The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-02

transfer station and as he was going
across he saw Tillman pull a big pistol
and shoot He said that he turned and
faced him and exclaimed. Shoot again,
you coward. You have Filled me- He
looked Tillman in the face and Tillman
held the pistol toward him. but he did
not shoot; he said that then some gen
tlemen ran up and helped him. He said
that just about the time Tillman shot,
Tillman exclaimed, L have done what
you said or 1 have taken you at your
word" or something like that
The statement he said was made
Mr.. Hoyt was questioned on cross-ex-
animation by Mr.. Nelson as to his
feelings toward the defendant
Your feelings towards him are very
bitter aren't they? Don't YOU feel very
revengeful about him.
We'll, Il don't think I harbor VEN
geance against anybodv.'
You don't feel hostile towards him."
THAT hardly expresses it,
We'll, express it yourself" said Mr..
Nelson
II felt very indignant towards the
man who killed my best friend, and I
suppose if 1 harbor vengeance towards
anybody, it would be toward him. re-
piled the witness.
Q. After the killing did not you write
in the hardest terms of him as a black
guard, a gambler, a drunkard and a
murderer?
A. You will find in the --
Q. Don't tell what I will find. I am
asking you did you write or not
A. I did not write all that.
@. What did you write.
a. 1 wrote he was a cowardly assassin
and signed my name to it in The State
of January 18th.
NO HOPE OF RECOVERY.
DR.. c. w. Barron, OF Columbia, was
at the hospital when Mr.. Gonzales was
brought there from The State office.
He said he asked Mr.. Gonzales within
ten or fifteen minutes after he had
been carried into the hospital:
IN. G.. do you understand your con-
dition?"
4 do" the doctor said Gonzales re-
piled, when witness said he asked him
the further question:
DO you understand, n. c., that
you will probably die?" the reply be-
ing, witness testified:
Il do"
The doctor said Mr.. Gonzales had no
hope of recovery. He considered Con-
zales in eXtremis Witness said Con-
Zales made a statement at the hospital
which the witness said Gonzales said
was a death statement.
TOOK DOWN GONZALES STATE
MENT.
DR.. J. W. Babcock, superintendent of
the state insane hospital, saw Gonzales
as he lay on the floor in The State Of
flee. He described the location of the
bullet and gave the opinion that it
was indicated that the pody of a man
receiving such wounds was on the
point of turning. DR.. Babcock also
saw Gonzales at the hospital, just af-
ter he was received there. Gonzales
he said, made a statement to him
which he said he took down in long
hand notes. Reading from his notes
he said the following were the words
Of Gonzales, as near as he could take
it down:
He had one man with him who was
a particular friend of his, Talbird; an
other man whose face I did not OBJ
serve. 1 started for the state house
Jervias street, I recognized Tillman
I knew if l kept on, I would collide
with him as they were three abreast
both on the outside. I cut diagonally
! across to the left, intending to turn
| the corner into JerviaS street. which
| I could have done without touching
| the inside man. AS I got on the turn
| Nv " VI ILL &c lSSl lIOIl tIle eAdCl cor
ner, he said pulling a pistol he had ir
| his sleeve, pulled and fired and made
| some expression. The shock threw me
| around against the pillar on MaiT
| street. | faced him. He pointed the
pistol; 1 called him coward. He sait
| L took your advice or something t
that effect; he put pistol in pocket anC
| sauntered into the street. I never sen
| his message. He said L have take1
you at YOUR word / suppose he re
ferred to something I said in an edi
| torial In the campaign. He said this
after he fired. l had no idea of meet
ing him. [ had seen him two days be
fore in the lobby of the house. Tn
thing was finished as far as I was con
! cerned.'
The statement was first given by tn
witness in the absence of the jury tn
defense objecting to the introduction
of the latter part. but subsequent
withdrew the objection.
GONZALES HAD SENT NO MES
/ SAGE
August kOhn, a newspaper writer
who was at the hospital at the tim
DIR. Babcock was there said Mr.. Con
zales told him at that time in answe
! 20 a question that he (Gonzales) ha
not sent message to Mr.. Tillman.
Court adjourned at six the cross
examination of Mr.. Kohn not havin
been completed.