The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-13
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Il man who was there would give me
ride home. d dn't know HIN, SD ! went
back to stable and went to bed Win
| Amos Powell Amos unrolled roll of
hasg:ng and we slept on that. We got mp
about sun up. Fletcher Tiel was also
in there. l sept next to the wall.
Fletcher was next to me and Amos al
'front.'
The defendant got mp here and ex-
nj aimed the position Of the doors of the
room in which he sept
About day Mr.. Viii Ingram came
in and asked for Henry Chambers.
Fletcher got up and got his horsc.."
Did you see Mr.. Ingram?
| Il didn't see him but | heard some OF
the boys say it was him. | was covered
up head and ears and he didn't see me.
though it was light. II Ell al the boys
got up. Amos and l were the last 20
get up. We went over to Coley's bar
| did anybody come in the room where
you slept, after Mr.. Ingram"
Not that l remember. The sun was
up and while / was N the bar Henry
Dockery and Adam Ingram came along
and l went with them up to John
| Lewis bar. Then over to Mayors
office and asked the ma .pat sad
didn't sell me no tacks tMr. c. c. Tay-
larl If the clerk nf court STAYED there.
Il told hlm Mr.. Waiter Hofne ACCUSED
me of ome kind of Il crime last year and
wouldn't let me vote, and | wanted to
get a paper to prove | didn't do it.
| Then | asked him to see some tacks.
! / bought box of them. Wn.le | was
telling him about being Knocked out of
my vote another man came III (Mr. Nc
! Donald) and asked me where my home
was and where l had been working. and
when | tolu him, he said there had been
a crime committed here that morning
and if they came up with the man they'd
do something TO him, and I'd better De
getting out of town. linen l went nn
! back down to the bar. L hen / got out
on the street | saw Adam Ingram ana
Henry Dockery and we went back to-
gether and went through tie Lar into
Alr. Porter's store and bought some
cheese and crackers. We stayed arounl
there an hour or two. Finally | Went
home walking, leaving here at IL o'clock.
When | got home the sun was down.
was arrested the next nursday, while
picking cotton for Mr.. Walter Horne
NOW were you dressed Saturday
morning!"
1 II had on these blue oyeralls, sweat
er Shirt and these shoes.
'.Did you have any dirt on your knees,
and If so how did it get there!'
/ Il had been picking cotton n sandy
land and man can't stoop all the time
while picking cotton. 1t would break
his back. lie has to get gown on his
knees"
"Mnen were you here before this
crime was committed:'
] hare AnnfpInhPr and WIS
here once before that with wagon; j
slept in the wagon"
Were you ever in that part Of the
4 town where this crime was commtted!"
"Unce, when / went to George Stain
backs
The witness denied that he knew
where Hr. Hinson lived. (His sister
works therel, or where Pee Dee factory
| is. He said he wasn't in that part OF
town the morning the crime was comn3-
ted. The first time he ever saw one
of the Misses Cole, he said, was the
morning she identified him at the depot.
when he was on his way to Raleigh. He
said the young lady said, 4 think it's the
man.
Mr.. Everett told her TO look at me
good and tell him whether / was the
Imam; she said, Il reckon he's the man. F"
John did you commit that assaultT
"Did / committee? No-sir. l never
seen that woman before. / never
/ had no talk with no woman. / didn't
have nothing to do with that business.
/ On cross-examination by Maj. Shaw,
Evans denied that he had ever worked
here in town, and SAID he had been III
Rockingham only about once a year. He
said he knew only few people here,
but acknowledged he had two sisters
here, though he said he didn't know
where they worked.
"Who was in the room where you
slept?"
Amos Powell, Fletcher Tiel and an
other little bright fellow. l didn't know
his name. He slept on some sacks Of
OATS"
Evans denied that he told the News
and Observer reporter that he was not
sure of the Powell boys name being
Amos and that he didn't know the other
two boys.
"Who was IN Coley's bar room when
yM and Amos got thereY'
"Mr. Woods-nobody else. / stayed
there half an hour, then Henry Dock
cry and Adam Ingram came along and
/ came up to Lewis bar with them. !
heard about the rape while / was at
COley's bar before l came up town."
ibid you tell your people at home
anything about the crime-or did you
tell anybody on the roadY'
II didn't tell anybody at all-except
one white man at the Hicks place. He
asked me, and l told him what l had
i heard"
On redirect examination the defend
ant said he first heard of the assault
from a white man who told Mr.. Woods
about the arrest of man for it. Then
he saw them pass the bar room with
the man and bring him back.
Amos Powell, Il coal-black boy, abou.
twenty years old, swore that he slept
with Evans at Hinson's livery stable
the night before the crime was COM
mitted. He said when Evans came i'll
there was nobody else Except the wit