The age-herald., 1900-05-15

to ask Clayton if somebody didn't wave his hand that night and stop them from killing him. Leave the hand part off, and 1t is about what said. I met Tom Fay in Atlanta. He was with 'Sheeney Bugs It was March IS. I was with them in Bir- mingham before The night of the shoot ing I went down the railroad track. I shot four or five times. I stayed down the rail- road track the balance of the night after the shooting. I didn't see Frank Edwards that night after the shooting. About o'clock the next morning after the shooting I went to his room across the street from the Jefferson theater. 1 took the car out of Birmingham about Il o'clock the night after the shooting I went to Gate City on the car, and walked to Irondale. Fay went with me. I met Edwards on the train the next morning. I had no business in Anniston and didn't intend staying there. l bought ticket from there to Rome. Ed wards did not get on the train at Irondale, but at Birmingham. He was in the white peoples coach when I saw him. I saw the darkey, Frank Brown, at the room over Gelders restaurant. I might have spoken to him; l don't remember. I did not go to that room any more after o'clock. I saw Duncan about an hour before the shooting. l don't know where he was at the time or the shooting. I served a term in the
 
 the same counterfeit dollar twice. I passed 1t, and some one told me 1t was counter feit, and l tried to pass 1t again. served out my term. l had a conversation with Bodeker about the bottle of nitroglycerine. He told me about finding the coat and about hole being shot through it. I said if the bottle had been hit nobody would have known who it was. The defendant was asked if he had ever had any experience with the use of nitro- glycerine. MT Montgomery objected to the question, and the court sustained the ob- jection. q am 43 years od.' Redirect: The defendant named over the men who came with him from Chattanooga, as stated on the direct examination There were six who came down in the party and they met Edwards and West here. When the defendant left the stand at l2:o3 p. m. court took a recess till 2 o'clock.
 Afternoon Session Judge Greene called court to order at 2:10 1 D. m. Solicitor Hefln requested permission | to ask the defendant Miller how many l times he fired his pistol the night of the | tragedy. Miller said he shot four or five | times and that his pistol was a 32-long calibre He said further: T broke my pistol when I was about a | block and a half from where the shooting l took place. Duncan is not New York liar ry.' do not know New York Harry's' oth- | CT name. He had a gold tooth." MT. Montgomery, for the defense, asked the clerk to bring the pocketbook offered in evidence by the state and objected to it's introduction on the ground that it was illegal, immaterial and not so connected with the defendant Miller as to make 1t legal He also objected in behalf of the defendant Duncan on the same ground. Objection was made to the overcoat on the same ground. These objections were noted at the time of the introduction of the coat and pocketbook and overruled by Judge Greene The same objections were made to the introduction of the contents of the pocket. The objections were all overruIed and exceptions reserved. After this MT. Montgomery announced that the defense rested. Chief Deputy Sheriff Albert Stradford !