The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-04
Defendants i'm the Assa ssfnatfon Trial
at Cynthians Testify I'm Their
own Behalf.
THEIR STORIES DIFFER LITTLE
AND CORROBORATE THE TESTIMONY
OF OTHER WITNESSES.
Special BailiH Little and Sheriff Me-
Chord Testify as tn the Capture
of the Prisoners.

CYNTHIANA, KY, Aug. 3.-In the case
of the Commonwealth Jett and White.
now on trial here for the murder Of James
b. Marcum on May 4, Bruce Little. special
bailiff of the Breathitt county Circuit Court
during the first trial of Jett at Jackson, tsa.
titled that he and several men with soldiers
captured Tom White after an eighteen-mie
ride over the mountains one night at
O'Clock in the morning. After he was taken
White said to Little: "In few minutes
more you would not have got me, 1
would have left here
Woodson McChord, sheriff OF Clark coun-
ty, was called He testified that he arrested
Curt Jett on Sunday morning. May 10. In
Madison county, at his mothers house; that
after being arrested he asked for whisky,
which was not given him, and Jet said:
Il am sorry to be arrested on Sunday, as
would not be taken to Winchester if ar
rested on another day L could be taken to
Jackson, where / would be all right"
Witness said he asked Jett where he was
when the killing occurred and Jett replied:
None OF your id business"
w. III. Blanton, who was recalled by the
prosecution, testified that i'm conversation
with Captain Even the day after the shoot
ing of James b. Marcum Even told him
who did the killing on the previous day.
At 10:1s a. m, after having presented
forty-two witnesses. commemorative At
wealth rested the easel Band Judge Osborn
adjourned court until 1870 p. m. to allow
the defendants attorneys TO consult with
their clients.
JETTS TESTIMONY.
This afternoon Curtis Jet, one OF the de-
PENDANTS, was placed on the stand and in
terrogated by Judge James ID. Black. one
of his counsel. He said that he was friendly
to ]. b. Mjrcum, and, with the exception Of
a few words with him some four years ago.
they had always been friends. He corrob-
GRATED Barney Schiff, who testified for the
prosecution that Jett was talking TO Joe
Moore and himself before the killing. Jett
said after the shots were fired he walked
into the courthouse and looked about. but
seeing nothing. returned by the side door.
the way he came, and went across the
street and that he did not aid i'm helping
Marcum, who was then dying and around
whose body others were rushing to give
aid. Jett said he saw Even running around
the courthouse. He, few minutes after
this. saw Tom White on the street, and
with him, went down town to place near
the depot. where they crossed the river and
visited mis- grandmother Hargis, mother OF
Judge Hargis, and there had dinner. He
said he met Mrs. Mary Johnson, who asked
him If he had killed her brother. He told
her he did not but that they would accuse
him of il. He and White both came back
that evening 10 town and went to Free
mans saloon and there called for beer,
and having none, they left. Before he left
town that morning he bought a bottle OF
whisky at Goodloe Combs and took part
of it to his grandmother.
Jets testimony corroborated many other
witnesses who have testified for the prose.
cution as to his ACTIONS on that fateful
day. He denied having conversations with
witnesses who declared on the witness
stand he had spoken to them about the
murder of Marcum. He gave full account
of his actions up TO the time of his arrest.
The defendant showed his right hand TO
the jury upon which two joints of the ring
the shooting by working with sawlogs.
WHITE ON THE STAND
The main feature of the day was the
cross-examination of Thomas White. who
was next placed on the stand by the de-
Tense, by Tom ID. Marcum. Marcum is one
of the attorneys for the prosecution and
is a brother of the dead man and resides
at Muscogee, /. T. White came from a
place eighteen miles from Jackson looking
for work, according TO his testimony and
did not get il, although he had tried for two
days. His testimony corroborated several
other witnesses for the prosecution. who
said he had gone into the side door of the
court house and had come out OF the front
door. This was Ewen's testimony and
agreed with that of Miss Clark and Miss
Rawlins, who testified on Saturday Even
said White turned and looked at Marcum
as he came from the courthouse and White
did not deny that he had turned and looked
Marcum, as he passed the front
door. His testimony corroborated Mrs.
Horde, another sister OF Marcum, who said
that he and Curt Jet came into her house
Sunday afternoon looking for her BROTH
er, only that White said that Jet was not
the person with him at that time White
also corroborated Mrs. Johnson's testimony
as TO a conversation between Jett and Mrs
Johnson, but the substance of what was
said he denied. White says that after din
ner on the day Marcum was killed he left
Jet at his grandmothers, while Jett SAYS
both came to town together in the after
noon. He said that he looking for
Callahan Immediately before the shot was
fired and that was his reason for going into
the courthouse. Miss Clark. on Saturday,
said she saw Sheriff Callahan In Hargis's
front store door seated I'm a rocking chair
until after the shots were fired, when he
sprang TO a window with a revolver in his
hand.