The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-03-03

Crossed: Didn't tell all | heard
before. Didn't remember IL all
before. Nobody has told me what
to say. Yes, ne called her IA liar;
no, he said, "it" was d-n lie.
Don't know what Mr.. Cam said
when she said she would make
Drew spatter his brains out.
@: Didn't Mr.. Polk Mckee and
Pony Dortch bring your deposition
and read 1t to you?
A: No, sir. They read grand
pas to him, but not mine to me.
Maud Roupdtree, CoIored,
testified that she lived back of Sim
mona house. Saw none OF the diff
Guilty Sunday morning. Saturday |
saw Mrs. Irvine on Simmons back
porch; Mr.. Simmons told her to go
out OF the yard; she said she wanted
to tell his wife what nasty, stink
ing, low-down thief he was; he told
her to go on; when she went out the
gate she said to him it was not done
with. She hallooed up at the win
dow of Mrs. simmons room.
Crossed: Il. ID. Simmons read my
former testimony over to me. Mr..
Beal, Mr.. Dortch and Mr.. Mckee
were with him. knew it all right
before. They read Richards over
to him. Mrs. Irvine talked loud
and mad Mr.. Simmons did not seem
so mad.
Re-eXamined: The men who read
my testimony to me asked me il it
was right; that was all they said
to me.
Mary Terrell, COlOred,
testified that she lived a short dis
lance from Simmons honse. The
Saturday before the killing | saw
Mrs. Irvine coming out of Simmons
yard; he was standing in the yard.
AS she was coming out the gate he
said "get out of my yard and stay
out" She said, this is not done
with. am going to have your brains
scattered out on the railroad"
@: What did she do then?
A: She had it done.
Crossed: Yes, sir, my testimony
was read to me about two weeks ago, ,
and Attorney General Boyd read it
to me yesterday morning.
Re-examined: They read it to
me and asked il that was right; l
said it was 1 still say so.
Sam b. Nichols
was next called. He said he was a
merchant at Carriers Creek; was at
the station the day of the killing;
the day before | saw Mrs. Irvine;
saw Simmons also he was my clerk /;
he lived about 300 yards south of my
store, and about 30 yards east of the
railroad. am assistant postmaster.
1t was Mr. Simmons business to put
the mail on the crank on Sunday
morning. About $3.50 is our usual
hour of putting up the mail. After
! that he usually went to Beech Grove
church. He usually went the road
to the pike; my dwelling is
near the creek and the crossing; an
old gin is there, the old Mckay
| home is west of the crossing of the
road and creek at the crossing the
roads fork; the road runs parallel
with the creek both before and after
it crosses, several hundred yards,
close to the creek. My house is be-
tween the railroad and the creek,
right near the road; fronts the road !;
on the day before the killing Mrs.
Irvine was at my house in the after
noon; she asked me to come there !;
she was very much excited and
talked to me about her difficulty
with Simmons; she said she wanted
to tell me the straight of the diff
Guilty; said she wanted to see Willie
MRS. Simmons); that Cam met her
and told her if she was going there
to abuse his wife she had better not
go; she said she would, that she had
a right to; he shut the gate; she got
through the fence, but he shut the
door before she could get in the
house. She said that he called her
bitch. In the conversation she
called him cow and Campbellite
and other hard names. / insisted
on them settling the difficulty; told
her l would insist on Cam doing
what was right; she said nothing
would suit her but to have Cam
killed. She asked me to meet Drew
at the train and tell him not to go tC
the store, that he would not be pre-.
pared. [ told her it was not neces.
sary to be prepared, [ thought il
could be settled without difficulty
She said that when the boys came
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