The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-25
TRIAL OF THE
 HILL CASES
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In my pocket.
 By MT. Wiley:
 Mir. Glass, I understood you to say that this difficulty took place in the doorway of the entrance to Dr. Cas- tons office, did I not?
 Either in that entrance or the en- trance to the rear of Alexander & Spann's store.
 Where is this entrance.
 It is below the entrance of the Poi- lak Building. which is in the rear of thd building. The entrance tl.dt ! think I was in Is the door b9Lwt en the l. and N. office and Dr. Gaston's office.
 Yes sir.
 By MT. Lomax:
 State your conversation with MT. McIver.
 M:. McIver came to me and said that he saw several of the Hills in the entrance of the Pollak Building.
 Did he say which ones he saw?
 Well, he said he saw Will and some of the others in the stairway. and that he thought they were waiting for me. I told him he was probably mistaken. as I had not heard of any dissatisfac- tion with this article that I had met couple of them on the street and spoke to them and they had nodded their heads.
 What time was that conversation?
 About 10 o'clock.
 Did MT. McIver come back again?
 Yes sir, about half an hour after ward and told me they were still there.
 Did you look out of the window?
 Yea sir. but I did not see them.
 How do you go home?
 Right down to the Avenue, down to the corner and catch the car.
 Major Screws lives on the Belt Line, does he not?
 Yes sir.
 Where does he take the car?
 He takes the car there also?
 Did not Mir McIver when he told you the second time, insist on going with you?
 Yes sir. but told him he had better not
 Where was Mir. Pepperman at the time of the difficulty?
 He was in and out of the office all the evening. He goes to the postoffice after mail several times during the evening.
 Where was he at the time of the fight.
 I don't know, sir.
 Was he along with you?
 don't think I saw him until after the trouble was all over.
 How long after that before you went home9
 don't know, I think it was about an hour and a half or two hours.
 You went back and wrote up tine eif- ficulty, did you not?
 Yes, sir, with the assist aace of Ma jor Screws.
 MT. Glass was on the witness stand about an hour. and when his testimony was concluded, w. H. Crusius, Fore man of the Mechanical Department of The Advertiser, was called. Mir. Cru siuS remembered the difficulty. He was at the top of the stairway leading from the street to The Advertiser edi- torial rooms when he heard a noise and went down stairs. He saw, Dr. l.. l.. Hill strike Major Screws with a stick. Could not see what Major the direction of the combatants when the blow was struck, and was about twenty feet from Dr. Hill.
 Cross examined by Colonel Wiley The difficulty was about II o'clock. Does not remember the date. It was in January of this year. It was rain ing. Before MT. Glass left the office the witness said he heard from MT. McIver that the Hills were waiting downstairs. to attack him. When Major Screws and Mir. Glass went down stairs MT. Crusius said he followed them, as he expected a difficulty. He went as far as the Perry Street entrance to the Pollak building. It was raining and he was in his shirt sleeves. He went back to the office before the difficulty occurred aShe did not sec any one in the ante-room to the stairway. He got upstairs before he heard the row. Did not see the beginning of the fight. The night was not so dark that he could not see fifty feet in front of him. As he turned to go back to the office he saw Major Screws and Mir shadows under the trees. MT. Crusius said there was no loaded shot gun in The Advertiser office. Never saw loaded shot gun in The Advertiser of- flee in his life. He did not go back upstairs for gun. His attention was attracted after he got back upstairs to the men running to the front win dows. and he went back down stairs Dr. R. S. Hill came down the street just after the witness went down. stairs. He came from the direction of Aio olilCS. UT. IL. L.. HlIl came rom across the street and reached the scene just before MT. Crusius. Met Dr. R. s. Hill after the fight was over. Did not see him during the fight but saw him going in direction of the fight af- ter it was over.
 Redirect by MT. Lomax-Never in his life saw any If the editors of The Advertiser have a gun.
 MT. H. A. Roehn.
 H. A. Roehn. Linotype Machinist in the Mechanical Department of The Ad- vertiser was called. MT Roehn testi- fled that he was in The Advertiser of flee the night the difficulty occurred He went down stairs and saw Wiley Hill flourishing a pistol. It was trans ferred to Charles Faber Did not see any part of the difficulty.
 Cross examined by Colonel Wiley He went down stairs about II o'clock. It was raining. After the fight was over he saw a lot of people. Saw MT. Crusius. MT. Faber and MT Wiley Hill. MT. Crusius was standing at the foot of The Advertiser stairway when MT. Roehn went down stairs. He heard some one yell Eight" and police"