county re-
quires me 10 say this: the facts con-
nected with this case would not have
been brought to light without the
splendid aid and interchangeable energy
of the police of Richmond and the
county authorities. feel that the
thanks OF our people are due them for
throwing light on the hidden secrets
OF this crime.
~ hen you took your seats. gentle
men of the jury. you heard fall from
the lips OF the court the words that
you shall we'll and truly consider the
issue Joined between the defendant
at the bar and the Commonwealth. and
verdict render according to the evil
dence, so help you God The Scripture
saith. Thou shalt not kill The record
in this case shows that in the darkness
of the night of July is the land OF
this county was soiled by the midnight
tread OF a high handed assassin. That
is enough. in my opinion, to shock
every senslbility. irrespective Of creed.
Our duty is to show you who is the
man who soiled the highway of this
crime. the man whose heart so burned
with hate against that woman-his
wife
No Other Thun Henry.
II believe we can show the jury
that no other man could. that no other
man did, commit this crime, no other
than the man behind the bar. Why do
say 1t? Let US see. In the instruc-
lions yol have heard the court tell
oh tI,. 49,
place anC the opportunity to connect
a man with the crime. no man. up to
this time, has been seen near the scene
of the crime:
If th-re had been another man he
would have been seen. The defendant
is the OILY man who was seen at that
lonely spot armed with a gun. The
gun which he identified himself was
the gun which did this murderous deed.
You have one significant fact to con-
slider farrell tells the jury that the
light on that machine threw its lustre
for 20 or 100 yards on both sides. The
glow was sufficient to have furnished
light to the accused to see any one
in the road had there been any one
there. Roland Sydnor tells you that
on the very evening of tho crime he
saw man at this spot alone. evidently
preparing then to commit the deed.
that time and the machine was I'M
known to him then. Since then he
has examined both the man and tho
machines. and they fit like two panes
of glass. lie tells of how this man
went to the top OF the hill to get a
view of both ways east and west to
see II the hellish crime planned in his
bosom could be detected. But God in
His mercy. God TIE eternal Law giver,
provided means 10 show who the man
was who fred that fatal gun. How
do we get at that? In two ways. II
Sydnor had been the only one to see
the criminal. there would have been @
vacuum; but circumstances increased
in number and became facts. At the
spot where Sydnor saw the man two
automobiles passed coming from Bon
Air. Boys in ono of those machines
saw the same man, the same machine,
the same woman, as described by them
to you. They described where the wo-
man was standing. The very time Is
shown and the very place Is also
shown, care not where he fired the
fatal shot--it' was fred TO kill that
woman.
Could Not Have Done IL.
Why do l say that 1T was. In a
little time after those automobiles
passed the fatal shot was fired. A