Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-07
FATE OF Or. CHAMBERL|N
SOON WILL Be WITH JURY
Sensational Goochland Murder Trial
Enters Upon Final
Chapter.
LITTLE MORE TEsTIMoN,
Defense Has Few More Witnesses,
and Probably Will Close Case
This Aftcrnoon-Strong Circum-
stantial Evidence Against Doctor.
les stan corresnoneen..l

GooCHLAND COURTHOUSE VA.
January 6.--Wi;h the accused still: on
.hc stand after nearl" two days OF
Girect and Discrimination, the trial
OF Dr. Asa W. Chambcrlin. alleged
murderer OF his brother, Judge Albert
Putnam Chambcrlin, will be resumed
here a, 10 o'clock tomorrow. when
lawyers and court officials return from
distant homes, where they spent sun
Gay.
When court adjourned on Sa:urda:
afternoon Or. Chanberiin had jus:
completed an all-day battle or wits
with l.. q. WcnderburE. private coun-
sci employed 10 aid the prosecution.
and Was IN the hands OF his own
counsel for redirect examination 1t
is expected that this Will be completed
within hsf an hour after court opens
tomorrow. Following the accused.
the defense viii introduce rrobab,:
half dozen witnesses. hopin: % close
lis case tomorrow afternoon. IL is not
thought the state Will introduce any
more witnesses.
CASE MAY RE IN HANDS
OF JURY TO-MORROw
Tuesday evening should and tho case
III Rnc dnES OF Inc yS:..
While evidence against Tho accused
physician is entirely oireumstantial,
tho outlook is cxcecdiage dark 70,
him Tnc State thinks it has cstah-
lisneo a motive for the crime The
doctors own statement as 10 the in
gratitude of his brother and the charge
that his brother betrayed secrets which
resulted in his being hcavil, fined in
~.
whisky III his practice IN Iowa has
strcrs ;hcned the States contention tina.
there was motive. Added Ia this.
there Is no proof that Judge Cham
berlin was seen alive after the do.-
tors admitted visit 10 his home on
the night OF Monday. October 80 il
"as ON this visit that the doctor al.
icses that he paid his brother tho
amount Of note over which il is
contcndcd taey had quarrcled bitterly.
The doctor now holds this note re-
ceiptcd and signed. ii is admitted II,
the state. by Judge Chambcrlin No
part of the sl,oS5 alleged to have been
paid the Judge, except a So bill found
on the noor by Funder E-itt soon al.
ter the judge was missed. hss hcci
located.
The judges body was found October
20. deca pitated and dismcmbcrcd, un-
der several posts of fence in the
Doctors yard. This discovery was ma dc
after pr. Chambcrlin's arrest. lie con
tends that the body was placed there
while he was in Jail. lie charges tina;
there is conspiracy against him.
pointing out that the consprators
picked a night on which nc was alone
a f.lC he rriyp
MIN He has spent only three nights
alone on the farm since lie came 10
Virginia, he says. 1T was on one of
these that my brother disappeared
what more propitious time could tho
nurdcrcrs find to implicatc me than
when have no witnesses to prove my
Statcmcnts?"
STRONG CIRCUMSTh NTIAI
EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM
Subsequent to tho finding of the body,
the state has proven. bloodstans were
found In the hall and on tho stairway
of the Doctors home; the judges watch
and strong box were uncovered in out
Of tho way places: bloodstaincd saw
and jumper Jacket on which was
sticking a "bcSgar-lousc" covered with
blood and a tiny bit of muscle tissue.
we're found hanging in the apple house
The doctor admits ownership of the
saw and tho coat. DIR. J. NJ. Whit
field. coroner of Richmond, an expert
chemist, says the blood and flesh are
Of tho same nature as human blood and
:icsh.
Or. Louis l.. Lcake. coroner OF Gooch-
land. an expert in anatomy, examined
the body OF the murdered man. lie
tcstihes that it could not have been
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