Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-26
CREaINAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Patterson Case.

/ son, charged Win oHtfiE acct SOY 10 tAS
murder Of Green Wilson and Nancy
| Dickens, at Big Greek, some six weeks
/ ago. assembled Yesterday morning, al
/ hall uast nine O'Clock, at the office Of
| IS0uire Griffith. The crowd ia attend
ance being large, and ~momentsrily in-
| ereasing, the Court adjourned TO the Cir
cult courtroom. Here, after reOrganiZ.
| ing, the fret witness for the prosecution
! Robert Humphreys, was called. MC,
/ Humphreys testimony, direct, aud un'
| der cross examination, is very volumin-
Gus aud consumed the entire day. He
it will be recoilected by our readers, was
the party who was wounded by the first
IRE of the murderers, and, along with
! Col. Tom Dickens, sfterward made hi;
/ escape. On account OF the length OF his
| testimony we sTe only able TO give a por-
/ ton Of it, BIS statement OF how the at
fair happened is IS follows:
CT was at Dickens the night OF the
tragedy. We were at supper it was
| early in the night sad the moon was
shining. There were at the table besides
I myself, Mr.. Dickens snc Green Wilson.
| The cOIorsd woman, Nancy was wait
ing on US. Somebody knocked st the
door, and 1 asked who Is there The
! answer was, 'Ips HWil.iRms.' l opened
I LA6 uUGE hAu Ab AAtAs - wv POI
sons. one of whom I had seen before that
time. His shot struck me and l fell Into
| The corner of the room. About twelve
shots were then fired. Both came into
the door. [ was wounded and Dickens
was the same, in the eye and Ia the
arms. Mr.. Wilson and the negro wO-
man were shot and both kllisd. The
lights were put out about thesecond shot.
L went out the font door. They shot
two or three times after I escaped. !
never hesrd q word sp0ks after the FIRST
| answer ('IJs Williams,') The
wOmsB was in the house when IA hr-
ing began.
l went over to Mr.. Prior's snd told him
what mad happened. l got
3 good view OF the man in front of me.
He was the tsllest Of the two. l had
seen him before in t0wn-tTlce that 1
know Of. 1 did not see him in the
| Chancery Court Room. The fret time
hat 1 saw him was with Mr.. Thomp-
son. The second time he was at Low
s~nstein's, with Patterson, several days
before the shooting. He was q stranger
10 me. I never heard mis- name, aud
have never seen either Of the two since.
/ They had pistols. 1 saw another man
with Patterson, q stranger he was a
low, chunky man, fair skin and black
hair. The tail man had on q coat-dark-
looking-and q brown felt has. =
I saw the chunky msn at
the keno room twice with Patterson.
Patterson stakcd him n night. When
be started to so be called Patterson and
said, "Lets 20 10 tine Commercial Ho-
tel" Patterson gave him fifteen dollars
and said, " This will do to buy the tricks
with tomorrow" . a Wade Boi-
on was there playing against the gama.
l saw the chunky man at the Connect
ciaI with Thompson, . Have
seen neither the tall Or short man since
the shooting took place. Have
known Thompson about eight raonths.
Saw him and Patterson together one
evening d few days before the shooting.
[ live about three miles from Patter-
sons. I have seen Thompson at Patter-
sons, but never saw either Of the Two
men, tall or short, with him in the
country. have not seen Thompson since
the shooting.
Cross e1Gmbled, by dJenddpgs c0uR-
sci: At the time OF the tragedy l WAS
living al Ga man Dickens'-had bssn
there nearly q year. l did nothing.
Formerly lived st john 3 sit0u's, but I
left there Christmas, 1867. 1 am not
able to work. l could not get good
wages for over year. my price was
twenty dollars per month. l did nothing
while at Mr.. Dickens he was willing
to support me without my working. /
did nothing at all while at Dickens. 1
paid money 70 : negro woman named
Maria Wayne for washing.
Since killing ! have lived atDr- Dickens
Didn't pay him any board. . =
DIDN'T know the M Of the two men
who did the shooting, but I had seen one
az them IL t0wn. = / dOnltreUOi-
4. ieet what I told the Coroner. Don't
~reeOlleet whether 1 tod him that I
( would recognize either OF the two men
or not. I told him I would
know one Of them. 1 have
bsen taking 8 great deal OF morphine,
> . @ l was about q foot from the
paTty shooting when the shooting Jpok
place. I stated 10 hr. Dickens that at
the time I gave testimony before
the Coroner 1 Has Bndsr the iD6usnce OF
morphine. That wgs at Me-. Dickens
house. I told Mr., Dickens some things
that 1 did not tell the Coroner. DON'T
recOilect what they were. l got the
morphine from Bellfeid Prior. l did
not Day for it. DOa't recUileo5 Dow much
morphine I TOOK. didn't tell The COr0-
OEE AU4A q All Ab5 ALbH A4D DAAaCAN "a
and could not know or identity them if l
were to see them again. ]
walked into Memphis the Sunday after
the shooting. I was cautioned not to
talk 10 everybody about The matter by
Mr.. Tom Dickens and Mr. John g. Boil
ton, This Was st Mr.. PfiOr's house.
[ told my uncle, Mr. Hodges, that /
was SO frightened 1t the time nat ! did
not know Woo il Ess that did the shoot
ing. IEcd about it. l didn't tell him
the truth because I did not want 10 be
telling everybody about if. L know
Conner but I did not go with him to ar
rest Patterson. I never tslked to MI.
Dickens about this case. l told DR..
Dickens about the morphine. |
went with Thompson to Bolton's onca,
befera the killing, = = i hunted some
/ with Dickens gun. The time We went
to Bolt0n'a Thompson stayed about an
hour. 1 dIdD't tell Mr.. ThOmp-
son that some men were cut in the
swamp laying 70 Kill him. Nobody
came to Bottoms after Thompson LETT,
Bolton told him something which l did
not understand. The night that I saw
them in the Keno room l was
about the same distance rom Bolton and
Thompson as from the strangers. L did
= LANMELakA44 y LAA kAAg AaNA@= 4AAaH@n 49,
1 not hear Bolton cay that there were
| five or six guns, and that he (Tbomp'
SON could defend himselfH was
a private in tina Twelfth Tennessee Rogi-
ment, in 1858 was in Raleigh ia 1866,
boarding with M0ncrief. I didn't pay
him anything L got my bOsrd Tor
nothing. l don't know how. / 1eUe7
did pay any board IN my life. MoncrieI
was the county jalier. he wss my land
lord. 1t was reported that L had done
something for Moncrief. A al named
Harris boarded there. He was accused
Of murder-sO wss II
R-e-eJ0ntRed 6y the Ante.-"I vas &C
Quilted o; the charge. [ sfterwsrd stayed
At Mr.. Pattersonis sometimes. l was
examined BY the Coroner while ia bed.
Was told by Tom and Sam Dickens not
to say anything about it. / nave made
a truthful statement OF what took place
the night OF he tragedy. Hodges wat
riding PattersGn's horse at the Zine be
asked me about the murder. L told him
a lie, thinking it good enough for him,
At this point the Court adjourned
until nine O'Clock this morning. Mean
while the most intense interest in mani
1 tested in the affsir, and We look forward
to the Developments with great curl
osity."
There were thirteen arrests In tbs
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