Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-06


one hundred and fifty yards from the Mile
Branch. I live in the first house below
Withers' hotel. Think I got home at ten
minutes before two. / aWOke DIR. Walker
to tell him about the fire, thinking it was
on his place. I suppose was fifteen min
utes coming from the Mile-Branch.
oss-eranai,,ed. My natural gate in walk
ing is four miles an hour. 1 walk around
this town at that rate. was excited and
walked fast. I kept with Mr.. Smith. We
had Just emerged from a piece of woods
when 1 saw the fire. do not know that
the trees prevented me from seeing it sooner.
The hour for adjournment having arrived,
Court adjourned until 81 o'clock Thursday
morning.
THURSDAY, October 80.
With the examination of the last witness
yesterday, the State rested.
DEFENCE.
NATHANIEL WHITE, slCOrn. l lived this
wear as a hired hand on the Glenn place.
was at the fire. The barn contained oats,
straw, clover hay, hay, fodder and chaff
from wheat and oats; also some unthrashed
oats of this years crop. The quantity OF
the straw was from 22S bushels of wheat.
There were three loads of clover hay, putin
in the month of August-about the middle
of the month. There were two loads of
clover hay put on the upper floor, over the
oats straw. One load of the clover was
damp when we put it in, but it was scatter
ed. The crab grass was putin about the last
of August. / never heard of any threats to
burn the property. have seen little place
where there had been a fire, on the right
hand side of the road, but do not know
whether it was the accidental work of hunt
ers, or done by design. 1t was about one
.3ojo, 80 +1,o irCr y,hQ | fret
fire. My wife awoke me. When hrst
saw it, the roof was nearly ready to fall in.
The upper part seemed to be blazing most.
The side walls had not fallen in, but the
rafters were nearly ready to fall. | heard
no noise around there that night. A road
leads from the barn to the big road. The
tenants live on the back side of the place.
They use pathway by the barn. Two ten
ants, with their families, in separate houses,
live there. The tenants got there after the
barn was burned. Mr.. Glenn sent for them.
house-in sight Ny house has glass win
dows on side facing the gate. Had horse
been hitched that night at the gate, there
was nothing to prevent it from being seen
from my windows. Had any one passed on
foot. he would have been in view. The
barn could beapproached from the backside
without the person being seen. l saw the
tracks. I saw one of them measured took
no particular notice toit, except to the tacks
in the shoes. I heard R. A. Parish say
there were eleven tacks in one of the shoes.
did not count them. l believe if | were
to see track of that same foot, 1=Would
knoWit. Coming from the east side OF town
there is one path to the gate-the nearest
way. I noticed no horse-tracks did not
examine for them. l am hired hand on
the place.
CToss-eramined. A horse hitched at the
gate could be seen from my house IN day
light or by bright night. There is an or
chard between the house and the barn. A
white oak and hickory tree are near
the cate, which shade it. These trees, on
bright night, might shade a horse hitched
there. l know the time by my wife being
asked by Mr.. Parish when he came. 1t
was then half past one. A pathway led
through the yard. It was the habit to go
through the yard.
Col. w. B. ALLISON, s,COrn. l am sur
veyor. am familiar, to some extent, with
the topography of the ground around YORK
Vile. l have been requested to make
map of the roads leading into Yorkvllle.
rect. I made it from map OF the county
made by myself. (Witness then explained
to the jury by the map, the location OF the
Finley House, Joseph Thornburg's house
and the road from it to the Finley house,
and pointed out and explained the distance
from the Finley house to the barn, which is
about four miles in general direction-a ride,
according to witness idea, OF one hour ana
five minutes, ordinary speed.
His cross examination was continued
explanation of directions and distances.
Redirect. l do not know the house that
w. R. Lowry lives in. | have, to my
knowledge, located no road passing by his
house. Lowry's house being pointed out to
witness, he said by way of it to the east
side of town the distance is one-eighth or
one-fourth of a mile further to the Metts
orchard. From the Finley house to Joseph
Thornhurg's and then to the Armstrong's
Ford road, the distance to Glenns barn is
about four miles. Hobbs house is quar-
ter of a mile from Lowry's house.
COLUMBUS GOORE, SWOrn. was at Syl-
vanus Thornburg's house on the evening OF
the 3rd of September; was there until 10
o'clock. When I left, Jake Montgomery,
Dick Russell, Mccullough, Sylvanus, Bill
Dan and his daddy, were there. A negro
woman was also there. l live four or five
hundred yards from Sylvanus' house. :!
went from there to Dick Russell's. did
not go back. was not awake very long
after | went home. l was walked up about
twelve by Dick. He came there to put on
He stayed about twenty minutes, and went
back to the Finley house. went to sleep
again. I heard shooting, and was awaken
ed by the big shooting. 1t then lacked
twenty-five minutes of one o'clock: Ny
clock runs as correctly as common clocks. l.
have no reason for believing my CLOCK was
not keeping correct time. "
rOss-eran1ined In regard to evadlng De-
coming witness in this case, dld say
that was keeping out of the way and did
not want to be witness in this case. dld
not saw to Dan James, or any one else, that
I would not swear lie unless l was scared
up to it. don't mind saying that would
not swear lie unless cross-questioned.
Redirect. / have never had any. conVer-
sation with Major Hart in regard to this
case. 1 never was witness, nor never had
a case in court
Second cross examination. l have never
told anybody what was going to swear.
Did not tell the Thornburgs.
r. S. RUSSELL, slCOrn. On the night OF
the 3rd of September, in the early part OF
the night, was engaged in tying fodder.
l went to Sylvanus Thornburg's after sup
per and stayed two or three hours. When
I left, Jake Montgomery, Harrison Blalock,
and Mr.. Thomasson were there-none oth-
ers that 1 remember, excepting, Sylvanus
Thornburg. When got there, it was thir-
ty-five minutes after eleven. Ichanged my
clothes while there. William had asked
me to 20 with him and bring his horse and
buggy back. When they got ready to start
they made arrangements for Dan to go. l
was there about an hour before the buggy
started. I and Oliver Walker went with
Bill. I walked in front of the buggy.
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