The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-03

when Allie ran out of the room.
 Allie had come to Notasulga, the wit ness testified, Tuesday morning. Ralph Armstrong came the following Thursday evening.
 Cross examined by Mir. Barnes, Miss Armstrong testified that Mrs. Delbridge was in the room when Allie made her statement. Mrs. Delbridge was standing near the bed while the witness was standing near the fireplace.
 The witness said that in a conversation with MT. Lewis. one of the attorneys for the defense, she had told him that she had not heard Allie say anything about fainting. She had locked herself In her room when she saw Mrs. Delbridge and Miss Allie bringing Ralph into the house. After supper Ralph and her cousin, Jim Deibridge, had gone into the room occu- pied by Miss Allie. Mir. Delbridge left soon after and Allie went into the room. The witness was excited while she was in the room with Allie after the shooting. H. L. Condon was next called. He was given blue steeled 3S-calibre Smith and Wesson pistol. He had known the pistol in Opelika where Ralph Armstrong bor- rowed 1t. Armstrong had borrowed the pistol Wednesday before the shooting Fri. day. He did not see the pistol any more until after the shooting when 1t was shown him in the Sheriff's office. Arm strong had told him that he wanted the pistol because he was going down the country and would probably be out at night. ..
 R. M. Hayes testified that the pistol in evidence had been given him by Mrs. Del- bridge at her residence in Notasulga the morning after the shooting. The pistol was in the same condition as when l1e received 1t, having two empty chambers in 1t.
 Sheriff J. T. Connors testified that the pistol in question had been given him by R. N. Hayes. He also testified that the clothing of Miss Allie Armstrong was in the same condition in which they had been handed to him.
 Homer Wright testified that he knew Ralph Armstrong and that Armstrong had given the witness a paper the We'd nesday night before the shooting. Arm strong left Thursday for Notasuga. The paper was addressed to Ralph Arm strong's mother. To tho best of the witt ness's recollection the message was. Life has been a failure. I am going to end 1t all. will die happy, knowing that the one 1 love best of all will die with me-"
 The witness testified that he had de- stroyed the communication. Ralph Arm strong had told him to deliver the mes-
 
 he got a message from him in the mean while. Saturday morning he received a telegram from Ralph Armstrong telling him to destroy the message to his mother.
 The telegram read: Destroy thing gave you.'
 On cross examination by Mir. Barnes the witness said that the letter was about. a page and a half in length. He did not fully remember all its contents. Ralph A A-rlz going out to correct a government survey. Several boys were present in the room of Ralph Williams at Mrs. Martins on Gay Street in Auburn when he received the letter. Armstrong was drinking. The next morning when he left Auburn for Notasulga he appeared to be sober, but he carried nearly a quart of whiskey with him.
 J. E. Reeves, station agent and tele- graph operator at Notasulga, identified the telegraphic message produced in court as the message sent by Ralph Armstrong to Homer Wright at Auburn. The mes- sage was written on the morning after the shooting in the presence of the wit ness.
 Miss Nellie Armstrong was recalled, but no new facts were brought out. At the request of the attorneys she retired from the room for a few moments.
 Mir. Barnes for the defense addressing the court. as he said, on a matter of deli cacy, said she should not have been asked leading questions as she was not strong willed. She was easily influenced, he said, and had never been an easy learner at school. Her evidence was allowed, how ever.
 The State having closed. court ad- journed at D. m.
 Will T. sheehan.