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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY JANUARY 18 t 1687 WITH A SILKEN ROPE, ■THOMAS J. CLUVEHIUSJS HUNG BY THE NECK. Th mil BmMM of m. Ooronwr Wot to IntorfM —Lost Meant. of too ConOoumed Hoa-Tao Jfsron to ik* iesffold and Uis Sprtntfac of tae Trap-History of the Clime. Richmond, Va., January 14.—Thom as Jud* eon Cluverius, convicted of tho murder of Fannie Lillian Madison, was banged in the eitv Jail today. f As early sail a. m. people began to gather in tbe vicinity, and by noon every approach to the jail wa* packed with human beings. Homo* lope and, hillsides near the jail, from which a TIIOMAH Jl*IrtON CLU VKRItN, sight into the jailyard could be had, wore also crowded. Admission to the Jail was only had through tickets issued by City Sergeant Smith, who,though chary in giving them out,admitted over two hundred j»erxon*. lira LAST NIGHT UN KARTII. The prisoner pasoed a sleepless night, most of the time being spent with Hovcrly Crump, one of his counsel, who has dune everything to save or extend his life and who remained with him till *J a. m., and from that hour until l> o’clock he was engaged in prayor and at in* tervals in singing hytuns. From 0 o’clock on- til 0 he slept soundly and then arose and ate a breakfast of tenderloin beefsteak, mushrooms and egg omelette. During the morning hours there was much speculation as to whether the governor would further reprieve, and that question was not Anally settled until nunc time after noon, when Mr. Ciump, who had been to nee tho governor, returned to tho Jail and announced that the rxieutivo power would not l»o interposed. Her. Dr. Wm. K. Hatcher cumo to tho Jail about eleven o’clock, and remained with the prisoner to tho last, administering religion,j «ci.relation and praying with him. tih: procession or death.. At noon a suit of new blark clothing was brought to the jail sml tho prisoner donned them. At two minutes to one tho death pro* croton was formed, consisting of Sergeant Smith, two deputies, Rev. Dr. Uatchor and the prisoner, the latter having his hands tied In front, and his body, from tho neck to tho auk* )ea,enveloped in an old * fash ioued ladles' water proof cloak. From tho cell tho march pro* grchard along the corridor and down two (lights of stairs to tho lower court of the jail nml then into the yaid fronting the cells of white pris oners, forty policqmvu being on duty to keep back the crowd. AM ENDING Tiff SO VITOLD. The prisoner, though thin and pale, moved with steady stein to tue scaffold, which he as cended in the same quiet manner and stood on the trap. Sergeant Smith then read tho death w an ant or a copy of tlio judgment of the court, which the prisoner listened to with how* ed head and apparent closo attention. When the sergeant had concluded ho asked tho doom- id man if ho had anything to say. and Cluve* riua replied: '‘No. air; nothiug at all/' his volco being scarcely audible. Dr. Hatcher then knelt and offered a feeling and fervent prayer, aud when he had flulshed ho turned to tho prisoner, who said a few words in a low tone, aud Dr. Hatcher, turning to the crowd in the yard, aald: “J am requested by the prisoner to utter one word for him, and thnt la that, in this moraont Of death, ho carries to tho grave no fooling of ill-will towards any man ou earth.” Dr. Hatcher then left the scaffold. Raising both haude as he wcut out, ho said the prisoner had asserted his innoccnco to the last, just be fore leaving the cell. M'RIKUINO TIIK TRAP. When Dr. Hatcher had gouo, Deputy Ser geant Allen tied tho prisoner's knees togother, nut (he rope around his neck and adjusted the black cap and hood. Every thing being ready, Sergeant Smith gave the signal, and at eight minutes after oue o'clock the trap waaspruug. A sudden "swish,” the dang of a fallen trap door, and the next Instant the body of Clnveriua was at the end of tbe rope over ten feet below whore he had been landing. The rope, which was made of parti-colored ailk, stretched over the feet and toes of tho liaagetl man, and nearly touched tho brick pavement boneath. A minute of quiet, and then there was considerable strug gling, lasting several minutes, together with heavy stentonoua breathing, indicating that death was being produced by strangulation. THE UODY CUT DOWN, After sixteen minutes the physicians pro nounced him dead, and twenty miuutes after the trap was swung, the body was taken down and placed in a plain wooden coffin and turned over to an undertaker to bo prepared for burial, at his former home in King and