The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-04-01
The Rollins Trial Progressing Very
Slowly.
The Lawyers Have Tilt To-day and
Steps for Awhile.
IT WILL BE ON UNTIL THURSDAY
solicitor Parker Very Sick and VIII Go
Home This Evening Laid Up
with Grippe.

house filled with people. There was
nothing at all strange or startling-ex
cept perhaps the introduction of Mrs. J
n. Lea and Mrs. Phipps as witnesses.
Nan White: \ place where women
accommodate men; remembered the night
when Sandy Jones was said to have
been killed she did not see Sandy Jones
that night; she saw Happier that night;
saw both Rollins and Happier in hei
own house did not know the time they
came. 1t was little after dark she
said that after they came, some gentle
men came upon the front porch and
kicked the door, and did not knock
she was on her bed-was sick and wanted
no one there; asked them to go away;
Rollins was in her room; she asked ROl
lns TO take those men away-he wen
out back doors; she cracked open the
door the door was locked with key and
then barred the bottom Of the door was
kicked loose Nan White had sent for
Captain Rollins-the question eliciting
this answer Was warmly opposed by
state.-but granted by state; Nan sal
she kept a house; aHd Nan stood aside
Mrs. Phipps She lived on Ream',
avenue; she had lived here about % years;
She lived in the vicinity of the bad dis
trict she remembers the night that Sandy
Jones was killed; she went to the back
south window 10 throw out water; sht
heard loud cursing and talking; she stop
ped to listen; she heard some one say.
turn him over, and cut his c. d. head
of; Then heard some body hallOw, Help!
then she heard the report of pistol or
gun-and then another one right after
it; then a poliCeman's whistle blowed
twice-and she went down stairs; after
going down stairs heard the report OF
another pistol; she saw the flash of the
first pistol fired; she could not tell how
close the pistol was to the ground but
thought it was low to the ground; j,
seemed to go in an easterly direction
tendency.
Mrs. John T. Lea, daughter Of /. NJ.
Reams: She remembered the night thai
Sandy Jones was said to have been
killed; she was at home; she said thai
that night she was in her room with hel
little boy-she heard pistol and police
whistle; then she heard a noise sounding
like men talking and hallowing; then sh,
opened the door and heard some one
hnlI him hn
yell murder-murder-ri in my door
murder-she saba woman's voice
they are cutting a mans head off right
at my door; then she heard a scut1le and
two pistol shots; they had a dull sound
the last two sounded as though they
were fired up in the air; the time between
the first two and the last two shots was
about three minutes
State: Nothing of any particular i'm.
portanCe adduCed.
Mary Brandon: Lives in Durham :;
wire fence partially around the house {;
She heard a rOw-talking and cursing
near her window-heard them say cuI
his throat and all about as Mrs Phipps
and Mrs. Lea said she found knife and
repeated the evidence she gave before
the coroners jury.
Court then adjourned until 2:30.
At the afternoon session, opening at
@..id, The ti:~t witness was Amy Thomas
She j. black; she was at Mrs. BransOn's s
house; bad gone to give letter; she saw
! ;t,.r bo
IN to cut his ID throat then she heard
pistol shots two shots; then she heard
>o.n" one say hold him up and cut his
ID head of then heard scuffle; Mrs
Brandon ran to door and yelled murder
She thought it was ten minutes before the
other shots were heard she heard Mrs
HransOn tell Jasper Phipps to go around
there, that they were cutting mans
head of in her door.
The state: Amy was little ratified
concerning the time, distance and space
J. W. Bradford, chief of police of Win
ston: Ten years chief of police there he
knew Sandy Jones; had known him
about II or IS months; when Parker
asked Bradford if he knew the character ::
the jury retired unit the question of
whether Jones character be introduced
1t was out over an hour while the lawyers
fought it out. After an hour the evil
dence Of Bradford was excluded, con-
cernlng character, and the jury returned.
Mary Adams, colored: Lives on Main
street, the other side of Mrs. Brandon's 4;
she remembers the night Sandy Jones is
said to have been killed she saw Sandy
Jones after he was shot; he was lying
BACK of her house the first time she had
seen him; was lying fifty feet from her
mousse; she went to the back of lot in a
!urnlp patch at night and found Sandy
Jones lying there; she also went the next
morning with Baby Cunningham; she saw