Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-09

70 nufJ yol. lie SAID, -" N 1aL 10 you
want9n We want 10 see that
girl you've got IN there" Hem
bry said, SWAT till / call Marse PINK
Hembry kept ealing for Marse Pink. /
asked him If anybody had answered. he
said he thought he heard somebody holler
Then heard a gun Gre, and saw the
sparks. Julia bad got in the bed with me.
When the gun bred, Julia was BY my side.
L heard her say, "Lord, mammy" and then
she eased herself down on the bed. j asked
her if she was huTt, and when she did not
answer, asked her again. She never said
a word and felt Of her and thought that
she was dead OF had tainted. She was shot
in the breast. Julia never said anything
to me after she got in my bed except TO
say, .MamTny, what do yOu reckon they
want27 After the gun fred and / felt Of
her aud couldn'G feel any pulse, hohered
to Hembry 10 come doWn-thaf they had
killed my child in my arms.
rlsr ELI GREEN.
/ live about nine miles from Lebanon,
between four and FIVE miles from Z. p.
loves, and about mile from Andrew
Lyons. live about a mile and half
east of the Hartsyille Pike. Pat Lyon
has been living on my place this year, Tais-
y
with me, using mule Of mine, about three
years old. He was in the hasit, when he
went OF, Of riding another mule Of mine,
about two years old, and sometimes filly.
On Friday, August 21st, Pat Lyon left
my house about 3 o'clock p, NJ do not
know what he rode. I next saw him after
breakfast Saturday morning. BE went OF
again SATURDAY. / Do not know whether or
not he was al my bouse Saturday night.
When got back home Sunday, he was not
at home. He got back Monday morning.
l know be was not at my house on Friday
night He had said that he was going 70
Andrew LyOnis, one night that week, to sit
up with a sick child, and / had told him 10
20 Friday night, because wanted him TO
be at home Saturday night. As | was not
at home when he left, haFe no positive
knowledge as to where he went.
CrOSs-exdBiHed-I have known Pat
Lyon nearly two years. He has borne du-
ring that time good character for peace
and order BE Is a cousin Of Andrew
Lyon, and was in the habit Of visiting his
house. Andrew Lyon had sick child At
the time julia Hayden was killed.
MRS. LYON.
am the Tife Of Andrew Lyon. Was al
home on Friday night, Aug. q. Pat Lyon
and Bowen Sanders came to my house
about 9 o'clock that night. had not seen
either OF them that day before that time.
Sanders, think. was riding n sOrrel mare.
Lyon was riding bay iIly, think. Lyon
STAYED at my house TIL 8 O'Clock Saturday
morning. Andrew Seagrayes was at my
house SATURDAY. He came after Lyon left.
He came alone. Do not think Wash Toni
linsop WAS there saturday Sanders left
about 10 o'clock. Seagraves went with
him. There was no Pist0l-shOOti.g, al
mark or otherwise, about my house Satur-
day morning. When Seagraves came, San
derS was sitting in thepassage, eating peach
e.. Nv husband went to bedvery early Friday
night, before Sanders and Lyon came.
They slept in the room above ours. did
not 90 10 bed. was sitting up " IN nay
sick baby. When the bows came walked
Mr. Lyon 10 let them in. was expecting
them, as Pat had promised TO come and sls
ND with the baby. don't think Tomlin-
son and Sanders have ever been to my house
together. When Sanders and Lyon came
| in Friday night about Q O'Clock, they said
nothing about where they had been. They
got up 10 early breakfast next morning.
CrOSs-erdMfHed-Th stairs 20 the room
where LYON and Sanders slept ran up from
the room where / was. There was no
other way to get up or dOwn-not even a
| window that anybody could get oot Of.
They could not have come down during
the night without my knowing is.
ANDREW LYON
On FRIDAY, August 21st, was at 1ay-
IOrsYille. got back home about dark.
Richard Owen was at my house when got
back. He is a boy about IA years old He
STAYED at my house that night. Slept up
stairs. Bowen Sanders was 81 my house
when I left for Taylorsville in the after
noon. / went 10 bed early. / was walked
up 10 open the door for Bowen Sanders and
\ Pat Lyon-dOnt know what time il was.
/ They got up next morning after sunrise.
| Sanders was riding a bay mare when le
came Friday night. ] do not know what
Lvon was riding. SeagraTes and Wash
! Tomlinson came TO my house together Sat-
urday morning. TomlinsOn was riding a
mule, think. Sanders was there when
they came. Seagrases fired OF Sanders
pistol that morning al my house two
| shots, think. When Seagraves got to the
house he went upstairs Immediately,
where Sanders was. am confident San
ders was upstairs when Seagaayes came
CroSs-erdniaed Il am confident that
| Bowen sanders was Gp-Stalrs Nneu ocF
graves came. There is no way OF getting
out of the upstairs room except by the
stairs, unless a man jumps out Of the win
dow.
| 3. b. TOMLINSON.
/ am brother OF Wash TOmlinson. i
was at home on the morning after julia
Hayden was killed. l left home about
O'Clock. / saw Andrew Seagrayes pass
through TaylOrsyille Saturday morning. l
rode a mare. Bowen Sanders and Fat Ly-
on passed my home about 5 or . O'Clock
Friday night. They said that they Were
going to Andy Lyons. Wash. Tomlison
Sometimes rode a horse and sometimes a
mule.
Here, at 3;45 P. NJ, the reporter was
compelled to close, as the train left at 4
Pm.