The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-17
Continued from Seventh Page.

lIOlli ago.
Q:-what circumstance recalled it to
your mir,d7
A:-It was this. In the excitement
of that mofning the letter | wrote the
night tffore was misplaced and never
mail( Several weeks after one of the
children happened TO see it and brought
it to me. Then 1t all came bacK to nae,
Q:-Now, Miss Ragsdale, are you GER
tain this coat was 10 his mothers room
that night after this defendant went to
the lodge, and that it remained there all
that night?
A:-Certainly | am 1t was there
! and remained there.
Witness had the letter with her and
showed it to attorneys on both sides.
CROSS EXAMINED.
BY Mr.. VOORHEES,: Where did Mr..
Rountree and Corbett, the detective.
sleep the Sunday night after the killing :?
A:-At Mrs Reaves' residence.
Q:-Oid 1 not ask you before the
coroner's jury how defendant was dress
ed, and did you not cay you did not
know?
AL did not. You asked me what
kind Of clothes he wore. | told you
Nh0b htB0 vi fCob no WOIOs db0 WIZ JOu
/ did not know what kind of coat. be-
carse did not see him put the coat on;
but | did see him put the vest on.
OIL will ask you again. In answer
to my question did you not rise from
your seat and point out of the window
and say, ''yonder is Buddy, and think
he has on the same suit now he had on
that nightf"
Al did not. You asked me If he
had coat like the vest. and l said he
did. But l told you | did not know
what coat he were. because he did not
have his coat on when | saw him
Q:-You did not tell the coroner's jury
anything about this grey coat being
in the mily room that night, did yoD?
A:-No, did not. The question was
not asked me and | had not recalled the
fact then.
Q:-You did not mention it to the
grand jury, did you?
A:-No, | did not.
RE EXAMINED.
BY Mr.. Hughes:- 1t as shown by
the n lIctment that the wi hess appea
ed before the grand jury on November
IA When you appeared before the
grand jury, had the letter which re
called the circumstance of where this
coat YVES on that nigh the been found?
Aft had not.
Q:-When was it found?
Al do not just remember, but it
was after Mr.. Pouptree was releas Q
from prison. This date was Dec. g.
RE-CROsSED.
BY Mr.. Voorhies:-If YOU cannot
ecall the time the letter was found
and your memory refreshed, how do
you know it was after defendant was
released on bail?
Al am positive of that for this
reason. After Buddy was released
from prison we had some company at
our house. and II was that day the
children found the letter had written
that night, ana I at once told Buddy"
about IT.
This witness was then excused and
took Der seat by the side of the de-
fendant ard waI an interested listener
to the succt ed ng witnesses.
Tomorrow Herald will perhaps
conclude the testimony IN the case.
W. {. STEPHENSON
is a CARPENTER and paintsr, and lives
at Spring HILL He saw MessIs. Reaves
and RountIee at the lodge the night
before the killing, and talked with
Rountree in the lodge room; he was
rather struck with his attire; noticed
that he had on hit and miss suit
that is, witness explained, vest of
one color, coat of another, and pants
of another. Rountree, he said, bad on
a dark coat and light vest. He was
shown the coat defendant claims to
have bad on, and said that looked like
the coat. He was also shown the coat
the State claims defendant wore, and
SAID that was not the coat.
W. A. FITZGERALD
coroner's jury and heard Henry
Tho npson s testimony. A :cording to
his lee election Thompson swore that
he thought Rountree had on dark
coat that night. Witness said he also |
heard Miss Ragsdale examined by the
same jury. Could not recall that she |
was asked anything or said anything
about the coat defendant had on.
Asked what advice, if any, was given
defendant about going to or staying
away from the Reaves house, witness
said some one, he thought il was W.
W. Stanley. ADVISED him to stay away
from the house; he did not hear any
one advice him to keep on going there.
On his discrimination witness SAID he
was there when the blood hounds came, +
and saw the circuit they took, and that
when they reached the pike they turned
down the pike. In an opposite dlrec-
ton from Ronntree's house. Mr.
Fitzgerald said that he had known the
defendant since he was a child, and
that his character was far above the
average in tat neighbo1hood.
AFTERNOON.
j. M. ChOATE.
Witness lives near Carter a Creek