The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-03-22

Mr.. Keys was at home on the night of The murder;
that Fred replied that he knew nothing aboutsit;.
that they (hc Keys )could net have got out their
horses and passed without his knowledge, that
they would have to pass close to his door.
The witness deposed further that he is ON init
[ mate personal friend of Crawford Keys; that he
has net seen Peter Keys since about the llth Oc-
| tober.
March 16, 1864.
r Dickinson, witness for the defense, de-
posed that he saw Warren Howell the morning
after the murder, and asked if he knew any OF
the party that did the murder, and he said he did
not: that his brother Willis asked him in his
presence the same question, to which he replied,
GAS God is my judge did not recognize them;
/ did not know any of the party that done the
murder;n that Howelrs character for veracity is
bad and that he (the witness) would not believe
him on his oath that last Sunday evening he
(withessl saw, at Walhalla, in Government sta
Bile, chestnut sorrel mare, with short name,
branded u S., and with two teeth missing in the
left lower jaw, which was in possession of the SOL
| diers at Browns Ferry the night they were mur-
dered.
Alexander Campbell, witness for the defense,
deposed that on the Sunday Of the murder late'
about O'clock two men came to his house and
went the same evening in the direction of Browns
Ferry; that he did not know who they were; that
| be refused to lot them have liquor The witness
said he refused them liquor because ne thought
them TO be some of the garrison at Anderson; the
gentlemen we're dressed like the soldiers about
Anderson, and ho thought may be some OF them
had come round to take kind of advantage Of
| him. so he refused Them The witness stated
that the two men referred to inquired Of him the
road to- Lowndesyille, and wished to know. how
near it passed to Browns Ferry. The witness
stated that the men said, we the country people)
were fools to suffer them the soldiers of the gar
rison) to stay about; that he did not know the
men; that they went off in the direction Of Lown-
desville that the next morning about daylight,
he met, one mile from his house, two men coming
from the direction of Browns Ferry; that they
were leading horse apiece, with government sad
dies on them; that the men took the road to
Earles Bridge over Seneca River that one OF the
led horses was chestnut sorre mare, the other OF
| bay color; that he came within ten steps OF the
men, but could not identify them as the men who
we're at his house on the previous day; that they
resembled the latter. Witness stated further that
on the 10th October he asked Fred Clark, "What
difficulty is this your master and young master
have got into2s that Fred replied 'I don't know,
and said, "he knowed his master Crawford and his
master Robert was innocent as the child unborn !;
that he gave as his reason for saying so, that
Crawford Keys had called for girl to attend to
| sick child at ten o'clock on Sunday night of the
murder, and that he (Fred) knew that Robert Keys
was q. homo in bed that night. On cross-exam-
ination, the witness said that the two men, when
they left home, went in the direction of Alley
house; that he never heard Of wagon being
missed at the time of the murder in his neighbor-
| hood that he first spoke of his knowledge OF the
color of the horses to Mr. Alley on his way to the
trial; that Fred certainly mentioned Robert Keys
as having been at home on the night Of the mur-
der; that Fred exhibited no unwillingness to speak
| on the subject.
The Commission adjourned to meet on Monday
the 10Th inst.