The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-02-15

stopped at my fathers to see how q sick child
was; they then got head of me; Il did not recog-
nize thu. men. They took the Shallow Ford road,
and i. saw them no more. When T. heard of the
murder, enquired ofrmy neighbors down the road
if any person had staid all night inthe neighbor7
hood, out could not hear of any one The men who
called at my house on Sunday evening rode Gov
ernment saddles
John B. P. Alley was next called, and deposed:
On Monday between'12 and 2 o'clock, was
standing at my we'll ut the corner of my enclosure
aad some men came up and said sold man, 4 want
to get bushel of. corn from you." turned and
looked at them, and recognized one. of them as
being at my house on Friday said to him you
aint out of this country yet-yOu cant get bushei
Of corn from mc-any man that robbed me last
May. He replied in these words, "God damn you,
We killed three last night, and we will kill you,
and he put his hand to his holster to draw his pis-
tol / had three or four large trees behind my WELL
and jumped behind one of them; while behind
the three heard word'of some ones voice, "Bill
hurry on they are after us; as they moved along
moved slowly around the tree to get out Of their
sight; while they were going, saw in their wagon
two cavalry saddles. The horses in the wagon
one was black mare, the ether was q large dark
bay horse; the other that / recognized, that was
OF my house, was riding small chestnut sorrel
mare. They then went on the Knoxville road
Knox Bridge road recognized the man driving
the wagon, Us one who had been ut my house the
Friday previous. I am; well acquainted with
Crawford Keys; Mr.. Stowers l. have never seen
to my knowledge, before / came down here; don't
know Byrum: don't know Peter or Robert /
will swear that Stowers was not there; that Craw-
ford Keys was not in that party. The Keys that
was on Post guard ut And ,rson, was not there;
am wellacquainted With him. ie.. -.,f ss'
Adjutant Johnson, of the First Maine Battalion,
was introduced by the Judge Adyocase as the first
witness in reply; being sworn, .deposed:
I was sent to arrest F. G. Showers; finding he
had gone down the river, I pursued on down the
South Carolina bank of the river, with a'sergeant
and four men with me- halted at Dooleys' Ferry,
but saw nothing of the boat "a saw man lsup-
posed to be the ferryman, and asked him. if any
cotton boat had passed during the day, he said if
there had he had not seen it. then left the ferry,
and started for Stinson's Ferry, some FIVE miles
below which We reached about a o'clock II looked
across and saw o cotton boat on thcGeorgia shore;
upon asking 1 was told that it was Stowcrs' boat,
but the cotton was all right, Showers was not al
the boat; l sent one negro to the house to tell
Showers to come down. waited some Is minutes,
and sent another to tell Showers that he was want
cd; waited some time for their return looked
about for boatto cross in, found one, but it was
in such, condition that it was unseryiceable. Af-
ter waiting, perhaps, half bour. ,saw white man
come down from the house, but .lcarnedit was not
Showers; waited to see what events would trans
pire; waited some twenty five minutes longer,
house !; the two white men (the last one who came
down, supposed to be Stowers,) then held short
conversation, and the whole party wenton the boat
unhitched her and, swung her head towards the
Carolina shore; when the boat got to the middle
OF the stream, she was headed down the river, and
all the parties white and black, seized poles, and
commenced showing The boat down the river
had my reasons for not interrupting themi Iwatch-
ed them until tho boat was out Of sight, all this
time myself and men were near the bank; the
bank was about twelve feet above the waters level
They could have. seen US from the cotton boat if
they had looked towards us. After the boat turned
down the river, could not see the faces of the
men !; neither of tie white men looked towardsthe
Carolina shore The Indians were oil in their
cabin; no conversation took place between the
party in the cotton boat and the Indians. The
motion of the boat was rapid wien it turned down
the river. Efforts have been made TO arrest Peter
Keys but unsuccessful; it is not known where heis.
Sergeant Elijah S. Kelly, was next examined,
and his istestimony Mas.substantiully the same as
Adjutant Johnsons. ,as
Wm. P Brown, was next examined:
On Saturday night, before the murder, inst after
dark, the soldiers gave Edmond dollar to get
them some whiskey Edmond told me, I don't
actly remember when, but since the m,irder that
he could notget the liquor for the soldiers
FRrpxY, February 9. :.
Cesar, colored man, vas next introduced by
the prosecution, and being sworn, deposed:
Formerly belonged to stovers am q years old.
was ut home on the night Of, the murder at the
Ferry my house is forty or fifty yards from Stow
ers'. Squire, his wife Rosa (my daughter) and
their children i've in the same house with me.
saw stowers in the early part of the night he was
sitting in the. piazza, talking with another man;
did not know the other man. Squire was at home
that night about e,sl9sk, sa and went off again
about that time, and did not see him again until
mid night. 1 saw Squire on Monday after the
murder. was in the yard; he come up and say,
de boss tell him, for tell if de yankees cum af
ter he was gone, dat he Squire crim home ut mid
night, and .heerd dis alarm, apd cum 10 de house
to git sum brandy for me Cesar then that he
(stowers) was dar; and says, can't do it, be-
cause when he is gone, if de yankees Gums aad