The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1892-04-09

sat down In the once Of the hotel sn
wete talking when Mr. McWilliam
4 walked In and epOke to us, and mid b
waated to zee me privately, Whereuuo
Mr. NcIAurin withdrew. But M. IN
Williams wanted more privacy, % cal
rted him In the little room Just In rea
OF the wash.r0om 0f the hotel and aske
mo 70 dit down. He began then TO tel
mo that be believed I had doae thxs an,
- With the young lady whose name or
pears above. ! was perfectly astounded
but the more protested, the more b,
seemed to believe me guilty, and cal,
1 he could prove II. Well, he then triet
70 get me to 60 down to r. K. jayne
o8ce to meet himself. Berne Watkin
(the girls father) and Mr. r. K. JAYNE
to which I demurredt knowing that Il
the same feeling existed in Berne Wat
kins that existed In McWilliams to
wards me there would be trouble, and
net only trouble but blo0dshed; and thu
| probability Is that would have beer
the one to shed the blood as there were
three Of them and only one of me. AT
ter Nc. failed to ',soft soap' me int
that trap, he thea asked me II / would
talk with him and Jayne there In the
hotel, and told him I would. So he
vent out and got Mr. Jayne and they
Icame In together, and after few pre-
liminary remarks renewed their efforts
to induce me to 60 OH somewhere to a
private room to talk the matter over
with him and Berae Watkins but |
again refused, not having any Of my
friends with me, and believing then as /
belieye noto, that they lMcWilliams and
Watkins, only desired to decOy me in
to q trap to murder me. You may ask
why thought so. Simply because
they would not believe any statement
made by me at all; then why should
they still want me to 20 off and talk
the matter over? / could SEQ no use in
trying to talk about o thing when they
absolutely refused to believe what I
told them. So nothing would satisfy
them but to have o talk with me, and to
have some party to come and soc II he
could identify me as being the party who
bought a ticket for her to New Orleans,
consequently I agreed to that and set
the time for our meeting at three p. m.
and the place, at the Spengler House.
So after agreeing on time ard place
Of meeting remarked 70 Mr. McWil-
liams that he could retire from the
room as ! desired to speak priystely to
Mr. r. K. Jayne, to which he sassented
very readily. then asked Mr. Jayne
this question, suppose that the gentle-
man who they wished to be, present for
the purpose Of identifying me us being
the man who bought the ticket to New
MI ~, hnt ho ,t
think I was the man?' why. then,"
said Mr. j., THAT settles it, but sup
pose" said l, ''that he thinks that l am
the man who bought it, then what dol
they propose to do?N TO which question
MrJ. responded ooh, can't, tell you
anything about that; ! don't know"
. So after considering the whole mat
ter over concluded that it would be q
fatal mistake fOr he 10 meet. the tather
and uncle of the girl while they We're
in that frame OF mind. then believed
that they wanted chance and an ex-
cuse To. murdatssnhcS andI almost Knob !
itnow. Because NcWiIliams told me
positisely ttoeor three times while in con-
versation that day that he was not arm
ed. And what does the great Clalion
soy on. that -subjetty have the paper
bef0pa me andsMillsQuote it literally. |
1t says: .!Mr Williams was evidently q |
gentleman Of great determination Of
character and Carried as an intimate
travelling companion, a no less deter
mined looking gun, which at once i'm
pressed one az being very thirsty, with
q strong prediction for gore-the
TaYlOr.made kind preferyeQ*' Don't
yodi ithihls aftAe teading sthAt, that my
sSrsdkV II cqreytt Wkat other con-
eluAi0hl S0l}lA ope arrive satv So to
avert bloodshed, either my own or any
one elses got into a buggy and drove
off after making every honorable prop
osition could. But / did not drive
ous 1.-THE STATE as the f7aHion hed ssp-1
poeed ely arove sto W = Atlraed,
and Vent to Canton, where 7 remained
until the next day, and thcn went to
zee my brothers, one living In Grenada
and the other about u miles from Gre
Aad4 In the country a.t. Mr. w. g.
Richardson's. II any Of the readers Of
thA Clarion doubt this statement let
them write to Mr. w. G. Richardson,
Miss, and ask him.
Il told the., ,gentlesaaa ~ who seemed
70 thirty for sgoren that. II he would
not believe anything ] said about the
matter. lust to waita reasonable time
10 sea II they could 6nd Mas Watkins
and let her tell her own story about
t. That would abide her statement,
ND thstI felt aatisae9 she would YIN |
dtcate me of Ahy criminal act, II they |
would M alloE hes 2 make her own