Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-15
-FOUR WITNESSES HEARD
PARENTS OF MRS. JOSEPH
WILLIAMS PUT ON STAND
Coroner Whitfield Testiics Hood Clot
Round ON btnin Oi thnuticur's
Dead wife.

choosing twelve Impartial and un.
rreJuuiced men for the jury, the tax
ms Of evidence IN the triaI Of Joseph
Wniiams. accused of wife murder was
commenced yesterday in the Hastings
Coroner J. NJ Whitfield testified that
an .nqLcst hoid by him over the body
OF Daisy Louise Wilnams, the dead
ana several diminutivc blood ciots on
the Gram. The coroner WAS not al
lowed ny the court 70 give an opinion
as 20 tho cause of tho injury.
All efforts of the prosecution cen
tered arosnd the attempt to prove
that the INJURY was caused by blow
gwen the Woman by her husband. RE-
quotation Of this point became The
man purpose OF the defense
ward sign of emotion other than bit
ing his hnSernaiis. throughout the
Williams seems Unmuvcd.
While the attorneys dubbed and
fought over seeming triyiaIitiGS, VII
life, and certainly his future. hangs
on the final decision. sat unmovcd.
un,i ihSng dc,d 6he court Vas ~ session sion
Witnesses wore, put on the stand; They
were Mr., and Mrs. George ". Bebout
their daughter, Viola and Coroner
Coroner Withheld Was as sill on the
stand when the court adjourned.
Attorney Louis Wendcnburg repre-
scented Williams ana Commemorative
Attorney George Wise and Attorney
state.
TeIIs Of Quarrel.
Miss Viola Bebout was the first wit
ness summoned. and testified that she
was the first TO reach the scene of an
alleged, disputS between Williams and
which Williams is charged with strik-
ing his wife behind the left ear and
knocking her do .En,, on a bed at The
seventh Street. AT this time tho prose-
cution holds she received the injury.
which broushht: about, her death. al
though she did not die until ne fol-
lowing Monday morning.
After forcing her entrance into the
bedroom IN which the ua.rrel was ,oc,
words with Williams, who would not
admit having struck his wife
did. my neck hurts now Miss Bebou.
testified, were the words OF her sister
at that time.
time ] want to-" Williams is quoted as
saying 10 his Wife, by Miss Beboul.
"Rsfore sci tihr1gsh IN nh kii y, goH Nave
told he witness that ms wife would
pay. fo, everything which ho, happened
Two Men in Fight.
AIR. Bebout came home at this time
know why Williams had beaten his
wife. Williams was said TO have
made a slurr.ng remark. but refused
TO tell his fathsr.in- law Why ne e nha
between the two men onsued in which
Williams was worsted.
Mrs. Bebout and her husband testi-
lied to practically the same statements.
Evidence concerning former troubles
between Williams and his wife was
offered and an ATTEMPT made 70 e%-
Mrs. Bebout testified that she had
Williams and his wife, attracted by
Miss Bebout's voice raised in anger. She
declared that Williams had taken his
showed her down forceably into a
chair before the remark WAS made by
Williams wife concerning being struck
Called to bedside.
On Monday morning about 1855
daughter by Williams Urgent sum I'M
mons over the telephone.
husband. noticed that she had ceased
After the girl died, the mother ,cs,i-
,o You said said ycu'd do IT. Joe, and now
"My God, you shouldn't throw that
up TO me now" she testified that he
Because no quarters could be found
by the court officials. Judge ID c.
Richardson, after obtaining tho con
sent OF attorneys for both the de-
20 their homes for the night
For the prosecution Detective Ser
Eeants G.; T. Smith and J. T.. Wiley,
DTS. III. w. BlaNton and { \ Blanton
are yet to be called as witnesses
Mrs + ~ Nash, Mrs John Jones,
MIS- \. A. JOINER, Mrs. Anne w Cam,
oron and Prohibition inspectors Smlij-
van, punleary and Erickcr ana Dctec-
i've sergeant Louis Bertucci are the
witnesses for the defcnsc
The jurors serving in the case src.
fhomaS w. Render, w. T. Priddy
Iohn II Capatine, Jr., W II. Malcomb
-. IL. Kidd. W Bclam, s r. Love
- r. PadGett.. James y. Richard lake
Oickerson and Joseph e. Allev