Queon county * KNl* IN THE CELL AND JAILYAED, During the forenoon Ckptain Frank W. Cunningham, Richmond's sweetest tenor ring- «T, who has tttfore vial tod tiie prisoner on sot- r,«l occasions aud sung numerous hymns In Ms call, again called to see Cluverius and was ***** Pleasantly by him. At his request Ikptain Cunningham sang the hymn ltow firm a foundation, Ye Mima of tbe Lord. Wbeu be had finished. Captain Cunningham turned to Cluverius and aaked: ”Do you still say you aro innocent.'” To which the prisoner replied: ”1 am innorent.” And said Cnptsin Cunningham: "Do you believe In onr Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ, and believing in Him, vou assert that you are innocent know ing that you have got to answer before God?” • —— Again Clttverios said: '■’£a~ m ' raga “1»y that I am innocent” "***■ *“»» Sergeant Smith entered the condemn? ” w five minutes to one, and anuouuood tWt time wm up, lluwriu* ihowv.1 no alius of MLuUou, nod rvmarbttl. *'l orn mdy to go with you." It wt, on awful and nolenin moment when < Invert no walked from tho cell lu which he hod w loo, been routined to tho ocnflbtd upon which he won to pay the MMity lor bio crime, nnd tho Inn nerve which oortolncd blot through tho trial ilung to hint to tho very loot, nnd unfalteringly he walked to hie dta’h. Aa ■ losing down the otepe on the way to the uoUbjd the voat crowd oatiidc the Jail rwtht a *irht of him, and a shout wcut up hvm a thousand throats: "Yonder he it: yonder lie Iv" The priooMr in ver rebel hi, .yet, but kept lli*“ *“» “owu m though In deep thought, oSSSL?? *"* Iwrliopa, he fully real- raid that lie woo going to die. Aa he wended hla war to the aeaflbld down the lou, JailvarJ, the ejoa of over two huutlrcd perwno were dlroetcd to buu. He never looked to tho right •r left hot walked along without tbe lewt «pi of wakening. None ofClareriartrriv. Wveo werewtth him todav. HI, brother, who bod been to devoted to him unco hio arrmt I with him ! yoterday. Hi, fother and mother, owing to ! feeble health, did not come to the city to bid farewell to the doomed man. Notwithstanding the fact that Wore the body was taken down the physicians stated that the neck was broken, the general impres sion ia that death was produced by strangula tion, aa ten minutes elapsed before life pronounced extinct. The heavy guttcral or stertorous breathing during that time was {siinful to listen to and was heard by all in the prisonyard. IILtory of the Crime* Miss Fannie Lillian Madison and Thomas Judson Hovering (Kla-veers) were second cousins. She was in her twenty-second year, he is in his twenty-fourth. Tl»cy formerly lived in King William county, and had known each other from childhood. They had met under her parents’ roof; at their aunt's (Mrs. Tunstall ’a:) at her uncle's (Mr.John Walker's,) and elsewhere. , The parents of both aro living. Both fami lies are in very moderate circumstances, though connected by blood and marriage with many of tho best people in King William aud King aud Queen counties. Lillian nnd Tommie were both largely in debted to Mrs. Tunstall for educational ad van tages. Mrs. Tunstall is a widow of means, and she suit Lillian to the Bruington academy aud him to tbe law-school of Richmond college, whero be graduated in JH82. LAST AT HOME. Lillian nnd Tommie wero on good, pleasant, cousinly terms, and she was known to lie deep ly nttachi d to him, hut they were not generally spoken of as lovers. If any engagement of marriage existed it was kept quiet. In fact, tbe neighborhood talk was that his Affections and aims were in an altogether different direc tion. July the Hth, |8S|, Lillian left her parents’ home, near Matiuuin, to go to the house of her grandparents and uncle, near by—a place whero she was us much at homo as with her father au<I mother. While there, through the influence of a relative in Itath county, she secured tho poli tic n of school-teacher at Mrs. Dickinson's, near Millhoro’. Several times during tho sum mer sho was visited at her undo's > Mr. Wulkcr) by Tommie Cluverius. October the 10th, 1841, she left King William for Itath via Richmond, Sho was near her parents’ home, hut did not go liack to tell them good-bye. A relative drove her to Richmond (some twenty-live miles),and here sho remained a few days at the residence of an aunt. Long afterwards it was discovered that whiio she was in I'iriimonrl Tommie was there too. If is surmised that they nut, but if so, where or exactly when is not known. HER MOUNTAIN HOME. By the middle of October Lillian was located at her ucw home in Hath county. She found