The Morning herald., 1878-12-12
THE GREAT DoDsoN CASE.

/ AA1 TRIAL VVNTlNUB0 AND CONCLUDED-
WITNESS TESTIFY THAT TIE NEGRO
JAMES JONES WAS NOTORIOUS LIAR
THE ARGUMENTS AND THE JUDGES
eHARsHD-vBRDIor "Nor GUILTY"
Special Correspondence Of the HERALD.
| New CASTLE, Dec. II, 1878.
The cramped court room was filed with
an eagar expectant crowd, long before the
bell rang. The prisoners were conducted tc
the dock Immediately after conrt opened
Their faces seemed to express more conf
dence than yesterday, and no anxiety was
depicted on their countenances.
Mr.. John +. Dodson was by far the most
affected person in the court room, and dur
ing the arguments In the afternoon his face
exhibited great mental agony and during the
speech of Mr.. Gray he was frequently af-
fected to tears by the touching eloquence.
The first witness called was Mary Eliza
Howard, the colored woman who Is better
known as "Eliza." Her testimony was as
follows;
live with Mr.. Dodson; know James
Joues; on Tuesday, three weeks ago, saw
Jones first when he came from Chester>
town, with Mr.. Dodson and Mr.. Vincent,
was called out to face him and he owned
to telling the stories; after that, Mr.. Dod-
son told him, he had to 60 to the branch
and dig up the (hesitatingly) babies, he
went and dug for them and didn't find any
thing; "now," said Mr.. Dodson "Jim, you
know my daughters were never sick, and
you know you told lies" He confessed
they were lies.
After I had worked awhile in the kitchen
and when / came out, Mrs. Dodson was
snameing him for telling the stories about
the girls. "Why did you talk that way
about the girls" said she "you know they
never did anything to you" "1don't know
made me tell the lies, Mrs. Dodson "h' lwhat
answered; after that he consented to BIZ
whipped. We then had dinner, and after I
washed the dishes, I left and did not come
back any more. -.
Cross examined:-I wsnt to Dodsons in
''blsding" time; my boy commenced the
matter, for Jim told the stories about the
girls and the babies, in the presence Of my
husband and my son; I had been there two
weeks before he told the stories; told Mrs.
Dodson on Friday about the stories. My
son Jim commenced to tell the story when
Mrs. Dodson and were down at the spring
house white washing. My son jim came
down there very mad, because Jim Jones
told Mr.. Dodson about him leaving corn In
the husks, he then told Mrs. Dodson about
the stories and told her 1t was true. Jim
Is II years old; left Dodson's on the day
of the whipping, about O'Clock. Mr.. Vim
cent did not stay at Dodsons for dinner and
left before Mr.. Dodson dined. Jones had
consented to being whipped before New
comb got theme; they sent my son Jim for
the rope but didn't know where he got it..
The next day when went to Dodsons house
| the first one met was Miss Alice, thenext
was Miss Dora and the next was Mrs. Dods
sou; Mrs. Dodson told me that she had let
Jones go away but she did not know where
he. had gone; heard however that he had
gone to WashiHgt IN and as soon as he got
situation he was to write to them for his
clothes.
The question was then asked as to Miss
Dodson,appearance that morning the witness
sald she looked as she always looked; mer>
L nv, III b gOOu i ulu DUO ClpuVi
Vincent or Newcomb that day.
William J. A. Howard:-Live at Mr.. Dod
sons; know James Jones, he left Mr.. Dod-
sans Tuesday morning, they brought him
bac4 about 10 O'Clock and Jones consented
to 60 and dig for tha children which he
said he bad buried there; Mr.. Dodson sent
me after spade and then Jones went dowp
to the branch with Mr.. Dodson, Mrs. Dod-
| ~ nd
myself; he dug, but didn't find anything; he
came back and owned up to telling the
lies and was afterwards whipped; did not
sec Jones after he was put into the meat
house; the next morning turned the horses
out and there was some mud on their legs,
caused by running in the meadow; there
were no harness marks upon them.
Cross examined:-The morning after the
whipping Of Jones, went past the the car
riage house aud looked 10, there we're two
the small one and did not notice the 9th
er which was large and had a tongue; the
horses, when put the harness on them,
mud. -|a&|
Willard E. Dodson:-I am the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Dodson and am IA years old;
James Jones left our house three weeks ago
last Monday night. On Tuesday, I left
home for school with my smaller brother
about 7.30 or o'clock and did not ge
admit that the two young ladies who
had been on the stand, say that Newcomb
and Vincent were In their honse till II
O'Clock, but l ask you what started James
Jones to telling the storys He told it
straight, and all the cross examination did
not make him deviate.
Now the young ladies say that when
Jones Dug in the swamp he didn't find any
thing, ah ! and they didn't mean that he
should either. ~ w. "
1t is admitted that at Z O'Clock on that.
evening the witness was in the custody of
these parties, and it is proved that on that
night pistol shots were heard near Vsndyke
station at midnight; in the evening he was
at Dobson's, and after midnight he came
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