The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-28

the Southern: l first saw King at tie
Hosiery Mills with another man. Boil
! seemed to be drinking. l next saw hin
| as if crossing from the Grimes place
which is. just below the Asylum. This
| was about $500 He was TIE only man
| saw then, and he was standing right al
! the Asylum crossing on the Mills road
l next saw him about els at the trestle
where he lay this morning / think he
was standing down at the bottom of the
/ embankment, with a stick in his hand
! about fifteen or twenty feet from the
track. 1 had only one car, and was com
ing backwards. / was in the car, with
Charlie Crump. One train passed after
we did, coming in, due at $50, the Mills
train. / know that train came in after
we did. because I tagged it as l came in
Some one 'phoned about the accident
this morning from the penitentiary to
/ Mr.. Newsome, our yard clerk l asked
/ the dispatcher for orders, and ne sent
me over to see about it. 1 saw no rock
or stick lying near. / knew the man,
but don't know the man / first saw him
with.
i CHARLES CRUMP. the colored
switchman: | saw a man standing last
night as We came in somewhere in the
field by the trestle, on the flat ground
at the bottom of the embankment. That
was about els, think. He was standing
up when We left him.
H. d. P0NTON, a guard at the State S
Prison, testified that one of the A. and
NJ. boys called out to him in tie morn
iEG that there was man lying over
H., 4
Mr. Ponton, as he was taking his squad
i o. prisoners into the field He went over
/ TO see the body, taking the conycts with
him. Saw no weapons of any kind. Then
ted Warden Fleming about it, and
'pboned to the Southern Railway.
j w. B. BUFFALO, the man who swer.
out the warrant before the Coroner, said
he did so because he had heard James
Bird say in the presence of several others
about seven o'clock Tuesday evening at
the house of T. j. Buffalo that the next
time he caught King outside OF the cor
rorate limits he would beat him.
Bird was drinking at the time, and was
talking about that, but did not say he
was with King Mr. Buffalo had said
nothing about King and was not thinking
Of him at the time. He had seen Bird
evening, and 90 on toward his brothers
MIR. T. J. Buffalo, but did not see whether
he went directly there. Witness went in
and washed and dressed and went direct
ly over to his brothers, about seven O'Clock
and found Bird there. When he saw him
first Bird was going in direction from
the place where the body was found. Wit
ness lives about southwest from spot
where King was found, and T. J. Buffalo,
his brother, lives some five or six hun
dred yards northwest from the witness. e
was about three-quarters of a mile from
witness house to the spot where the body
was found. He did not think Bird could
have gone to that spot and gotten back
between the time witness first saw him
and the time when he saw him at his
brothers
Witness said Bird was about thirty
years of age. He seemed very much in
toxicated when at II. J. Buffalo's, so
MUCH so that he could not get about Well.
He said he felt very sick, and went to
bed before witness left.
/ Bird made his threat against King in
the presence of Charles Edmunds and
L. j. Buffalo.
| Witness house is about a quarter of
mile from the railroad at the nearest
point. That point from the spot where
the body was found is about quarter
! OF mile along the railroad.
Witness had not seen King that day.
W1NSLOW KELLY. an employee of the
Raleigh Hosiery Mills / know Delmar
King. Saw him yesterday. Came to the
mill with another man / had never seen
before. King made me acquainted with
him, and the last part o. his name Wa
Bird. Delmar wanted to sec enc of his
sisters, but | told him she had gone
home. Then Delmar went upstairs to sec
Mr.. Roberts, and Bird stayed down in the
boiler room with me. Both had been
drinking. When Delmar came down, he
asked Bird for drink of whiskey Bird
seemed to have all the liquor. | begged
Delmar not to drink any more, because
thought he had enough, and he did not
drink much Then they left Bird saying
Lets CO." They went on along the track
by the penitentiary. King fell down sew
eral times. He seemed 70 be cutting up,
holleriDg and kicking.
It was somewhere between four and five
o'clock when they left the mill. The
Southern shifter passed once while King
was lying by the track, where he fell
Bird seemed to be sober enough to take
care of himself. l did not hear of any
one pulling them off the track to keep
them from being run over. Bird did not
+, drink any at the mill
WILLIAM R. ROBERTS, also an en-
ploye of the Raleigh Hosiery Mills: Del
mar King came to the mills and said 1T
seemed to be hard for q fellow to get q
| job in Raleigh, and he was going twenty
five miles out into the country and work
on farm. He had first asked TO see his
sister and then Mr.. j. j. Pollard was at
nome sick. Delmar said he was drinking
a little, but knew what he was talking
about. l looked out of the window after
! he left, and saw him fall down and roll
ever Just as the Seaboard train was going