The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-07
WAS HE FOOLED?
Black Denies Truth of Last Affidavit
Beari e His Name.
he IS FRIENDLY TO TILLMAN,
And Is Sorry He Is Mixed Up
in the Affair, But His
First Affidavit is the
True One.

The affidavit secured from me Dy
Mr.. VIM. Elliott, Jr., in regard to TIE
statement made to me by Colonel Jas.
H. Tillman, is the correct account OF
what transpired, and if anything is
said in the second affidavit to contra
dict this, it was put there without my
knowledge and consent" This was
the remark made by Mr.. O. D. Black,
now at the Augusta city hospital,
when seen by the Augusta Herald
Wednesday morning. The two affi
davit> potn bearing the signature OF
o. D. Black, properly attested before
notaries are as follows:
THE FIRST AFFIDAVIT.
State of South Carolina, County Of
Richland-Personally before LUe ap-
peared O. d. Black, who, being duly
sworn, says: l am a llagman beiwe' q
Columbia, S. c., and Jacksonville,
Fla. l was formerly on the run be
tween Augusta and Columbia. At
the time Hon. James II. Tillman was
coming to Columbia to count the bal
lots, about three weeks before The
shooting of n. q. Gonzales, / was flag
man between Columbia and Augusta
and heard the said James H. Tillmal
say, in the smoking car, that ne Was
going to whip or kill said n. G. Con
zales. Along in November | was al
Albion hotel in Augusta, with said j
H. Tillman, and then saw blue
steel magazine pistol. Said J. II
Tillman intimated 20 me that thai
was the pistol with which he Intended
TO kill y. G. Gonzales. / said: Don't
Kill him, whip him. He replied: BY
God, 1 am going to kill him." sale
rillman, pulling the pistol referred tx
out Of his Tip pocket. Signed O. D
Black"
Sworn to before me this February
1903, VIM. Elliott, Jr., n. P. S. c."
THE SECOND AFFIDAVIT.
The following is the one sprung By
The defense at Lexington Tuesday II
The conference 1t did not come int
open court.
State of South Carolina. Count,
of Enthusiastically before me ap
peared O. D. Black, who being dul.
sworn says: That the statement b.
nade, or that appeared over his sigma
:nre was written by Mr.. Elliott, VIII
said he would force him to testify, un
less be signed the statement; that b
aurriedly read the statement, and dit
not know how it sounded until b
read the same in the newspapers; tha
this is true statement Of the con
vers4tion he had with J. H. Tillman
Tillman showed him the pistol he hat
just bought as a curiosity. In tn
course Of the conversation, Tillmal
mentioned the fact Of the persona
difficulty between him and n. G. Con
zales. Some time has passed, and
can't remember just what Tillmal
Said. He may have said that il Con
zaleS forces him to do it, ne would b
obliged to kill him. The impression
made on me was that Tillman did no
wish TO provoke the difficulty, bu
would only act if forced to do so.
can't say positively just the words b.
used, however, that has passed. HI
did say, however, that be felt lik
whipping Gonzales for attacking hin
so unjustly in the newspapers. | dom
think, however, be made a direc
threat and l did not know was max
ing such statement until I saw sam,
in Ghe newspapers. The papers, as
said, was written by a Mr.. Elliott
and l did not know how it woult
sound and it was not true statemen
of the conversation I had with Till
man. (iigned. O. D. Black.
'sSworn to before me this 21st day
Of February, Geo. R. Rembert, n. P
R. c.