The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-10-13

State holding 1t was an attempt tC
avoid Mr.. Tillmar, the defense
holding that 1t, taken with other
circumstances. was demonstration
against Mr.. Tillman's life.
The evidence for the State and
the evidence for the defense is CON
Trajectory at almost every point.
Both sides have been presented
with corsummate skill. Which
witnesses are to be believed? The
jury must decide, and upon the
answer which they give to that
question must depend their verdict.
COL. TILLMAN's TESTIMONY.
James H. Tillnan, the defendant,
was placed OH the stand at about
five o'clock Thursday afternoon.
The burden Of MIR. Tillman's testi-
mony was that for many years Mr.
Gonzales has pursued him with re.
lentless malice; that within recent
years he had repeatedly made
threats against his life; that when
he and Mr.. Gonzales met Mr.. Con-
zales cut diagonally across the pave
ment towards him instead of contin-
ring his course in order to pass,
at the same time thrusting his hand
deeper in his pocket as if to draw a
weapon, and that these movements,
taken in connection with Mr.. Con
zales' bitter editorials aud the
threats which had been repeated to
him as having come from Mr.. Con-
Zales he considered demonstration
against his life, and shot as he
thought in order to protect his own
life.
MIR. Tillman was examined by
Col. Croft, and testified in Sub
stance as follows;
While in Winnsboro reading law
in the Office of his brother-in-law,
0. w. Buchanan, he wrote All ar
ticle for the Winnsboro News and
Herald, replying to all article which
Mr.. Gonzales had written for the
News and Courier (Mr. Gonzales
at the time being the Columbia cor
respondent of the News and
Courier), in which Mr.. Gonzales
had misrepresented his uncle, now
Senator Tillman. Mr.. Gonzales
| wrote to ascertain the name Of the
writer, which was at first withheld
because his friends advised him not
to get into controversy, but upon
a second request from Mr.. Gonzales
his name was given.
The next transaction that arose
between Mr.. Gonzales and himself
was when he applied in 1890 for
membership in the South Carolina
club. Mr.. Gonzales, he said,
drummed up enough of his friends
under the rules Of the club TO black
ball him and he withdrew his name.
Then he challenged Mr.. Gonzales
to a duel to be fought over in
Georgia. He refused to reduce the
challenge to writing because he was
afraid it would be used against his
uncle, then Governor B. R. Tillman.
He went to Georgia and waited fol
MIR. Gonzales couple days, but he
didn't come. in that year Mr..
Gonzales made bitter attack on
him in the afternoon paper in Co,
lumbia and in other papers, calling
him a contemplate scalawag and he
didn't know what else.
| Mr.. Iillmap said he was once
the Washington correspondent fol
several papers. Mr.. Gonzales at
that time, just after the second elec,
ton of Cleveland, was all aspirant
for the position OF consul general te
China. Mr.. Tillman, upon the best
information he could gather, as he
said, all newspaper men do except
i'll South Carolina, where they
never try to hunt any facts at all,
wrote to his papers that Mr.. Con
zales would not be appointed. Mr.
Gonzales was In Washington, ant
they met in the lobby of the Metro
politan hotel, where they had some
hot words The next day lie walked
up to the cigar counter aud bongh
Some cigars A crowd was stand
| ing arQunQ ana ne turned arOuDt
to offer cigar to somebody. II,
did not know who was there, ant
he telt he had made a mistake il
offering Mr.. Gonzales one. MIR. Till
man said he came back to Colum
bia, where lie was Columbia cor
respondent for the Atlanta Consti
tuition for some time. He went t.
I&dgefeld to practice law abou
1894.
When the Spanish war brok
out he was appointed licutenan
colonel of the First S. G.. Regiment
his Grst public Office. Asked abou
the reference which had been mad
|, in articles In the State about his try
ing 10 get the regiment disbanded
MIR. Ti!man said that was true