The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-06-10
The SMOOTH TRIAL,
THE PRISONER STILL REMAINS TN.
CONCERNED.
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Special 70 THE WoRID,
CHARLES Town, w. VA, June 10,
After report made yesterday even
ing the defense put ]. C. Show, Town
Sergeant of Shepherdstown, on the
stand. He testified that Shoots was
cheerful, quiet citizen, and that he
had been going with Miss Terrell for a
long time. Witness said he noticed
change in Smooth a short time before
the shooting. He thought Smootz's
eyes were CLASSY and staring, and that
his face had q vacant expression.
Smooth did not answer his salutations
which he, the witness, thought very
peculiar, and he thought he was not
altogether right.
Geo. Show, Of Hagerstown, Nd,
uncle by marriage to Harry Smooth,
testified that Miss Susie Terrell was on
terms of the greatest intimacy with his
family, and had spent about one-third
of her time at his house. Witness
said Smooth .staid at his house fire.
+quently and that he regarded them as
lovers, and that the young lady en-.
couraged him. He considered Smooth
irreproachable in character, and a sem
sible. quiet fellow. Witness said he
+poticed q change in in Smooth in fall
of 1891. He had a wild, CLASSY look
about his eyes, and that the young
man came to Hagerstown on several
occasions and walked up and down the
street in front of his (witness'sl house,
and accused would stop and look at
the windows, and judging from this
and other things, he tthe witness)
thought Shoots was going crazy. Mr..
Wenner and he had talked about it
and several of Smootz's young men
friends had remarked that Smooth was
acting very queerly.
On cross examination, witness said
Smooth only visited his home when
Miss Ferrell was there, and seemed to
have come to see her. Witness said
that last fall Miss Terrell had told him
that she had discarded Smooth and
that he had told Smooth not to visit
Miss Terrell at his home about that
time, for reasons that were satisfactory
to himself. Witness said he had not
written anything in regnrd to Smooth
threatening Miss Ferrel, and after
ward acknowledged letter that was
handed him, to be in his handwriting.
Miss Mirah Show, Miss Bessie Albin,
H. G. Entler, and J. B. Miller, said
they knew Smooth and that they mo-
ticed change in him during the fall
OF '9l. That he became respondent,
gloomy and morose, and they thought
something waswrong.
A. S. cambridge, member of the
West Va. Legislature, said Smooth
came out to his residence, few miles
from Shepherdstown, and told him
that be Smooth would be dead by 7
O'Clock, because he had written let
ter to Mr.. Chas. Terrell, and that Fer
reD had said that unless he retracted
what he had said in it that he would
kill him. This was the letter of which
a copy was identified by Mr.. Chas.
Terrell in court this morning. Smooth
showed Mr.. cambridge copy Of the
letter, and Mr.. cambridge at once
drove to town and went to Terrell and
asked him not TO kill Smooth as heand
some others would try to get SMOOTH
out Of town Mr.. Terrell said he did
not say he would kill Smooth, but he
must retract. Mr.. cambridge thought
the letter fabrication throughout, and
that Smooth was perfectly sane and
had been so all along, and that he was
so now.
The defense said that they purposed
to show by this and other evidence
that the young man was suffering from
a, delusion. On cross examination the
witness said Smooth had told him
things similar to the contents Of the
letter previous to the time he saw it.
The prisoner said he would not retract
his statement and expresseda desire
to marry Miss Terrell.
Chas. T. Smooth, brother Of the
prisoner, said that on the evening Of
January 2lst, he was sitting IN the
hotel at Shepherdstown, and that his
brother came and called him out and