Mrs Dickinson living at a beautiful place on tho Gowrasturc river, seine four or flvo miles from Millboro. That Lillian found in Mrs. Dickinson a kind, motherly woman every letter that sho wrote nn ntioning her name proves. Yet she must have been imnicn.surrahly miserable in Bath. A good while beforo Christmas she must havo known that she was not only a ruined woman, but that It was only n question of a few months moro Itcforc she would lie shamed beforo tho world; when, porha|«, she would hup disowned by her relatives; when good .Mrrfr Dickinson would refuse toknow her longer; when tho girls With whom sho had gone to school at Bruington would mention her name with contempt; when new friends would ignore her aud old ones despiso her; when sho would be a byo word nml reproach, and, may lie, not havo a roof to shelter her in her confinement. She must have had tho worst fears, the most painful opprcnsluns. By artful contrivances she concenlcd her true condition: but sho must have stood in momentary dread of discovery, 8bo knew her day would romo at last. She had hut two things to hope for—marriage with tho man who had won her confidence; or, that failing, to find a placo of reftige, out of tho tight of tbeso who know her, until hcrcoiillno- merit was passed and her baby disposed of, DOt* RLE I.IFE. Day and night Lillian must have been haunt ed with the shadow of coming evil. Sho was living a double life, She had to be to Mrs. Dieklmm a pleasant nnd sociable companion; to tho children, an uttcutivo and agrceablo teacher. With gay and happy yotiug lady friends sho ha I to scour one of tlmn; to gentle men she had to bo a sweet, innocent young ludy. In her own room, in tho stillness of tho night, she taw what was beforo her. Sho had been reared in good society; she had had excel* lent educational advantages; sho had been throwu with ambitious girls at Bruington; tho was sentimental, and no doubt had romautiu plain—and now sho was to bo an outcast! TIIE JANUARY VISIT. What letters, if any, alio wrote to Tommio from Bath are in his possession or destroyed. With his arrest the commonwealth got none. What letters ho wroto to her wliilo stro was In Bath, slio burnt up tho night before ahe made her start for Richmond. A few empty envel opes left In tho trunk prove tb.it ho did writo to her, but whut ho wrote aliout is not known But in January, on tho pica of going to aoo her aunt (Mrs. Tunstall), who was said by Lil lian to be ill, Lillian gained penniashra to leave icbool for tome days. She came to Richmond, but proceeded no further. She went to the Exebango hotel January the 5th nnd registered aa Miss F. I* Merlon, Roanoke City. At tho sarao timo Tommie camo from down tho coun try. Ho registered at the Davis house (near tbo Exchange) under ills true name. TIIK COUSINS MEET AOA1N. Tommio is described at tho Exchauge ns hav ing had "a light moustache.” Mr. A. W. Archer, chief cleric at the Exchange hotel, has been to tho Jail nnd positively identities Clu- vfrins. So (hr ns Is known, on this visit Lillian saw no other person with wham sho wa* acquainted —no other person except Tommie. Yes. there was ono exception. She met in tho Exchange hotel, face to (kre, Mr. Clagett Jones, of King nnd Queen. They had a brief conversation ou commonplace topics, and soon thereafter Lillian left the city. Returning to Bath, sire told Mrs. Dickiuson that she had been met in Richmond by I'ouHln Tommie; that he drove her to her aunt’s; that she found her sunt much improved, and that her sunt urged her to return to Bath, and ptid hotel with Cousin Tommie, and that he had given her two hooks and some candy and oranges. So Lillian explained that sho was back much earlier than she had expected. LILLIAN LEAVES BATH. In January Lillian got to Richmond to set Cluverius on the pretenso that sho wished to visit her Annt Tnnstsll, who was very ill. In llsreh she adopted a very different ruse. On tho 10th of March little Willie Dickinson brought from the postofflee a letter addreitod to Lillian. I'pon reading It sho exclaimed: *‘Oh, Willie, why did you bring me this? Why did you not throw It In tho river?” The letter falsely purported to he from Miss , of Richmond—a young lady who wasnt the Bruington academy with Lillian; who wrote untjug Lillian to come to the city and to with Miss—-’s aunt (“.Mrs, Herbert”) to Old Point as a companion; promising that Lillian should receive per day for services; that she rhonld have the use of the writer’s wardrobe; that tbo arrangement would be most agree able, etc. She said that she had a letter also from tbe (other of