The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-11

ertson presiding, and the taking of owl
dence in the Massie murder case was
resumed.
Mrs. d. Lacy Hoga, the first witness,
testified as follows: ST 1.-Two at GOO
Campbell street. 1t was December
22d last when Mr.. Massie was struck, in
front Of Mr.. Gambill's residence. l
was eating supper when 1 heard him
cry. knew it was somebody and that
it was cry of distress When 1 went
to the door l saw him reeling on the
street. l asked him who he was and
he said his name was Mr.. Massie and
that he had been assaulted.
II helped him in the house. He had
some papers in his hand. and when I
he)ped him in he asked mo to send for a
doctor. ] asked him if he had any
money. He said he had $500 in his
pocket, but that no one knew anything
about it or who paid it to him. Ho said
that he started homo early on that ac-
count, as it had been paid to him after
banking hours. He was Just thinking
about it when he was struck. He stated
that he was near Park street when he
heard some ono behind him. He heard
no more till some one struck him over
the right eye and then on tho back of
the head. He was knocked down, but
regaincd his feet in time to see his as
sailant running off toward Mr. Yates
new houses, just diagonally across tho
street."
On being cross examined Mrs. Hoge
stated Mr.. Massie's conversation to DR..
Stone about his having received money
from Rcdd and Williamson for some
real estate. AS to the exact time of
the assault Mrs. Hoge thought it was
near 1880 O'Clock
THE MURDERED MANS DAUGHTER TEsTI-
FIES.
Miss Massic, daughter of tho muir
dered man, testified as to the identity
of the prisoner at the bar.
He came to our residence Friday,
December 10, and asked for work. He
said he was stranger in Roanoke and
wanted to show the people what he
could do. Next day he came about IL
o'clock and got work at 60 cents an
hour. He worked till o'clock and
went toward the West End Furnace.
lie said ho would be back on Monday.
lie came about 4 o'clock. I told him ho
must have forgotten to come back. He
said no, he had some business down
town. He worked till o'clock
'lie was there Friday and Saturday
after my father was struck. / had
nothing to say to him after that He
made no inquiries SO far as know
MRS. MAssIE ON THE STAND
Mrs. Il. b. Massie-'I saw the pris-
oner at the bar when he came to get
work Friday. engaged him to clean a
path to tho front gate. When he came
back the last time 1 told him to come
into the dining room. He asked me
how was Mr.. Massie. told him that it
was feared he would die. This was
December Goth. He said he was very
sorry. noticed that he never looked
at me at all. / thought there was
peculiar hesitation on his part.
DIR. K. Gordon Simmons, who assisted
in the auto sy. described the wounds as
related by DR.. Gale.
LOCATING THE PRISONER.
j. l.. Yates was the next witness
and gave some startling testimony. He
said he lived near the scene of assault,
and described the locality
81 was at home till o'clock on tho
evening MIR. Massie was assaulted.
went to the unfinished houses near by to
get some wood. I went down the back
way after had got the wood and met a
man coming out of the alley toward the
houses from the direction of Seventh
street,
WHO was it?" asked Mr.. Scott.
81 do not just know who it was, but
l suppose this man Daniel, or,
Lakewood, is the man. 1 went back
again in about twenty minutes and saw
two men standing in the new house.
"Yes, went where Mr.. Massie was
assaulted next morning and found
stone on the pavement ten or twelve
feet from the telephone post. My foot
struck against it, and after / had passed
| went back and picked it up and placed
1t beside the fence near Mr.. Gambill's
gate. Several days afterward told Mr..
Trout about it, and he went and looked
for 1t and found it. l am certain that
is the stone. (Here it was produced).
found it about ten feet from where Mr..
Massie was struck.
''As to the two men / saw in the
house, one of them was the man met
in the alley. / am satisfied that
the prisoner is one of the men. lie was
standing at the window and seemed to
be looking out down this way. The
other man stood on the other side of the
window.
He was low, chunky man and heavy
set, and had moustache. l did not see
him the first time l went to the house.
would not like to say positively that
Daniel is one of the men. He had on q
SLOUGH hat and wore boots with his pants
stuffed in them. l was only about seven
feet from him in the alley"
Capt. Berkeley then put Yates through