Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-14

introduce the statement made at the
coroner's inquest in evidence with the
statement just made. His honor ruled
that such testimony could not be
used against the prisoner, and the OBJ
lection was sustained.
Witness was next carried over the
occurrences Immediately after the
shooting, and required to give full
explanation of the diagram of his house.
Witness did not 60 above his gate on
the night of the shooting, and was not
in front of the house of Mrs. Sumner.
He was not in front of Mrs. Roberts's
yard. He did not know at what time
the light in Mrs. Anderson's house was
turned out. Did not remember that
he and Dan Luckie had conversation
in his backyard the next morning.
Did not remember telling ]. B. Allison
that he went out of the house after the
shooting, saw nothing and went back.
Did not state to Mr.. Alb Whisonant
that he had an engagement with Mrs.
Anderson the night of the shooting.
He owned pistol of the bulldog pat
tern. Refused to say when he left
Blacksburg but stated that he and
Luckie were together during the whole
time of their absence. AT first refused
to say what name be went under but
after reflection said Luckie went under
the name of Smith.
DR.. D. s. Ramseur was recalled, and
asked as to whether or not Mrs. An
derson had confessed to him shortly
after the killing, that she fired the
shots.
The solicitor objected. His honor
ruled that a communication of this
kind to a physician could not be re-
garded as confidential, as in the case
of lawyer, and that if the doctor
should testify, he might lay himself
liable to prosecution as an accessory.
In reply, the state put up Colouel
w. D. Camp and Mr.. John Cline, q. no
swore that they would not believe
Julian Ross on oath. On cross-exam-
ination, both admitted that they had
had business troubles with Ross.
Mrs. o. A. Osborne was recalled for
the purpose of contradicting the testi-
mony of Mrs. Roberts. Major Hart,
anticipated the question, objected and
requested his honor to caution witness
not to answer the question until it
should be determined whether or not
it was relevant. Mr.. deLoach asked:
"Mrs. Osborne, did you or not, hear
Mrs. Roberts say on the Sunday after
the killing that if Marion did not let
this b. alone, she would prove his
ruin,' or words to that effectP"
II most positively did," answered
the witness, and his honor immediate
ly had the question stricken out, rul-
ing that it was irrelevant.
DR.. J. P. Clemmons of Tunnel Hill,
Ca, testified as to the character Of
Robert A. Anderson. He said Ander-
son had been rather wild fellow but
he had never heard of his veracity
having been impeached. R. L. Ed
mondson, travelling passenger agent for
the Western and Atlantic railroad, was
we'll acquainted with Robert A. An.
derson, whom he said was man of
veracity.
Magistrates b. E. Johnson and c.
H. Sandifer were put up to, identify
pistol and bullet. The pistol was
the one with which it is alleged that
Mrs. Anderson killed Williams, and
the bullet had been forced through
the barrel in the presence of the mag
istrates. The idea was to show that
the rife marks on this bullet were
different from those ON the bullet that
was taken out of the body of the dead
man.
This completed the evidence, and
on Tuesday evening, court adjourned
until Wednesday morning, when argu-
ment was commenced. Mr.. deLoach
opened for the state in a speech of
about three hours.
ARGUMENT BY COUNSEL.
Mr.. deLoach opened the argument
in the case for the prosecution on
Wednesday morning. He had been
required by the defense to open up
the states position thoroughly, and his
speech consumed something like three
hours.
He started out with the proposition
that Charles T. Williams, the deceased,
had been murdered at Blacksburg on
the night of the 9Th of February last,
and that this murder was committed
by the defendants at the bar as prin-
cipals and accessories. Although the
state held that all three were equally
guilty, this was matterswithin the
province of the jury, which not only
had right, but was required to bring
in verdict of guilty or innocent, or
guilty with recommendation to mercy
as to any or all.
The defense would argue that there
was malice in the prosecution. This
Mr.. deLoach denied. That in case
of this kind there should be intense in
terest was perfectly natural. A crime
like this was we'll calculated to put q
whole community on the defensive,
and that every'good citizen should put
forth every effort to ferret out and run
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