The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-03-01

ForcpaueIl was arrested at MaXton on
tho day of the crime. brought TO Hamlet.
(taken off and secreted by the officer.
ken TO Bennettsville jail and not
brought here until Monday afternoon,
thn crime was committed on Saturday.
Matte Cole had no more to do with
the arrest of Forepaugh than you had,
ana had her description been riGidly adj
bcred to. he would not have been ar
rested at all: on Saturday night a mu-
Iatto was arrested in Monroe. who was
thought to be the man seen IN Everett 5
! store on the morning Of the CRIME, on
Monday afternoon FOrepaugh and the
negro arrested in Monroe. were brought
here escorted by a company OF soldleres;
they marched from the depot in battle
array with bayonets cleaning, n
drum beating to Mr.. Coles residence,
POOR little Matte Cole was brought out
i'm front of her fathers house TO IDENTIFY
the assailant; the prisoners were sur
rounded by soldiers; she was 50 fright
ened at the sight of the soldiers and the
crowd that she could hardly stand up,
| the mayor of the town says he mad TO
support her so she could stand. At TINS
tune and in condition she did say she
thought F~Orepaugh looked like the man.
| but she was not certain. and was scared.
She was almost hysterical and carried
| back into the house. Mr.. Everett saw
her Il minute or so afterwards ana she
said she thought Forepaugh looked IKE
the right man at the time, but tnat she
was so frightened, she was afraid to
say. and that she wanted to see illm
again. But at this time she told Mr..
Everett she thought he was too bright,
this was late in the afternoon; early in
the eyening Mr.. w. +. Long and | went
to Mr.. Coles and had a talk with Miss
Matte: she told us that at the time
she was looking at F~orepaugh, she
| thought it looked like the man, only he
was too bright and ought to nave 4 NJ
tie m,u>tachc, that she wanted to see hlm
again: she said she would know the man
if she saw him when She was not fright
ened. The next morning at the requeSt
Of the mayor. | met him at MI. ole
residence: ~Eorepnugh and the Monroe
negro were just being taken from Mat.
ties presence when l arI1Vel at MI
Coles: the prisoners came QUE OF the
room from where Miss Matte was just
as walked III The room. NJ everett.
the MAYOR was left in the room with her
after the officers and prisoners retired,
he and | alone with her: Mr.. Everett
asked her what She thought about them.
She said it was another man, that the
Monroe negro wasn't anything IKE hln'
that F~orepaugh was more like him than
the Monroe man. but he. E~Orepaugh.
was too bright and ought to have 4 lit
tie mlstac..e. that he WAS not the man.
The Monroe negro was released rs thcr'
was not the slightest evidence against
him. but the mayor and | thinking
it possible that Matte might not he
able to identity. but not for an instant
lo,I+.,r tlnt - Shn did If would he
truthful and correct. decided it best to
hold FOrepaugh for a few days and IN
ypstigate further; in the meantime anu
before Evans's arrest F~orepaugh was
found by Enthusiastically evidence to have
left the town about eleven O'Clock the
night before the crime and to have been
in Hamlet the morning of the crime.
Those of US who were making and
directing arrests to be made. committed
many errors, but we did the bqest we
could, and we know much better how
and why they We're made than Mr. Dock
cry who took not part in KS vbgkQj
cry who tool no part SO far as | am
Informed in experimenting the criminal.
further than his law firm, Dockery ana
Dockery, as attorneys for the county,
offered a reward of two hundred dollars
for the arrest and conviction of the as
5 sailant: this reward has not been pald
;. vet and the indications are that litigl-
) ton will be required to collect it.
5 Must we doubt Matte Coles testimony
because excited men made mistakes III
5 shades of color and error in some ar
: rests?
/ | have tried to show you that Matte
: Cole had light enough to have seen the
/ defendant by the uncontradicted testi-
mOny in the case, that she never made
2 any statement in conflict with her testi-
G Inony but every statement made by heI
@, cOrObOrateS her testimony that John
/ Evans is the man. | recall you at
| @tention to the testimony Of II. G. Leak,
;. Jr., and George Entwistle, young men
t of unblemished character, who swore to
e having heard Matte Cole say at about
5 noon the day of the crime, that a mulat-
to, taken before her was too bright, and
S pointing to u negro standing by, who
, was the same shade of color as that OF
t Evans, and saying her sisters a~ssailan.
{ was like that one in color, and conclude
9 my argument upon Mr.. Dockery's sec
o ond ground for believing John Evans
innocence.
Ihirdly.-The unusually we'll eStab
Q lished alibi, says Mr.. Dockery, l think
it utterly failed. 1t rested upon the
S most unreliable witnesses, the negro
boys with whom Evans spent the night
they did not have any time piece>and /st
e contradicted themselves that it wac
l~aughable, they contradicted each Other
IN many particulars and were contra
dicted by Mr.. w. 2. Ingram, a farme,
who lives about fifteen miles from here
and as | viewed his testimony by Mr.
James Watkins, Mr.. Ingram swore t,
his going in the little room where tn,
boys slept at about five thirty to orde
d his horse and buggy; he wanted to fin,
his harness and got a lamp for this
purpose and with the lamp lighted h
n walked right through the room and die
not see any of the boys on the foo
asleep as they claimed to be, that i
W there was any one asleep there excep
the boy Amos whom he aroused he di.
not see them; Mr.. Ingram's characte
was not and will not be attacked; THU
dispOses of the alibi so far as the colOre,
a boys are concerned and contradicts John
Evans who Swore he was in this room
vi when Mr.. Ingram went in. But Mr.
+ hncIa,.y a We s.Iobn LNvo,. 80,