The Magnolia gazette., 1899-09-06

ling north, About fifty yards
further he found tracks again in
a water melon patch, going north.
| Did not so west on first tracks
found. Went a few steps, and
finding no tracks turned back.
The tracks were made by six OF
seven shoe. Went back to eau :
seY's house about O. clock.
Found some fifty or more people
there. When he first reached
Causey's } house he went into the
back yard to find tracks. Mr..
Buck Boggs showed him the first
track. The dogs were chained.
Witness went around the yard a
little with them then went through
the house. Turned the dogs
loose in the field and they ran
around the cane patch and back
OF the house. He caught them
and put them back on the track.
They ran to the back yard two or
three times. In order to get the
dogs to 60 to the second track
witness had to chain them and
pull them up there. They always
wanted togo in opposite direction.
There were several people there;
did not know how many, and did
not know whether any one mad
been in the cane field or not.
Witness found two bullets in the
wall of the house and signs Of
several small shot--ahout No. 6,
the same as were picked out of
Mrs. Causey's side.
The gun witness got at Gamers
house looked rough on the inside,
and the shells taken out had burnt
powder on them. The shells had
about No. 6 shot in them. There
were no slugs in them. South of
the cotton field, west Of Mr.. Cau-
sey's house, was a small house,
where witness was told the son of
Causey and daughter of Garner,
who had married, lived, but wit
ness did not know this to be a
fact. Witness was sworn peace
officer-sworn to do his duty any
whore in the state. Was ap-
pointed by the railroad company,
and was sworn by a justice of the
peace in McComb City.
Re direct to Mr.. McLain-Wit-
ness said the dogs went back to
the house and went to the cross
wire fence and could not get over,
and witness caught them, chained
them and carried them back. Was
afraid to let them go further. At
the fence where they went was a
man s track on the fence board.
where he had gotten over, shown
by little dirt, and the track on
the inside Of the fence went di-
reetly toward Gamers house.
BY Mr.. Parsons Witness said
that he had conversation with
counsel during the first trial, in
which he stated that on the day
Of the tragedy he took his dogs
and turned them loose in the cane
patch back of the house, and that
every time he did so they would
go back and try to go out the
front way; that at last he chained
them and forced them to follow
the track up to the cross fence
between Garner's and Causey's.
Witness said to the state that
he knew that counsel was on the
defense side and wanted to pull
out Of him all he could get, and
he did not think it would come up
any more.
At IL O'Clock court took a re-
cess for dinner.
J. B. Boggs was the first wit
ness introduced by the state in
the afternoon.
Being examined by District
Attorney Ratcliff, he said that he
remembered the day the homo
eide occurred. He had been at
McComb to attend the funeral of |
Mrs. Honea, and passed Causey's
home on his way from the funeral |
to the church where the camp |
meeting was in progress. When |
opposite Causey's house he heard |
the report Of a gun, and he asked |
his son, John Walter Boggs, who |
was with him, what it meant, and |
the two turned their horses around
Immediately and rode toward the
house. When thirty-five steps
from the house he saw Mrs. Cau-
sey running around the house
screaming, and as she turned the
corner the man fired on her. |
She threw up her hands and cried |
.Ohi Lordy!' and fell in the
yard. Witness saw the man who
did the shooting, and said he was
Thomas ". Garner, the prisoner
at the bar. He said that after