The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-04-01

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Tor the onen.e. and would have been had
he have killed the worthless ohieci " his
aim, but ~ be- H. noioriou.ly he meanesi
negro IN The county. the verdict gives gen
eral satisfaction. Ne was onc " the acton
IN the Crab Orchard trouble. several years
ago, anil since BIZ release from Jail has
made Stanford III. home. The Police
Court viii mis- him. NJ he was one II H.
most regular patron.
Owing 10 the length Of q civil case, the
trial. u 1911 Gresham and John Read,
for the murder II Cam Rowyie on the i2ih
N February lssi, was not called until
Tuesday morning. Considerable difficulty
was experienced in getting a jury, and
Il was not till after 10 o'clock Wednesday
that panel was obtained About a hun
bred and twenty eve persons were examin.
Ell, and both sides had about exhausted
their challenges when the lat man was
accepted. Over a hundred witnesses were
sworn in the ease, and rule requiring
them 10 neither hear the testimony nor to
converse with themselves about II was
granted Commonwealth Attorney, n. g.
Warren, then delivered plain. unyar.
nished statement u the ease, add the ex.
animation Of witnesses hegan aner noon.
George Hughes, who was with Rowsie n
the time of the killing. was the iifst wit
ness, and hi testimony was in effect about
The same a. before the examining court.
ihat he aud Rowzie were walking from
Moreland 10 Milledgeville, when he look.
ed up TO see Gresham and Read with
pointed guns; that he heard some num-
bling sound and in m instant two shots
were fred, Rowzie falling riddled with
bnckshot. Coroner J. Z. Goode testified a.
10 the appearance Of the man after death
Tie was shot in the face, head and breast,
most of the wounds being singly enough
10 produce death. -Four other witnesses
were examined without eliciting any Thing
new, and the Commonwealth rested in
chief Col W. q. Welch then made one
Of the best wordcd and most telling state.
menis for the defense that We ever heard,
and At . O'Clock the Court adjourned til
Yesterday at .. A half dozen or ~ Of
witnes-es were introduced 10 prove the
character Of Rowzie, and two to prove
That the night before the killing, Rowzie
md young woman Miss Bette Brax-
lalel had corrupted a room at Lebanon
Hotel as man and vile. The deposition Of
Mrs BnSdalr was then read, after Judge
Dwsley had excluded certain portions Of
h. II was in substance II am the
Of Gresham The Monday
before Christmas Tam Rowzic came 10 my
house yelling and ouIsing Gresham, and
aid that he had had fuss with Gresham,
md that Gresham might thank John Read
ahen he got va in the morning that he
'aved bis life, for II It had not been for
him he would have blown every brain out
II Gresham's dn head lie would get
hem yet, though, II It took forty years
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