The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-24
Stenographic Report
of Barnes Confession
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: corner of Nash street. | did not know him
t then but recognized him as Jones the
| day after the shooting. / did not heal
/ Whitley call any names This man whom
met was about so feet from Whitley
when he was talking"
: On cross examination by Mr.. G.. w
, Connor, no change was made in witness
: testimony.
: W. L. West, agent for a beer house,
beng sworn, said: II saw Geo. Whitley
the evening before the homicide This
was about o'clock Tuesday night
Whitley said he was going to notify Jones
to leave town. On the day before the
killing Whitley came to me about 3
o'clock and wanted to borrow some brass
knucks. | asked him what he wanted
/ with them. He said he wanted to whip
Barkley because he told lie about him
on the peace bond trial, and that he in
tended to whip him if ne had to stay
there all night"
On cross examination by Mr.. S. G..
Mewbourne. it was brought out that
Whitley said that he was not going to
hurt Jones because Leonard & Piver had
stood his bond. and he did not want to
cause any trouble.
| Frank FELTON,, a policeman, being sworn
said: 81 was on the police force the night
Jones was killed. My beat was on Tar
boro street At IL O'Clock 1 left Tarboro
street and came to Goldsboro street, where
saw Snakenberg. We went up Colds
boro street to Corbett's corner. l saw
Bill Bridgers, Walter Owens and Ed.
MARROW near the Star saloon These were
the only men l saw at that time This
was an hour before the shooting. l was
near Hills corner when the shooting oc-
CURED. 1 heard three shots, one of
which sounded like shot gun, the other
two were pistols AS l went on up OPP
posite the Cash Racket store l heard a.
man calling out. He was saying, "Oh,
Lord! Murderi Help!' These cries were
coming out of the Friar building. / saw a
man run out of the F'riar building and
rush across the street and run into Over
mans alley. After this man ran out
and when | had gotten up in about 80
feel it looked like or men came out of
the Friar building. They went UP the
street and turned into the Briggs Hotel
alley Among these men I recognized
Piver and Bill Barnes. There was a
| light burning near where these men were
and I recognized them thoroughly / saw
about eight men go into the alley One
of these men looked like a large fieshy
| fellow. All these men had their coat col
lars turned up and their hats pulled
down, and / could not see who they were.
then went up to Jones' room He was
laying down in the door / noticed the
lock and it was broken. The lock piece
was showed out. but the catch on the
door facing was broken off This looked
like fresh break. / thought Jones was
dying. / asked Jones what was the mat
ter and he said I'm shot He told me
that he was going to die. He told me to
get him doctor, that he did not want
to die. He told me to write to his
brother and send him his watch and tell
him that he wanted him to have all of his
property. When Dr. Anderson came in
Jones told the doctor unless he could get
out the ball that he (Jones) would not
live. After the doctor had gone Jones
told me that he was not going to get
well. While | was in Jones' room Morgan
came there. This was about one-half hour
after the shooting. I saw Ward and Bass
after the killing. about o'clock in the
the morning. Some one asked Ward
what he was doing up town. and he said
some one told him that there had been
some shooting up town and he came up
to see who it was. Whitley said on Mon
day night before the killing: Will you
promise me that if you hear any one
yelling you will go the other way. II
told him no. When Piver came down
from the Friar building he had some
thing in his hand which looked like a
Jack screw"
stick found near the scene of the
killing was shown to the witness and he
said that it looked like what Piver had
in his hand.
Witness testified further: II saw small
22-calibre rife on the floor in Jones' room
the night of the killing. The windows
were all down in the room and no glass
were broken. There was some charcoal
on the floor near the pool of blood"
On cross-examnation by Mr.. f.. A..
Woodland, witness said he went to Jones
room at night about a week before the
killing.
Q.-(By State: What was the condi-
ton of Jones room?v
Mr. F. s. Spruill objected, and at his
request the jury was taken out of the
room. 1t was explained to the court by
Mr. Woodland that the reason for wanting
witness to tell the condition of Jones
room was that. because on the occasion
the witness went to Jones room he found
him in bed with negro woman, and
that Jones raised the window in his room
and pushed this woman out of this win
dow.
Mr.. Spruill argued that the condition
of Jones room ten days before did not
have anything to do with the present
case, but that it was evident that the
purpose of the defense was to get the
immortality of Jones before the court
Their object was to show who was in
company with Jones ten days before.
The court ruled that it did not have
any weight with the present case,
whether or not Jones was in his room
with negro woman or whether she was
pushed out of the window. An exception
was indeed for the defense. When the
| jury came into the court room it was
further brought out on crass-examination
that entry could be made from shed,