The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-08-17

morning / heard of the murder:
have known Mike Davis many years
his general character is not so yer
good"
Cross-examined: "Davis lives abou
forty feet from my house: heard OLE
man call Ellen ''Tussie;" DeGraff anC
/ were very intimate; ] think / saw
| DeGraff and Ellen at Davis; DeGraf
had on a suit of clothes something
similar to the one he is now wearing
! light blue) and dark hat; had an um
| brella and tin cup-the latter is nov
| at my house; DeGraff, | think, sale
the umbrella was Ellen Smiths.
The witness said that the umbrella
looked like the one exhibited by Mr.
Manly. He added that 'DeGraf ap
peared to be restless after he learned
that he was accused of the murder
that DeGraff was at his house an
hour: DeGraff appeared TO be hurt
next day: / have no recollection OF
seeing him that night after he left
nv house about dark: it was about 1C
o'clock when he came to my house
next day."
John russell: :" saw Mike Davis
after his testimony Saturday: L heard
Frank Page say to Davis that
he Davis told him he came here to
swear lie but that Peter caught him
III IL. DCpI ClA SlIOU piCtCl UffiON
in the meadow the night of his arrest:
it was about 200 yards from the place
where the girl was killed: he asked
me if / wanted to hear him shoot his
big pistol; | told him | did"
ROxana Fox: II live on Pond
street; l knew Ellen Smith by sight:
the last time / saw her was three or
four days before her death; she came
to Reeds bar-rOOm; it was not Peter
DeGraff with her; do not know who
it was"
Cross examined: did not know
what Ellen was doing at the store;
she was living at Mr.. Roses, near
Reeds store at the time.
Albert Meinung, cOloIed: II live
about two miles southwest Of Win
ston: know Mike Davis: from what
people tell me his general character
is BAD
Cross-examined: ''He never stole
anything from me-
The prisoner, Peter DeGraff, was
put on the stand. He said II knew
Ellen Smith well: last time l saw her
was on the 18th of July, 1892: / wrote
her note and saw her in the woods;
| went to Mr.. Brindle's; left there to
90 to Mosstown to get some medicine
from an old colOred woman: going
back / met a negro man who told me
she was dead; [ stayed here until the
next Monday: | left because of fear Of
being lynched: | was told that great
crowds were after me with guns:
Wednesday night slept at Brindle's:
Thursday night slept in Mr.. 2. II.
HaneS' tobacco barn: up to the day
left | stayed at Brindle'S, Pitts store
and my fathers; never went to Mike
Davis on the Wednesday night: the
first time | saw Mike Davis was next
day after the murder; told him /
had been to see the girl: | told him it
was Ellen Smith and they accused me
of killing her; / told hir1 to go to the
well and get some water and we would
take a drink: | did not kill Ellen
Smith; God in Heaven knows it; I
loved her until this day: | left here
and went to Mt. Airy where / stayed
at saw mill: l went by the name of
| changed my name be-
cause l was afraid that mob would
come up there and lynch me; l did not
try to resist arrest when the officers
came after me; the umbrella [ had |
bought at Baity's three years ago; |
saw Preston Edwards on the same
evening, July 18th, that | saw Ellen
Smith; | wrote the note found on the
body; the other note was
written IN the jail by Mr.. Stevenson"
The prisoner then read the note to
the jury that he wrote to the girl. He
said he saw the girl on tue night of
the 18th at Mr.. Roses"
Cross-eXamined: 81 don't know but
[ may be % or % years old; l was
born in Gates county, n. c.; been liv-
ing in Winston since 1876; the first
ime L met the girl was three years
ago next January: l went to see her:
vent to her house once across the
river; / don't know what county it
was; / think it was in March l went
with her to her home; we stopped at a
house; / might have told it chat the
child was mine; l don't know how
ong she stayed at Mike Davis; [ went
there to see her three times; | left the
Town in February; | saw Der there
three days; | did not keep the girl; l
1yed her as sweetheart; / don't
know and don't believe that l seduced
ler; I met her the same day the note
was written ten or fifteen steps this
tide of the spring; it was about ten
o'clock a. M; she was there when [
rot there; said she had been there
about five minutes; | sent the note
about I a. M; when | went up she
threw her arms around my neck: |
carried the note; / did say that | sent
5he note at a. M; / asked her to
meet me at 10 o'clock: L gave her the
note; she was at the house; she pulled
5he note out of my pocket; don't
know that the note was found on the
girl; don't know that l met Brewer at
5he spring; was drinking; Brewer is
mad with me and [ suppose he came
here to swear against me; I cannot
jell who ] met that morning; | did
lot meet the cOlored girl and tell her
10 go and see the dead girl; never saw
her until she came upon the stand; so
many people asked me where the body
was: the first time | saw Ellen Smith
after her death they were cutting her
up; the (SENTINEL) reporter came to
5he Jail and asked me where / had
been; he asked for a lie and | told
him lies; l was excited at the magiS-
brate's trial; l might have said to
Mr.. Hudson and Others that / would
shoot the girl if she kept bothering
me; remember going to the depot
with Wiley Lashmit, and meeting the
girl; never told her that if | saw her
with any other man I would kill her;
[ told the reporter | had been to New
Mexico: he did not ask me when it was;
[ went to Mexico about four years
ago; | went to Milton Livengood's and
eat dinner; had about lis cartridges; [
think Mr.. Liyengood said to his wife,
There comes the man they accuse of
killing Ellen Smith, / did not tell
that / passed by the spring
and that Ellen Smith was there with
a man and that he shot at me; Liyen-
good was the man that told me that;
[ was drinking on Monday and Tues
day before the murder and on
Wednesday was drunk; stayed at Mr..
Baindle's until about four O'Clock the
latter evening; went to Pitts and got
more whiskey; / rode in p. FL. Hanes'
wagon and went to my brothers; |
had that umbrella but had no tin
cup: it was my umbrella, did not call
her sTussie:' called her Mary Ellen
Smith; I did not tell Mrs Pitts chill
dren or Mr.. Livengood that the UNI