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

1ohSS MAS IN bed. Jones said to him.
Tom, | am dying. They say | killed a
man. and pointing to the ceiling where
there was evidences of a shot, he added.
was a mighty high shot to Kill a man
to the story OF the men talk
ING across the street he said that Jones
told HIM the man talking with whitley
was the man who had cursed HIM and
against whom he had taken out a peace
warrant. (This refers 70 w. p. Croom.1
Whitley at the time had a cap on his head.
Mr. W. L. Thompson. who at times
works IN a cotton mill. was next put on
the stand. He said: Il saw all parties
the day before the killing except George
Whitley, whom l met at Llttle's bar
at night After the killing he saw Capt.
Rich, j. W. Pittman, w. w. Barnes, John
Allen, Gil Ward, and Lawrence Morgan
and Geo. Whitley. 1t was Gill Ward and
Rich who brought Allen from the Fryar
house. The others named he saw come
from the F'ryar building. and about a half
dozen whom he did not know also came
from the building. He was across the
street from the Fryar buildlng and when
Allen was taken to the sanatarium he was
on. the opposite corner. He saw Policeman
Snakenburg talking to a man"
Here DR.. Anderson. the coroner, inter
rupted Thompson. Have you been drink
ing?" he said. No replied Thompson.
and the crowd Uttered. Are you under
the influence of liquor" said DR.. Ander-
son. mo, sir" came the reply. DO you
ever drink" replied DR.. Anderson. No,
SIR with emphasis said Thompson, and
then Or. Anderson told him TO leave the
stand. Strike out his evidence said So
licltor Daniels, and Thompson staggered
as he passed into the crowd looking for a
seat.
James Dupree, Il young farmer, who was
IN town the day after the killing, said he
overheard a conversation between two men
at the back door of j. T.. Williams store
the morning after the killing. They were
talking together about the killing and one
of them said: IF Snakenburg and Mum
ford had watched like they could we would
not have been caught" The men told Of
Morgan, Plvep and others being at the
killing. One said: IF they had listened
to me John Allen would not have been
shot Later one said that NJ. Gill Ward
was to fire first, but hat Mr.. Whitley
fired first. He did not know the men but
would recognize at least one of them, If
not both. One Of them works at Wood
ards saloon, a red faced, light haired man,
and he tried to talk with me afterwards
but / walked off.
Policeman Snakenburg was recalled and
was asked if he had talked with the crowd
he met at Corbett's and said he had mere
ly spoken in passing. Referring to the re-
port that he had talked with two of the
crowd at the Fryar door, he said: &
hoo I'd y Loot nInhf II 1c n ln from tho
start! Frank FELTON, and l went together.
We saw no one at the door as the crowd
had come down ahead of us. l saw a man
run, across the street and think he had on
a cap and think Geo. Whitley had on a CAP
that day. He believed that Whitley, Pitt
man and Barnes were in the habit Of wear
ing cap He said that when he and Allen
met the crowd back Of Corbetts he did not
recognize a single one in the crowd of 6
, dozen: Whitley had told him Of his having
talked with Jones. but he thought after
midnight the trouble was over. Would no
depend on whistle to call up police alt
from depot and asked Mr.. Will Clark tc
call men from the depot. | expected
trouble, but 1 did not recognize men il
the crowd, and could not be expected t.
tackle twelve or fifteen men. l saw {
crowd go up in the F'ryar building
At this time one OF the jurors, Mr.. d. G
Boykin. aided by NJ. 3. T. Lane, wa:
vigorously asking questions OF Mi. Snak.
enburg. MI. Boykin asked SnakenburG
if he had not been approached and asked
to keep out of the way if trouble came, a
had Policeman Frank FELTON,, who at tht
examination the day before testified tina
Whitley had asked him If he hearc
trouble would he not keep out OF the way
but Mr.. Snakenburg denied this.
Would not a distress signal have pre-
vented the trouble?' asked Mr.. Lane ant
the coroner, out MI. Snakcnburg said tina
he did not think so, that he used hi
whistle but little. The line Of questions O
+, Messrs. Lane and Boykin was such as tt
give the idea that they thought Policeman
Snakenburg had not been diligent IN pre-
venting trouble.
Mr.. Perry Taylor, Il bar-keeper, testified
that he rComed in the Fryar building
About fifteen minutes past one the repor'
of a gun and a breaking door woke him up
Then he heard another shot, and a cry
of Help, Help. They are killing me.
l also heard a voice calling on the Lord
and there was scuffIing in the room. L
1 SOu1lOcU dS Il there was 81 ldl &c II -
people in the room, fifteen or twenty, ant
there was a big scuffie.
Il did not open my door till a quarter Q
six next morning." said Perry Taylor ans
the spectators laughed. He also said tina
he watched out of his window to see !
anybody went out on the tin roof, bu
saw none of the crowd. Next morning h
went in Jones room, who told him he wa
dying and that the crowd had broken opel
the door. The lock on the door wa
broken and the knob had been forced baci
into the plaster. Jone declared that b
did not know any one III the crowd unles
Whitley was with the men.
Taylor said he had not seen cards l
Jones room or known of his playing cards
but that he had seen cards in George Nor
gan's room, which Is on the same floor l
the Fryar building, as is his room.
At this point the hearing was adjouIne
till four o'clock this afternoon.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Promptly at four o'clock DR.. Albert Al
derson, the coroner, was ready to contlnu
the hearing. Some of the jurymen wer
:, Ett1a Lotto ~ Coming IN and there was