Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-08-07
IMRS. D. v. STANTON
PLACED ON STAND
She Gives Detailed Account
ii Of Her Dealings With
Jesse ROlph
CROWD INSIDE RAIL
More Witnesses to FolIow-Jury May
Not Get The Case Before Tomor-
row Night.

Susie Grisby, colored, formerly
servant in the defendants home at
Rosemont, was the star witness yes
terday afternoon after the Gazette
report closed.
The Grisby girl declared she dis
covered Rolph choking Mrs. Stanton
one day in Washington hotel, Rolph
was there, she said, with Mrs Stan
ton and the two Stanton children.
Pointing the pistol at Rolph the ser
want girl declared, she said: eff you
don't leave her alone I will shoot
you"
Mr.. Bdankenship testified that in a
conversation with Roiph the question
arose whether Rolph knew Mrs. STAN
ton and Rolph remarked he did,
whereupon the witness said to him
that he had better be careful or he
might get shot. Here he said Ro!ph
remarked: "What, that little shrimp,
/ could eat twenty-five like him."
The third day of the trial of D.
, Worth Stanton, charged with shoot
ing and killing Jesse Rolph in Rose
mont on May IL, attracted many
spectators to the Corporation Court
room.
Miss Meta Tanner, graduate nurse,
was the first witness to take the
stand. She attended Rolph at the
Alexandria Hospital; latter, while in
much pe;n, had declared that should
he get we'll Re would "make some
body pay for this"
The court ruled this out, but Mr..
Burke insisted that the evidence
should go before the jury, as he
contended that olph had uttered
threats before the shooting. The
court was inflexible, however, and
Mr.. Burke noted an exception.
Miss Tanner, upon being cross
examined, said she told Rolph he
was in. critical condition. He
realized he:' was: in 'extremis, and
declared he had done nothing to
cause Stanton .tc shoot him. He de-
clined the services Of a minister, ex-
claiming, "what the use at this late
hour ?" He later sid, ''Lord have
mercysmon me- ) - ~"
Mrs. Martha v. Stanton later took
the stand. She said, she is % years
! old: was married to; D. Worth
Stanton April IL, 1919 has two
children; had property Of her own
when she married; amicable
relations existed between herself and
husband until the beginning OF the
year; told Of the beginning of her
acquaintance with a certain woman
in her :, neighborhood; became ac-
quainted with Rolla about the be-
ginning Of the year; later saw him
frequently.
Tie Commonwealth Attorney OBJ
jected to any evidence concerning
her relations with Rolph which had
not come to her husbands know
ledge. The court sustained the OBJ
lection. -
Mrs. Stanton, continuing, said she
had met Rolph. on the street; he
had invited her to enter his automo-
bile; had accepted the invitation; had
informed her husband, before the
shooting, OF Rolph's transactions
with her; he had given her an auto
mobile; Rolph often visited her fe-
male neighbor; latter had told her
Rolph was good fellow; deceased
had used Nsolent language in re-
ferring to her husband; the neighbor
feferred to had praised Roiph and
induced witness to do as she did;
Rolph had told her if she did not
aeave her home she would not get
the money from him to meet her
Ichecks; witness then told of her ex-
perience in Washington; Of meeting
Rolph and of his remaining virtually
all night; she told Of obtaining
Sanitary Fish Market will have .,
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