The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-22
The same testimony was given by 3. c. Evans. night jailer of Jefferson

o. c. Evans, night jailer of Jefferson County.
 Charles Parks was recalled. He wa. at the still house the night of the mur. der. He did not remember seeing Jact Hunter at tho still house at all thai night. He was quite sure that hc hat not heard any screams at the still house that night. With this the State an nounced that its case was complete.
 Mother of the Prisoner.
 For the defense the first witness was Bettie Hunteer, mother of the prisoner at the bar. She said Jack had gone up town on the night of the murder. bul he came back home. She couldn't sa, at what hour he came in because sht had dozed of.
 Jennie Brown. negro woman, swors that she was at Bettie Hunters hous, the night of the murder and remem bered that Jack had come home be. tween 10'30 and II o'clock. Jack wen away.
 He came back some days later ans the witness found him hiding undel her house one day when she went ou to look for some eggs He told thu witness that he was as Innocent of thu murder as she was. He swore to heI that he was at the stiil house when he heard Mrs. Smith scream. When ht ran up he found Bunk Richardson. Will Johnson and Vance Garner holding Mrs Smith.
 The defense here rested and the ar. gument began. In beginning his ad. dress to, the jury Solicitor Martin de. clared that Jack Hunter was charged with the highest form of murder, tho commission of murder in an attempt to commit criminal assault. and hs stood before the court charged with 2 double offense. The solicitor took q long reed wand and pointed out the roads, paths and various points on the map which had been drawn on the floor ty Mir. Hammond. He traced on this map the course of Mrs. Smith as sht walked abroad that 1ight and looked for her sons. He followed her as she passed the two white boys. Archie shuf and Ben Adams, talking to Jack Hunter and Vance Garner. He described how she spoke to the boys and how Vance Garner had said, Don't speak to her she win have you arrested"
 Followed tine Waite Woman.
 And then Vance Garner and Jaeh Hunter, although they mad been going another direction. changed their course and followed her down the track into the darkness
 And worse than murder was com. mitted there. gentlemen" said the So licitor. Every circumstance. every surrounding, every condition, show thai an assault was made. In all the his. tory of the County, look where yot will, you will not find an equal to thi. terrible crime.
 where was Jack Hunter? He wal therc when that terrible crime wa committed. He was there because h. has said he was there. Witness afte witness has come to this stand and toi' you that Jack Hunter said he wa there. He told his aunt he was there He told the officers of the law that h was there.
 'what was he doing thereg He wa not begging the other negroes fo mercy to the white woman because h was there breaking necks- Every wit ness who has taken the stand ha an enemy of the race.
 In speaking for the defense MT Henderson told of the deep reapcnst btlity upon the members of the turs ia deciding fife or dfz1tll for M pfisof1e q at the bar. He declared that the Stat had fallen short of it's duty to presen direct evidence connecting the defend ant with the awful murder of Mrs Smith. By the witnesses the State presented. Mir. Henderson argued. | had been shown that the acts of Jack
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 Not Acts of Guilty.
 Archie Shuff and Ben Adams had tes- tihed that Hunter and Garner left them and followed Mrs. Smith soon after she passed. Such a plain and open act. 1t was argued by Mir. Henderson was not the act of guilty man.
 Moreover 1t was shown that Jack Hunter had gone home and stayed 1IN at-tx I'd ha ducted himself as no guilty man would have done.
 The evidence, Mir. Henderson argued which had any direct bearing upou the case, the guilt or innocence of the defendant, was his alleged confession repeated by the deputy sheriffs. The State had even failed to show under what circumstances or among what surroundings those contradictory and conflicting confessions had been made
 In charging the jury Judge Disque pointed out the unusual wording of the indictment which made conviction possible if the evidence showed that Mrs. Smith had been killed by a fall caused by the defendant by being dragged by the hair or being struck by some unknown instrument. That Mrs Smith had been murdered was not de- nied by the defense. It was with the
 
 sufficient to show that the defendant was present at the time of the assault If there was an assault, and they would find him guilty of murder. If the jury should decide that the evidence should show an assault had been committed they should find the prisoner guilty although he might not have had q part In the murder if the jury be- lfeved he was present when the crime was committed,
 Verdict Soon Reached.
 The Jurymen were given the indict- ment and other papers in the case as they filed out.
 In thirty minutes the knock was heard that notified the court that a verdict was reached.
 In the meanwhile. the court had called the case charging murder to Vance Garner. The court and lawyers immediately plunged into the selection of the jury. By 12:30 p. m. the jury had been selected and an adjournment was taken at the beginning of the af- ternoon session.
 The State offered it's first witness in J w. Hammond. the owner of the mines near which Mrs. Smith was killed. He again drew on the oil cloth floor a map of the scene and its sur roundings showing the bridle path on tHS HiouutdiH SiuS aiohB Wnicn Sne nad been walking when she was seized, the road over which she was dragged and the railroad track near which her body was found.
 Mir. Hammond was a member of the Coroner's jury before which Vance Gar ner was brought under arrest. Garner made some sort of statement to the jury but Mir. Hammond was not al. lowed to repeat 1t, the attorney for the defense having objected.
 Next called was Dr. A. W. Rails, the