Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
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 The Saturday before Christmas? The same Saturday the bar was got I went to the commissary and came on back down home I sot down there a long time and he came back down there. It was dark then. Then he said:
 Emanuel. come and go with me"
 said, Tell me where you are going?''
 He said: Follow me-" I followed him
 to the commissary and stayed around there about a half an hour, I reckon. | Then l went back down home. Then he came back down there and grabbed me and wanted me to go back with him. We went up there and stayed around the commissary He went through the woods and me and Tom came on to the house. Directly he said: Come on let's go down here. l know where we can get a bar" He went on down there Me and Tom was in front I was be- hind Tom. We went on down the Cen tral track in front of Andy, and Andy stopped just at the tool house.
 Tom said: You stay back and I kept walking back until got nearly back to the Central depot, and Tom went on down the Central track. Then he went down the Georgia Pacific road, in front of MT. Adams. It was there he stayed. Andy he got something; I don't know what it was. don't know whether he broke the | lock. He went in there and got the bar. | In taking up the bar it made noise, a
 pretty loud fuss. Anybody could have heard it who had been listening. When he heard this fuss he grabbed the bar and come running out and shut the door behind him, running by me, and turned right on behind him, running, too. He throwed the bar down in a gulley. Tom then come up where me and Andy was. Andy went back and got the bar. Andy sot the bar by a pine tree and left Tom there. Andy tried to get me to go to the house with two more boys. I don't know | what their names were. Wasn't one of them Tom Ingram? | anyhow | them; me and Tom didn't He went on l was cold. He said, Come, let's go" I l said, "Oh, the devil; I aint warm yet" | He said, "Ain't yo gwine?" I said, q am | gwine when I get warm" He stayed | little while and got one of the fellows to | go. They got down there opposite to Mr. Adams house and stopped. This fei- | low he got to go he stopped and com- menced talking He talked all right. I | never let on to Andy that I was paying any attention to him at all. And Tom he then was gone on the railroad by the commiSSary.
 Which Tom?
 Tom Parker. And me and Andy got to
 the railroad, Tom in front of us. I don't
 know exactly how far it was I was
 in front, and I whistled and called and
 than right there. Was Tom there then? No, sir; Tom hadn't got to us then. I
 said Andy, ain't gwine any further"
  he got there Andy said, What about it?'' Tom said, 'I want us to go tonight Andy asked me- but said I didn't want to go tonight 'I ain't going" At that time Andy sot down on the railroad. I never did sit. Both of them when they saw l wasn't going, decided to go back, too. Andy says, Emanuel will you hide the bar?" I says Yes" and hid the bar
 under two logs and went on back to the
 house and went to sleep. Sunday morn
 ing when I woke, I went to my sisters
 house and stayed until nearly night, and Monday left.
 What time did you leave Monday?
 On the II o'clock train Where did you see Tom Monday? left Tom standing at the end of the porch on the ground in his shirt sleeves. Him and Andy both was standing there. That was Monday before Christmas? Monday before Christmas. I didn't see Tom any more until yesterday. You came on to town. Tell what hap pened
 Me and Nat What Nat?
 Just named Nat. He says, Are you going to town?" I says, Yes, if any cashed" He said, Come on to the con- missary.' I went and left Tom and An dy standing there by the porch. went on to the commissary. Nat he took up all the time he had there-s6. I just took up $2.
 got $1.50.
 Didn't you buy some shoes or some- | No, sir; got $1.50 for the checks. I | didn't buy any shoes at that time. The | same day I stopped work bought these pants-the Saturday before Christmas. I | had on a thin pair of pants, torn in the | seat.
 You remember the overcoat that Tom l had?
 Yes, sir
 ha ha 10 bought the pants? He had the overcoat on. don't know when he got 1t out. Who cashed the checks? saw MT. Percy and asked him If he would cash the checks for me. He said he had about $25 or $50 in checks already, but he said he would cash them to oblige
 me, because anything he had always asked me to do did it. He gave me a $5 bill and a $1 bill. put the $1 in my pocket and gave Nat the $5. and that left Nat owing me $5. Where did Nat go when you got to town?
 put my valise on the train and kept it with me until got to town. We came out through the shed antd went to Wise's. When was that? on to Wises saloon and treated me to a glass of whisky. Then me and Nat walked around a long time. Came on down as far as First avenue. said "I am going out home; do you want to go | out there?" He said no. | Where did you go then? I went to my mothers. Where is that? On Sixth alley, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth.
 When did you first hear of the wreck? think 1t was Wednesday. Bob Burks he works at the Florence hotel I was sitting down there on a trunk and Bob come and set down in the corner. He said, There was wreck. The Georgia Pacific train ran off the trestle last night. Somebody said, "Oh. shucks, he's just joking" I said, Sure enough?" Did you ask him where 1t was? Yes; he said that e-bench trestle. laughed. didn't let on to him that knew anything about it. When you headr of the wreck out there did you understand it? I laughed
 What was 1t you said to yourself?