Miss , urging her to acrept the Invitation. This letter offered a prospect of a few weeks of pleasure for Lillian, and good Mrs. Dickiuson curser.tcd for her to go. That was the loth, aud Lillian arranged to be here on the l .’ih. the litter was very urgent that she must be lure cn the l*Jth. Mrs. Dickinson lent Lillian h» r reddish brown canvas clothes lug to carry littO underclothing, extra pair of shoes,etc. THE NH.HT BEI ORK THE START. That nighOliu Ella Kinney, a young lady near 1 Jlliansownage, a particular friend of bets, spent with Lillian at Mrs. Dickinson’*. To Min Kinney she said that she had a pre monition that “something horrible would hap pen before sho returned,” and she told Miss Kinney that ahe had a secret to tell hen bat they were not alone before she left, and Lillian did not reveal it On the war to the train, riding horseback, she said to Willie: “I feel as if somcUaisg ter rible will come of this trip.” Lillian was a short and stout little woman. She was only four feet eleven inches high, but probably weighed one hnndred and twenty-five pounds. Her face was round and full, and she was said to be really pretty. Dressed for her trip to Richmond, she had on a black alpaca drees; over that a bine Jersey, and underneath that a warm jacket; a round her neck a bright, gloray, red silk handkerchief, pinned with a black jet brooch; while on her head she wore a hat made of black straw, turned up In front. It had three ostrich Ups on it, and wastriimned with twilled silk and black velvet. Around it waa worn a veil. The most conspicuous part of her outfit wax a red crochet shawl, some times thrown over her shoulders, sometimes curried on her arm, sometimes strapped on her clothes-bag. She worea plain gold finger ring. In one hand she had the clothes-bag; on the wrist of the other she carried a small satchel, wherein she kept her money. What itamount- rd to no one knows. Mrs. Dickinson gave her $5 when she started; how much more she had cannot lie ascertained. At Millboro she took out a$5 and a $1 note and paid for her ticket, and got fifty cents in change. LILLIAN ON TIIE TRAIN. Mr. Wright was the conductor of this train. Jn tho course of a conversation with her— something having been said about fast run ning—sho remarked to him that sho wished tbe train would rnn off and kill her. She told the conductor she waa Miss Madison. He noticed her plain gold ring. Tho red shawl site kept in her lap. At 3:*J5 a. m., the train arrived in Richmond. The conductor escorted Lillian to the American hotel 'bus, in which there were two other passengers, and got in himself and went ns far as the Exchange. Lillian went to tho American. There, about three a. m. Friday, March 13th, sho registered as‘‘Miss F. L. Merton,” and was assigned to room *J1. LILLIAN AND TOMMIE HERB. Cluverius arrived Thursday morning and went to the Davis house. Lcaviug his satchel and overshoes there, ho went to the barber shop under the American hotel—distant some one hundred yards—and got shaved. It lr claimed by him that he never xvoro a inous tnebe. Lillian did notget to bed until after three m., aud sho took htr breakfast in her room. TIIE NOTE AND ANSWER. While she was eating her breakfast a colored servant named Hunt camo up from tho office and In ought her a note. The note was ad dressed to Mbs Merton. She read It, wrote an answer at once, and gave It to Hunt, and Hunt took it down to the office, nnd ii was given to the “yellow boy,” who had brought the note to Lillian. Lillian's answer (ns afterwards ascertained) was ns follows: “I will l>o there as soon as )*MHihlc. Ho do wait for me.” On the small scrap of paper upon which this was written there was no other word; no ad dress; no signature. It was, however, enclosed in a small white envclopo addressed “T. J. Cluverius.” HIE GOEH OUT TIIE THIRD TIME. Between (J and 7 o'clock Lillian started to go out ugnin. She had her clothes bag with her. Sho gave (1 rattan, servant, a postal to mail, ami he dropped it m tho street box at the Dis patch corner. Returning to the American ho saw her going up Twelfth street “towards tho St. James hotel,” which is also the direction of the Davis house. Tyler, the colored floor ser vant, trslifioH that sho returned about 8:30 o’clock; that an “oh! man” who had his pants in his lioots, camo in with her aud said: “Here is a indy 1 brought; sho wants a room,” that ho took licr to her room (SI); that later a young man with a light moustncho (he positively identified Cluverius at the coroner’s inquest) was shown to the parlor, and there met Lillian, FANNIE LILLIAN