Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-11
GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY7
That Is the Absorbing Ques-
ton In the Reese Case.
SENSATION ON TOP Of SENSATION.
Comprehensive Report of One OF the
Most Remarkable Trials That
Has Occurred In the Coun-
ty Since the War.


Mr.. Robert s. Withers. The sub
stance of Mr.. Withers's direct exami.
nation has already been published.
On the cross-examination the defense
called upon the witness to explain an
alleged diagram of Mrs. Anderson's 3
house, and locate the door that he
had seen opened on the night of the
killing. In effect, the witness testified
that the door was not down in the
diagram.
The next witness was Mr.. M. F.
Duncan. He had seen the deceased
on the morning of the 9Th of Febru-
ary at about 10 o'clock. He was on
the same street on which Mrs. Ander-
sons house is located but was some
distance away and walking in the
opposite direction. He saw Dan
Luckie after the killing in the council
chamber, in the presence of the dead
body. Luckie said Williams was an
old friend of the family and had come
to Blacksburg for the purpose of help
ing to patch up the divorce case that
was pending between his sister and
her husband.
J. B. Allison recalled, testified that
at 12 o'clock on the day of the killing,
he saw Williams sitting on the steps OF
the Presbyterian church, on Lime
street, about $50 yards from Mrs. An
derson's house, reading note.
Mr.. T. H. Hughes saw both Reese
and Luckie on the streets of Blacks.
burg between 7.30 and $50 on the
night of the killing. Reese was walk
ing along slowly with his hands in his
pocket, and his head bent down Re-
cognized both positively, and talked
to Luckie on the sidewalk opposite the
Iron City hotel. Luckie had his coat
collar turned up and slouch hat
pulled down over his eyes. The state
ment that had been made in The EN-
oU1RER to the effect that witness had
testified at the coroner's inquest to
seeing Reese on one side of the street
and Luckie on the other, and that both
were looking into the stores as if in
search of some one, was incorrect.
Witness had not given such testimony.
On cross.examination, witness was pos
Iitive that the men he saw were Reese
and Luckie, and said that he had not
told NJ. M. Freeman it was John Boyd.
On redirect examination, witness said
that M. NJ. Freeman had advised him
not to say anything about the matter.
James J. Jackins was put up to
prove the relations between M. 4.
Reese and Mrs.. Ellen Anderson.
There was tilt between counsel as
to the competency of such testimony,
and his honor ruled it out. Witness,
however, testified that Dan Luckie
had asked him not to testify in the
case.
Mr.. C. Duncan, chief of police,
testified to about the same circum-
stances that had already been testified
to by Mr.. J. w. Thomson and others.
He said that when he went to arrest
lLuckie, Luekie came to the door with
revolver in his hand. 1t was 32-
calibre Smith & Wesson. On cross
examination, witness was asked as to
previous tragedies that had occurred in
Blacksburg, and as to whether the
community was not very lawless one.
He was also asked if there was not a
great deal of promiscuous shooting
about the town at night. He thought
the people were as law-abiding as
were those of any other town OF
the same size, and admitted that such
a thing as shooting about the town al
night was not altogether uncommon ;
but did not think that this shooting
was 80 promiscu0us as TO be a source
of danger. He denied that he, or any
one else in his presence, had pulled
the covering off of Mrs. Andersons
bed in search of somebody who might
have been concealed there, or other
wise acted rudely in her house. Wit
ness testified that Reese owned 49,
calibre pistol, and Unidentified the bull
let that had been extracted from the
head of the deceased as of 38.calibre.
Pistols of this calibre be admitted
however, were very common.
Berry Stokes and James Gresham,
both colored, testified to having car
ried notes from Williams to Mrs
Anderson. The notes of Williams
we're received at Mrs. Anderson's
house by Luckie. Luckie told Stokes
that Mrs. Anderson was sick and
that there was no answer. Ores
ham, however, delivered two notes
and received two answers. These
were delivered to him by Luckie, and
he delivered them to Williams. He
could not read; but identified one Of
the envelopes as looking like the note
he had carried. Gresham said he had
carried the first note between 10 and
III O'Clock, and the second about
O'Clock. In each case he was gone
} from Is minutes to halt an hour. The
noles were received from and delivered
to Williams at the Southern depot.
Mr.. D. D. CASTOR, who was q mem
Der of the jury of inquest, was asked
as to whether or not Mrs. Anderson
had admitted in his presence that she
was the writer of these notes. This
his honor ruled, was incompetent, al
no defendant Can be compelled tt
testify against himself or herself, and
therefore, such an admission, if it had
been made, could not be used against
her.
Mr.. Jonn M. Guyton, the postmas
ter, identified the notes as being in the
handwriting of Mrs. Anderson. Or