The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14

nc ZIG leIT ne didn't say where he was 60
ConA Dunn testified further:
C later before the shooting occurred,
pIoSes came back and asked where they
az "ele' lie had some bundles and ask
ca Lne 10 cook some eggs for him by the
S1llle ne came back. Then he and Jack
LouHg went away. Soon after this the
snootlng occurred. Groves appeared to
De sober at both times.
Hdnne Wall, recalled, said Groves
certainly did come up near Wallis house
| Sunday.
1t scared me nigh out of my senses
When heard him say, On him, he's
not DEAD and I'm going to finish him
L told Isaac Jeffries and Joe Jordan not
10 let MN come to the house. Mr.. Wat
klns turned him back"
Explaining why she had not told this
on the first trial, the witness said she
was not regularly summoned witness,
but was only called in about the last
of the trial.
Greves, put on the stand in his own
hehalf, gave his version of the fatal
nights occurrences. He made good
WItness-cool and determined. He had
evidently gone over the ground in his
own mind time and time again and the
closest cross-Questioning failed to dis
| concert him.
lie said when he went to Wallis house
and later to Turner Dorham's, where he
shot Wall, he was looking for Jack
Young. When he knocked and asked for
Jack, he said Wall came to the door
and asked him what in the HI he was
doing there.
Il told him that was none of his bust
ness and asked if he was mad. He said
he was, that 1 had insulted him once
and that l had no business there. |
started away: he followed me and said,
'D-n you Il kill you As he said this
he put his hand on his hip pocket and
shot him. l believed he meant to
shoot or cut me. l knew him to be a
desperate character; that he had been
IN many rows, cutting people and draw
ing pistols on them"
Groves said the reason he had his pistol
was that he was carrying a pint of Whis-
key from Mrs. Watkins to her washer
woman, Alice johnson. He went to
AuceS on his way to the depot from
John Dunn's, and had the pistol to pro-
tect himself. He said Wall was as good
colored friend as he had and he would
not have killed him but for self-protec-
ton. After shooting Wall down Groves
went back to Mr.. Watkins where he
boarded. He told Watkins, he said, that
he had shot Henry Wall and he reckoned
he was dead.
He denied that he had anything against
Henry Wall or that he hunted him up
to kill him.
Why did you shoot Henry Wan?"
Because he said, Stop d-n you or
III kill you,' and threw his hand behind
him. l believed he meant to try to kill
me. 1 had heard that he was a desper-
ate man."
Mr.. z. p. Lloyd testified to the bad
character of the witness, Lonnie Mas
senDurg, and said Massenburg told him
he didn't hear anything that passed be-
tween Groves and Wall. The witness
swore that it was a dark night.
The general character of Henry
Wall, Mr.. J. L. Allen said, was not
good; nor was the character Of Lonnie
Massenburg. Eliza Wall, Joe Vaughan,
and Fannie Wall any better, he said.
Messrs. II. A. Chappell, d. w. Allen,
Otho X. Holding and Marion Purefoy
swore to about the same state of facts,
Mr.. Chappell said he had a talk with
wall soon after he was shot; that he
stated he was shot while in the cotton
patch; and that he hau never had any
trouble with Groves and couldn't imagine
why he shot him.
The testimony was concluded yester-
day afternoon and the argument of
counsel was made last night. Groves
was represented by Judge Boykin and
Messrs. J. G. l.. Harris and Armistead
Jones. Solicitor Pou was assisted in the
prosecution by q. A. Johnson.
MAY BE ACQUITTED.
At 3:30 last night the jury were still
IN the court room, unable to agree. 1t
was believed they stood s for acquittal
and for conviction of murder in the
second degree. The verdict will probs-
bly, be a compromise one.
This morning James Brooks, the muir
derer of Mahaley White will be put on
trial for his life.
CONSTRUCTION or PASS LAW.