Excerpt from Report of the Trial of James Thomas Dejarnette, for Homicide, 1881: With an Appendix
The leading facts of the homicide were fully proved and admitted.
The prisoner, while at Brown Summit, on duty as agent of that station of the Richmond and Danville R. R.. had received a letter from his greatly beloved sister, informing him that she was in Blonde Hall, and urging him to come and take her away, she had been there about ten days. In twenty images he was on his way by rail to the spot, 30 miles distant; on reaching Danville, lie repaired to the house, entered her room, and instantly fired upon her, five successive shots. She had greeted him, and gone into the room with him.
The testimony for the prosecution contains the following, which is briefly condensed:
W. A. Watson: "Was a member of the police at the time of the shooting. Mr. Cox and I were on duty that night." (The witness described hearing five shots, locating the sound at Blonde Hall, and entering.) "Went to the door, on landing above, found it locked inside, and ordered the parties to open it. Some one replied that it would only be opened to an officer." (On being assured that they were officers, Dejarnette said that the key was lost and they would have to break the door open.)
"I failed to state that when we first demanded admittance Dejarnette said he had three balls left for any one who would conic in. When I opened the door he was standing in front, five or six feet of it, a pistol in his right hand, which hung by his side."
"I asked him what ho had done, said lie had shot his sister and his neck was then ready for the State of North Carolina. I told him then that we would have to take him and lock him up. He begged to let him remain until the doctor came, for whom we had already sent a messenger. We let him remain until Dr. Hoyt came.
"He asked Dr. Hoyt to do all he could for her, and, I think, said he would see him paid. After we had started his sister asked him to kiss her. He leaned over on the bed, and, I think, she put her arms around his neck, and one of them remarked that it was "the kiss of death.' We then left with him, not before he remarked to her that he was sorry to see her suffer so much, that he wanted to kill her outright.
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