MADISON, and that there ho left them. Cluverius saw “tho old man.” Coming around about 10 p. m. Tyler found the parfor empty and put out tho light". Lillian’s room was unoccupied that STRKKT CAR FOR RIVER VOIR STREET. William Tucker, n colored boy, who drives a "tug horse” for the street car company, testi fies that that night he stoppod a Main street car for a man (whom ho identified as Cluve rius), and that tho man and u woman got on tho cur near the American hotel aud wcut up town. Mr. J. T. Williams, driver of a Muiuo street car, remembers thnt ou tho lost trip he made thnt night he had a man nnd a veiled wo man as passengers; that they got off at tho end of the lino, Main and Reservoir street*; that tbe man (who “wore a light mustache”) asked him several questions aliout the streets, and that he carried “a satchel" in bis hand. This wan 11:35 p. in. OUT RESERVOIR STREET. That same Friday night, at ft: 15, Dr. Stratton snys he met a man ami woman at Reservoir ami Cary streets. The man questioned him aliout the streets and ns to the timo of night. The man bad “a short mustache;" tho womau had a package under'her arm and no shawl on. Fifty itepa from where this meeting took plate ft the residence of the Dunstun family- king William county people and friends of Lillian. Mr. WUliann met Cluverius at tire coroner’s Inquest and eyed him from head to foot for about two or three minutes, and then declared: “I won’t say that it Is the man; I won't *uy it isn’t.” Dr. Stratton said tint Cluverius boro *a general resemblance” to tho man he met. Further than that he could not say. TIIE DEAD RODY FOUND. The old reservoir of Richmond is on the western limits of the city. It is between Hol lywood cemetery aud the open field* where the great confederate hospital camp* Winder and Jackson and later the union caiup Grant used lobe. The smallpox hospital nnd grounds (sixteen acres), popularly known as the Clarke spring property, is tbe only thing that separate* it fh>m Hollywood. There arc only a few peo ple living in the vicinity, and none within 300 S ard* of the spot where, on the morning of larch H, Mr. L. \V. Rose, keeper of the reser voir, found the dead body of an unknown woman. RIVKHVOIR. The reservoir is a ba.sin to hold about 0,000,000 gallon* of water, aud is made by rais ing four walls—embankments of earth aliout twenty feet higher than the surface of tho plain. The bank sloiaw inwardly and out wardly at about thirty-five degrees: tho iu- wnrd nIo|«o is bricked, cemented, aud made water tight, while the outward slope is turfed. Ou top of the embaukment is a wide walkway rove nd with crushed granite. To prevent tho I v.ndnds of people who promenade there on WHERE CAN YOU BEAT THIS? Arc yon getting auy subscribers for The (Vxvi m Tins during January? If not, why dtn't you begin at once? Ono subscriber sent in will get your name in our New Year’s box, and may give you the oue hundred dollar present salt did Mr. B. F. Camp, or Coviugtou, Go., out of our ( hristmaa box. If you do not get thi* present you may get one of the others —$50, $25, sewing machine, gun. watch, ek*. You ran not afford not to be in our Sen Year box, when it costa vou nothing to get there. Hirnply give a half hour’s work, get three or fonr subscriber*, and in your name goes three or (bur times. Mr. Guup took ten minntos work, curt a few subscribers and got a hand- red dollars. There are nearly threo weeks left yet In which to worh daring January. Get at IttlOttCf. summer evening* falling into the water there is a picket fence three or four inches high be tween the walkway and the water, set about fourteen inches back from the basin. Ac va rious points steps ascend the embankment from the grounds. Tbe whole grounds are en closed by a fence eight feet high. All gates are locked at night; but for many years prior to tbe 14th of March, 1885, there had been in the back fence, in a remote and seldom visited locality, a hole made by taking off two piauks. STRANDED. During the night of March 13th the water in this reservoir had been allowed to fall about four feet, aud the dead body was found strand ed on one of the sloping sides of the basin. Taken out, it appeared to be the body of a young woman,a German woman, many thought. There was no sign of hat or shawl, and as, at first, no mark of violence could bo seen, the hasty conclusion was reached by some that it was a case of suicide. Mr. I*. J. Barton, of tbe Dispatch, who went out there in the line of his profession and made a clo ;e investigation, was probably the first to sec marks of violence on tbe face, and