The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-15

1 Tennessee plunge into each other on the l West End gridiron Thanksgiving day pretty and evenly matched game is ex- | pected by those familiar with the football dope of the season.
 | It is the finale of the season and on Thanksgiving day the crowd is ex- pected to be far in excess of any previous day of the turkey"
 The eccentricities of football arc best shown by the scores of the two teams when they fought in two halves with the purple of Sewanee According to the fig A%~]>~~%%~<%%~ ~~~<~<<<%. Lthems glasses and two or three shot; that he saw MT. Clifford throw Havis off; that he himself was within five or six feet of Lathem when he staggered toward the toilet room door; that he saw Havis raise his pistol and fire; that he saw a pistol in Lathem's hands as he cae toward the toilet troom door. bu cid noe SC anything in his hands during .be scuffle; that he did not see Lathem raise his pistol at any time that after the shooting Havis started out toward First avenue, that Wise pulled him back and they both went out by the Nineteenth street exit
 Cross-Examination On cross-examination the witness testl- fled that he was born April 1, 1868, and that he had been a bootblack all his life; that he did not see the first part of the fight and did not know who struck the first lick; that he did not know whether MT. Lathem had a pistol at that time or not; but that the first time he saw La them's hands at all he had a pistol in his right hand.
 The witness caused much amusement in the court room by taking the billy presented and Illustrating on Capt. Whites head how Wise was striking La them.
 He testified that when MT. Clifford seized Havis he threw him over toward the card case; but that he could not tell whether he landed two feet or hun. dred feet from the case; that when he rose he pointed his pistol at MT. Clifford and MT. Clifford ran; that he saw all three shots fired and stood there.
 Further amusement was caused by the witness saying one of the bullets went very close to him and as it went by 1t went "nfsst." He said he was positive that Lathem had pistol in his hand be- fore Havis fired
 The witness said he was cool and col lected and had only had one stiff drink that morning and that ne did not get scared until after the fight was all over. He further said that he did not see MT. Wise with n pistol.
 w. F. Bolin testified that he is shoe maker and nas been located at 223 Eight eenth street for one year. A leather billy was shown him by the state and the wit ness said the first time he ever saw 1t was when Glen Havis brought 1t to his place about a year ago to be repaired; that he repaired it in two places at the the request of Gelen Hayis; that at the time it was brought to him it was full of small shot and sand, and that Havis carried it away with him after it had been repaired.
 On cross examination Mr. Bolin said the second time he saw the billy was at Judge Banks office about five months la- ter and that he went to that office at the request of Detective Pinkerton,
 Afternoon Session. l. H Lynch at the afternoon session testified that he saw Elias NJ Lathem in the bar room of the Morris hotel after he was shot; that his left hand was under his side and his right hand was stretched out on the floor; that he saw pistol un- der his body that prior to the shooting he started behind the counter to get his mail and his attention was attracted by four men scuffling; that Havis had pistol drawn on Clifford and that the other two men were still scuffing; that one of the men was stooping over and that the other had one hand raised as though to strike but the witness said he did not see blow struck
 The witness further testified that he didn't know whether the man who had his hand raised had anything in his hand or not; that when Havis pointed his pistol s3 Clifford he said, "Tll shoot you"
 On cross examination the witness said that MT. Lathem during the fight had his hand on his hip as though in the act of drawing a pistol, and that 1t ap- peared to him that he was trying to draw a pistol.
 Elevator Boy.
 Burrel Wilksey, the elevator boy at the Morris hotel at the time of the killing testified that MT. Lathem went up and down on the elevator three or four times on the morning he was killed; that he occupied room 57; that he saw Glen Havis knocking on the door of room 57 before the killing; that MT. Wise told the witness to go up to room 57 and tell the gentleman with the white hat on to come down and that Mir. Wise told him he would give him quarter; that he told Havs and he came down on the elevator; that Wise and Lathem were at the foot of the elevator waiting for him and that the three walked together to- ward tho private office; that later he saw the fight and that MT. Wise had something in his hand: that he saw shot fall on the floor and that he later pick ed some of them up.
 Heard Lathem Gay.
 The witness further said that ha heard Lathem gay "Quit hitting ne wisei" and