The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-18
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OFF AMY NORTH GAR0lIA DAILY

saw Brantley and Credle. Brantley
asked IL any one was suspected.
They went up stairs and talked about
fifteen minutes. | heard them whis-
pefing. The night after Credle was ar
rested, before confession, he said, 4
would not have brother know Bonner
is killed for the world, or he would
think / was in it," Credle said it was
the first scrape he was ever into, and
that he was pursuaded into it. When
the Bells were arrested, Uriah had
about eight dollars. Sheriff. had
about three dollars, and each small
pocket knife. We went to Brantley's
to look for knucks and found them as
Creole said, and Mrs. Prantley left
the room crying"
On cross-eXamination, witness said
the reputation of Sheriff. Bell was
good up to this affair. Uriah's was not
so good. That he had the reputation
of attending negro festivals and get.
ting drunk.
Dave Watson (col) said: 81 WAS in
Aurora the day the Bells were ar
rested. / started to ask Uriah for
some tobacco, and stopped as he was
talking behind Bonner's store. He
said TO Sheriff. not to tell anything
that Brantley had not told, and he
would not tell. Said he told S. NJ.
Watson about it,
Soon after Watson was put on the
stand and said: Dave told me he
heard Uriah tell Sheriff. this behind
the store"
b. ID. and Lawrence Rowe both
stated they met Brantley on the road
leading to Wyatt Best's on Sunday
morning about ten o'clock. Brantley
told him he was in Aurora all day.
Mrs. Mary Best said that Bell
boarded with them. Some nights he
came in late, some early, and some not
at all. On Friday before the murder,
Brantley came and the Bells and
BrantIey went off in the woods, and
she heard pistol shots. Uriah went off
that night. On Saturday night Brant-
ley came again. He and Bell went
into the sitting room. II started in
and heard Brantley say, L thought
we would give him a serenade to-
night They stopped talking when |
entered, and went in the passage and
talked in low tone. They all left and
went down the road, and / heard pis-
tol shots. The Bells both went off that
night. This was the night of the muir
der. I don't know what time Uriah
called in. Sheriff. did not sleep there
Sunday. Uriah did not eat breakfast
or dinner. Brantley came about ten
o'clock a. IN. The Bells had gone to
the woods. They came back about
two O'Clock. Brantley said he had seen
Bonner and that it was horrible to
see the girls crying. Brantley said ii
was kind of Jesse James trick. ]
replied, you are not Jesse Jane, are
your He replies, Ne, and never eX-
pect to be- He left, and later he pass
cd with his wife going to John
Flowers"
Mrs. Gray testified that she had
room at Brantley's, and came from
church the night of the murder be-
tween and 8 o'clock, and Brantley
and Credle were there.
Daniel Paul said he was in Aurora
the night after the murder, and that
some one about the size of Uriah Bell
beckoned Creole on the other side of
the street. Creole went across and
both went behind house Credle
came back, and the man went off
through the bushes. (Credle said in
his confession that Uriah Bell beckon-
ed to him and they went behind
house, and Bell gave him Bonner's
store key.)
The State viii continue it's evidence
tomorrow.