The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-30

with him, and offered him money and
whiskey to come with him. Hall refused
to come, and then Byrd asked Hall ii he
supposed Mr. r. j. Buffalo would allow
him to stay all night with him. Hall
said he thought he would, and went with
Byrd up to within thirty OF forty yards
of where Mr.. Buffalo lived. which was
some four hundred yards distant IN all
from where the conversation took place.
Hall says he started to take hold OF Byrd
to help him along, thinking he was very
drunk, but he says he found he was not
as drunk as he supposed he was.
Hall says that after ne left Byrd and
went back to the house and was throwing
ott his wood, a one-hcrse load the Cara
leigh whistle blew for halt-past SIX. That
is why he suppos I'd the conversation was
about quarter past SIX.
Il asked Hail. said Mr.. King, what
Eic relations were with Byrd, whether
they were friendly or not, and he said
they had always been perfectly friendly.
l asked Hall, too, why he had not told
this before, and he said that was the
very reason, because he had been good
friends with Mr. Byrd always. Hall says;
he. told his wife all about it that night.
He did not know then anything about
Byrd being with Delmo that day, da,!
did not hear until Wednesday afternoon
at four o'clock that my son h%d been
found dead
This morning" continued Mr.. King.
Hall went to my brother in-law. Mr.. 7.
J. Buffalo, and told him just what have
tod you, saying that it had been weigh
ing on his mind ever since Wednesday
evening and he had determined 20 tell
ali he knew about it.
"Mr Buffalo at once brought Hall over
TO see me at Mr.. J. G. Balls store There,
in the presence of Mr. Ball, Hall told the
same story to NE. Then we took him
over to the Office of Justice OF the Peace
Barbee He was out, and We saw Col.
Loge Harris, to whom We got Hall to
tell his story Col. Harris said ! had bet
ter see the solicitor, and he 'phoned 10
Mr.. Armistead Jones, who came over in
a little while. BY that time Mr.. Barbe2
had gotten back and then Hal again
told his tale before the justice and the
solicitor. Upon Halls story Solicitor Jones
advised me to swear out a warrant. ana
I did so.''
The reporter asked Mr.. King about
the marks on the young mans neck, seen
by Mrs. King, Mrs. Watkins and Miss
Bertha King.
81 saw those marks myself, said Mr..
King. but l was so hurt and in such
terrible distress that / could not exam
inc them closely.
''Undertaxer Strickland told me- Mr.
King went on to say, chat Delmo's right
eve was swollen and bloodshot, as II it
had received a blow. and that there
were smut marks on the left side of tac
face. He told me also that he had no
ticed the marks on the neck. but had
merely thought of them as being caused
bs collar"
] Mr.. King said that Halls story did not
vary in the least through all the feelings
of it on yesterday.
! Coroner T. NJ. Jordan, IN an interview
Yesterday, said that the jury had fully
taken into consideration all the scratches
and bruises on the face and neck OF young
Mr.. King, and that he himself had I'M
buttoned the shirt collar IN examining
the body, doing so in the presence OF Il,
Young mans father. Dr. Jordan SAID
that. in so far as the work OF the Coro-
rer and his jury was concerned, no re-
Fiction upon that was justifiable.