Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
A MOST DAMNABLE CONSP

said: We will play h-l holding up
 train and getting money" He says to
 me: Tt looks like that you have but d--n little to say" I said, You will play h-l holding up train with your hands," He said T have tools sufficient to get the money" Who said that? Feagin. Andrew Feagin? Yes, sir. You said that you needed guns? I told him he would play h-l holding up a train with his hands. Didn't he say when he wrecked the train he would get guns? He said: What will do to that train would be Gods plenty" He didn't say
 anything about getting guns. On Saturday night after you had that | talk didn't you go down about the section house with Emanuel Billings and you | stopped in front of MT. Adams house when young MT Adams was looking at i you and Feagin went around and broke | in the tool box-didn't Feagin go around | then while you boys were there and go to
 monkeying with the tool box and let the bar drop and make a noise and you fel- lows ran? When Feagin was making this talk he told me he had those things. He said he had such tools as he wanted. He found out that he needed a claw bar for one? ANo, SiI IL WdS SodluFQdy nlBnC. BOC | there on Thursday and it was Saturday night Andy had this talk-the first Satur- | day in the week got to Henryelen. Look at that picture and see if that was not one of the men whose name you | didn't know
 No, sir; don't think this is one of the | men l didn't know. The man I don't | know is very black man, and he is tall l fellow.
 You said he was just about your size. | said Joe, the one that stayed in town IS about my size, and a bright man. l | heard him tell that he has wife in town | Is not that one of the men that you don't know? Showing photography l know the other two. Is that one of them? Yes, sir; I know this man; this is F'ea- | gin. The only man that don't know is | this tall, black one. Did he wear big slouch hat? I think he had kind of small crowned Stetson hat, and this other boy he had | on a cap and wore his cap back on his head.
 What did they say to you then after you told them they would play h-l in holding up train?
 They said that the man that was in this
 thing and didn't go wherever they went would be killed. Do you mean to say that they would kill the men in the train that were not | already dead? | No, sir; the men that was in the house. | went over to the house they were stay | ing at and got stick of wood and lighted | the end of it in the fire and sot down. I heard Scales and Andy tell the
 rest of them. He says, Andy, you are always too fast. I have some niggers just come here from town. That's Tom Parker. He has always boarded with white folks. He won't do to trust. When was arrested in Brookside I knowed | Tom Parker. When they arrested me | there Tom helped to catch some parties l in the woods. Feagin said, "If I can | just get him with us what we will do | to him would be Gods plenty" What they would do to the train? No; what they would do to me. I was | listening.
 that night and the crowd started down the road, Scales was the first man backed | out?
 | don't know; was not with them when | they broke open the tool house. | When you got on around the curve 1 there, Billings backed out? l No, sir; I was not with them. l That left two of you? | I was not with them. Billings helped this man Feagin to | hide the bar? I was not with them at all I never asked any questions about the bar. The night. that the rail was displaced | from the trestle, is it not a fact that you | and this negro, after drawing the spikes out of the rail, went down and sat by i the fire?
 | Mo- sir; was not with them at all Then you got scared and left and heard l the hounds, and when up there between | Henryeflen and the trestle tried to catch | a mule to lose the track? | Who? Me? I never tried to catch mule in my life. | You threw rock on top of house to | wake up negro? No, sir. Didn't he tell you that he would do you l like the mule would do? No, sir; he didn't tell me that. After you got in that house didn't you make the remark, That is what the mule told us-that he would not let us ride" And Scales asked what was that, and you said he kicked up his leg? No, sir; never had such talk in my | life.
 Didn't you and Scales and Feagin lay | down and sleep until morning? never slept with Feagin but one night. What night was it that you slept with | F'eagin?
 The first night that his wife left I slept in his bed that night? What night? Before Christmas, was that?
 I think it was about Thursday night in the week before Christmas. You said yesterday to Mr. Tom Jones that you wanted to tell the truth. Now, out with the truth if you propose to tell
 1t; go on and tell it. If you don't we will bring the other parties over. am willing to face them. Prisoners brought in. EMANUEL BILLINGS T l put in the chair. Who is that Emanuel? That's Tom. l Emanuel, go back to the Saturday night before the wreck, or, first, go back a few days before that, when Andy first talked to you about this train business, and make the statement that you made about it--what was in 1t and what trans pired. Go through the whole story. I forget how many days it was before l Saturday night he spoke to me. Tell who were present and what Andy said.
 He told me, he said "Emanue;" said ''Uhuv Would you like to have some money for Christmas?" I said, 'Yes would like to have some money" He said, "I am going to have some good money on me Christmas Would you like to be into it." I said, q don't know; my mind ain't composed for nothing like that now; my mind ain't on 1t; my mind ain't