Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-01
CRImINAL IxTELLIGENCE.



The Court, consisting Of 'Squires Grit.
fth and Hill, convened at nine ana q
bRlf O'clock, and the examination o.
witnesses for the State was continued
W. B. O'BdnnOn sWOTn. -"I live ia
| Shelby county have lived there nearly
thirty years 1 was born here; live sbou.
four miles from PSttefs0n's. 1 known
John and Zach Curlln."
Qqes. by Col. Gannt.-" Did you ever
have any conversation with John OF
Z2ch Curtin >"
Ok5seted. 20, and the objection sustained
by toe Court deciding that no CONVERSE
ion between the witness and the Curlins
in relation to Patterson could be
sdnlNted as testimony, unless Patterson
were present at the time that it was held.
Col Gannt, while acqGiesoiDg In the de-
cision Of the Court, remarked that be
could prove by this witness hat John
snd Zach Curtin had both told him wit
nees) that Patterson had offered both OF
them money to kill old man Dickens.
R~e.direct-"I never heard Patterson
say anything shout the affair, nor hesrd
either Of the Curiins say anything about
it in the presence Of Patterson"
Manuel Pope (coIOTed) sWOrn.-" live
at Nj. Thomas Dickens. Have lived
there about three years since the war,
bus l was raised 10y him.. L knew Green
Wilson. Know that he is now dead.
He came TO bis death by being killed by
somebody. Isaw him after be wSs dead.
he was shet in the eye, One in the
bowels and once in the left arm,
which was broke. He was
stabbed thIes times, in the right
breast, once against the nipple. knew
Nancy she Is now dead. L saw her
after she was dead helped pick her up.
Don't rec0lleeJ how long ago this hap
pened, but il was since Christmas. She
laid there Two hours after she was killed
before che was picked up. 1 lived In
an adjoining los, some three or four
hundred yards fcom the house. L was
at home when the shooting commenced.
Got frightened when l heard Nancy
boiler. Nancy hOlleTed Lord have
mercy on me. They are going 10 kill
me- This scared my wife, and she
begged me to take her away. I took her
to Prior's-a quarter of 8 mile of. As /
came back by jones' I met Mass. Tom
(DickeDs), al bloody. / wss scared by
him. He asked il that was me, and told
me to come TO him. 1 was afraid to go
tA-him, bur he called to me aud told me
To 90 with him to Mr.. Jones', aud then
to 20 to Wickham's and PriOr's, and let
them know they we're trying to kin him.
l went, and they came with me, sad
when we got to the house Prior stepped
in and told me to make up a Ere. l
started 20 60 in and stepped on MI.
Green Wilson, who was lying in the
door. 1 got scared and said, here's Mr..
Wilson, dead. sure enough 1 went in,
though, and made up q fire. We found
Nancy neal the stable, fst on her back,
with her clothes up. She was wounded
In the head one bali went into the fore
head and passed between the skin and
the skull, aud came cut. The other
went into the burr of the ear, and did not
come out. I hsve lived at Dickens
nearly three years, and eta eogpis ant Of
two other attempts to kill Thomas Dick
ms made last summer. OBJECTED 60,
but the objection o%verruled.l DON'T re-
member toe time last summsF. Was a.
home, and heard shooting over at the
house. l had a gun az my house, andtMr
Wilson ran over to borrow if. H sad
somebody had shot ct them, (Mr. Dick
ems fed WilsOn.) He took the guR, aud
I WIT with him to the house. We
watched all night. They did not come
back, but We heard Two more shots fred
towards the branch, and two keen wbis-
S~a&z%a1sid out all night. DON'T know
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