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

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of the fire awoke me. I went to the door,
thinking it was the noise of the train. Saw
the light and ran up to the gate barefoot |
afterwards returned to the house and put
on my shoes. / did not awaken White at
the time. Miss Patterson did not 60 to the
fire. 1t was about o'clock when l aWoke;
about ten minutes before or ten minutes al
ter one when went to the fire. Inattemp-
ting to see the time 1 dropped my watch
and failed to see the exact time by it, The
watch was set with the college bell in York
When 1 got back to the fire the roof had
partly fallen in. I went to pulling down
fence, which was also on fire. do not
think it had been burning over half hour
when l got there. 1t seemed to be burning
from the centre. 1 think the barn was a
two story building. 1t was planked up and
down and think the roof was board. All
the lower part the weather-boarding all
around was standing, but the rafters were
falling in. The west or southwest corner
was the last that fell in. The wind was
from the southwest that morning. The
southwest corner was the farthest from the
road. Judging from appearances the. fire
was not put at that corner. There were
stables around the barn. I am black
smith. Ishoe horses. Horse-shoes are gen
orally bought ready made. Numbers 2 and
8 are generally used. I saw the horse
tracks. I did not say when examining the
horse tracks that ''there is my work." 1
cannot tell what were the contents of the
barn. I could not see on account Of the
fire. The ground was dry and dusty.
There. were tracks all around. Five per-
sons were there before the sheriff arrived
J. l.. Parish, I. T. Parish, Frank Melton,
Brooks Parish and myself. White and two
grown persons of his family also came up,
making eight. We pulled down the fences.
Took no pains in regard to tracks, while
doing so, but we did not cross the road
from the barn up to the gate where the
tracks were compared with the shoes. 1
saw the horse tracks in the road leading
toward Leander Parish's. Followed them
one hundred yards up the road. The sher--
iff and Leander Parish were with me. l
measured no horse tracks. There were no
other fresh horse tracks on the road. do
not pretend to say by whose horse the
tracks were made. There had been horse
hitched at the gate, but 1 could not tell by
the tracks, when. The tracks were distinct.
I did not compare them with any other
tracks. The horse seemed to have been
hitched to the left of the gate. The ground
is little sandy around the gate. 1t was
fifteen or twenty feet from the inside of the
gate to one of the mans tracks. The horse
had apparently been standing near the CEN
tire of the gate. The tracks were not dis
tinct enough to be correctly measured.
Redirect. 1 have seen Thornburg walk
without stick. / examined the horse
tracks by candle light. The tracks leading
from direction of Leander Parish's to the
gate looked fresh enough to have been made
that day or night. Horse-shoes have to be
changed to fit the horse. The shoes, as orig
inally made, have to be changed to fit diff
ferently shaped hoofs. BY number or 3"
could not say that horse wore short or
q long shoe. went to the yard gate first.
The distance from the house to the barn is
about as far as from here across the street.
No one, that / saw, entered the lot gate be-
fore we made the comparison of the PERSONS
tracks with the shoes. We made the exam
nation after the fire WAS over. There WIs
rOughness in the barn. I saw horse tracks
leading from Parish's to the gate, but saw
none leading back in that direction. The
road leading from Parish's comes across Op-
posite the barn gate.
J. LEANDER PARISH, SlCOln. L reside IN
this county. My residence is one-half or
three fourths of mile from the burnt barn.
I remember the night of the burning. Be-
tween one and two o'clock I heard the
sound of horses hoofs going on the road
by my house, but cannot say in which di-
rectiOn the horse was going. There was
sickness in my family at the time. My
wife was sick. had gotten up to 60 to the
piazza to get my wife some water and then
first saw the fire. TO this time % minutes
had elapsed since 1 first aWoke. l fastened
to the fire as soon as 1 could after first see
ing it. The top of the barn had fallen in
when got there. l saw shoe track lead
ing from the gate to the barn. 1t did not
appear to be the track of a coarse shoe. 1t
was dark, and we had only a candle. did
not remain there until daylight l walked
from my house to the fire. 1 entered the
barn yard by the small gate in front of the
dwelling. It was too hot to go in at the
barn gate. The road going east passes by
nv house. The left goes into the Kings
Mountain road, J.! miles from town. Anoth-
er road goes by way of Mr.; C!awson's, The
road forks about forty yards from my house,
going east. On the Kings Mountain road,
it goes right across by way of Mr.. Thomas
sons. James ThOmassOn lives b miles
from nv house. From the barn to James
Thomasson' the distance is about four miles.
It was between l and o'clock when l went
TO the fire. NV clock did not strike du-
ring the time 1 was away. / do not know
what were the contents of the barn. My
clock is striking clock. 1 did not make
light before 1 started from my house to the
fire.
Cross-eranained. l know the defendant l
have seen him few times, and have seen
him pass nv house. The road that passes
near INV house is used a good deal. l saw
two slim tracks leading from the gate to the
barn. Mr.. Glenn was with me then. The
tracks appeared not to have been made by a
coarse shoe or boot. l did not wait until
daylight to examine them. The horse or
mule I heard pass my house that night ap-
peared to be going in fast walk or slow
trot. Icould not tell the direction in which
it was going, or whether there was any one
on it. I often hear horsemen and people on
foot passing my house of nights. did not
go to sleep after first heard the horse. !
told Glenn of it that morning. We did not
examine the road for horse-tracks further
than one hundred yards. We saw horse
tracks, but could not tell when they might
have been made. There is only one road by
nv house from the east-sde of YOrkville,
leading to the barn, except to go through
town. There is thick, scrubby wood be-
tween my house and town. From my house
out into the Adair's Ferry road there are
two roads; the left leading to the barn the
right into the Rutherford road, one-fourth
or 0ne-half mile from my house.
THOMAS H. GLENN, svo,m. I live in
Yorkvile. My brother, Willie, is deputy
sheriff. l acted as deputy when Thornburg
was arrested. 1 had the warrant in my
hands when he was arrested. He was ar
rested in front of Hemphill's house, five
miles from town. I think the time was
half past in the morning of the 4th Of Sep
tember. From James Thomasson's to where
he was arrested the distance is a little the
rise ola mile. cannot say positively that
Thornburg ever walked without a stick.
When he was arrested he had in his hand a
good-sized switch. On the way to town af-