The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-23

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this witness
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have $ good deal Of te.linr "a thi- mat
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No. answered witness. only for
! justice.
b. F MAYO was tie neat witness FOR
the state. lie j. poet master in Aurora
and BIZ testimony corroboratel Cp,iie'-
as 10 the mos ement Of witness on the
night the gang tired 70 get a chance 10
rob him One thing particularly cor
oborative Of Credle was that NJ Mayo
va. unwell the night before the Ilan 90
rob him, had - 1T up in chair all
night. he was - sick with asthma. and
when lie started home the night in
question. nc remarked that he hoped
to sleep we'll a he was kept awake all
night before with his asthmatlc troubles
This coroborated axactly what Creole
SAID Uriah Bell heard that night
The cross-examination 81 the witne Is
| did not shake his direct testimony
B. II. Thompson was next called
He lives il Idaiia about enc and one
half miles from Aurora. His testimony
coroborated Credle's about the night
Creole and Brantly and Uriah went
down there to rob him and Cuthrel
He heard a noise in his back ward about
the time Credle said he fell over some
boxes there
On Monday after the murder witness
went to John Flowers where Creole
and Brantly were talked with them
about the murder and proposed to carry
Brantly back to town If he wished to 60.
Witness was sent out there To watch
Creole and Brantly a. they had been
suspected of the crime and papers were
being prepared for their arrest.
He took Brantley back to town and
on the way Brantly asked il they sus-
pected anyone, and he told him, for a
blind, that they did, and it was some
negroes on one of Mr. Bonner's farms.
When he got back to Aurora he sent
BrantleY in store and some one else
had also brought Creole and sent him
in the same store, and they were ar
| rested.
While he was at Flowers Brantley
and Creole went up stairs and he slip
ped out near the stairway and heard
them whispering.
He was asked If any promises were
made to Credle after he was arrested
and witness said no. This was the
witness who went to Brantleys house
with Mr.. Buck and sifted the ashes
and found the empty shell as Credle
! told them they would.
Also Creole told him to look under
the Wash-stand In Brantley's house and
he'd find the knucks with which
Brantley knocked Mr. Bonner down
He looked at Brantley's house first
under the bereau and then under the
wash-stand and when Brantley's wife
saw them look under the wash-stand
she turned away and burst into cry
He found the knucks as Creole said
he would.
Later Creole said Brantly shot Mr.
Bonner in the head and oherrelI Bell
shot him in the side Witness told
Creole it could not be so, but Creole
said it was SO.
Witness was shown shell and knucks
and Unidentified them.
Mr.. BecKwith conducted the exami-
nation of this witness for the Bell boys
Before it had proceeded far the hour
for dinner interrupted and the witness
was dismissed until afternoon
After the court was adjourned and
while the crowd was passing out, Brant
ley's wife whispered to him and he lis
tened closely. She had thrown her arms
around his shoulders and Brantley wa,
leaning close to hear what she SAID anC
to return the whisper.
Mr. Beckwith's first question IN th'
afternoon was, while BrantIey anC
Creole were in the hall Monday nigh
after their arrest, did any one tell then
they would better confess"
Witness answered, NO"
Witness said he did not want to be
lieve the Bell boys were IN 1t. He sait
. Uriah Bell would drink on Saturda
nights but he had never heard OF Sher
rill Bell drinking Wien he was ask
ed to assist IN arresting them he reius
ed-he did not want to do it. He W.
with deputy sheriff Redditt when the
were arrested. They took them asid
and read the warrant to them an
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