The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-12
THE HAMILTON TRIAL
THE DEFENDANT ON THE
STAND.
Gov. Lowry Trying to Prop up
the Assassin.
The Defense Closed and the
State at Work i'm Rebuttal.
Special Correspondence. !

iNiNiAN' AAiNi h'N l'ltltN NiAhNA Asu'tNhNN
Bill Hardy, Carraway, Albrccht oI
Figures on the stand. These men
according to the testimony before the
coroner and Judge PcytOn, excepting
Carraway, were nearer the scene Oi
the killing when the shooting began
than any witnesses who have testified
and the failure of the defense to put
them on the stand is unquestionably
because they fear the effects of q
crosS-cxamnation on the jury. They
didn't want Euhanks to have to tel
that he had seen Gambrcll the day he
started to Clinton and went and re-
ported the fact to Hamilton that
Hamilton sent for him to come down
town that night with the red wagon
and to tell Mrs. Hamilton he was GO
ing to the train to meet man from
Nicksburg; and they didn't want him
to repeat that ridiculous story that as
soon as the shooting commenced he
jumped out of the wagon behind Ham
ilton and took after the flying vehi-
Gle. They didn't want it shown that
Albrccht and Hamilton held Il low
conversation together ut the Lawrence
House, and that he and Albrecht and
Figures and Carraway were all there
together that night just before Gam
brcll's train came in, and that they
all turned up together again on the
bridge Immediately after the killing
and Carraway and Albrecht took
charge of the pistols. No, the defense
did not want these and many Other
damning circumstances i'll these mems
testimony dragged before the jury,
and hence they were kept off the
stand, and the new testimony, most
of which has perjury stamped upon
its face, was introduced in its stead
1t also refused to put Ike Thomas on
the stand, the negro who ran away Sc
long with 1.-The TRUTH" and Tom Har-
dy, on whose absence two continu-
ances were asked, though both OF
these witnesses were here in Brandon
ready to testify.
The defense also made Il desperate
effort to keep the jury from seeing
Hamilton's carriage and examining
the much paraded bullet-hole in the
top, claiming that Hamilton had not
rested his defense on said bullct-hole
and had not introduced it at this
trial, but the Judge Overruled the OBJ
lection. 1t WAS proposed then by the
State to have the carriage brought in
to the court house yard and let the
jury 90 out and inspect it i'll the pres
cncc of the court and counsel, but
Hamilton and his counsel refused to
go out and he present during the eX-
animation, and the Judge himself al
so refused, but said he might
view the examination from the
court room window. The State was
determined, however, that the jury
should see the vehicle and the ball
hole upon which so much stress had
been laid i'll the former trial, and dur
ing the dinner recess, had the car
riage taken to pieces and set up again
in the court room, facing east inside
the bar, and when the Judge and
Hamilton and his lawyers got back,
there it stood. The jury was then
brought in and examined it thorough
ly without any explanation from Ell
Their side.
This vehicle, which has figured so
conspicuously in the case, has been
variously called carriage, Il red
wagon, a hack and a wagonette, and
il brief description of it here will be
in order for the LEADERS, readers. 1t
has shalves for one horse and the in
side is constructed like a street-car or
omnibus, the door opening at the
rear. The door is Is inches wide; the
seats, running lengthwisc on either
side, are Is inches apart, 4 feet long
and IA inches high. There are two
steps. The distance from the floor to
the first step, and between the first
and second step, is 8 inches, and from
the second step to the ground is Is
inches. The door fastens with a catch
which is turned from the outside.
The driver has a raised seat outside in
front.
DR.. Rice of Meridian, and DR.. Dunn
of Greenvillc, testified as to Hamil-
toms wounds. Two bullets struck
the left arm. One went in about 3
inches above the wrist and came out
=! inches above the wrist without
breaking any bone; the other entered
at the elbow, fracturing the bone and
lodging. The third wound was in
the abdomen near the navel. The
bullet entered to the left of the me-
dian line, ranging from left to right
and slightly upward, lodging in the
muscles. 1t is the theory
of these doctors that the wound in
the wrist and the abdomen were made
nv the same hall and were received nv