The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-10

day night; / was at Reeds on Twenty
fourth street, between First and Second
avenues, on Tuesday night On Monday
night | had pain in my breast, and she
asked me 10 stav all night, that she could
fix place for me. There is only one bed.
Sarah Lett STAYED awhile suppose nm
hour or an hour and half; she left by
herself at about or $50 o'clock. Fannie
did not let me and Sarah out about 10
o'clock. Sarah SAYS she was going home;
she lives near there, Ii anybody had
stated that / was on one side of the
room and Sarah Lett on the other when
the child was called for that was
wrong / never saw any child there.
Fannie told inc that Mr.. llawes had left
Mamie there In charge until hc could call
back in the evening and get her She
told mo that llawcs hadn't been long
gone. She said that May had kissed her
goodbye. This was about $50 o'clock.
She said that Hawos was going TO take her
TO the convent next morning at 3 o'clock.
She didn't tell me that "Wednesday night
IN the presence OF officer Carlisle, il she
did | don't remember il. didn't tell
Officer Carlisle that this conversation oc-
CURED after Fannie hal come back from
llk Allt Nlllu w NAllltNilNN NllRfH
noon. | am positive that did not tell
Carlisle this morning that II was Wcdncs-
day. | told him II was Monday. | work
at the Georgia Pacific shops and fire extra
| have fired for Dick llawcs. have not
fired Tor him since September last The
last work ! did in the shops was Tuesday.
| was wiping grease under Mr. Wolf.
roundhouso foreman. | worked there
Monday. lquit Monday NJ $3.50 o'clock,
aud same time Tuesday ON Monday
night after the whistle blew | went To
Newt Jones's, ut brickyard near the shop,
and got supper. Right after supper IL
my Pipe aud started oil directly 10 Fannie
Bryants. reckon II took mo fifteen
minutes 10 get there. | was nowhere
else that Monday night except at
Fannie Bryants. know where
Nabcn Il Morrow's drug store Is. |
have not been in there this year. was not
in there Mt . o'clock Monday night.
don't know the prescription clerk there.
| did not state to any man there, last Mon
day night about o'clock, that had been
waiting for an hour and half for man
10 come Ia ON the East Lake dummy. |
know where the ptupor cemetery is ON
Rcd Mountain. | was there for the last
time when Joe Illness wiln was buried
last year. don't know anything about
that new grave that was iillod up there on
Monday. MIR. Wolf knows that | worked
all day Monday aud Tuesday OF this week.
wednesday night was the first time that
heard oi May being dead. Fannie told
me when | went Ia that they had found
one Of Mr.. llnWcs's children nj East Lake
drowned. ! sat aud studied how ID got in
the lake. | didn't know whcro any of
them were. ! never saw Mrs. llnwcs In
my life. | knew nll the children. On
Saturday evening | saw Manic and Willie
about I o'clock. They were ON the other
side Of the Georgia Pacific tracks. They
were Ia a grove after haws at Avenue \
| aud II and Twcnty.iour,h and Twenty
hlth streets. When ! got 10 Fannie'i
| house found Irene there with little
| bucket Of water. l am not mistaken
about its being Saturday evening told
Irene that had seen Willie and Mamie
up town. She said yves, mamma had
sent them ! got to fannic's house
about I o'clock. | staid about an
hour | didn't work Saturday. Il was
about twenty minutes after the whistle
blow on Monday before ! left the round
house. II IN between ono and two squares
90 Junrs's. Pleas Thomas went with mo
there. lie works at the roundhouso Sup
per was ready and we sat down aud eat
There were thrco Oi us. Mn. Jones was
home Newt wasn't II took us about
ten or fifteen minutes 10 cat Reeds WIS
twice NJ FAR ~ Fannie Hrynnta left
some Oycfalls to Fannic's the night Car
Isle came there, 90 gct her to wash them.
! took the Ovcfalls, an undcrshin, "a top
shirt and n pair Of shoes | am sure thcfo
are no blood spots on my oycfal- and
am sure there are no others at fannic's. |
have known Fannie Bryant since We were
children. ! lived with her near four years,
ever since have been In Birmingham. |
quit boarding with her about the 18th Of
last month. I had been there three
months ! never went 10 Memphis with
her When ! boarded with her she had
only one room. didn't help llawUs tD
move. aW Elijah Gordon aud Evans at
Fannic's Monday night
Coroner Rabbit then placed tho witness
under : 4 900 bond ~ q witness, aud in
default ho was committed 10 the county
prison.
John olson live nj Ayondalo. am
u painter NJ thc Georgia Pacific shops |
have known X. X. lllwcs for year aud
halt | never snN any oi bis family
was In Birmingham on lnst Monday night.
came on the Fast Lake dummy about
$50 o'clock. / returned on the next about
TJO O'clock X. H. llawog got on the
dummy goiugtownrd Fast lakcat Twenty.
fourth street. lie bad little girl with
cOgnlc H. ! noticed that the child had on
q. - - Lei IfIl... IaN Ia.
axe was shown the witncss.l can't say
that is tho hat II was one ui the same
style and shape and had n ribbon on Il. II
was q red straw hat They did not get on
at Ayondalo. From my best judgment the
child wmscycn ~ oightycanol That WIS
the list lime ! ever saw anything ol either
of them. Tho conductor oi the line is q
thick, hcayy.sct fellow don't know his
name. I'D not speak with llawcs. lie
got on NJ the front end oi the rcar car !
stood on tho rear. He was dressed in q
dark suit and had nn umbrella aud n soit
hat Mr RIich, oi Ayondalc, was on the
same train. A Mr. schoolor was there also.
Nearly all the passengers 10, of nj Avon
dale.
q. w. Waucn-I am prescription clerk
nt Nabcm 4 Mouow'L I was on duty last
Monday night from $50 10 10 o'clock. I
have been up 10 the jail 20 see H. r.
Ilawes saw him In Nabcm 4 Mouow's
on Monday night about . O'Clock. lie
recognized mo when | vent into the jail
asked him II ho recognized the. lie said
that ho did, that lac called for some Jew.
olry at Nabcr * Morfow's about . o'clock
Monday night AZ the store | told him
that tie jowclcr had closed, and II be
called In the morning he could get his
goods lie said that Il was very cold, that
he had been waiting for the East lake
dummy for about an hour aud a halt |