Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-09-01

the time Joe had his hab,as corpus writ. /
! have lived in ~ half mile Of the place +.
since. Have never saw Lum since. un- .
derstobl he came home once. The last
with Ayre- was just ct night .
between sundown and night There were
some women in the store ana Lum Ayrcs
was waiting upon them when ! first went 1
There was some trading. The women were /
at the lower end of the countc-. We had /
u school examination and had been at IT, /
and ] don't think IL was quite shutdown
when ! first went there but it was late, it
was getting dark when | lrtt-bctwecn
shutdown and dark. ] didn't see Joe
Ayres when first got there, and
didn't notice him till he came In the
house. He complained of being very
tired, and had ridden very hard He told
her several places he had been West, but
don't remember exactly whore | don't
know the distance from Mr. Ayres' to MIR.
Reynolds and don't know much about
that road. | was acquainted with old man
Ayrcs some thirty or forty years. | told
him (Jeo Ayres) that the old man had
stayed with me Il good deal, and he asked
me if we ever had any dealings, ! siad yes,
we had some He asked me then how We
got along, and | told him we got along
very well, and never had Il difficulty
CROSS EXAMINATION.
Col. Baxter, before cross examining the
witness, read his testimony in the examine
tion-in-chicf; and made such corrections rs
the witness desired, after which Court
adjourned for dinner.
ArrERNoov SESSION.
The Court convened. ana the jury were
called. The cross examination proceeded.
Tunnel testified ! was not u confederate
of Ayres in anything mean, before or eth
Ter during any of these conversa-
tions which have given. heard
of Reynolds death on Sunday evening
after it occurred. ] understood that they
were trying to find out who the murderers
were. | did not go and tell them about it.
| was summoned as witness about three
weeks or a month atterward. | don't know
just how long. | communicated TO Rcyn-
olds' friends what ! knew after ! was
summoned and not before. | did
not say but little about 1t to any one.
/ did not communicate the facts given in
evidence to any one before | was sum
moncd. ! did not want to be witness.
John Tunnel and his wife had Il suit
against me once in Anderson county. 1t
was a SANDER case. She claimed to have
| been slandered by me The SANDER was
| about money being missing. | was sued
| for charging Mrs. Tunnel with stealing
money. She was my brothers wife
never charged her with stealing; ! had
some talk with other folks and it got
around Colonel Baxter then showed hin
n transcript oc the record in regard to the
compromise Of the suit and asked him if i
was correct Colonel Baxter then read tn,
compromise and asked if he had not ac
| knowledgcd t. having made chargr
against his brothers wife without any evi
dence of guilt H. said he dill not wish t.
7 have suit with his brother, and SO b
! IN de- acknowledgment 1t was only
| family tu,s started in the family and end
ed there.
LEE LEWIS
said l know something about the arrest G
Ayres. | got the warrant out, and wen
on near to his house. and sent another ma
to make the arrest, and remained in sight
When Ayres rode up to where we were, h
said he thought ! was II friend of his, and
told him l was, and he asked how come IN
: to get out this warrant. ] told him this
Duncan's family told me that Joe Ayre
and Columbus Ayres had hired Mr. Dun
can to kill this man, and Ayres said he di
not know the id old rascal or son of
bitch-one of them words he used
Judge Houk said the witness, Lew
would testify 10 anything they wanted hiI
to say, to which Lewis replied that be VIZ
a DID liar. The Judge ordered fine
So to be entered against Judge Houk an
the witness.
Judge Hall also said that he must pro
tect witnesses against the insults OF til
counsel. They must not in,inuate tn,
they swear lies. That this must cease
the future
JOSHUA FOSTER.
am 81 years old in September. l resid
p in the lower end of Anderson count,
D I've known Joe Ayres about three year
1 | remember the time that Richard f. Re,
4 nolds was killed. / was at Ayres' stU
that night part of the time, and part of IL
time at home. Got 10 the store after nigh
> | remained there about two or three hour
[ Both of the Ayres' were there. 1t was
@ little after ten when | left. ! went thel
| to make settlement with him. 1t didn
e take long to make the settlement
t CROSS EXAMINED BY COL. BAXTER
: made the settlement with Mr.. JOSEF
! Ayres. Got along all right. | suppo
q Ayres was sober / didn't think he W
y drinking. | had right smart bit of col
y versation with him. think he was in Il
{ store-room all the time He wasn't drum
Y he might have been drinking He migl
have been drinking without me noticing
: / have never seen him drunk ! have see
= him drink dram. | did not notice an,
y thing unusual about him.
RE--EXANIHED.
l j don't know that l seed anything out
g the way with him. | went down after su
$ per, about half an hour after night. Isu
d pose he had eaten supper. had just G
=. back from the South, where l had bee
! with stock, and our conversation W
J. principally about this trip. l noticed not
c ing unusual about him.
: ADALINE DAVIS
4 Said am a widow. am second cous
u to Dave Duncan. | am not scquaint
= with Joseph Ayres, l never saw him b
y once or twice until he was prisoner.
I saw him at tho store and duncan said
a was Ayres. She could not recognize Il
prisoner at the bar. Duncan called hi
) Mr.. Ayres Don't remember that he ca
u ed him by his given name. She said tn
y the prisoner at the bar did not look like Il
= man she saw there at the time in fact s
- paid not much attention to him, as he W
u a stranger The witness was asked if Du
7 can got goods on credit to which questi
= Col Baxter objected. The matter of t
= objection being argued by the counsel, Il
a Court ruled that portion Of her testimoI
- out.
y The testimony was then read to Mrs. i
a Wis and acknowledged correct, and
d THOMAS DUNCAN
d was called and arriving testified as follow
d He was osyad If ha had "a conversation vyi