The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-05
PAIR OF CVERALLS MAY BRING
 JOHN COLLIER TO THE GALLONS

that the electric light near the alley where the crime was committed was not burning at 6:2U o'clock on the evening of January 21. He was quite sure that the light was not burning as it was on his way home from the luni-, Der mill where he was employed. HJ> passed the same place between 10 ayxs | Il o'clock that night and the light | then burning. <Y The witness then identified sweat | CT which he had found in an old trunk top.
 Hot Colloquy. The testimony of thIs witness was the occasion of hot passage between | Solicitor Almon and MT. Callahan. Du- ring MT. Martins testimony one pr | two side remarks had been passed be- | tween the two opposing attorneys. | Judge Speake rapped for order. The Solicitor" declared Mir. Calta- han, lis trying 10 inject into this case a proposition that Is not intended to get justice"
 With his voice quivering with anger MT. Almon said, If ne says I am not trying to secure justice he states what he knows is not true"
 The controversy was called to halt by Judge Speake. MT. Callahan was permitted to make a statement: T am not a paid attorney" said MT. Callahan, T am an unpaid officer of | the court trying to do my duty. l was almost made to abandon this case ear | Her in the day. l would hate to aban- don my unfortunate client, but l will leave the case unless l am shown the respect due me-"
 Fred Bloodworth, brother of the un- l fortunate young lady. was called to the stand to identify the sweater found | by MT. Lance. The witness had taken | the sweater to the Birmingham jail ha uhn n CnI1iaF Collier said the sweater belonged to him. Lacy Smith, the young son of Har- vey Smith, took the stand and testified against Collier. His evidence was the same as that he gave against his fa- ther. He told of being near Wilkin- sons store in New Decatur. John Col Her came up looking for Harvey Smith. The witness told Collier his father had gone down the street. He said never mind, I'll find him." While they were there young lady crossed the street. Collier and his fath-r went down tho street behind her. QuarreIed Over Murder. | The next night the witness heard Smith and Collier quarreling. They were saying you killed that girl. No I didn't. you killed her"
 1 Van Bailey, another young negro, confirmed the testimony of Lacy Smith. except that he was not present Sunday night when Smith and Collier quar- reled.
 l Bailey had to submit to a rigid ex- animation by MT. Callahan. The at- torney sought to show that the wit lness had been arrested by Mir. Lance on the charge of rape and kept In | jail where he was constantly dues- tioned about the case.
 | John Ktrkwood was called to the | stand. He testified that on the night l oF ha mn ha Inhn Collier the mill after o'clock. Collier was walking fast.
 The next week after the murder the witness as foreman of the meal room at the oil mill had considerable trou- ble with Collier and Smith. They were Iconstantly leaving t,.elr work, going outside and talking together.
 Mir. Lance was recalled to the stand that Mir Callahan might ask him:
 "when you made an affidavit charg- ing Van Bailey and Lacy Smith with rape. did you believe them guilty of | the charger"
 Objection was raised to the question. It was overruled. however. To the question, MT. Lance replied: T had reason to believe they were implicated in the crime"
 The court then adjourned for dinner.
 When the court convened from the dinner recess, Dr. Watson, the gray l anu -ldCGu pHySiCldh ol New Decatur, repeated his testimony as to the finding of the mutilated and vio- lated body of Miss Bloodworth. He de- tected a peculiar odor in her clothing. He detected the same odor on the over alls which were alleged to belong to Collier.
 Hadn't Heard of Death.
 For the fourth time Fred Bloodworth assumed the stand to say that Collier
 was not at the Bloodworth home to see the body of his sister on the Sunday following the murder. He also said
 that Collier had told him that he had not heard of Miss Bloodworths death
 until Sunday morning.
 Charles Ross, the keeper of a negro
 barber shop told of Golfers coming to
 his shop on the night of the murder about II o'clock. Another negro came
 in and told the negroes in the shop
 that Miss Bloodworth had been killed
 in New Decatur.
 MT, McWhorter, an undertaken of
 New Decatur, testified that he placed
 the body of Miss Bloodworth in the
 casket at 10 o'clock Sunday morning
 and sealed the casket. It was not
 again opened.
 The State here closed its case. MT
 Callahan announced that the defense
 had no witnesses to put upon the
 stand. The State, MT. Callahan said
 had gone most thoroughly into an in-
 vestigation and had brought forth all
 evidence that could possibly be found
 and the defense had nothing to add to
 what had already been said upon the
 stand He proposed that the case gc
 to the jury without argument. The
 State agreed to this. but Judge Speake
 said that the case was one that should
 be argued.
 The evidence was thoroughly sifted
 by Deputy Solicitor l.. P. Troup in hti
 opening address before the jury MT | Troup particularly pointed out the con
 Iradictions in the statements Of Col
 Tier made to the witnesses. Mir TrouI
 declared Golfers statement to Call't Reed that he had seen Miss Blood worth's body and his description of thu wounds she suffered and the way IT
 which she was killed was damning piece of evidence against him, because 1t was absolutely proven that he haf not visited the Bloodworth home or
 Sunday and that the body he'd beer
 placed in the casket at 10 o'clock sun
 day morning How did he know wher' her wounds were and how did he know
 how Miss Bloodworth was killed? ask ed MT. Troup.
 No Evidence, Says Peek. Coleman Peck, counsel for the de fense, declared that there had not beer , brought out by the State the thinnes chain of evidence connecting John Col
 Her with the murder of Miss Blood !, worth. By the evidence of the wit nesses of the State, declared Mir. Peck 1t was shown that Collier could no have committed the crime. The law declared that Collier should be set fre' [ If there was a reasonable doubt of hi'
 guilt That there was at least such