The age-herald., 1899-03-12
SCENE ON CLOSING DAY OF TRIAL.

on the Southside Before I went to the | Southside I lived in Third alley Will Col | son is my papa (step-father). I remember | when they had trouble in the alley. Re | member when the white men came to the | house. A white man opened the door and | commenced to shoot. I was sitting on a | chair by the window, and saw the white man come upon the porch. The door was closed. The white man opened the door | and shot Didn't see any other shooting. | White man shot first''
 | Cross-exa xamination: q came here from Prattville. My step-father was nursing the 1 baby by the fireplace when the shooting be- | gan. Didn't see my papa have pistol. | Didn't see him shoot. Don't know what | became of him after the shooting l stayed | in the room. Haven't talked about what knew about the case"
 Dr. B. G. Copeland-I remember the oc- cason when MT. Warnock was said to
 have been shot Examined the body and found three gunshot wounds, one on the left arm, which would not have produced death and one in the right breast; don't know If 1t would have produced death; and one in the left side of the neck, about mid way between the lobe of the ear and line of turn-down collar. Bullet did not come out. Think that 1t lodged in the spinal column. Cannot swear positively. If it had struck the cord would have produced death almost instantaneouSly
 Cross-examination: Didn't examine the wound in the breast carefully. It might
 have produced death.
 A recess was taken to allow attorneys to confer with the defendant.
 MT. Montgomery next read a statement by Minnie Achers, negro woman, who
 now occupies the house where the shoot
 ing occurred, in which she said that she
 had examined the room and found two bull
 let holes in the mantle and one in the
 back wall. The woman was confined to
 her bed and could not be present, and
 the state admitted that she would swear
 to the alleged statement of facts if she
 were present.
 Will Golson's Statement
 There was another short consultation be-
 tween the defendants attorneys, and the
 prisoner was put on the stand. All eyes
 were fixed upon him, and every ear was
 strained to ca tch the words as he gave his
 story of the tragedy. Ike was cool and
 collected and appeared more confident than
 at any time during the trial. His testimony
 was, in substance, as follows:
 My name is Will Goson. l am 25 years
 old. l remember the time when MT. War
 mock was shot. was living in Third alley
 between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets.
 My wife and children lived with me. l had
 two children of my own, and my Wife had
 two more. They were all in the room with
 me. Didn't know MT. Warnock, MT. Love
 or MT. Barker. I was sitting down by the fire. Saw someone run by the end Win
 dow. About that time some one pushed the door open. He had pistol in his hand and commenced shooting. was slt- ting down and he shot at me. Jumped up and grabbed my gun from over the mantle and slammed the door. The man outside kept shooting, and l pulled the door open
 and shot twice, and ran out on the porch.
 I then jumped into the alley and ran out
 towards Sixteenth street. l heard shot
 after I started out of the alley, but didn't
 turn to see who it was. l didn't walk
 backward and did not turn round and shoot
 back toward my house. l didn't break my
 pistol going out towards Sixteenth street.
 I didn't break it until late that evening Tn
 Fourth alley back of the jail. when
 came out of the alley there was no one Tn
 sight. It was clear. I know Miss Willie | Leach. Had seen her before. Didn't pass
 her in the alley. If she had been In the alley I would have seen her. when Hrst jumped off the porch into the alley ran for a little piece and then slacked up into A walk. I went to Mrs. Pools and put some turpentine on my finger. Got the
 wound in the fight with MT. Warnock. It
 was made by one of the shots that was fired at me when the door was open. re- member the day I was arrested and put in jail I remember having had two con versations with MT. O'Brien, the sherin. When was arrested, that night he brought me out of the cell and asked me now IL happened and told him. Remember hav- ing had a conversation about gVlng up. He asked me why I didn't give up, and l fold him didn't have time to give up, the way the man came in. I didn't tell MT. O'Rrien that fired the first shot, but told him that the white man shot hrst. was first put in the city jail, and was taken 10 the county jail in charge or Captai9 OBrien There was big crowd gathered around the prison streets and alley, ana good-sized crowd followed us to the jail Wasn't frightened. Was little scared. Cross-Exa mination-I am p years old; came here about a year and haf ago from Prattville, Autauga county. First
 came to Woodward; stayed there almost wear and then moved to Birmingham; lived in Third alley all the time. Saw man pass by the end window; don't know if he was white or black. l was sitting by the fireplace facing the door. After the man
 passed the window, the front door flew open and man with his pistol in his hand shot at me- grabbed my gun and run to the door and slammed it and the man shot through the door, and I pulled it open and shot twice and ran out. I opened the door with my right hand and shot with my left.
 MT Wa,nock was shooting all the time. didn't shoot him after 1 came out. He was shooting with his right hand. went straight from the mantle to the door and slammed it. I went through the gate. When I looked in my pistol I had three cartridges in it.. When l shot at MT. War nook he was standing up.
 did not see anybody in the alley in front of me. The only man I saw was the man at the window and the man at the door. Didn't tell Captain O'Brier that l fired the first shot; didn't tell him if I had known that I would vily have gotten two yeaAs for grand larceny l would not have is- sisted and would have given up.
 I remember the day I was arrested si the
 Southside by Officers McDona d and al on.