The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-04
HAD NO FEAR FOR fiIlMAN Gonzales Held Him Tn Contempt.
 TESTIMONY FOR DEFENSE State Has Practically Closed Its Case.
 Mary !. Roper Heard the Dead xdi-s
 tor Say That He Had Made Tiilman show The White Feathers.
TESTIMONY FOR DEFENSE

Lexington, S. C., Oct 3.-The trial. uf former Eieutenant-Governor Tfliman l,as been In progress just one week. and th,, state has not formally rested its case. Solicitor Thurmond announced, however. when the last witness for the prosecution was examined today and had left the stand, that the State practicable was ready to close. but desired to pass tho closing until next week, as there Is fur | ther testimony the State may desire to submit One of the witnesses for the ,Ie- fense was heard today, the State having disposed of all it's witnesses present some little time prior to the hour appointed sor adjournment. .'ss No afternoon session was held today. and the trial will not be resumed until Tuesday morning. because Of other mat ters demanding the attention of the court Monday.
 Witnesses for state.
 Only four witnesses for the State were examined today. Q. M. Lide of Columbia testified that he saw MT Gonzales and little further ahead Tillman with two other men coming from the State House. Continuing. the witness said:
 "When I got near the transfer of5ce. saw Mir. Tfilman throw up his arm and shoot. just that way Qndicafips) | did not see whether he drew his pistol; just saw the shot: and instantly Senator Talbird jumped between. Gonzales and Tiilman and threw his hands up this way against Tillman's face and said. sThis thing must stop Tillman had his pistol over the shoulder of this man. moving it back and forth several times, as if he was trying to get chance to shoot again." Mrs. Emma Melton, who was a clerk in the expressing department of the state Legislature at the last session, said sha taf4 the other men walking in front Of her. Coming in this direction w6A sienSaIes. who crossed diagonaIly to the Inside to pass between the opening between the three men abreast and the front of tha transfer station.
 Heard the Report. She started toward the same opening. intending. she said. to pass the three men. and was looking at GonEaies. inteineinn fb speak to him. She said had Mir. Gonzales took one more step he would have passed | the three men. When she heard the re- port she ran away. not knowing who had Hired
 A. G. Lamote said that after the shat was fired. he saw Gonzales and Tiilnan with pistol in his hand.
 l A. T. Schiedmann said he heard TiiI- man say:
 T received your message sss The defendants witnesses heard today were Mary J. Roper. who was formefly | from Edgefeld, but is now living in New York. During the year 1902 she had charge. | she said of an infirmary at Spartanburg 1 and nursed Captain Raphael Elliott, an uncle of N. G. Gonzales. 3e Mir. Gonzales, she said. visited his uncle at the infirmary there and asked if she had heard Gonzales make any references to Tillman in his conversations with Cap tain Elliott. she replied in the affirmative Witness said:
 Contempt for Tillman.
 MT. Gonzales asked me if I considered Colonel Tillman a brave man: told hirp I certainly did: he said he did not: that he had made Tillman show the white feather twice; that Colonel Tiilman had challenged him to two duels which he did not acknowledge and that Tiilman had no more resentment than to come to him in the hotel lobby and ofter him cigar. which he declined" 5f
 Was 1t on one or more occasions thaE you heard him speak of Mir. Tillman in this derogatory manner?' counsel asked.
 "On several occasions. the few days he was in the hospital" replied the witness.
 She said she had known Lseutenant- Governor Tillmans family all her life. and that the families are connected by marriage. Miss Roper said she had never heard Tillman make any threats against Gonzales.