Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-12
Guided. and a stern expression settled in

cIuded. and q stern expression settled in
many eyes.
David virts, young man living near the
Buxton house, was next sworn. A few
minutes after the alarm Of murder was
raised he had seen large black man run
which adjoins that of the Buxtons, and
cross the road going in the direction of the
school house He could not identify the
man, but the latter had on dark clothes
Mr.. Virts said he called out, Here he
goes" because he thought the man had
committed the crime he knew from the
cries he heard had been committed. The
man was running very fast: indeed. wit
ness thought he could not have run faster.
Thomas Phoebus testified that he reached
the Buxton house few minutes before 4
O'Clock. Mrs. Buxton was crying murder,
and ran over to witness house.
Looked Like Glenn johnson.
When he got to Buxtons he went up
stairs and found Sadie lying in the bed
with blood and hair. was lying at the foot
of the bed. No one but the Buxton family
was there when he arrived.
Buxton said when 1 asked him who did
It that 1t was somebody who looked like
Glenn Johnson" -''
Witness saw no one leaving the house or
near 1t. He examined the premises after
made through a front window which had
been reached by a small homemade sled
tilted up against the house under 1t. There
was not much daylight when he reached
the scene.
Joseph Phoebus. brother of the proceed
Ing witness. corroborated his testimony
He found Buxton standing at the back door
with the blood running down his face.
Buxton said: Somebody's been murder
ing ALL -
who did it? asked"
Il don't know. but it was tall black
man. VINO looked like Glenn Johnson said
Buxton.
Witness had seen no strangers in the vi
cinity the night before. He lived about $50
yards from Buxton.
Vernon Watkins identified the ak found
in the Buxton house, with blood on it. as
one belonging to him. 1t was last used by
him on the Sunday evening preceding the
twenty-five or thirty feet from the public
road.
Preacher Lloyd and the Tracks.
Squire Baughman called REV. L. L.
Lloyd" and there was the first hustle of
the hearing when a heavy-set squarely-
built man. below the medium height, and
looking more like country merchant than
minister. came forward to be sworn. He
was Preacher Lloyd, and he gave his testi-
mony with clear and distinct enuncation
and much elaboration and detail
Of the murder by DR.. Etchison and Wesley
English, who told him that an assault had
been committed on the Buxton family, and
that the man who did it was in the woods
by his Uloyd'S house. He dressed and
went at once into the woods and proceeded
TO make systematic search of them. He
went up and down. across them twice, and
on the third trip found a track of a man
He followed this track until he found
here 1t intersected another. He followed
coth tracks, which became parallel, until
they reached piece of ploughed ground.
In the middle Of the ploughed ground he
discovered a place where one of the men
making the tracks had sat down and taken
of his shoes. The tracks then ran parallel
as before, until the railroad was reached.
pin could have been heard to drop at
this point of his testimony, and the same
dense silence was preserved as he con-
tinued. there only being a movement of
anxlety now and then as the witness in
quIreo II ne should proceed further
A Talk With Buxton.
He left the tracks at the railroad and
went to the Buxton house.
Il asked Buxton only one question: Can
you Identify your assailant?
Buxton replied: He was a tall, heavy-set
black negro. 1 do not know whether l
could identify him or no."
Continuing. Preacher Lloyd said he re-
neWed his pursuit of the tracks after they
crossed the railroad. and through a grass
field. He only saw the barefoot track
again, and that was where the man had
jumped fence between two fields and left
the impress of one foot on the soft earth
beyond it. He followed the other track.
and it went directly to the house where
George Nea1e lived. He found four men
there. who wanted to arrest Neale a once
but ne said they should wait for an officer
Il then went back to Buxton's house and
asked him three questions: said:
DO you know George Neale"
Yes
- have followed certain tracks to
Neale's house. Was Neale your assailants:
No., said Buxton; 1T was not Neale
Then he paused for moment and said !.
1T was not Glenn johnson either. although
1t recalled him very much"
The Capture of Randolph.
Preacher Lloyd said he then telephoned
Horton Thompson, but could not raise him,
and he went back to Neale's house, where
he met Mr.. Adams. He took up the direc-
ton in which the other tracks had gone,
and he soon heard a great deal of yelling
and shouting and a number of shots
Adams said 1t was in the swamp and the
men making the noise were coming their
way. The sounds receded however, and he
followed them.
At the edge of the Owen field he saw
crowd of men, among whom were Will
Garrett and Fred Ward. Garrett had a
colored man tied with a rope half as big
as his wrist. with a halter on the end of r.
and was making all sorts of threats. He
quelled the disturbance, and the man, who
was Randolph. was taken to Gaithersbure
Continuing, witness said Deputy Sherifr
Horton Thompson and Wilson Stonestreet
placed George Neale's bare foot In the bare
foot track in the ploughed field. and it Mt
ted perfectly. He said he then went to
Hunting Hill for the purpose of demon
strating that Garrett and Ward had cap
tured the wrong man, and going back on
Randolph's tracks followed them to Fultz's
hay barracks. within $50 yards of Neale's
house. The examination of Preacher LIoyd
was largely conducted by Juror Belt. who
did the same thing with the others no
questions being asked by the prosecuting
attorneys, although Mr.. Kilgore coached
Mr.. Belt.
One Who Chased the Prisoner.
John w. Garrett, ore OF the captors of
Randolph. testified to being notified by
telephone that man answering the de-
scription Of the Buxtons' assailant was in
the neighborhood, and to going out with
his cousin. Frank Ward, in search of him
Randolph was overtaken on the road near
wards place. Witness rode alongside Of
him and asked him where he was from
The man replied from GEORGETOWN. He
asked him where he had spent the night.
and he said in barn. The man was still
walking rapidly. but when Ward said they