The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-02
HIDES BLOODY CLOTHES
THAT BELONGED TO HALL
Negro Driver for Defendant Tells
How Tie Disposed Of Garments
Of Murdered Merchant.
INSTRUCTIONS FROM ROBERTS
MAJ FL, Whom Mrs. Hall Said SIZE
Mas suspected OF Staying Husband
l. brought Prominently Into Case.
Faces Grucliing Examination.
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iSpccini 10 The Times Dispatch.I
louisa, VA, August i-Under the
spouight Of I searching examination
10y Commonwealth Attorney ". {.
Bib. Charles Chisholm, colored. a
former driv", for Mrs Elizabeth A.
HAIL. on trial for the alleged murder
Of her husband. testified this morning
THAT or tie afternoon following the
murder be burieo bloody underclothes
belonging to the slain man. and that
he Gid so on the order OF w J. Rob
ertS. Tor whose sake, II has been put In
the court record. the accused woman
-aid Che vas suspected OF numbering
Victor liaH. Chisholm testified clear
~ and couvincingly. He said that he
made two hurials Of bloody garments
IN which AIRS. Hairs Young husband
dieu. The first burial WAS made on
the afternoon of the day or the muir
der. which WAS on q THURSDAY and
! the second on the following Monday.
II ever Mrs. Hall takes the witness
j'staiid. II "i,l be asked OF her why those
clothes were so carefully hidden away.
End w. j. Roberts, a witness in the
. 'rial, VIII also be subjected TO the same
gruclling.
PROSECUTION WINS
MANY ADVANTAGES
II was q day for. the prosecution.
HAVING gained the advantage OF in
| Producing into the record all evidence
connected with the fire in Mrs. Halls
pantry on May II. the day of her ar
rest. the attorneys for the Common
wealth pressed the point with telling
effect.
or all the witnesses who burst into
the pantry after they saw smoke is
suing from ting store, there was none
who did not smell strong otfor of
l. q u
high enough to afford sufficient light,
there was not one OF these witnesses
who SAW strange figure lurking in
the ne1shborhood. and. with one eXcep-
ton, all swore that Mrs. Hall was the
| last 10 leave Inc store. There was
UNISON also IN tnc'r several statements
that every point Of entrance through
which they tried to get into the store
so rs tn eXtingush the fire was fast
ened. They had to break their way in.
and when inside they found that ali
the fire "as within the pantry, blazing
from poor little Becky Coates's clothes
packed in corner. And becky said
that when she left the store that ar
ternoon sho lC< Ter clothes under
meath the table ~ the pantry room
Becky, Mrs. Hairs little servant, was
a inournful figure i'll court when she
identified the burned rags I'm which
she was once wont tn adorn herself
when she sailed forth on Sunday af-
ternoons She picked up the pieces one
by one, and in n sad, little voice said:
Oats mine dats mine" Mrs. Hall
looked on grimly. and the little pick
aninny--she is only twelve years old
was embarrassed under her late mis-
trcss's eyes
BECKY DARK SHADOW
ON HOPES or DEFENSE
For an hour and fifteen minutes the
dark figure of Becky doomed rs large
shadow across the hopes of the defense.
There were many things she did not
know, and often she seemed puzzled
rs to how to answer when questions
fell about her like shells In a fort in
vested Finally. when the strain upon
her mentality was too great. she would
seek refuge in that answer which is
tlc bape OF cross -eXaminers--"I don't
know" And when Becky didn't know.
she meant il. The ono thing OF which
she was eternally and absolutely sure
was that those haIf-incinerated rags
(ha1 once been her chief delight and
Continued On Seventh Pase,)