The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-10-06

He found him unconscious and
suffering from conclusion or
compression of the brain. DR..
Sarratt, the county physician,
was afterwards called to see the
man about 1 O'Clock Sunday.
He testified that he found the
man suffering from a severe
shock, which appeared to be
from a concussion or compression
of the brain. Saw him after
about 2 o'clock and he was still
unconscious and never did rally.
The man died about 3 O'Clock,
and the autopsy showed that the
skull was fractured at the base
of the brain, which was sufficient
to cause death. That he could
not tell whether the fracture was
caused by a lick with some in,
strument or a fall.
Joe Ellis testified that he was
coming to town and saw the man
lying in the railroad cut below
Monarch mills Sunday morning
after the cars had gone up, and
he hurried on and called his sis
ter Janett, Jenett Ellis saw some
white men and called them.
D. D. Propes testified that he
and D. Robins had started down
the u. and G, s. -,,T;fs rails19d n,an was was
them and said a WhlIe liiaii o,un mo
WING in the railroad cut down
below Monarch, that ne anu
Pobh;ns went to where the man
was found him in the cut lying
on his right side, face down, ano
l onroa on Hood had been running
e from his right ear ana nose e,
y blood was dry on his face, Wa'
q thin blood, ran across ms lac Iac'
g frono his ear, some on his mus
e tache. When he reached tn
l. non there were two colore
Is women and a colored man ma Ina, liner
q looking at. the man. Ihey klle,
le nothing about how 1t happgehLe pen
Mt ~ how the man got there. Inc
er " could not see him from the
er house, he being in a cut. I'M
r. there were no signs on the grour
ne where the injured man was lyil
NV that indicated a struggle or scu
m He Where the man was lyli
ne was some grass and weeds a.
Inn these were not trampled
cts Washed down. The up ,passe
a ,er train had gone on about
the or 40 minutes when ne ana \ y
OF bins got to the man. Mr. N
1er- b;ns Testified to about the sa
mo- th;no Mr.. Propes had, exc
his that he understood one OF
the c cniored women to say to anot
was one, that the man was lying u, VI,
1oa' before the up passenger q
az along that morning.
anta . Reulah Coleman testified
Mr. she lived below Monarch
Mrs near Southern railroad.
oe M If iast Sunday morning Janett
M calIed her and said that a v
,o;mo m man man was lying down ther
|, was the railroad cut. This was
the 9 O'Clock train went up.
,oa 70 a path led from her house I
leo ;o+to ~ railroad, the injured man
rletta lv;ng below the path near
sup sup road track in the cut; .
!hncI ueIu Shurly said she was called
90 on the man.
hook Mr. i'll. E. Jones of Sp'
letter burg came on the 11.37
written He Testified after seeing tn
L. M. man ma that he was the same
certain that he had seen in Sparta
Is, had Friday and Saturday. II
,rk in, man was there talking to
kind of about work; thinks his b.
was feather renovsso, o,
,ovator. heard him tell Leitch that
nv en- heat, his way on the ira
It Mon Washington to Atlanta al
Atlanta back to Greenv
he wit from Greenville to Spart
to the That he knows Leitch g
,nything stranger several meals, g
Entity Of tn the man was under the j
of whiskey every time
was the him. That Saturday mig
waS hs was was 3 o'clcck he saw the sa
X Sunday in a restaurant, ,;nn ~ e oh,
red man. and ne Was toAs