Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-09-01
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fcuty with Matthews, he always treated
me friendly. lie was Il friendly kind Of
man. / don't remember of eve hearing
Joe Ayres speaking of Reynolds, never
heard him make threats against Reynolds
The last time | saw Ayres 1t was at The Jail,
on the day Webb was to be hung. was
first summoned in the spring. l saw Ayres
along about Court time. September Court
| think. Before his arrest, the last time |
saw him, it might have been right at my
house. l believe | was in Knoxville Just
about the time he was arrested l have
heard John Childs talking about him some
time last spring. l don't know all he did
say. Tivis was in town tight and that is
how the subject came up,
The evidence of the cross examination
was read to the witness and acknowledged
correct.
JOHN CHUMLEA, EsQ.
live in Knox county, and am Justice of
the Peace 1 have been acquainted with
j, y, Matthews for several years. I don't
know his general character right well
Yes, l think | know what it Is. 1t is not
very good. l think the bad would over
balance the good. l could not give him
full faith and credit on oath as IA witness
have some acquaintance with Tivis vii
liams, can't say that l know his general
character.
cross EXAMINATION.
In speakiI Of Matthews he said He has
been living in nay neighborhoOd, has also
been living at knoxville. l never heard
much Of HIM at knoxville, never heard of
him at Kingston. l knew Joe Ayres about
years. He lived near me in Knox county.
l knew Richard Reynolds, 1 heard
Ayres speak OF Reynolds. l heard Ayres
speak Of him, some two years before Key
nOlds was killed, at my house. He came
to my office to get warrant against Rich
ard Reynolds. He never got the warrant.
l talked him out of the notion of it. He
made application for the warrant. l said,
Now, Joe, you and Dick are not friendly,
and you had b tier not have anything to 10
with him He replied, " | do not want
to have anything 10 do with him; but |
damn him, he h,ll not cross my path.
Ayres' feeling, l would think, was very
bitter toward Reynolds, all about the re-
mOval of u cross fence. Ayres once ap-
piled for a road to run between the Ayres |
ana Reynolds land, and in laying of that |
road he wanted me to bear in his favor |
that he would give me "a pair OF boots. l |
answered that the boots l had answered my |
purpose very well, and l did not want
boots in that way.
D. \. CARPENTER.
llNb III hltANIllF. L uDI KNOW rs L 4
know the general character of MIR. Mat |
thews. 1 have known Tivis Williams tor /
ten or twelve years. | think ! know his |
character. 1t is bad. ] don't think l |
would give him credit on oath. | know |
Allen Norman. / think | know his gen |
eral character. 1t Is bad. wouldn't give !
him credit On oath,
CROSS ExANISA1IoS.
| don know how old Allen Norman is. |
He may be about 20 years. He lived on
opper Ridge, in Anderson county That
was in 1865, 69,-I0 and II. | have been |
living in Knox county about I years. | |
have not seen much OF him Tor the last four
years. | have heard some OF his neighbors |
speaG If him recently, some three or four.
don't know in what esteemthe majority of |
his neighbors hold him now. lean say what
the neighborhood thought OF him when l |
lived there four years ago.
APPROXIMATION.
/ don't remember whether Mr.. Ayres
bought any goods on the 9th Of March, |
1874, or not but he paid some money
there i'll an Office that day in Knoxville.
Re CROSS EXAMINATION.
! am certain thai it was the dav after the !
murder. lie asked if there was any news. |
told him that there was 10 news, except
that heard that he and somebody else had
killed Dick Reynolds. He replied that he
had heard that Dick Reynolds was killed
the night before That was in the forenoon.
EXPERIMENTATION BY BAXTER.
The conversation was only Jest on my
part, and was only intended in that way
RE.CRoss EXAMINED.
don't know whether l smiled when
spoke. | seldom smile when | speak.
Court adjourned.
Finh D-y's I'roc-eaInGS Concluded