The Democrat., 1896-01-30

gone to the stable at that hour Of night
! before and cleaned il out.
i Witness said he had not.
Didn't you usually have some one
else to do that sort Of work %
"Yes," answered the witness, but ex-
planned that the boy he had hired quit
him day or two before that time.
Didn't YOU see Uriah Bell out there
that night"
"No, sir"
After a long and tedious cross-exam-
ination Mr.. Warren closed with some
hard questions for the witness.
Would you testify falsely to save
your brothers lives2"
Alter the question was repeated the
witness answered II Don't think
would"
Miss May Crawford was at the ball
on the Thursday night of the week
prior to the week OF Mr.. BOnner's
death. Saw Uriah Bell. He went home
with her, and she did not think he left
the hall after he first went until the
ball closed.
W. j. Boyd was the next witness.
His testimony was not long.
Adam Holmes, colored, Mary Eliza
Eason, colored, Miley Hunter, colored,
all testified that Dave Watson, the col
ored man who said he heard the Bell
boys bargaining not to tell, told them
he knew nothing about it.
H. W. Broome and L. NJ. Broom tes-
titled that Dave Watson is not reliable.
Brantley's mother and wife were not
with him at all during the day.
NINTH DAY-WEDNEsDAY JAN. 23RD-
URIAH BELL TESTIFIES.
), Soon after court was opened. the de-
fense called Urlah Bell to the stand
He was little nervous at first, but
seemed clear-headed in all his state
ments. He said he was 10 years old
was born in Hyde county and has llv
ed at Aurora ten years.
He remembered the night that
ThOmpsOn's store was broken open
He then detailed his movements thai
night. That night about o'clock he
and Will Hooker went to a place in the
county known as "Cross Roads - re
turned after II O'Clock and went to his
} brothers, had no knowlege of the
t breaking OF Tnompson's store untl
$ next morning did not remember the
night when Mr.. Hudnell's store wa
] said to have been broken into. He
: heard Of it sometime afterwards die
not know where he was, for he did no1
> know the night. Last tall his work
. was gathering In crop OF corn and po
2 tatoes of his fathers near Aurora
Sheriff. Bell came from Hyde county
| where their father lives. three weeks
, before Mr.. Bonner was killed, and wa
in Hyde county when Thompson'
store was broken into.
He said that Credle's story abou
seeing him Thursday night of the weel
prior to the week of Mr.. BOnner's mur
der was not true.
On Wednesday night of the weel
prior to the week Of the murder he an(
y, Wyatt Best, with two darkies went t.
the Indian Island hunting. Thursday
night OF the same week he went to the
, dance. He went from his boarding
place to Aurora went to Will Thomp
sons got his slippers; went to hi
brothers and put them on. He founC
, that 1t was muddy, SO he stopped at the
stairway, took them off and put hi
shoes back on, and went back to VII
Thompson's to change, and then wen
to the hall. He stayed at the dance
until o'clock and did not remembe
going out OF hall all the evening.
His counsel asked: did you heal
, Will Thompson state that you ant
: some one else went to his store to bu,
cigarettes 90
He answered. "If | went do no
: remember it. | had gone there othe
night. from dances to get cigarettes
He may have the time wrong or
may
Went from the hall with some voun,
:, ladies returned to the hall came down
. with viii Boyd and wer.t to my broth
er's and spent the night.
as there any TRUTH" asked his coun
sci, IN Credle's statement about goin,
'' to Brantley's that night to consul
J about robberies 2"
1T is all an absolute lie"
He gave as his movements of Frida
: night that he and Boyd went te Ed
wards mills; Saturday went hunting
} and went to Aurora at night: was a
Bonner's store when it closed, and h
then went home with Hugh Bell an,
stayed all night. Monday and Tuesda
: of the week of the murder he shucke,
corn at his fathers farm about mill
from Aurora Wednesday night b,