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

rosd, and looked like she Vas eSS
my house. After l heard N~sneyEereGm,
I heard somebody say, Hat! God
damn you , and a pistol sbo'. Toe pis-
toi shot sounded dumb (mufh ed Ike it
was fred Down a veil, heard the st
shot before l broke. This was in the
summer, but l can't remember what
part Of the summef.h
I'm. james (DHite) stpoTB -(Hs had
been In The Court room, and had beard
/ most Of the testimony. The State signi-
fed its Willingness to dispense with his
stinony, cur the defense made DO oh
@Iop, apd be was sworn.) 81 heard
Jec' r6Hpg thRt night. L was AZ home,
the ST al p Miis sway. Igot there
ABOUT NSgFs, moEe OF less. There
SONS lhIee U~eFttes there before me.
na 6a Peea % G,r csrrv Ssncy into the house
over the body of u se9 Niso r ~ S =
was shot ia the head, e.o tjl,es
ear. Wilson was shot tSOor haSsiS
l think in the eye, breast 49,
Some one said his arm was. blSa /.
Dickens had 2 cash cut GU his right eyNH
nal OF the brow was gone. Enefe was
one or two seats on his arm also, Ehu
phreys wss not there when / came }
helped bury Wilson,"
Cross Examined by D9ense-Ihe
wound over the eye wRs from z stolsht6
I never saw s man run against tue cor
ner of the house, or o dOor-Jamos 4
Hind man might do it. Have seen
horses with the blind staggers Tua
1 against q fence. Never saw 3 mar u
over a house. I didn't see the wounds
on Tom Dickens arm Inflicted, conse-
duently can't swear how they were
4 made. They looked like ordinary bruises
the skin was broken. They were
ske1ped ont, not cut in. ] saw a bullet
| hole in his Tom Dickens coat. IL YVES
a sack coat of q brownish color, ] think.
1t was q net coat, as near az can ts-
collect. Here followed q right shafP
sDsrri0p match bstgeen the witness and
| Col HEilum. as to what constituted q net
coat. which created considerable diver-
tisemsnt, ard which seemed 70 touch
| witness temper l saw the wounds = =
night, and the next day, and dressed
them"
The Court took q recess Of sbCut three
quarters OF an hcur, aRd on Fe-assen
/ ding Mr.. J. w. Graham assistant
/ money clerk Of the SOu'h9rn Express
| COMPANY, was called 10 IA stand. lie
| testified AZ follows:
~ am assistant money clerk at The
/ EtuLuEAA HaIlCl9
Have been there four months. l have
means OF knowing OF all sums Of money
which have arrived in this city by ex-
press during that time. All money
packages pass through my hsnds. L
was al the Office on the 18Th, 18th and
IS h OF February"
Question 6y C0l. G1nH-"Did any
I n>Gney come by express ahouE those
| dstes or st eng other time during the
,nontbs ~ January Rnd February, foi
Inmsn or MorgsG. II so, when vas it.
and how much ?"
Witness.-'I cannot ans yer Tor the
months Of January aud Februsry, OF
cause l have not examined, but between
the dates OF the 10Th and 1911 Of Febru-
ary.no money came for either OF the two
named persons. / would have known Il
if there had been any. All money passes
through my hands"
Col. CAN'T then requested the witness
to examine back to the the third OF Feb
ruary. The books being at the express
Office, witness was dismissed to so and
procure them.
Col. CAN'T then proposed to ot-r, ana
REQUESTED the Court to consider as offered
"a testimony, upon the admis5ibility OF
which The Court was to decide here
after, o letter fled ia ChanceTy by
Mrs, Washington Bolton, against
Thomss DICKENS, Wade H. Boil
ton, r. @. Patterson AMI others, also
various other s its and 0ills fled in the
/ Chancery aud Circuit Courts. Objection
was made, but argument was postponed
until a future time. q
Capt. p. 8. Sim0uds and Sergt. John
Browne, Of the Metropolitan Police,
.lsworn, and Ssrgt. Browne called to the
stand /:
az belong to the Metropolitan Police
force. During last August a negro boy
or man named GsOrge Washington was
arrested about daybresk for night prswl'
inc. He had a sack Of onions or gar
Iiek. and e pot, when he was arrested
He wss taken TO the s~tationhonse and
licked up. but was not tried that morn.
ing. During the dsy he sent an old ne
oro (who was also o prisoner, but nol
eogAned,) to nae 70 ask II / would take q
double- barreled shot gun as q forfeit foi
bis appearance. ! said yes, Ii the guu
vas eocd, and sept down to the pleasui'
GARDEN, where be ssid the gun wss, g
sat II. When it was brought up dix
not like rs looks, and would not take !
-. E.r-off but ksDt him q the RuI