The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-19

ice oiHcef- Ieo- M0JMloEd. was phone1 tor.
and Jones told him Of hs trouble. Jonc
tried 10 borrow 4 sistol from Pearce but
.Pearce did not lend him one. When Pearce
went down the street with Mumtord he.
saw Groom. dressed IN a blue serge suit.
across the street from him.
Walter Owen. a mechanic. testified that
he knew nothing Of the trouble. hut bad
seen Mr. Lawrence Morgan and Mr.. sam
Walls on GoldSboro street about eleven
at night. Went home after this
and knew nothing else about the matter.
William Scott. a bartender al Williams
saloon. testified that he knew nothing Of
the case. Stott Is the man referred Ia IN
the testimony or Dupre a. having had a
conversation back OF Williams store. He
denied having talked in the alley with
anyone and SAID the only conversation he
had with Dupre was that this morning he
had refused to give him a drink on credit.
lawson Boone. j bartender for Perry
Taylor. on Goldsboro street. said he did
not know a solitary thing about the case
and saw none of the men arrested during
the night Of the killing.
Ben Moore. who has n bar on Goldsboro
street. said he had seen none of the men
indicted during Wednesday night. Had
seen Whitley shortly after ) o'clock Wed
nesday morning and Whitley told him that
he Whitley, had been appointed by a com
mittee TO wait on Jones and tell him la
get out. He asked Moore's advice. who
replied: Il have had my breakfast and
don't want anything more To eat now
Whitley said he would see the police and
see what they would do. Later Whitley
came back and said the police had prom
lsed to turn their backs and not their
face on him in the matter. He also saw
Jones the morning after he was shot. but
JONES' did not tell him the name OF the
men who had broken IN. saying also that
his shot had gone in the wall and had hat
no one. lie gave as his opinion that the
crowd had not gone to kill Jones. but said
that for a week or so he had heard men
saying that Jones had 10 leave town be
cause OF what was going on between Jones
and negro women.
George MOye was the first colored wit
ness III the case. He is an old man. full
beard and wears glasses. He said he went
TO sleep under the steps in the Fryar build
ing at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
Next morning a numbering woke him up
and some people ran down the steps. He
heard a voice crying. "Help. Help He
NG> SId1 saw lilItt OF IOuI men NoIlit
down but recognized none. 4 policeman
came. That's all 1 know about it, SAID
George, but later added that Mr.. Whitley
said a man that took up with a negro wo-
man was no better than d dog. He also
said he had heard Mr.. Groom ''cuss" Mr.
Jones the day before the killing The ne
wrO's answers amused the crowd. which fire.
quently INDUCED in laughter. Some of the
inn, triad ~ on4 ipforroa4;o, Fr,,, ra,rr,
but the only men George could say he saw
was one policeman and Mr.. Allen.
The mayor of the city, Mr.. Doane Her
ring the next witness. said that on We'd
nesday afternoon George Whitley, who is
the driver of the hose wagon of the fire
company, told him on the streets that he
had acted for a committee to tell Jones tC
get out of town, and that Jones had put
him under a peace bond. Mr.. Herring
told him he had best behave and keep out
of it, that he was in a conspiracy. H
told him to see a lawyer and he saw Mr.
Finch, but even then Whitley said h'
would whip Jones before morning; thai
he told Whitley that no one would go or
his bond if he said this, but later Whitley
gave bond. He told the police to keep al
eye on Whitley, but expected no trouble
Whitley told him that the committee which
had Jones warned to get away was j. b
Piver, JOIN Allen. Sanford Christman
Luther Barnes and himself. Mayor Her
ring said that after the shooting some
gentlemen came to him to his house anC
informed him of the killing. He came III
town, saw the negro Moye at the Fryal
building who told him nothing. Saw
Jones, the man who was shot, but JOnes
SAID it was dark IN the room and he coulC
not recognize any Of the men who burst
in his room.
With a policeman and a lantern he trace
a track OF blood from zones room to The
Sanitarium. From Policeman Felton, ht
learned that some man had come from the
room with a jack-screw in his hand, while
Policeman Mumford had found a burnt
stick a handle cut on it with blood on !
as if Il bloody hand had clasped it, this be
ing found in the closet of the hall outside
of Jones' bed room.
Learning that men had been on the roo
and that ladders led down from the roo
he secured bloodhounds, but they woulC
not track, and he was told that these
hounds would not track white men, bur
had been trained to run negroes.
At the Sanitarium he learned that Ricl
and Piver had come with Allen to tn
Sanitarium. Learning OF parties out OF
the street, who apparently had no busl
mes sin the affair, he woke up City AttOr
ney Mewborne and had warrants takel
2 out for the eleven men under arrest, thest
warrants being served on the parties nov
in jail and on Whitley.
Il Geo. Whitley was up during the nigh
Of the murder and the mayor found hin
at the engine house with his clothes full.
on. Whitley said he had found it neces
) sary to get up and was looking for a close
; key in the wrong place. Mayor Herrin
told him he did not seem to be IN d hurr.
as he had fully dressed.
In Jones room there had been found tn
ball that went through Allen. In Rich
room was found a box of cartridges. an
the shell being taken off it weighed tn
same as the one found in Jones room, an
the one later taken from Jones body. Tn
cartridges We're So calibre, steel jackete(
and Mayor Herring exhibited them to tn
: coroner and jury.
e When Rich was brought up by the off
e Ger he had on what seemed new pants an
n la new coat. but there was a blood spot o