The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-11

LABEL Register together on the day pc
fore the tragedy, the night of and the
morning after.
Z. D.. Richardson testified that late
Saturday afternoon. March 2S last,
label Register purchased at his store
"a the depot can goods. These goods
were presumed to be the ones men
tened by Edmondson as at H. B. Req
listers house and which he and Jabel
Register carried with them.
Lee Formy Duval corroborated Ed
mondson as to he n label stopping
at his stables the memorable Saturday
afternoon n then going off together
in the direction Of II. B. Registers
house.
Nelson Toon and wife, Amanda
Toon, testified that EdmondSon and
, Jahel We're at their house, as stated by
[ ~Edmondson, and stayed there all night.
: The two men had three guns and when
they left went in the direction OF the
Gepot-
Bradley Herring, colored, testified to
having seen Jabel and EdmCndson on
tie "Old Avenue Road" coming from
icons, and that the former had two
guns and the latter one.
David Baldwin testified to having
seen label Register the same morning
| near the depot, but that he was empty
handed.
TOON CORROBORATED.
Witnesses Joshua Smith and Furney
Richardson testified that Nelson Toon
had told them Of the visit of label n
Edmondson to his house just after the
discovery of the tragedy.
The former when made a character
| witness stated that ~Edmondson's char-
| acter was bad, Amanda Toms good,
and that Nelson Toms had been BAG
br+ is now good. The latter when
! questioned about Amanda Toon stated
nat her character was good.
Court at APO o'clock took a recess
until Monday morning at 9 o'clock.
APPEARS INDIFFERENT.
label Register, the n to whom the
! outcome of the trial means lie or
| death, does not appear as concerned as
his father. In fact, he has an indlffer-
: emf appearance n has at no time 50
ar displayed any sign Of uneas1ness.
| He hardly ever speaks to his counsel,
as Buck Register does nearly all the
| cCnferring, but when he does his voice
is steady. His hands, too, tre1n-
| BILE, n there is a lack Of other signs
! of nervousness. He is as Stolcal as the
traditional American Indian. This per-
| feet cOmposure cannot be attributed to
q min that is capable by force OF
| power of Suppressing twa Indlca-
] UOIlS Oh t!nOllOll LOT JdUtl IS Sd ~ NC
a man OF simple mind. Probably then
it is this simplicity of mind that makes
| hum obliViOus to the great issue at
stake, but it is more probable tina
previous experience has forced his
present appearance, for this Is the
second time he has been indicted for
murder.
Before he and his father were indict-
ed for staying John Lee, a young white
man of Whiteville, but the case was
rol pressed. Then the father. H. 3.
or Buck. was indicted and tried as an
accessory to the murder, but was &C
| quilted. That was in 1897.
j SOME WHAT SIMILAR.
! The crime with which the Registers
were charged with committing before
| was in many respects similar TO the
present one. In that one, as in this,
| the hand OF the cowardly assassin was
dis played in the same hideous man
| ner. Then a young man, John Lee,
about IS years old, fell prey TO a secret
! murderer, who until this day stands
unpublished by man.
Young Lee was at his parents home
and, at the time, a just finished sup
ping with his mother and had hardly