The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-03-07
\. Yes, sir.
Q. Do YOU know Alex. X. Davis?

| Q. Do you reeollect when Col. Gibbs left
| Columbus to go to Texas last year,
A. | don't recollect the day recollect
| the circumstances.
Q. Did you see the Lieutenant Governor
there the day before, or day or two before
that?
A Yes sir; he was with me on the sun
Cav.
Q. When did he leave for Texas?
A. The next day.
Q. Did you see him in Columbus before
Sunday?
a. Yes, sir.
Q. Can you fix the date?
A. L do not reeollect if ii was Thurday,
Wednesday or Friday. | have little tailor
| shop, and he goes there every day.
Q. Was it in your shop when you saw
him?
A. Yes, sir.
@. Tell the Court what occurred.
A. Nothing; he only came in there to
have button sewed on.
Q. Well. that was a few days before
Gibbs went to Texas?
A. Yes, sir.
@, Now, tell what occurred.
A. In sewing the button on his coat, a
large piece of paper fell out of his pocket
with piece of blue ribbon on it. | asked
him what it was; but he did not tell me-
y. What did he say in connection with the
paper?
would be very glad to get it.
Q. Do you know what the paper was?
A: No. sir.
Q. What time of day was it?
A. Before dinner.
Q. Are you certain that it was not Satur-
day.
A don't think it was. do not recol-
lect the day.
Q. Did you see the Lieutenant Governor
on that Saturday about the office of Col.
Matthews?
A. No, sir, 1 did not. Saturday is my
busy day | have no time tC leave my shop.
q. You saw him again on Sunday?
A We were together all day Sunday, pref
ty much, sir.
Q. Where were you with him Sunday?
A. We were up town together. | went to
his house.
Q. Did you take buggy drive in the
evening?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Well, now, tell the Court what occurred
IN the evening when you and him were
driving the buggy, in conn ection with 60
ing 10 Col. Matthews office?
A Me and him'was riding out in buggy.
He came by Matthews office, and he stopped
the horse and buggy and went into Mat
thews' office and came right out, said he was
not in there.
@. Did Mr.. Davis say any thing about an
engagement with Matthews and Gibbs.
Q. How came he to drive there?
A. We were driving around town.
Q. Who was driving?
"A. He was.
@. What did he say when he drove up to
the office and stopped?
He said he wanted to see Col. Matthews
aud Gibbs.
O. Is that exactly what he said?
A. He said he was doing business for
some other man, and did not want them to
betray him, and said damned if Gibbs didn't
have to settle it before he left or he would
have fuss.
Q. Who was he going to see?
A. Col. Matthews aud Gibbs.
Q. Did you see him any more on Monday
morning?
A. Yes. l saw him on Monday morn
ing.
@. Atwhat time?
A. Ten or eleven O'Clock.
Q. Was he in your shop,
A. Yes.
@. Was that after the train had returned
from Artesia or before?
A. After the train had come in.
O. What did he say?
A. [ asked him if he had his business
fixed up, and he said yes.
@. Did he say where he had been?
A. He did not say anything connected
with that, he said he had his business fixed
up.
".
A. [ suppose the business of Matthews
and Gibbs. do not know what Kind OF
business he had
@. He said he had got it fixed?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you know where he had been that
morning?
@. Do you know whether he said where
he had been?
A. [ do not know whether he told me if
he had been on the train or not.
@. Who begun the subject conversation
about his business on Monday when he
came back into your shop?
| A. I asked him myself.
! O. What did YOU ask him?
| a. | asked him, "did you get that busi-
mes fixed up" and he said yes:
Q. You never inquired further?
| A. No, sir.
@. What time did you start for a buggy
ride that evening, ard at what time did
YOU drive up to Col. Matthew's office?
| A. About shutdown.
O. Did you make any reply when he
cursed and said he was going to have that
| thing settled up before Gibbs went away?
| A. | told him not to have any fuss.
O. You say that the paper which fell out
| of his pocket attracted your notice by hav-
ING a piece of blue ribbon attached to it?
A. Yes, sir
| O. You saw it folded small, like a letter,
or was it folded large!
A. 1t looked like large envelope to me.
Q. 1t was not an envelope?
A No, sir.
O. Do you know the Great Seal or State
Seal?
A. Yes, sir; I know them when | see
them.
@. Did it have a seal on it?
A. | am not certain whether 1T had req
or blue seal.
| Q. Nothing was said at the time about
the paper?
A. No, sir; he never told me what it was
| heard it rumored afterwards on the
street
Counsel Morris You need not tell that.
Q Did you ever see or near a aitei
that Barrentine was pardoned!
Counsel Morris: object to that well,
never mind, 60 ahead.
Q. Did you ever hear afterwards that
Thomas III. BaYrentine was pardoned?
A. heard it afterwards.
| ~ uaw coon after did Won hear III