The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-20

where the railroad people get water.
| There is little path there and when
l used to fox hunt there was a good
| place there to get a trail in that path
where they come across there. The
! dogs did not seem to take any trail,
so we walked on around a little pas
ture he has got fenced up there and
went over to another field beyond
that. We walked back to the road,
walking up the road within, ] suppose,
200 or 300 yards of the house where
there were some persimmon trees over
on that side of the road, as you go up
the road.
I'VE went up there and got chunk
! ing persmmons-we were there-how
| long / don't know-we were there some
little bit and we chunked down some
persimmons and picked up some. From
| there we-went to the house, and there
were some boys that had come up in
| the meantime. l "a to Salking to
them. They were sitting on a work
bench out in the yard. talked some
little bit there. / then went in the
| house. Uncle Henry told me that his
boy was very sick and 1 went in the
room and / found the boy in bed sick.
| Uncle Henry said that he thought he
had given the boy too much medicine.
His wife suggested to me that
bring a bunch of turnips with me
that she had some fine turnips. l got
to studying about that 1 studied to
myself. I have no way to carry
Them / said to myself 1 will leave
| my gun here because | am coming UP
| here Tuesday. 1 have some straps
that l have to fasten my gun, so that
enabled me to bring the turnips. We
A..
She has a safe there where she keeps
her milk and some of the boys were
drinking some milk. and l told her
| You ought not to give that boy of
mine any milk at all, or that will make
his saucy.' l said something like that.
She says / expect you want some too.
/ said l would not mind drinking
| some, so she gave me glass of milk.
| / told Uncle Henry's wife that l want
ed to be home by II o'clock, because
told my wife I'll be back home at II
| O'clock and she insisted for me to
wait until after dinner, and 1 said no,
that l promised my wife to be home
at II o'clock.
THE turnip patch is just this side
of the house. We started, and this boy
of mine, and this dog-one of the boys
had been holding him with chain,
and he got ii and went off. We all
started down from the house together.
| My boy got on his wheel with Mr..
Sanders dog chained. After we got
to the turnip patch he kept on home.
We stopped and went in the turnip
patch; we were there some little time,
l don't know how long. 1 got more
turnips than l wanted. I strapped
them on Gndicating). l got on my
wheel and started home, and / left
him there. My dogs had gone in the
ditch, and We're laying down there
and 1 whistled for the dogs and they
came on with me-
His Homeward Trip.
Just as 1 got in the edge of the
swamp, l met four hunters. l don't
know them. l noticed the dogs, one
was a setter that had been clipped
That one that was the setter ran uI
in the road and met my dog and they
almost threw me off the wheel. also
met two young men who appeared t
be country people. They appeared t
be full: one said to me. Cap you have
some pretty dogs l didn't pay mucf
attention to them. l came home-wher
got to the canal bridge l met a good
many people-a good many colored PEG
pie, some of them 1 knew and some o.
them did not"
The defendant then told of his move
ments in the city: of his trip. home
where he found his boy of carrying
I his wheel back to Ferguson of hi
, trip to McGrath's and back home; o
a trip to West Broad street for tobacco
He said that when he got back HON,
his boy told him that Sanders had beer
there for his dog, which he carried t
him shortly after o'clock. He sait
; that he went back to West Broat
street. and then back home.
Nov gentlemen as to the grand jur.
) testifying here on this stand, ii i
something pretty hard. 1t is possibl
that the gentlemen misunderstood me
but 1 do not see how they could. Tn
: ! question was nut to me before tn
| grand jury how long | was out of Sa
vannah and / told Billy Osborne be
| tween two and one-half and tire
5 hours. 1 was out of Savannah. Tha
= is right. They never did at any tim
t ask me how long we were from Bod
5 fords house. God knows that. Tha
! is right. I cannot account for it.
e was never so surprised in my life whel
l the grand jury testified as they did
IT have told you the truth, and Coo
4 knows it. God knows ii to be tn,
e truth.
The North Carolina story.
e Now, gentlemen, am going to oper
/ the bars. There is not man on God
green earth Last Monday morning
when I came out OF my cell and go
NY Ddpttt 4 bBGittN H. anu lNOke'
I at il. / saw something in that paper
). gentlemen. that was enough TO breal
p the heart of any man-God knows II
!, There is not a man living that cal
: substantiate one word OF Il. He 1
not living on the face OF the earth
and God knows Il. That shows hoy
the dirt has been heaped uDon me
There Is not a living mortal who cal
suhstantiate the statement l haN
been a citizen OF the state OF Georgi
twenty-three years. and when I'm deal
! expect 10 be buried In Laurel Groy
Cemetery. There Is not "a man t0-da
living that ever saw me IN the stat
Of North Carolina, and Gods knows a
II have a consolation, and God ;
my consolation"
. Taking the shoes offered him D.
Judge TWlggs. abe defendant said.
tfhfso are my oia hunting shoes
land pointing ~ those De- bad 0nl
land these are ny dress shoes. . au
poor man, and I only have fw|
palrt 0f shoes. 3 gore these fpointni
~ bunting abQsf} AZ the fall W0ui'