The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-27
)ANOKE VA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27 1898

ware asked me to come up to testify
didn't come up to the jail until after
the shooting"
j. FL. Morgan-"I am car inspector
and live in the city. 1 left home at
| o'clock and from to $40 was in front
OF the laundry where the shooting took
place didn't think my position was
dangerous one until the shooting was
over. The first shooting, I thought,
took place inside tho police court, to
the best OF my knowledge. thought it
was from rifles"
LIEUTENANT MOSS on THE STAND.
Lieutenant Willoughby b. Moss, who
had been summoned to appear before
tho jury, said: II am first lieutenant of
Company G, Second Virginia Regiment,
known here as the Roanoke Light In
fantry."
Question-"What orders did you
hear?"
Answer-"I was ordered BY CAPTAIN
Bird. was stationed at different
points during the evening. 1 was in
front when the shooting began. He
Chat is, Captain Bird called me ten
minutes before the firing began and
told me to take charge of the men.
merely gave cautionary commands to
the squad. l didn't give any regular
orders. didn't give any orders to fire.
l was In front of the squad when they
fired. l couldn't testify that any single
man fired, didn't recognize that any
single man fred. After 1 got behind
the squad gave orders to cease firing.
! After that l was sent to the armory.
They were at the order of charge
bayonets' when the firing took place.
| The men were placed in o semi-circle."
Question-"Do you know the guns
were loaded?"
Answer-"Yes, SIR"
Question -"Were they loaded again."
Answer-"I don't know"
Question-"What were the instruc.
| tions Captain Bird Rave?"
Answer-"He only gave orders to
take charge of squad. The orders were
| given to the men not to FIRE unless to
protect their lines. never received or
| gave any orders to fire.
Question-"Could any one else give
command to fire; did they have right?"
Answer-"Captain Bird or Mayor
Trout could have done so, or Colonel
Pole had the right to if he was there"
Question-"'Was anyone firing in the
crowd in front of you?"
| Answer-"Yes."
Question-"Was that done before your
| squad flred?'
Answer-"Yes, sir"
Question-"How much?n
Answer-"It strikes me more than a
half dozen fred"
Question by Acting Mayor Buckner-
do you mean there was firing in the
crowd before any OF the military fired ~
Answer-"I mean before my squad
| fired. AS to the rear of the jail l can
not say l particularly saw one man
about in the center of the street fire.
l can't say whether in the air or at The
Jail. l was then where the picket lines
we're driven in. In my opinion they
could not hold the crowd back. The
crowd was very turbulent in front O f
me-"
Question by Mr. Buckner-"Did you
think their lives in danger?"
Answer-"I considered mine in
danger and the soldiers were in tho
same danger 1 was. Mayor Trout ex-
horted the crowd to keep back in a
dozen different ways. Capt. Bird was
also there. l did not hear any do
mands from the crowd that the mayor
give up the negro 1 heard several
various cries, We'll have him. We'll
get him. The crowd rushed over the
pickets and came over to the JAIL"
JUDGE DUPUY TEsTIFIES.
Judge James A. Dupuy, of the cir
cult COURT know very little as 10
the shooting except that heard it. A
few minutes prior to the shooting l
came to the west side of the jail and
was standing in the vacant lot, and
side pressing against the Jail and could
hear reports of pounding against the
Jail and could hear voices demanding
tho prisoner AS could gather it, they
were saying, Give him up or Bring
him out
The crowd was very much excited,
those on the west siue and In Campbell
street were whooping and following. I
thought would go in front and towards
the Ponce de Leon Hotel as much to
see the character of the crowd as any
thing else. 1 was informed that the
pickets were there and that couldn't
go. | then went back to the Presby-
terian Church and down Church to Com
courthouse. When tho firing began |
heard considerable stampede in every
direction. l know nothing as to the
extent of the shooting except reports /
heard. = ~
81 couldn't distinguish the firing from
the crowd or from the Jail. / did not
see Mayor Trout. l never got as far as
the front OF the jail did not hear any
one advise the crowd to go back The
people on the outskirts l thought
were there as spectators. There were
people near the Jail whom I thought
were there to take the prisoner from
the Jail. A good portion were there
thought to look on, others for different
purpose"
Question-"When a proclamation is
made by the mayor to q crowd to retire
and dispense, how are the parties who
remain afterwards looked on in the eyes