Richmond planet., 1895-09-21

did know anybody around Mr.. Pol
lard's and / told him that Mary Barnes
bad been working there. And he said
who else, and l said Mary Abernathy
had been working there and that Po-
Key Barnes was living on the line fence
ALL RE WANTED TO KNOW.
And he said that was all ne wanted
to know. And / and him went on then
and he said. Me and Nr. Pollard have
had some words and that he was going
to Kill him. And he went down on
Mr.. Pollard's land on the old spring
branch, right down there at the house
that was caved in over the branch.
And We sat down there. lie told me
TO sit down in front of him. He told
me TO watch and see If / saw anybody.
don't know what the bell rang 70 r
nor exactly what time il rang, but !
heard the bell ring.
SHE GAME TO THE SPRING.
And after that l saw Aunt Mary
Rarnes come TO the spring. / said,
Yonder is Aunt Mary Barnes now
And he said where is she going?' /
said, she has bucket and she must
be going TO the spring. He said, DO
you see any body else?' I told him no
sir. Then / reckon il was about a
quarter of an hour. Then / heard
somebody talking to horse and told
him of it. Then he stayed there lit
lie while after that Then he got up
and told me TO come on. And / went
on with him and rs / was going up the
spring hill he says. When ! make a
noise at the door, want you to catch
them.
DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT
told him that I didn't want to have
anything TO do with them. They had
never done anything to me and that ]
did not want to trouble them And he
said, That is not what l told you
Damn it, if you don't do as / told you
I'll shoot your head off. Just as he
got to the gate he repeated the words
over again
NOISE AT THE DOOR
Ee went on then and when he got to
the door he made a noise at the door.
Just as he made a noise at the door
Mrs Pollard she came out and as he
turned the corner of the house she
saw his shadow as he was going around
the house. She looked at it and COM
menced walking backwards. When
she commenced walking backwards
she backed upon me and caught her
by the hands
THE MURDER OF MRS POLLARD
No sooner than caught her by the
hands and by the throat, he came back
around there and he asked her did she
know who he was She said he was a
white man. Then he asked her how
long Mr.. Pollard had come back. /
do not remember whether she said he
had come back about u or before -
o'clock He says, j come to kill Mr.
| Pollard, but / can't get chance at
| him, so Pll kill you. Then he took up
the axe and struck her three licks with
the helve As the first blow was de-
| scending, turned her loose and he
struck her two more blows with the
helve after that jumped up And
he said, Where in the hell you going?'
HIT HER WITH THE AXE
I told him 1 want going nowhere.
Then he commenced hitting her with
the axe part Then after he got done
hitting her with the axe, he said
| Where are you goingY said, / am
/ going home' And he said, No, you
| aint, you've got to go with me. I've
| got a little more talk for you Then
he caught me by the arm and went on
| in the house.
THE ROBBERY.
When he got in the house. he reach
ed up on something, 1 don't know
| what it was and got something and
| went down to a little lower something
| [chestl and got something out there
and commenced putting it in his pock-
ct He reached and got something
with some paper money in it. ! don't
! know what it was Then he caught
me by the hand and we went on away
from there When he got up there to
the forks OF the road that leads from
| Fort Mitchell to Burnsgate, he gave
me two pieces of paper money, and
told me to take it and go to Chase City
to spend it
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS.
He told me not to spend it at any of
those places around there He told
me to spend some Of it and register the
other bach to Finneywood to myself
and to name myself something else.
and If they caught me, put Mary Aber-
nathv, POkey and Aont Mary Barnes
! n, on6 - didn't I, -