The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-01-30
THE GRAIN CASE.
Yesterdays Testimony in the Trial
Of the Grains.
SAN. Musiex Sill on the stand--His Cross.
Exami nation.
sgow Capt. sismey aud wm. spence
Nprs. Nept Out OF the world
,S related ny Nusick.

II , q
the testimony of sam. Musick one OF the
actors in the williamson county vendetta
and now principal witness against his
formcrassociites in the murder of Spence,
was sill on he stand, aud underwent
he ordeal of rigid cros..cxamination
| without iiucbng:
sMCEL MCsiCK
continued rs FLOWS:
Jcp wanted me to 90 to John BULL
ner's AMI get gun. but ,aid ! didnt
| want 10 do tina for ! would be- seen and
| | told HIM | cDuld get Ditmore's gun,
and he said tint would do: we told him
| We had the guns. and where they were /:
don't remember what Jep said ! knew
| Marshall Cram .bUut Il year before this
occurrence: don't know how long we
had lived ucighbrs lie came there after
I moved to I.an,hum he made me con-
iidcnt from about the first of July--it
was between the iiith aud the tcuth
| when found II OF: there was "A lane
back OF Mrs. llaTpbn's field where we
| broke the weeds ; II VA. near the north
end II ran north and south; don't
| hnow II IL was Travelled by wagon or not:
dunk IL was widr cnvugh Yves Grains
was southeast, aud We went through q
corhlirld to ii, house don't know the
gwen name OF Mrs. Hampton; IL wa.
about 3 U clock when Jcp aud auu Mar
hall went down 10 the I'D house ! was
drinking at that tin. aud don't rcmem.
Der correctly; iir,t told about thi, thing
10 MIR. Landrum NJ Marion. Williamson
county.
There was no house In sight where we
met in the woods back OF Mrs. Hamp-
! toms field; | think Mr.. Hampton,
! house was southwest. but don't know
! what distance irum the place: the farm
! on the east of the iale was near quar-
ter OF a mile long, was at the same
| place the next sunday evening after
| spruce was killed Oh saturday night
| wa never there after that time Spence
as Killed Ia July. in the last OF the
! in1uth, aud was arrested about the 18Th
81 september, and o~kcn TO Marion anu
pat IL jail.
O-Statc If you made ANY statements
.oon alter YOU were put in Jail To- persou!'
about the breaking Oi the weeds You
nave spoken OF near Mrs. Hampton.
\ licidt
Question objected to; objection over
ruled. and exception taken.
did the evening after was put in
! Jail, 10 Mr. Landrum. Mr.. lIartwell and
| MIR. Norris; told it to
] Mr.. LaulruE first, when there was
| no one present but me and
| him: that was alter | was In jail II wa,
| in the evening ! spoke 10 Landrum about
it,: told it To Laldrum first; the cap
| Black Bill wore was speckled. white and
blue think the spots were small did
not have my hands on it: | don't know
| il he had il on H. the old house; we had
| whisky bac. of the field: when we met
| nothing was said about how Jcp and
| Black Bill came: they were there when |
] rot there: | don't know how Black Bill
| got to Granville. did not hear him say:
| Marshall stood not far from the door nj
| spence, when he >hat-probably not
| more than three or four steps l don [
| know if he fired both shots at One-botl
barrel, went Oh NJ once il he did: | did
not examine Ditmore's gun when | got
| IL aud don't remember il anything was
| said in The house about the guns being
loaded going out | did not 60 on the
railroad track: in going 10 Spence's
some times were together and sometimes
| one behind the other.
On cro.s-examinatjon Mu,ick detailed
hi. history from the time he was n chile
ten years old. to the date OF his connec
ton with this bloody aGlr. Samue
Musick was born in Spring GSden. jet
fersOn county, in this state, aud was the
son OF Jesse Muslck, a farmer. Whei
Sam was ten years old his parents movet
from Illinoi. to Kentucky, but Samue
did not accompany them. bu
remained in and about Sprln:
Garden for year or TWO
aud thIn went to his fathers II
Uuion county. Kentucky. When tn
war of the rebellion broke ont. Musici
became a member Of Capt. Prow's com
pany. Thirteenth Kentucky cavalry, com
mauled By Col. Adam johnson. lie wa
at GAINESVILLE aud Fort Donaldson. bu
could not tell just when he lett the ser
vice. bat from his statements II mus
have been some time in 'G3. lie returne'
to Illinois went TO Jefferson county, AM
drllted about until he came up in tn
nrirhborhood OF Murphysboro aud Gar
bondalc ia jackson county, where IA
worked a, whatever he could get To az
for some seven or eight years. som
fourteen or fifteen months ago, he wen
to work for q Mr.. Lal
drum. a mill owner near Granville
a small town on the Carbonate an
Shawneetown railroad, in Nilllanso
county, and about naf way betwee
. Car5ondale aud Marion, Here 1t Wa
that Musick became acquainted. WIN u
Grains, and through whom, according
MS story, he was drawn into the blood
. murders, ont of winch this trial hs
grown.
We snail only give that portion OF
NrsICK CRosa-EXAM NATION
which relates to hi, connection with Il
murder of william spence, for which u
Grains are now Oh trial. Mus,ch SAID
Twas arrested here in town ny tt
\ ,l,.riiI ar ,lrpu,y sheriff and Frank Low
e Nh, near me posi- office when arrested
=, ,y.,, LIVING acro.s the Mississippi rive
. L,l ,irrri.neld's Hndmg with NJ
u.ulnrr.li,iaw. aud had been there son
e t,ul. or liv,. wrrk. My DrothcI-in law
/, ,H,i.r i, Brewer aud Is lIboring IhaI
4 Wu,n ldy Cra'nfil'e
" went To tarbunH" then cahe mere
Il l,it Williamson county because WI
afraid 10 SAY there was brniiSht he'
:, GnrtAing the caro- court house anu ~
: IA iaii until IL o'clock that ni"ht. M'i'h
y was taken to Marion ny FRANK Low
IL ami | wns fond what ! was arrested ia
- mink | told him didn't mind going I
y, for could prove myself clear INN
u II; 4 lt.I Wnn KIM All ADO