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

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OF Judge Connor, as Walls is related to
Judge Brown by marriage.
Many people have been heard to say
that the citizens Of the town ought to
raise funds to aid in prosecuting the men.
or that the town and county authorities
should do this. Nearly every lawyer here
has been retained for the defence and tile
only exception known are Messrs. j. r.
Uzzell and Elisha j. Barnes. who have
had some dealing with the other side.
DETAILS OF THE HEARING.
The hearing in the case OF
the eleven men charged here
with breaking into the room of T. Percy
Jones IN the Fryar building and killing
him with a pistol shot on Thursday morn
ing at one O'Clock was resumed at ten
o'clock this morning before the coroner
DR.. Albert Anderson and the Jury en-
panelled.
The room was not over crowded and the
number diminished during the hearing.
incidents of specific interest liveDed
the many, these being that one witness,
Thompson, declared he never drank whis-
Key and had not been drinking that morn
ing He named many men as coming from
the Fryar building but was ordered to
leave the stand by the coroner, and SolicI-
tor Daniels had his testimony stricken ont.
The crowd laughed when Thompson de-
MED drinking and Thompson as he lett
the stand staggered perceptlbly.
Policeman Snakenburg was recalled by
request of the jury and was subjected to
a close examination by Solicitor Daniels,
the coroner. DR.. Anderson, and two Of the
jury, Messrs. d. S. Boykin and b. f.
Lane, the purpose of their question being
10 oat ma of tha crnyCd Cao, ~ -na1on-
burg before the killing and to have HIM
detail his actions. He was asked if he
had not been requested to keep away if
he heard of any trouble, but denied this,
and said he had heard that Geo. Whit
ley had asked Policeman FELTON, to keep
away. Snakenburg insisted that he had
done his duty, but the questions asked him
were of a nature to show that there was
doubt of this in the minds Of the ques-
TONERS.
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
At eleven O'Clock this morning the muir
dered man, T. Percy Jones, was buried in
Maplewood cemetery. He was an Odd
Fellow and was buried by that order.
There were about fifty people at the fun
eral, the service being conducted by Rev.
B. H. Melton, former pastor of the Chris
ftlan church here, now of Richmond.
JOIN Allen, the man shot at the time
of the trouble when Jones was killed was
reported as worse late last night, but
this morning his condition is said to 3e
better and that he is not in danger Of
dying.
: THE INQUEST RESUMED.
Geo. w. Battle, a bar-keeper. was the
first witness examined at the c~oroner's
,,u,,nct fhI, ~ rc IIn cod hn Ir,nur
nothing of the killing except that he had
helped to 'tote' John Allen from the
Sanatarium to the home of Policeman
Nichols, and that he had afterwards gone
to the room where Jones had been killed.
He had seen w. w. Barnes at s O'Clock
before the killing and Lawrence Morgan
after the killing at the house of Cora Duty
Ga disreputable woman) about a quarter
past one o'clock the morning of the kill.
ing. Morgan had told him only that John
Allen wa shot. Three other men We're
present when Morgan told hin of Aliens
being shot. w. P. Groom one of them
was not out of the room for more than
a half hour between twelve and quarter
| past one o'clock. Sam Walls, Henry
Crumpler, Rufe Hinson and others had
helped take John Allen from the Sanata-
rum to Policeman Nichols home.
MI. w. L. CldIk, uedlcI Ill ledl IODaCcO
said that he had left his home at five
minutes to one to meet Mr.. Douglas Mar
tin at the train and had met Policeman
| Snakenburg in front of Leath's store.
snakenburg asked him to tell other police
men to come as he expected trouble. Later
! he saw Jones in the bed room IN the Fry
ar building in great pain and Jones told
him and others Of the wound in his stom-
ach. Afterwards he met Sam Walls, Bill
Barnes, Lawrence Morgan, Jesse Williams,
j. B. Piver4and others near Leath's store.
He, Clark, said he suggested that Jones
dying declaration be taken, but Sam WATT
said it would be no use as nc one would
be present.
Mr.. r. D.. Alley, a carpenter, was the
next to be heard by the coroner. He
said that ne had taken medicine during
the night of the killing and was up
Walked down street from his home ard
met Policeman Snakenburg near the cor
ner of GoldsDoro and Nash streets. Going
with Snakenburg through an alley and te
Barnes street, near Corbett's bal
they met a crowd of men, about a dozen
In the party. Rich and Gil Ward were tn,
only ones he recognized. He and Shaken
burg met Mr.. w. T. Clark. Shortly after
he heard the guns fire, not more than ter
or fifteen minutes after he had left the
crowd, but had seen no one go to the
Fryar building. Snakenburg had not TOLD
him that he expected trouble. After Tho
shots a man ran from the Fryar building
across the street to the alley. He di,
not recognize the man, who had on a cap
After this Snakenburg walked to the sta
ton house and came back, followed by
Policeman FELTON,. Snakenburg went OF
to the Fryar building where he met three
men at the door, these coming from til'
door. He was at the corner and did 40
recognize the men. During the night @
the killing he met j. B. Plver, W. W
Barnes, Lawrence Morgan, w. ]. Rlcl
and Gil Ward, of the parties In jail. H
asked w. w. Barnes what he was doinl
up and Bill said, "Well, I stay up al
night. I was at the depot when it hap
pened.' He had not told Barnes Of TIN
shooting. He remembered that Georg
Whitley recently had worn a cap but dl'
) not know that he was the man who RAJ
across the street.
Mr.. James Clark, engaged in the liver.
business was next heard. He had been Gu
hunting and came in tcwn ABOUT lis q