to declare, iu view of tbe surroundings, that in his opinion the woman had been murdered. Later in the dav, and particularly tbe fol lowing two days, there could be seen the mark of a heavy blow over tiie right eye; lips slight ly bruised, and ou the forehead some little tri fling peeks. AUTOPSY. Hnnday, Coroner Taylor, assisted by Dr. Pet tux, resident physician at the almshouse, made an autopsy. Tho marks wero measured and sketched and the brain was examined. The blow on the forehead—tho most scriou hurt—bad not fractured tlio skull, or eve broken the skin; but it had caused an effusio of blood on the brain, and its effect was seen on the opposite (back) side of the brain in what was taken to be a "counter-stroke.” It might havo been tho counter-stroke, or a second blow given her. The skin or the lips was notbroken but in a few days the under lips was darkened greatly. The autopsy also revealed tho fact that de ceased would have become a mother in from four to six weeks. The conclusion of the doctors was that death occurred in the water (there was mud clench:d iu her hands); that it v/us impo&sibl j to toll whether the blows were given beforo or nf( death, but if before death they were suffi ;ioat to render deceased iu sensible, and might pos sibly havo resulted in death. At a later period the jury of inquest render ed a verdict that deceased (Fannie Lillian Madison) camo to her death by drowning in the old reservoir, and that T. J. Cluverius was directly or indirectly responsible. ARREST OF CLUVERIUS. On Wednesday evening following tho finding of tho dead body, Cluverius was arrested by Captain F.ppsund Mr. Robins, of the Richmond police, at tho residence of Mrs. Tunstall, near Little Plymouth, King and Queen county,some fifty miles east of Richmond. A good many facts possessed by theso officers, particularly by Mr. Robins, in addition to the torn note, pointed to Cluverius as tho man. When Kpps told Cluverius that lie was there to arrest him, Cluverius said: "Me! It is ridiculous.” Liter ho said: “I was in Rich mond, but I never saw her.” His aunt nnd brother also declared: "Ho no ver saw her while he was in Richmond.” Tho arrest of Cluverius caused no scene in the bouso. It did not socm to lie u great shock The brother took it wono than any. The Richmond papers containing nn account of tho identification of the body liud been re ceived, and Mrs. Tunstall lmd ovidently adopt ed the suicide theory. Sho asked: "Mr. Rob ins, don't you think that Lillian committed suicide?” To which tiie officer gave an evosivo answer. LETTER FROM THE DEAD. Tlio officers yielded to earnest invitations and nte supper with tho family. Cluverius started off eating very briskly and nonchalant ly, but his appetito roou (ailed. He ate very little. Mr*. Tunstall said that she had that day received a letter from Lillian datod tho 14th of March, tbo day hor dead body was found. Subsequently Mrs. Tunstall produced this (ot ter and read it, “to tbo effect that sho (Lillian) was going to discontinue her school on account of the MtrcmeJy bad weather, ami thnt sho had nil invitation to visit Old Point to be gouo two mouths,” etc., etc. TIIK KEY. Kuowing the great importance of the watch key as a link iu tho testimouy, the officers ut tbo earliest opportunity giuuccd at pri mucr's watch chain. Hays the captain: Whcu I first arrested him he had on a.watch chain with a piece on it to which a charm Is usu illy attached, but there was no charm ou it. Officer KoMun and myself went up-stulrs with the prisoner to his room. While up there I called Officer Robins's attention to the piece of chain by nhaking my own. • • • * • I searched the prisoner ut the Third Mationhouro. In doing so I discovered that the piece of chain 1 had noticed was gone. I asked him whero tho chain was, and ho replied that he “never had any on there.” I said: ’’Ah. hut yon did! Don't tell mo that.” lie said: “I f ive It to my brother last night.” After searching Im I went Into my office in tho *taUonhtfic<c. Borne hair hour later, upon reflection, I wcut to the cell door and c-allcd him, and said: “Cluverius, I saw that piece of chain ou your watch chain last night at King and Quecu court house, lam mre.” He replied: “No captain; I gave it to my broth er. Why, do yon want U?” I raid; “Ye*, I do. t an you get It?” “Yes, and l will get it for you. 1 Joined them. There 1 found tho prisoner, h!s brother, J ml EC Crump, nnd A. It. Kv*n*. 