The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-17
GILLIGAN TELLS
HIS OWN STORY
Continued from First Page.)

urged him to come, saying she was going,
ito look real sweet.
Witness said Miss Turner saw nm at
Bacons Castle and wnhed ana smiled at
him. Her mother was walking ahead ana
she was with a boy, whose hand she held
He walked bv her q short way and she
told him '.be sure and come Wednesday,
Witnesses Moody and Holland walked
away and took drink.
LOVED MIR. TURNER
Gilligan said he did not shoot pistol
about the Turner house: he never owned
one He said, II have never given MI.
Turner a cross word in my life loved
and respected him as a father II he hdd
been my father, he could not have treated
ms better
Witness told of his meeting Miss Turner
on the wharf. the afternoon which ended
in Mr.. Turner's death. He said Isabel
nodded to him twice and begged him TO
come TO see her that night he had
for her a note which she would not receive
and which stated that he was AFRAID 70
come to the house. but would meet het
under the same old pine.
She finally wanted the note, but when
he would not give it and he laughed at her
she told him if he did not come she
would iump off the wharf and drown her
self.
The witness afterwards saw Mrs Iur-
ner. who chided him for not coming TO
time he had missed for five years.
BORROWING THE GUN.
Witness told of going TO Drew Croker
and about borrowing a gun from Eiliot'
Thomas to hunt with. Thomas lent him
Charles Moody's gun. GAiiisan related
that he went TO the Turner nome lie
did not hear anything of Isabel. but Mi
Turner went out 10 get wood. He was
Standing by tree when he heard MT.
Turner's buggy In 1t were Isabel and
her mother Mrs Turner got out and told
Isabel to take out the horse. Mrs. Turner
went into the house.
ISABEL THERE
Isabel said. whats that Don't you
know me?' Giligan answered. I dld not
expect you as early as this the girl re-
Piled.
Nick helped take out the horse and hung
the bride on the fence by the gate They
talked few minutes, and Isabel said;
..!t's a bad night: I'm going in and get
gum boots Isabel went into the house.
Witness continued: after little While
1 saw her coming. I saw the reflection OF
the light first. Isabel was WhlstHnS JUST
One Girl For Me.
81 said Put that light out; I'm not
Ounce enough to stand out here in the
light
horse put into the stable l picked up the
gun from the walnut tree and went over
by the pine.
ARM AROUND HER.
'"The muzzIe of the gun was on my toe.
I had my left arm about Isabel. ana ,.I hss
right was around my neck We heard
something, and I said Listen It was
stepping very light. It was Mr.. Turner
Isabel said Stand close. and ne won
see us
Il heard the click of his gun, and Mr.
Turner exclaimed, You -- D l
have got You at last.
Il raised my gun and fired with one
hand-my right hand. Isabel cried: You
all your fault; am going to shoot my
self
.s.No. don't Isabel said, don't say any.
thing about it. No one shall ever know
..I was scared: 1 did not know what TO
do It was the first time 1 had ever
| been scared"
A FORCED LAUGH.
Gilligan related how, after Isabel haa
gone into the house. he peeped through
the blinds and saw Isabel laughing a
| forced laugh.
He left by the garden gate. anu sa"
| Mrs. Turner who asked. Whose at the
| gate2" Witness did not answer;
Ca:ligan said his brother and Tom
! Ratten advised him not to SURRENDER ior
| fear he WOULD De lyhcheu- ING 80,
said he shot Beverly Turner TO keep from
| being shot himself and to keep Save
from being shot. He. shot IN ssii.o l,,
| tense. Miss Isabel and Morris had toi!
hin, that Mr.. Turner would shoot him II
| he caught him. When under the tree
with Isabel she had told him her rather
was living down on the lounge ana her
mother was in the dining room. He mad
no malice.
| n.y. u-:fn said tins part Ok his Ill
,sged confession as related by Sheriff Ed
wards and which inapusaeG the cnast.ty
OF Mss Turner was false, He SAID ne
| did not wish TO use such language as
: sheriff Edwards used in court.
Giuigan spoke of the drinks taken
when Sheriff Edwards took him 20 Peters
| hnrg and said Sheriff Edwards talked
i at,o,,t raftine a reward. This was Gili1-
ran,s story. When court adjourned this