The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-12
FRAUD CHARGED
IN WOODY CASE
Street Car Company Asks That
Verdict Be Set
Aside.
AFTER DISCOVERED EVIDENCE
Affidavits Filed in Court Allegc
Attempts to Manufacture
Testimony.
AFTER DISCOVERED EVIDENCE

Charging a deliberate conspiracy, to
defraud. application was made TO the
Law and Equity Court yesterday to
dered in the case of Mrs. Ida c.. Woody
against the Virginia Railway and
Power Company. In which Mrs Woody
secured 4 verdict for personal dam
ages in the sum OF sl.250,
The street. car company filed afda
Wits nf two relatives or Mrs. Moody
that they had been offered $40 each
to testify to an accident which they
did not see, and of two other relatives
who were offered other Inducements
70 TESTIFY, and declined. An affidavit
of Edgar B. English. former counsel
for Mrs. Woody, is 10 the effect that
during the twenty months in which
he was her counsel. and prepared her
case and conferred with her witnesses.
he never heard Of Miss Sadie Wells
and William L. Miller, tho only two
alleged cyewitnesses OF the accident
besides the members Of Mrs Woody's
family. and negro woman who
Stained TO he very intimate at the
Woody home.
ainy Prosecutc for I'erjury.
Judge Ingram took The papers under
Amusement, and will hear argument
/. later on tho motion TO set aside the
verdics sud grant now trial on the
ground nf after discovered evidence
AS the car companys petition charges
deliberate perjury on the part OF sew
eral Of the witnesses in the former
trial. court officials say that If tho
company maintains it's charge in the
Law and Equity Court. Commonwealth
prosecutions Of Il criminal nature Will
be in order.
Mrs. Woody sued for damages in tho
sum Of $1,000, claiming injuries by rea-
son OF fall while alighting from n
| street car on Laurel Street in front OF
F, the Laurel Street engine house.
| The trial attracted much attention
at the time BY reason OF the peculiarly
| contradictory nature OF the testimony.
t Mr. Woody. the plaintiffs husband
changing sides no less than three times,
| and finally coming out as witness for
/ his wife, after Having volunteered !,
4. statement to the street car company
that the accident never happened, and
that his Wife had been injured by
tho explosion Of lamp in her home
.iHidn,its Filed.
With Its motion for setting aside the
verdict, the car company filed an am
davit from Mrs. Pearl l. Cardoxa. OF
35l3 0 Street. sister of Mrs. Woody.
which states that Mrs. Woody came 10
Mrs. Cardoza's home lii the summer of
1909 aud asked her TO testify that
she saw Mrs Woody fall from the car.
Mrs Carbon refused to comply with
the request. not havins; been n wit
ness OF any alleged accident
Otto ,Cardoza Mrs. Woodys brother
ir-!aw. deposcs that he was approach
ed by Mrs. Woody and asked to testify
10 the accident which he had not wit
! messed, and he also refused Other
aHidavitS were signed by Mrs. Maria
Johnson and Mrs Mary Mickels sisters.
who swear that they were each offered
, $40 by Mrs. Moody 70 testify In her
behalf to an accident, which thcy had
not witnessed. Mrs. Johnson declined,
as she WAS In LynchburE at the time
the accident Is alleged to have occurred.
SwRppcd Attorneys.
| In the trial oftthe case originally 1t
Sas brought out that Mrs. Moody first
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