The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1903-10-14
of last year. He said !:

the room aud it was Il running
general convers" tion. Some.
times | would be talking to one
and sometimes to another some.
times three or four would be
talking to me. Somebody came
in the room and told me about
some new rumor as to what Mr..
Gonzales would do to me, and |
made the remark that if he at.
tempted to do hat-I don think
[ said as DR.. Adams said,
Snuff his light .ut, but '--
him, | would kill him, I think"
He said further: 81 had been
told in at least a dozen places in
South Carolina thaj Mr.. Con.
zales stated that l dare not come
to Columbia and say about him
what l had said on other STUN -
in the campaign" He said the
different statements were made
in connection with rumoys of
threats reported to him.
The defendant said further
that it had been reported that
the Opera House in Columbia,
where a campaign meeting was
20 be held, was TO be packed and
that he was not to be let out
alive aud that he stated that he
said if that rumored threat was
carried out, "It would be one of
the d tragedies in South
Carolina"
Answering counsel he said he
had sent word to Mr.. Gonzales
to attend the meeting at Colum.
bia and make his charges there.
He said he did not feel safe to
60 unarmed while in Columbia. l..
He said he did not have a pistol
in his pocket prior to the day of
the shooting, as testified to by
two Columbia boys, but said he
did have one in a sling under
his coat, showing where it was
carried at that time. Mr.. Till.
man exhibited an automatic pis.
tol to the jury, saying that be-
cause of its peculiar shape it
could not be carried in a hip
pocket. He added that it was O
bottle lie had in his hip pocket
at the State House.
Mr.. Tillman put on the over.
coat which he wore on the day
Of the shooting, and stood before
the jury, showing that it had nc
side pockets. Placing his right
hand in rear pocket he said
that was where he drew the pis-
toll from. He said he reached
back there and cooked it when
he saw Gonzales.
After detailing his movement:
about the State House after the
adjournment OF the Senate or
January Is, the defendant sal,
that in company With Senator.
Talbird and Brown, he started
down town.
"Just before I got to the trans
fer station 1 noticed Mr.. Con
zalea some distance down th,
, street looking at me very in
. teutly," said the defendant
/ Continuing he said: "We wer
3 walking along leisurely-Mr
3 Gonzales was walking alon,
3 rapidly" and he added, II nev
er took my eyes off him nor di,
be take his eyes off me-"
At this point in the witness
narrative u blue print of tn
scene of the shooting was pre-
duced, which was held before th
: jury by counsel while the d.
Q fendant indicated positions as b
q proceeded with his statement
r saying, ,"Mr. Gonzales got abor
d along there, (indicatlng) he ws
q coming down the street next t
It the curbstone. We three wer
q walking about in the middle {
r the sidewalk, as near as | ca
recollect it. Just before MI
e Gonzales got to me he cut acros
q toward me"
n Answering counsel he said tht
G Mr.. Talbird was on the outsid
a and that there was room enoug
d for Mr.. Gonzales to have passe
y between senator Talbird and th