Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-30
CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE.



The Court, composed Of 'Squirss Grif-
eth and Hill, convened yesterday morn
ing at hslf.past nine O'Clock, but owing
70 the absence Of Mr. Patterson, who
was detained by bad r0sds, adjourned
till hslf-past one, st which time, having
organized, Col. CAN'T announced to the
Court that g witness, j. r. Clarke,
wished to make q correction ia his testi-
mony rendered Saturday.
Mi. Clarke having taken the stand,
said /: 81 said it was the Thursday or
Friday previous to the time l saw them
at the saloon r. week bsfcre the murder)
l cav the two Humphreys, n Of whom
was a witness the other day, Green Wiz
son and Thompson, ut b. L1wenstein's,
corner on Jefferson aud Main streets,
standing 3 little off the sidewalk
talking. Yesterday, Sunday while
reading my testimony, as published in
the papers, when the steamer Caldwell
came in, and it struck me that 1 had
made a mistake in the time. l recol-
lected that the party who was with me
went away on the Caldwell a Gay or two
after. 1 went down to the steamer and
examined the register, and found that /
had made q mistake of a week. The
Caldwell went cut ON Saturday, the Goth.
l. must have besu on the Thursday pre-
v.ous, OF the 18th, that l met the two
Humphreys, Wilson and Thompson, or
The day before the murder.
Col. CAN'T then stated that the matter
before the Court was the introduction Of
he paper which had been shown the
Court on Saturday as testimony.
Col. Hsllum objected TO it's being offer
ed, read or used SIS testimony in any way,
and the argument As TO the prOprlety of
fra adnnfEGTnn nnpnaH and Vvua nnrfini-
psted in by Gen. Wallace, Col. HAllum,
for the defense, and Col. Sale and Col.
CAN'T for the. prosecui ion. Gen. Wal
lace wss to have closed the argument,
but becoming hOsTss, and it growing
late, the Court adjourned until this
morning at nine O'Clock. During the
argument the document was read, and is
as follows:
Il, Green Wilson, Of Shelby
county, Tennessee, hereby certify that
r H. Thompson made q proposition to
me to kill Thomas Dickens. He said l
should have five thousand dollars if 1
would do it. Thompson said the
money was at Mr.. Apperson's, in
Memphis, and that it was
put there for that purpose. He
did not say directly who put it there,
but gave me to understand that Thomas
Dickens WEE to be killed for the benefit Of
Wade H. Bolton. Thompson said that
Bolton had said to him that Dickens WAS
bound to die. He made this proposition
mora than once, and got nee to go to see
Z. G. Patterson, TO confirm the trade.
insisted that l should divide
the money l gOs for having Dickens
and he would divide the money
he got from Patterson, for taking deposi-
tions in Missouri, With me. | met Z. C..
Patterson and r. H. Thompson in Mem
phis, agreeable to appointment that |
had made with Thompson. Patterson
took me and ThOmpJon to a saloon and
Us, and thsn asked me whether
Thompson had told me what was
wanted; / told him he had, and he asked
me if he could trust me nr not; l told
be could. He then told noe what
Thompson had said would be all
right. Thompson told me st that
time and in presence OF Patterson,
there was bushels Of money in il,
md that the money. was not to be made
1Ut vas already made, and asked Whist
need we ease go we get the money! A
short while sf.er this, Ia October, 1865, |
net Patterson ia Memphis, and he asked
what / would take to knock old
nan Dickens chunk QUIT for me TO say
much, and he would pay me down,
money 10 hand.
al wss sick about thss time, and told
him that We had better talk abeat that
Il some other time.
al wGs staying at Dickens when two
attempts were made TO as5sssin2te him.
They we're previous TO any proposition
rom Thompson or Patterson 10 me. I
bought ! would wait for farther devel-
,pmeBts, and at the proper time disclose
be facts ana expose theo1.
"(Signed) GRE N WILSON"
Sworn to ard subscribed before me,
February, Is, 1859.
(-igned) NJ. D.. L. STEWART, Clerk.
The Gem Saloon, or Madison street,
vas broken into on Sunday night, but
he Iobher wss disturbed and fsiled TO
-st of witE any plumber.
John Kennedy, the murderer Of
yrowley, had not been arrested up to
O'Clock last night.