Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-02

VIA AAAS kRL@lA VI 1850 a.
streets. He was with Joe Andrews and
three or four other men. L halted as l
got to them, and Joe Andrews intro
duced me to the crowd, among them
Green Wilson. l left them, and meeting
Joe Andrews an hour after SFard,I Rskef
him what he introduced that mar to nee
for, as 1 did not want to know him ex-
cept by sight"
Q.-"Are you acquainted with the
general charscoer o. PattshsOn for peace
and Guietude?n
A.-"Ism. Is Is good" o
Cross eGamined By The Stdte.-"I live
eight or nine miles from Thss. Dickens2.
1 have not passed his house since sixty
Fix. Have not been there since khst.
Christmas. Sam. Dickens was th6fe
then-nOt Tom" o. Are you on
friendly terms with fhos. Dickens %
Al don't know anything to the con-
traTy." o. Are you or are you not
friendly to him?" Al have moth
irg against his person; 1 don't like his
ways" Q-"Have you been on speak
ing terms with him for the past twelve
months ?n (Objected to by defendant,
but objection overruied. IT have not
spoken TO him for that length Of time,
Tor 1 haven't seen him. Mr.. Tom. Dick
ems and some one else same to my house
in '67 and got dinner. That vas be-
fore the commencement OF The having"
O. Did you NOT say as late as jan
uary, 1859, or December '6S, that you
would give ten thousand dollars to know
that old man Dickens was dead and in
he'll? Did you not say this to the two
Humphreys. st your own house?n
A.-"Nol and whoever sE7ears so per-
lures himself. l live twelve miles from
Patterson. Was at his party. Think
that while there Patterson or Thompson
introduced me to q stranger named In
man. That was the first time l saw
him /; ssw him one5 or twice afterwards
At Davis tavern, always in o crowd.
Thompson is now in Arkansas, at Old
town, Randolph county, living there.
He lef hera two or three weeks ago,
lust after the shooting. He was wound
ed and lay On his back at Davis for sons
time, but was moved cut to Patterson's
TO gave expense. He came to Memphis
last March, g year ago. He remained at
Tom Dickens q part Of the sime, when
he first came. He came to my house,
but never stopped,there over night until
long afterwards He went to Kentucky
last pmmer tortRke dispositions for Mrs.
Sarah II. Bolton, in her suit against w
L. White. He Is tia same Thompson as
was here il fittyEsjght in the Bolton
trial. He was in Kentucky a month or
| six weeks. When he returned Patterson
employed him to go to Missouri to take
| depostions. tQ.-by GEN. Sale He il
| an expert at deposition tRkingT Al
don't know that he is.O 1 never saw
Inman before that time ct PatteTsOn'5.
Saw him once or twice since. l don't
| know Of his having been employed By.
Patterson. 1 have stopped st Davis<
tavern since the war, when l came.
in town. [ went to keno rooms
With Patterson. Never played ksnQi
with him that I know OF. New
or knew Morgan. Never played
keno at table with Patterson Inmsn and
MorgaR. Could not have played at table
with them without knowing 1t. N
might have been ST the same table, or he
might not l paid no attention as to who
was there. Wilson lived ut Dickens
twelve or eighteen months; l saw him
twice to know him, once by sisht, and
the other time 7 was introduced"
O By Gen. Ssle.-"How did you know
him by sight if you never had seen him
before, and were never Introduced
A.-"Bob Thompson and l We're walk
i~ngtogether, IA he and the two Hum
phreys NesS9fAntha other eide of the
street.. and be5 ssfed Bob. After they
vent. Bob told me that he was Wilson.
The next time was on the
corner OF Jefferson and Main
| Joe Andrews introduced US, and when |
| net him {Andrews) after ward l asked
him Ehst he introduced me to that VII
son for, when hs had heard me say q
hundred times that& did hos giant to
know him.
Question by Gen. Sale" Why did
you not want to know him so bad
Ar told Andrews that Wilson
would hear ms say one thing, and make
out thstCF1ssid another. 1 know old
Tom Dickens tricks, and shun ali men
staying st his house. l thought he
WILSON, was at Dickens with Interior
dssigps."
Q 9estion by Gen. Sale" Did you not
say yea were friendly with Dickens ?"
Al said 1 had nothing against his
Question by same.=tDid not some
body attempt to s~ssassinate you last
summer"
"Tnere vas a gun.shOt at me. Can't
say who did it.n
Question by same. -" Did you
not have this done yourself, as q
counter-irritant to the attempt on Dick
ems ?" 4. "Eo, sir, It was dark. The
shot was close to me. Whoever shot ran
away quickly after shooting through the
rose bushes. 1 am certain that l did not
have it done myself. l carry saddle
bags not OF the biggest kind. Don't
remember seeing any saddle bags at Ap-
usrsonIs. Have known Mitchell several
years. Patterson carried ~sRddlaOags.
Was at Appsrson's on the IS b Of Feb
ruary. Mitchell VS. there, vent sway,
! and ogme back again. Patterson only
stayed a few minEtes. Don't know what
he came for. He went to tAe post
WhsEs the coats hang. The ssadlepsgs
at Appsrson's generally lie under the
tables or desks. ! did not ssy to Patter-
son, 'Ycu have got more ssadle0sgs
than your share Didn't make any
suca remark
At this point Mr.. Drake arrived
with the checks. Among them
EG-n. Sale picked out tw1 for future
reference-ona = check dsted February
18Th, for 5000, payable to self signed w.
b. Bolton, and the other was for 800,
dated March 2, '69, payable to Z. @. Pat
terEon, and accompanied by a note for
1915 IS, at ninety days, made by II. Q.
Patterson, payable to the order OF W. h.
Bolton. This done, the examination Of
hIr. Bolton continued
al saw Iaman at Davis, but never
spoke four words to him in my life. l
never saw him except at Davis tavern,
the keno rooms, and Patterson's. said
| didn't know Morgan, ! was with Pat
terson and Thompson at Davis, on the
18th. 1 did not have q private CONVEX
sation with Thompson, Patterson and
| Andrews, near Frank Casks, on the
1871. May have spoken to them. May
have seen Mr. Dickens pass as. l saw
him several times that day. Don't re-
/ collect having conyersed with those
parties since the arst of January. Can't
recolIect ali my conversations, stayed
a. Frank Cas- ps the night Of the 18th.
Patterson went home that night-st
least he started there. ! went home
Sunday evening on the train. l don't
know Ben Capers. II he is the deputy
Sheriff he served s bill on me on Friday
not on Saturday in Apperson's ONCE. L
am sure it was Friday that 1t was
served,n @. by Gen. Sale" How ?n
Ale was q bad hand to read, and l
showed it to Cash. He told me that
Mr.. Drake, at hh office, could read any
hand, so 1 went to him." Gen. Sale.-
"But that does not fix the date" Wit