1 talked with counsel nlxHit fifteen minute*. The prisoner and hi* brother were at thta tlmcnt»oiit tcu fe< t from me, and a little behind me, iu couver»at!on. proceed i the pr1s< r going passing .... . - . ou said something nh piece of chain. My brother has it: ho will give It to you." The hnriher put hi* hand in htapockct, ami wa* in the act of takiug U out, when I replied 1 tht light he had better consult his counsel, ns they were present. Counsel replied (after I partially explained to them): “Give it to hint" l aicauing me). “1 could put It ui#ra the chain”; which I have never done. Ills brother In giving it to mo raid: "I tuund it upon the tabic at home, and brought it oxer, thinking you mtgbt warn it.” .Sukwqucutly there was found at 120 Broad street Herman Joel, a watchmaker, who had formerly done business at West Point and Cen- trcvillc. Joel knows Cluverius. The officers relied upon Joel to prove that about twelve months ago Cluverius brought that key to him ut i 'ontre\ illcto havo a ucw barrel put into it; that Jccl re members the circumstance and the conversation, and Identified his own work. It was twelve months ago when Clnverius had tho key. Witnesses from King William and King and Quecu counties proved that Cluverius wss wearing that identical key at a comparatively recent period. Now, here comes in a serious contradiction. Hunt, a colored witueas from tho American hotel, was shown the key at the inquest aud said he saw a key "exactly like this” lying on the bureau in Miss Lillian's room at the Amer ican on March the 13th. So tho testimouy is written; so Hunt signed it. But it is was alleged that that writing was not the correct purp*rt and expression of his words and ideas; that ho never meant to say the key he saw was exactly like this. WHERE HE WAS THAT NIGHT. (Timirgou to Richmond aud approaching the Mattaponi river to take a ferry, as they drove down to the water Officer Robin, hap pening to lcok into prisoner's face, saw it ovenpread with a sickening pallor. Aa to where he was on the night of the 13th, the prisoner said: "I was at the dime muse- But prisoner has never yet named a mm who saw him at tho dime museum that night. Another thing that Cluverius raid on hi? wav to Richmond under arrest wa* that he hid been ptisonated; that he would send to Now Yc ik ami Chicago for the very best detective talent and would fathom the mystery of Lil lian'* death and dear himself. He declared that he liked Lillian very well, but that was ail tht rt wa* between them. HANDS CONCEALED. It was a raw day when tho prisoner was brought up from King and Queen. They drove in a double buggy, or drag, and Cluverius kept his hand* under the blanket nearly all the way. Mr. Robles, who sat with him on the back seat while CkpUtn Enps drove, asked hita if he hadn’t brought hi* glovea. Ho sahi that he had bat one pain that they were heavy driving glove* and that he had left them in his nriky at home. Vfon arriving at the Thud stationhouse it was noticed that bis right hand was badly scratched, or rather gouged as if by finger nails. Asked how about that, he said that he had scratched his hand at Centreville. At Ccntreville, at his law office, he told hi* father and others that he scratched his hand by hang ing it in his watch-chain as he boarded the train that morning. . ... . , The trial is still fresli m the public mind, The prisoner maintained his remarkable a»ol- ntfs throughout. The verdict of guilty did not break his composure. An effort was made to obtain a| new trial, but ..the motion was not granted. ■% During the long and weary months pissed in jail waiting for tho execution, Cluverius kept in remarkably good spirit*. Ho read lHs Bible daily and asserted Bis innocence so stoutly that many wire won over bis side. Strong appeals were made to tho governor to commute the sentence to life im-. prisenment, hut w ith tho exception of a brief respite Governor Lee declined to interfere. The condemned man spent his last days In writing a hook containing a history of his lire and a review of the case. It was his desire that the proceeds arising from tho sale of tire work should he given to his aunt, Mrs. Tum- tall, to reimburse her in some measure for tho expenses incurred in his defense. To the last this singular; man preserved his sccict, if he had ono. If he was tho murderer of Lillian Madison he never by word or look gave the slightest indication of his guilt. Innocent, Hut ftlung;ml. % Ottawa, Out., January 13.