The Democrat., 1896-01-30

took his buggy whip and that explain
ed why be had Alired's whip.
ON Saturday morning. the day OF
the murder. he was up nj nine
o'clock at his brothers house. About
o'clock that day Brantley came to
i Wyatt Bests' and lie and Brantley and
Sheriff. Bell sat in the sitting room
PLAYING with Mrs. Best's baby.
His counsel asked him if he heard
Bran,ley say in the passage there that
day, Il thought we'd give him sere-
made tonight"
He said he heard no such thing.
If YOU did hear him say So" asked
Mr.. Moore. "was 1t in reference tc rob
bing any one?'
, "No."
The night of the murder he and
, Sheriff. Bell after supper went down
town TO Aurora about dark They
met Ben Jones, the man Sherrlll had
been boarding with, and Jones asked
Sheriff. if he was going TO stay with
him that night. Sheriff. told HIM yes.
Witness here showed by the map
how he went into the town lie went
to Will Thompson's store, then to his
brothers, and got the buggy whip from
back porch and carried 1t to Fred Al
fred He stopped in front OF Brant-
lev's house and called him and asked
, him about settling for some timber
they had been interested in together.
He did not go INTO Brantley's house.
Went to Lee II ON psOn's store. then to
barber-shop, and stopped on the way
to settle with Gasklns for his horse and
J. buggy the night before Went back
to Lee Thompsons and Thompson ask
ed him to help him wait on his custo-
: mers. He did so, twenty minutes per
haps, then went to Whitehurst's store,
but did not see Mr. Bonner in there.
|. Did not recall going to Bonner's store.
t Soon VIII Thompson came in where he
: was and as Thompson went out to
|, Cherry's store witness then went to
: DR.. Smithwick's Office. He started to
It IN particular, when Charlie Sparrow
l. called him in and said "Where you
It going, Sporty?" He turned into DR.
e Smithwick's Office and soon Will
e Thompson came in, and all remained
, there a good while. When Matthews
Is finished his jokes some one said
e "Uriah, can't you meet that" And
IL he said he could not. Witness and
e Sparrow and Matthews went to jim
Is Gardner's-a colOred man's-a mile
e from Aurora, drank five quarts OF wine
d and witness got dead drunk. He scram-
IT b1ed off somewhere, he did not know
k where, and near day he went back to
D Gardner's house and told him to let
1. him come in and warm tor he was
:, nearly frozen. This corroborated Gard
s ner's statement about that He asked
IS Gardner what time 1t was and he said
8 it was almost day Witness then went
to Wyatt Bests, to his room there, and
1t slept until 9 Or 10 o'clock a. m. next
k day Next morning Best came up to
r his room for him to go to breakfast
and he was too sick and stupid to get
k up or know anything. Later Best come
d up and said, Have you heard the bad
% news?" Witness said no, what was it?
y Best told him Mr.. Bonner was murder
e ed, to get up and let's go down to town
6 and see about it. He told him he was
, too sick to go anywhere.
Is Then Brantley came there and he
d and Sheriff. Bell and Brantley went
e out through the fields to the woods.
is He lay down and went to sleep at once
IL and did not know what Sheriff. and
1t Brantley talked about.
e In the afternoon he went to Aurora.
II Went to his brothers at supper time
but ate nothing but some cake.
II Witness detailed movements of that
q night how he stayed in Bonners store
y with Henry Bonner and Wallace Gull
ford. They were watching, expecting
1t that perhaps the person who had stolen
er he key from Mr.. Bonner's body would
s. try to go in that night. He did not see
Creole that night at all.
Next day Credle and Brantley were
g arrested. Tuesday Lee Thompson me-
n him and told him Credle had confessed
b. and said that witness and Sheriff. Bel
helped him and Brantley kill Mr.. Bon
Il ner. He told Sheriff. He said to Let
lg Thompson, What shall l do?"
1t Il know nothing about law, but
know that | have not done anythin!
and id if III 60 anywhere"
~ Soon Deputy Sheriff Redditt arrested
l. him and Sheriff. took them aside with
lg Ben Thompson and read the warrant t.
at them. Witness said, For Gods sake
le you don't believe lt?' Redditt said ht
i'd could not believe it. They were then