The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-23
DREAMER EXCUSED
IN MURDER TRIAL
NEITHER DEFENSE NOR PROSE
4 CUTION CARES TO HEAR GEORGE
BOLTON RELATE VISION.
CONCLUDE CASE TO-DAY
ONE OF ACCUSED NEGROES TELLS
HOW mon STRUNG HIM UP
TRYING To GET CON
a. FESSION.

George Bolton, the dreamer from
buckingham, will not be called on to
testify in the murder case from that
Court of Richmond.
This was settled just before court
ADJOURNED ut o'clock yesterday at
ternoon. when MIR. John L. Lee. OF
counsel for the defense, announced
that Bolton would not be needed as
a witness.
however, the prosecution Is at
liberty to use him If ii pleases," said
Mr.. Lee.
We don't care to have anything to
do with dreamers in this case" re-
piled Commonwealth Attorney
Foikes, of Richmond, who is assisting
the States attorney from Bucking-
ham.
Bolton, who looks every inch the
dreamer. was accordingly notified that
he would not be needed any longer.
Dreams All Day.
In tho anteroom outside the court
he sat In a chair most of the day.
waiting fnr-h turn to-hS- called y
Witness. He had little to say to
others around him. lie Is a mer-
chant-farmer of Buckingham. q trifie
past middle age. with grayish hair.
spectacles and decidedly pointed fea-
lures.
At previous trial of 1sfse murder
case, Bolton testified, giving the de-
tails OF his vision of the tragedy,
which he claims to have come to him
the night of the murder of the two
Stewart brothers ON April II. 1909
The defense used him as a witness
and his testimony tailed so infinitely
with that of the two alleged eye-wit-
nesses that serious doubt arose in
the minds of many as to whether
these two witnesses were actually tell
ing the truth. The defense claimed
that they fabricated their testimony.
with Bottoms vision as a basis
Witnesses Tangled.
Willie Jackson and Aylett John
son, coal black and even more vision
AIRY In facial expression. were the two
alleged eyewitness. Both testified
yesterday and at times became con-
siderable tangled In their statements.
especially when subjected to a Cruel
ling cross-examination from the de-
lenses array of legal talent
The NEST spectacular testimony OF
the day came from the lips of Richard
Perkins. who Is charged with COM
plicity in the crime.
Perkins. who lis a heavy-set negro.
with immense shoulders and abnor-
maiiy thick lips. was the last witness
called at the afternoon session. He
told how he was strung UP three times
by an angry mob. which tried in
vain to extort q. confession from him.
First, he said. shotgun was stuck
In his face and falling In that threat
the mob resorted to the moose.
Perkins Stubborn.
When Perkins remained stubborn.
protesting his innocence, he was
finally released by the mob and given
over into the custody of Deputy
sheriff Carter. who told him to run
for his life. 1t was Carter from whom
the mob took the negro. The deputy
has died since the previous trial.
Perkins said he was not annrehend-
ed until nearly month after the
Stewart brothers We're slain and rob-
bed and then burned TO q cris- With
In their residence.
He told straightforward story
and apparently made good impress
sion on the jury. Counsel for the pros
ecution made but little Roadway in an
effort to break down his testimony.
AS Perkins left the stand. faint
smile filtered over the dusky features
Of Edward Jones the negro on trial.
who Is charged jointly with Perkins.
Lake a good many others who heard
the testimony. Jones Is expecting
verdict OF acquittai from the jury to-
day.
Up to Governor.
And In such an event. Perkins will
In all probability be released from
custody Then 1t viii be Jap to Gov
ernor Mann to exercise executive
clemency on behalf of Dallas Wright,
the big husky white man, who Is UNI
der sentence of death for his alleged
part in the buckingham murder, hay
ing failed to get a new trial on
technicality. when the State Court of
Appeals gave the two accused negroes
further lease on life.
It may be that Wright will go free
the same day on which Henry Clay
Reattie, Jr.. condemned wife muir
derer, with whom he chummed. In the
Henrico county Jail last summer. goes
to the electric chair.
Occupying cells next to each other
IN that bastile, Beattie and the Buck
ingham man saw much Of each other
and il Is said that Wright on more
than one occasion awaited himself of
the opportunity to cheer IN Beattie
with the assurance that there was
hope so long as life lasted. as evil
denced by his own case.