The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-07

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any one was shot or not. As Don as
awoke, I shook him and told him q
gun had been fired. We went to bed
before 10 o'clock. / know that Pearce
did not do the shooting.
Frank onslow, colored, being sworn
as follows:
Last night at lis o'clock a. m-..
/ and Tom King went to Priscilla
Bradley's house TO do scavenger work.
Tom King went to the closet at the
hack Of the yard to work Just as we
started to work, I heard a window open
T. then looked around. When we got
through / handed Tom King the bucket
turned around and got away about two
steps to go to get water n then j
heard the gun fire. 1 jumped the fence
and heard King hollow, 1 went off run
ming and heard King hollow two
squares off. The shooting was eight
minutes after the window was raised.
The lantern and bucket offered in evil
dence before the jury were the same
we had with US when King was shot"
Grattan Pearce, colored, who did the
shooting, was sworn and his testimony
was as follows: Last night about 10
O'Clock, 1 went out to John Brunjes.
corner Fourth and Harnett, and went
by the Fourth street Market. up Camp
bell to Sixth street. n then up Sixth
street to home priscilla Bradley's
house.) The man who was with me
had a gun and when I got home he was
still with me. I heard a noise In the
back yard. 1 took his gun and fired in
the direction of the noise. A soon as
1 shot 1 put the gun down and went
into the house and went to bed. ] was
not in the room with Priscilla BRADLEY
alta any time last night. 1 heard a man
hollow wher 1 shot,
Dock Lewis, colored, testified as fol
lows: "I do not know anything about
the shooting. When 1 woke / heard a
man hollow. l was in the house from
$50 D. m. till was arrested this morn
ing. Grattan Pearce came in about Z
o'clock. If he went out any more 1 d."
not know it. Grattan Pearce slept with
me when he and 1 were arrested. I do
not know when Pearce anne to bed
He did not say anything to me about
the shooting"
Sandy Moore, colored, testified as fol-
lows: Il stay at Priscilla Bradley's;
] had gone to bed and there were -four
OF US in one bed-Joe Sloan. Dock Lewis
Grattan Pearce n myself. L was asleep
ing in the middle and was awaked by
hearing a man hollow. 1 hunched the
men on either side Of me and said.
what you recon is the matter? Graf
tan Pearce was hen on the outside
e.lge of the bed. When 1 first woke up
7 didn't know he was in bed: didn't
kEow when he came in and got in bed.
When I asked what was the matter
the men said they didn't know. I didn't
hear the gun shoot. 1 didn't go out to
see as I was afraid. I came from
Rocky Point yesterday to work at the
Wilmington Compress"
Joe Sloan, colored, testified as fol-
lows: Il stay at Priscilla Bradley's
house, and was in bed with three
So~NG was lSSPllS OAl
the outside. 1 was awakened by hear
Ing a man hollow. but 1 did not hear
a sun fire. / was sound asleep and
don't know when Grattan came in. l
had just came from from Rocky Point
that day n thought i might get into
trouble. 1 never got up till the police
came in and arrested all of u.s."
Co-+a;, NJ DT;J1;o~n. 49, -a1;ao
force, testified as follows: About lis
O'Clock this morning we received a tele-
phone message at the city hall from Mr..
Henry F. Often, saying that a a had
been shot at Sixth and Nixon streets.
We went over Immediately with the
patrol WACO and when we got there
Mr. Often was on the sidewalk in front
Of his sore which is opposite Priscilla
Bradley's house. He told US he was
awakened by hearing a man hollow and
when he went out he found hat Tom
King had been shot. Mr.. Often said he
then telephoned to the police head
quarters at once to let us know about
l.. We found King there sitting on a
banch. and asked him who shot him.
He said he did not know and told us
that he did not think he was badly
shot. He said he was shot in the arm
and I pulled up his sleeve and saw the
wound in his arm. 1 told him to get
n the patrol wagon and go to the
hospital but he didn't want to go, say
ing that he felt weak but didn't feel
Ike he was shot badly. He got up off
the bench and walked across the street
ard showed us the house and the place
where he was doing work when he was
We found all his tools there and
also a bucket Of lime. The bucket had
blood on it and two buck shots had
PASSED through it. 1t was probably
fifteen minutes after we got the tele-
phone message till we got there. I sent
King to the city hospital in the patrol
After we searched around
Bradley's house to find out
the direction from which the shot was
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