Lunenburg Case
August 22, 1896
Summary
The new dates for the Lunenburg trials are set.
Transcription
The Circuit Court, Judge Samuel F. Coleman presiding will meet Tuesday, September 31st at Farmville, Va., and there will decide upon a day to hear argument upon the motion for a new trial in Mary Abernathy's case. It will be a question of life or death with her, so to speak.
Hon. George D. Wise, ex-Judge H. W. Flournoy and Capt. A. B. Guigon will appear in Aunt Mary's behalf and that her interest will he well protected admits of no question.
She has stood the hot weather remarkably well. Mrs. Clements, of Lynchburg has been employed to take the baby out during the dreary hours of her incarceration and the little one has thrived.
It is now conceded by white and colored that Mary Abernathy is innocent. And yet the machinery of- the law must be put in motion and the evils unwound before she can walk forth a free woman. Her counsel are thoroughly imbued with the justness of the task and have bent every energy to secure her release. Pokey Barnes is here living in retirement She is another woman and lives happily at her new home. She passes along the street and is seldom recognized. It is all life with her.
Mary Barnes is working away within the gloomy confines of the penitentiary, patiently awaiting the time when the Governor's pardoning power will be invoked in her behalf and she set free. It has been a long, dreary struggle. The dawn is at hand we trust.
Hon. George D. Wise, ex-Judge H. W. Flournoy and Capt. A. B. Guigon will appear in Aunt Mary's behalf and that her interest will he well protected admits of no question.
She has stood the hot weather remarkably well. Mrs. Clements, of Lynchburg has been employed to take the baby out during the dreary hours of her incarceration and the little one has thrived.
It is now conceded by white and colored that Mary Abernathy is innocent. And yet the machinery of- the law must be put in motion and the evils unwound before she can walk forth a free woman. Her counsel are thoroughly imbued with the justness of the task and have bent every energy to secure her release. Pokey Barnes is here living in retirement She is another woman and lives happily at her new home. She passes along the street and is seldom recognized. It is all life with her.
Mary Barnes is working away within the gloomy confines of the penitentiary, patiently awaiting the time when the Governor's pardoning power will be invoked in her behalf and she set free. It has been a long, dreary struggle. The dawn is at hand we trust.
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Upper Right Quadrant
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Liam Eynan
Citation
“Lunenburg Case,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed August 13, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1649.