The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-12-15

n0I roo u where 6n0 BdQ kIept. VIII
ness found hat at the woodpiIe right 81
the side gate; il was mudOy and thu
bIim was tom. After giving hi
mother the hat witness started toward
barn. met Troy Brown, who asker him
Who Is that Down there by the barn
gate. f" Told Brown he didn't know,
that 1t might be ''pappy. Went with
Troy Brown and found the body. anC
they had started to the house with it.
when they met Bovd Mcknight, who
helped the rest of the way. They laid
the body in the front hall Witness
described the position in which the
body was lying when ne found IT.
Found his fathers pocket knife near
his fathers right hand; it was open
and there was a little blood on the
blade. Found birdie father had worn
on wagon tongue right at tack yard
gate, ten steps from back porch. Wit
ness said bis father usually came to
the house at night after being away,
through the front gate, and around the
house TO the back porch. Witness said
Mcknight started to Theta after help
ing with the rody; didn't know when
he returned Dion I remember wheth-
er the farm bell was ruDg or not.
Witness said he then ran to the
RountIee home to tell MI. Lee ROun-
tree Met MI Rountree and CarIigan
ON the road coming from the barn.
told hi N I'VE had found pappy dead. -
Witness testimony in regard to what
| occurred on the road back to his home
corToboTated that of the defendant and
Carrigan. Witness said his fathers
pocket book was not founG that he
usually carried a clasp pocket book
and Usually had some money, but
couldn I say how much.
Witness remembered when his mother
went to Nashville TO the Reunion.
That his father sent hIm to Kittrell's
store the evening before for S. 90 for
his mother. Supposed that his mother
had other mOney
Witness stated that he heard his
father ask ROuntree to assist In the
work on the house before he was killed.
Witness testimony in regard to CO.
ing to the burial In Rountree's surrey,
those who went In 1t. etc. corIoborated
that of other witnesses for the defend
ant. Witness heard his grandfather
ask ROuntree to drive the surrey.
Witness stated that his mother wore
heavy blacK veil to the burial, and
was sODbing and weeping
CROSS EXAMINATION.
Witness stated that when he went
to tell Rountree about his father
death that no one sent him. Also
stated that his mother woke him up
that morning as usual but did not
come into the rnom and she dId not
have the bat in hand.
Saturday Morning.
MR.. q. s. WEBB.
OF Hickman County, father of Mrs
John Reavee. was the first witness called.
He stated that tb- relations between
the Reaves and Rountree families was
friendly. That Rountree and Reaves
seemed to be the best of friends and
thought heap of one another These
relations continued till Reaves' death,
go far as witness knew. Witness and
wife were at the Reaves' house. in June
1904, while en- route to the Confederate
Reuion in Nashville. VIII there it
was arranged that Mrs. Reaves should
attend the Reunion. She vi Aed to go
with witness and his wife and asked
that they wait till Tuesday morning, so
that she could go with them, but they
went on Monday and arranged that Mrs.
Reayes should come Tuesday. Witness
was to meet her at the Nashville sta
ton, but was delayed, and did not get
there till after the train arrived and
could not find her in tie large crowd,
though he made inquiries. Did not
see her at all while in Nashville. Re
turned to the Reaves' house Thursday
evening. Mrs. Resves had already
reached there. Discussed the Nashville
trip in Mr.. Reaves presence and Mrs.
Reaves told where she spent the night
in Nashville. Witness and wife we're
back at the Reaves' home for the fun
eral. Mr.. Reaves had no double seated
conveyance and Rountree rendered the
use of his surrey for the family to go to
the funeral in. Two mules were hitched
to the vehicle and witness was afraid
for Elmer Reaves to drive them and re
qussted Rountres to drive. Stood by
che surrey during the funeral. Mrs.
Reavos was weeping; she did not raise
her veil and smile during the funeral,
witness said. II she had done so he
would have seen her. Witness has re-
manned at the Reaves' home ever since
the funeral and Mrs. Webb has been
there large part of the time. Has
never observed any secret or private |
conversations between Mrs. Reaves and |
Rountree, and has seen nothing i'm
proper 10 their relations.
CROSS EXAMINED
By Mr.. Figuers: Witness said ne and
Mrs. Webb had agreed to stay at Mr..
Tay lor's while 10 Nashville, provided it
was convenient, and while nothing was
said about where Mrs. Reaves was to
stay, he intended taking her to Taylor's,
if the re was room for her. That he did
not know where Taylor lived when he
went to Nashville, and only founo the
house after long search
Re-exnined by Mr.. Hughes, Mr..
Webb said his daughter. Mrs Reaves,
had been to Nashville very little; she
was not familiar with the city and did
not know where Mrs. Taylor iivel.
MRS. N. F. ADKINS.
Of Columbia, testified that she was at
the Reaves home at the time of the
former trial, and was with Mrs. Reaves
each Sunday afternoon DUNG the
trial. That sne was with her on the
Sunday afternoon SPOKEN of by Ulysses
Sparkman and that Mrs. Reaves did