The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-01-30

all and ] met Jep at the drug STORE and
went TO the house; Jon,t
remember the business We va,.
to transact we went to the hoase az soon
as We got together; we went direct To The
Marshall Grain house don't know, but
| reckon 1t was 3 o'clock when We went
there when before Square REYNOLDS.
said 1t was ] or 2 O'Clock when we got
there, Jep said Spence was "the next
man he wanted Killed. | never heard
Jep talk about these matters before: 1
met Jep the Thursday before, but he said
nothing about the murders (: he said this
rs soon as we went in; there
was box there and we sat
down on 1t and around il; There might
have been something else said. but
don { remember what 1t was; Jep lust
said that the next man he wanted kil,d
was Spence !. Marshall did not say any
thing. and Jep said he wanted me to 20
toJohn Bulliner's and get a gun for
Black BllI; | said did not want 10 20
there that would be seen, but that I
would get Ditmore's gun, and he said
that would do; Ditmorc lived two hun.
dre1 yards from there. and John Bull.
liner lived - from there; there
was several houses between
Bulllner's aud the house where we met.
the distance being about miles If |
went the zig road. there were five or six
houses in sight; there was five or sin
houses around Dtmorcs; Dtmore's
house Is in an open field. Jcp said that
he would 20 to Black Bills that night,
and for me and Marshall TO meet him
the next morning; we played cards aud
had some whisky: we didn't play but a
little while we had the cards out while
we was talking, so Ii anybody come up
they would think we were playing card;
we were not there over and hour, maybe
stated before Squire Rcynolsd that we
were there for an hour; think 1t Wa.
two or three O'Clock, aud Jep
lett first; Marshall and I
might have stayed half an hour after
Jcp left, for we played after he left |
did not 90 to the door when he left We
Mere In the south end, close to the east
side of the house ; 1t l. a box house with
a petition about half way To the back end,
aud we were close To the petition there
i, two doors in the house we were about
fronting the door; Jep shut the door
when he went out, and saw him going
south, little piece. thirty or forty steps
from the house don't know ii he said
where he was going just when he went
out 1t was about night when m and
Marshall went home; | saw Marshall
that night at the mill, but don't re-
member II | went out there 10 meet HIM,
aud don't think there was any Que else
there. and IL WAS not dark; Marsha
gave Inc the key TO put the gun IN the
house he didn't wake up; went to Dit
morc's To get his gun, and he
said he didn't want his gun away at
night, but could have II in the morning.
| went back home, | don't remember
il / went in the house when went
home or to the mill; ii it wasn't SUIT
down 1t was close to IL when Marshall
aud INST ut the mill; know Captain
Davis, but don't rember seeing him that
day: don't remember seeing john
Grain that day.: did not see Marshall
any more that night after he
gave me the key; don't re-
member anything passing only he
gave me the key TO put the gun In the
house; he was going TO stay ut Yellow
Bills that night, aud told him had bor-
rowed the gun and when would get II;
Went home and stayed that night: l got
upby day next morning and vent tc Dit
more's, and stayed just long enough 10
get the gun, and told DitmOre | was 60.
ing squirt or turkey hunting, Ditnore
said the gun was loaded-had good loads
in It,; took the gun down to Marshalls
house and found him there: don't mine
what was said, aud gave him the key
and we went In and put the gun in: ",
went out. and he went Oh up TO yellow
| bills; don't think the sun was up when
put the gun in the house; | think got
two bottles. went to Carterville and got
them filed with whisky, and went hom'
and got my breakfast got the whisky
at Monroe Bulincr's; ] eat my breakfast
aud started across to Mrs. Hampton's.
started In a south direction. kind of south
west, away from the road, and part o
the way through the woods about miles
| reckon ! was not in sight of the main
r1ad while in the woods: lett home ant
went across the woods. and Marshall cam
across and met me. Yellow Bill liye'
about 30 yards from me: W,
got together about one hundred All,
fifty yards from our houses, in the woods
we started on together; We went throug
and along the lane Joe Billiard and A
Robinson overlook us and came up to u
and went along with us some distance
| We didn't 20 far with them they wer,
forty or fifty steps behind Us when ",
stopped; they went two hundred yard
with US we went through the bottom
field aud on up To the woods, we went
mile or more, and never struck the mai
road till Just before we came TO the plac
where we were to meet; we we're pun
suing pretty near South direction an,
got TO the place al or O'Clock didn
know the place till we got there; II ha
been described but didn't know II Maj
shall knew the place; reckon Marshal
and me vas there four hours or more.
was ut the north end of the lane; I'll
} not see any person passing the road DE
} and Bill were the first persons We saw
they were coming from the west to I'll
east they We're ten or fifteen steps o
when first saw them there's field sout
of where we were, and we were fifteen ,
twenty steps from the Held dont tiln
there was anything in the field along III
fence | don't remember # could hav
! seen any one coming up the lane for I'll
/ timber there was hill on the east sid
of the road, it was just gradual rise;
: was In hollow. at the edg
of the bottom don't know for certai
I how long we did stay there, maybe a
} holr or more. and were discussing II
r plan OF Killing Spence; Jep aud BIZ lc
: first and started OIL the way they come
Marshall aud | didn't stay but littI
while. think we left right away an
went across field to Yves Grains. an
got something to eat and went back
: where We frat met, but didn't stay the'
. over one-half hour. reckon. We ha
/ used up all the whisky; Marshall VIZ
t making Granville his home. though hi
Vile Was not there; Marshall Wa
70 whit there and come with Blac
. Bill, while | was 10 20 hon
/. and 90 TO Carterrille and e.
: some whisky; the agreement was thu
Marshall WAS 10 wait aud come with blac
, Bill: went pretty much all the way D
the road. and wet mo the house, M
! then went Carte vile and got some VIM
v.nl vent ho,nc AMI STAYED there till q