The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-05-11

| '-Nos, .shN ChoV iliS uEOGuCE WAS In no
condltlon to have made confession to
Z any one. lie was deranged, so much so
thaC force was necessary to hold him in
the bed and administer medicine.
Nellie Arthur, the mother-in-law of
Q Wllilam Alexander, deceased, and who
attended him during his illness, stated
. that Lazarus Field never visited him
o curing his sickness; that she was posi-
tive, as she had remarked to several
parties that Field had not visited "Wil-
o nam: She, too, said that he was in no
condition to have sent for any one to
whom to make confession.
Alfred Sims. who is half brother to
: Wiillam Alexander. states that he was
: WIN MS brother through his entire ILL
, ness, ana was the one who administer.
ca the medicines, and that his brother
was In no condition to have made con-
: teSSiOn to any one; that he was delrious
all or most of the time, and that he has
no hesitation In saying that Field lies
when he says that he saw his brother
during his illness.
In further v1ndication Of John Loom
1873 Innocence, | would say that | am
convinced that he could prove an ahbi
on the evening of the killing of Miss
1Ornspy.
3. visited Mrs. Nellie Mates. former
ly Miss Belle Hornsby, at the home
eight miles from Columbia on the
Jackson Creek Road, and secured in
formation regarding the situation of
the body. She is convinced that IIaincs
could not have seen her sisters bleed
Ing neck from the station where he
made such remark.
4. Going carefully over the ground
myself, standing In the same place and
looking to the place where the body lay,
concluded that it was a matter of i'm.
possibility to have seen the neck and
face of Miss IIornsby. Her feet were
up the hill and her body in gully"
s. had interviews with Captain
Stack, Mr.. and Mrs. Loomis and many
others whom thought might throw
some light on the crime, and from them
could gather no information that
would give me clew to any other than
Wade IIaineS
(Slgned) NJ. j. McMANus, Detective.
Mr.. a. w. Clayton also makes the
following statement:
COLUMBIA, s. c., Dec 18th, '92.
TO His Excellency Governor B. II. Till
man:
The evidence upon which request
for reprieve in the case of Wade
lIaineS, who is under sentence ofdeath,
is based, is the following statement OF
one Lazarus Field, colOred, who says
that one William Alexander, colored,
who was a State witness in the first
trial of Wade IIaincs for the murder Of
Miss Florence IIornsby, and who died
prior to the second trial, sent for him
only few hours before his deayh and
bade him go to MessrS. Douglass 4
! Obear and Allen j. Green, attorneys
for Haines, and say to them that he
, knew Wade IIaines to be innocent OF
l Florence llornsby's murder, and that
they should use everything to save him
:. from the penalty Of that crime.
. That William Alexander said that
; subsequent to the first trial he had
found a suit of clothes belonging to
young John LOOMS, hid away among
Mr.. Loomis's barns with blood stains
upon them; that he took them to Mrs
Loomis and she burned them; that he
(Alexander) and his wife alone knew
Of the finding Of these clothes, and Of
their disposition by Mrs. Loomis, but
that If he lived to appear ut the next
trial he intended to tell the truth about
them.
Lazarus Field further AYERS that
both William Alexander and his (AleX-
anders) wife died under peculiar and
suspicious circumstances; that on tn e
Sunday prior to Alexander's death, he
was sent for to go to LOOmis's house to
do some work. and was told not to wait
for his breakfast before coming that
he would get his breakfast there, He
went and was taken suddenly sick at
church that day; was haHled home in
a wagon, and died five or six days la
ter. His wife died under like circum-
stances three days after his death, she
being taken i'll in Columbia, was hauled
home in wagon and died as above
stated. In addition to the foregoing
and corroborative thereof. the said La
ZaruS Field further states that the
young man in question was not at the
CorOner's inquest, and did not attend
either trial of Wade IIaines; on the
contrary he went into Fairfield County,
and spent the time of each Of these
trials. These are the statements on
which we formed our request for 70.
prieve, pending investigation, the funds
for which we have raised and this day
deposited, subject to your order for
this purpose. All Of which we ask in
the name of truth and justice.
Respectfully,
a. w. CLAYTON.
"All of this was previous to the last
respite, which was granted by reason
of the letter received" said the Gov.
ernor. Continuing, he said:
"But nothing has come from 1t that
consider Of any weight. During this
period l have seen and cOnversed with
all the principal witnesses, including
the murdered girls sister, sending for
them in person. Am)n others we're
men who felt so certain of IIaineS's IN
nocence that they were mainly instru.
mental in saving him from being
lynched when he was first arrested.
Every one of them now unite in the
| fir hol Of nrh l. ali ,c,
state positively that there were never
any tracks seen in or about the place of
the struggle or down the branch ex-
cept HaineS's own track. One of these
witnesses further noticed peculiar
lty about the track by reason Of the
shoe being worn and the upper leather
beirg torn away from the sole, form
ing a sort Of cup which made a pecul-
lar mark or hole in the edge Of the
track. corresponding exactly to the
shoe IIaines had on when arrested; all
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