The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-17


who was minding the mule for some
hunters who were in the woods. He
could only see the feet OF the man.
and surmised he was either drunk or
asleep, or both.
Joseph Lowell told Of the finding Of
the mule and buggy in which Bourquin
lay. He said he had been to Mr.:
Bourquin's house. and there heard OF
the homicide. He said that he was
leaving for the scene when he met the
mule and buggy in the field. This. he
said, was about dark. He took the
buggy and mule to his place and
hitched it.
Hunted with Potter.
T. C. Dixon testified that he was
contractor and carpenter, and that
Potter was a journeyman carpenter.
He said that Potter had been in his
employ prior and subsequent to the
homicide. He told of the party which
had been formed for a deer hunt, COM
posed of the. two Potters, Mr.. Conley
and himself. They were to meet at Pot
ter's house at 8 o'clock; he got there
at 7:30, and Potter and his son had
gone. He testified that he had been
on a hunt on the Horn place with Pot
ter since the homicide.
George w. Sanders testified that Pot
ter had his dog on the hunt on the day
of the crime. He knew this because
he had gone to Potter's home on that
day at 10 o'clock to get the dog, and
left word there that the dog be re-
turned that night. This. he said, Pot
ter did. The question of what dog was
taken on the hunt is, apparently. of
importance, and many answers were
elected from the various witnesses on
this point.
Undertaken Fox's Testimony.
John II. Fox, the undertaken, told
of his trip to the scene of the crime.
He said that the negro'S body YVES
much mangled at that time, pieces of
flesh, hat and shoes, being found in
various places. He identified a gun wad
which he said he had picked up on the
scene, indicating the point on the
map. This was between the place where
the buggy was found and the place
where the negroes body first lay, be-
fore struck by the train.
Tom Johnson, who was brought in
from the changing to testify, told of
his seeing Potter and his son on the
morning of the Sunday that Bourquin
was killed.
G. ". McGaw, trainmaster on the
Seaboard Air Line, told of the sched-
ule of trains on the day of the crime.
The train which mangled the Negroes
body passed the scene of the crime
about 5:55 o'clock in the afternoon.
Charles Clark testified that shortly
after coming from sunrise" prayer
meeting he met the Potters. William
Duke testified as to the time and place
he saw them.
Willie Rogers testified that he was
at Bodifords house in the morning
when the Potters came there. 1t was
then, in his opinion, between 10 and
1890 o'clock. The witness acknowledged
on cross examination that he had first
said that when Potter came to the
house he had a bicycle, and had subse-
quently changed his mind. He was
asked by the court if he did this be-
cause he had decided in his own mind
that his first statement was a mistake
He said that he had.
You did exactly right said the
court.
Shut Out the Jury.
During the examination of Willie
Jones, a son of Mrs. Bedford by her
first husband. the solicitor asked who
killed Farrell, Mrs. Bodiford's second
husband. This brought on an argu-
ment between counsel as to the admis-
sibility of the testimony, during which
time the jury was excluded from the
room.
Judge Twiggs said that he didn't
think the question admissible. first be-
cause he knew that the solicitor was
endeavoring to show that Potter was
hunting with Farrell at the time that
Bourquin killed him. which, he said,
could not be construed as motive: and
second, because the witness had no ac-
tual knowledge of the killing. Judge
Barrow ruled the question out on the
second ground.
James D. Horn told of his trip to
his place on the day of the crime
and of the different parties he met
on the road.
Israel Coleman testified that the
buggy in which Bourquin was killed
had been brought to Savannah on the
day previous.