—For tho six months preceding tho 28th day of September, 1885, there was throughout British Columbia, and indeed throughout the Dominion of Canada, tbe greatest interest felt in the rare of Robert Evan Sproul, then under sentence of death at Victoria, B. C., for murder. It was a cnee of life or death with the accused, and being an American citizen, and that govern ment being im pressed with hia innocence, taking every possible legal action to prevent the hanging of the condemned, tcnde-l to create moro than ordinary interest in each step of the proceedings which were then going ou. Robert Evan Sproul was a miner who had moved to Canada from Kennebec county, Me., in 1880. He was the part owner of one of the richest mines in tho Kootenay district of British Columbia. On tbo 1st day of January, 1885, ono Thomas Ilamme), also a miner, and a part owner of the Sproul claim, was killed, and suspicion pointed to tho accused Sproul as the guilty man. He was arrested and charged with tho offense, bnt stoutljt main tained his innocence, and on his trial, which was had at Victoria. B. C., endeavored to provo an alibi, but failed. After the trial h!s counsel alleged certain irregularities in the binring, among whioh was tho non-descrip tion of the court, but tho provincial supremo court sustained tho decision of the lower court. On tho 3d of May, 1880, on the appli cation of the prisoner’s counsel, an order nisi for a writ of habeas corpus, or, in tho alterna tive, for tbo discharge of tho prisoner, was granted by tho Hon. Mr. Justice Henry, of tho Dominion supreme court, and after delib eration judgment wus pronounced by him di recting the issue of a writ of haboas corpus, dircctul to tho shcrifl’ for Vancouver island, calling upon him to prodimo tho prisoner, to gether with tho cause of his detention. The sheriff refused to obey tho writ, and ou tho 2 i day of August, 1880, an application was made for the discharge of the -prisoner, on the ground that tlio sheriff hod not obeyed the writ. After hearing argument thereon Mr. Justice Henry ordered the unconditional dis charge of tlio prisoner. Five respites were granted tho condemned man by the govern ment, and at Isst he was hanged by ordor of the nrinistcrof justice, who refused to interfere, although urged to do so by Mayor Fell and some flvo hundred residents of Victoria, as well us by the secretary of state of tho United States. After the trial, tho chief witness for tho proeccution, ono Charles Wolfe, m^do an affi davit in due form that the evidence given by him at tho trial, was false, and the American consul at Victoria reported to tho lieutoaant- governor of British Columbia that iiftcr the investigation bo believed the prisoner to bo iu- lioccnt. Notwithstanding tho Order of tho highest court in Cuouda, .Sproul was hanged ou the 28th of September, liu maintained his in nocence on tho gallows. Now a witness whom ho could not procure on his trial has turned up in Sun Francisco, and iu order to satisfy tho relatives of Sproul that ho iru keen hanged for a crime of which ho was iniiccint, Tlclltty trrnwkcf^rq a judge of com petent jurisdiction and made nn affidavit tint he was with Sproul from eight o’clock in tlid evening of the 31st of May, 1885, until half past six of the night following, and, moreover, that they wero at least fifteen miles from tho scene of the crimo. As tho murder was com mitted between these hours, according to tho prosecution, this disposes of the theory that tho accused .Sproul did the deed. This affidavit has been (Hod hero with the secretary of state. Acting on the advicoof Counsel Frank Sproul, a brother of deceased and administrator of his estate, 1ms bogun ac tion against tho province of British Columbia for $50,000 damages on account of tho illegal hanging of the accused. Giro strarge thing in connection with tho affair is that four days before tho execution a friend of tiie prisoner died iu Boston bequeath ing him $100,000, which was not mado anowu to tht* condemned man until lio walked onto the gallows. Ho Wants to Swing. Darien,Ga., January 11.—(Special.]—Cooper, the murderer sentenced to bo hanged on Jan uary 1 ith, was informed today that the gov ernor had reprieved him until February 11th. Hu did not hail the news with joy. He says he docs not like this interference by outside parties, and would prefer to hang on the day first appointed. A Mysterious Lynching. Osyka, Miss., Jnniury 11.—Iko Brumfield, colored, was hanged by an unknown raob Sat urday night. Tiie body was found on Sunday. Tbe negro, it is stated, resided arro&s tho state line in Louisiana, hut w*as brought across the line aud lynched. The cause of tho hanging has not transpired^ flangings in Arkansas. Fort Smith. Ark., January II.—James Lamb, Albert Ihlell and John T. 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