The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-21

Smith. Her shoes had been torn from


 Smith. Her shoes had been torn from her feet.
 Testimony as to the condition of the body and its surroundings was submit ted by MT Hammond. J. P. Hollis. D. ". Foy. C. D. Clark. City Clerk H. c, White. Chief of Police A. W. Woodliff and Charles Parks and pr. A. W. Rawis. All the witnesses united In saying that tho track down the noun tain side along which the body had been dragged was plainly marked out and that the shrubbery and underbrush were trampled down as if there haL been a struggle of some sort ks Woman's Neck Broken. < Dr. Rawls testifis.s further thatS hr death had been caused by the fra% dre of her neck. Her neck could ave been broken by a fall or it couk ,have been broken If an attempt had been made to drag her by her hair. She was heavy woman, weighing perhaps 225 pounds. Dr. Rawls said he could not say with positiveness and conyic- ton that she had been assaulted.
 From negro witnesses on the stand the cause of Mrs. Smith being alone on the mountain two hours after dark was shown. She had been told that her two boys. Is and 17 years old, were out somewhere drinking with crowd of men. She had set out on a Journey to look for them A visit to town was without result Then to the river side she went to see If the boys had gotten boat and gone down the river. As she started to her humble home near the mines. the murdercrs fell up- on her.
 Ben Adams and. Arche Huff, two ne- groes, swore that they overlook Jack sovad Gnr wxynl lfrfs s.er down the switch track away from where the crime was committed. Later in the night, they swore further, that they stopped Hunter and Garner. and while they were talking. Mrs. Smith passed. She spoke pleasantly to the negroes, saying, You boys need not think too hard of me for being out this time of the night. I have been looking for my boys, but I am going home now"
 Followed Mrs. Smith,.
 Both witnesses swore that Hunter said, Don't say nothing to her. If you speak to her she will have you ar rested" and the witness went on to testify that in a few seconds Hunter and Garner left them and went down the track the way they saw Mrs. Smith had gone. They had been travelling the other way, but when they saw Mrs.
 
 their course and followed.
 Mrs. Tate Condon, who lives not far from the scene of the crime, testified to seeing Mrs. Smith pass and go along the mountain towards the place where the crime was later committed.
 Vance Garner and Jack Hunter spent a considerable part of the afternoon preceding the crime in each others company, according to the testimony Af xrrtfn gether.
 Evidence was introduced showing that the towel. new one. which was found near the body, had been bought on the afternoon of the murder by John. Mayo, a negro boy nearly grown. He took the stand. and swore that he bought two towels of the same sort as that found by the body. He kept one of the towels. but gave the other to Will Johnston, one of the prisoners. The new towels were fastened together and Johnston cut them apart with his knife
 Told of crIsae by gshnsten.
 Charlie Parks. secretary of the com pany which, operates a dfstillery not far from where Mrs. Smith was killed. testified that he had been called out of his house by Will Johnston, who told him that a white woman had been
  went to where the body was lying, but he did not see the defendant there nor did he come up later.
 Deputy Sheriff John Dister of Eto- wah County. testified as to confess sion made by Jack Hunter when he was on the train going to Birmingham. Hunter told him that on the night of the murder he was at the still house when he heard a woman scream. He rraiI ov1A aug Johnston. Bunk Richardson and Vance Garner holding Mrs. Smith; one was holding her hands, one her feet and one was trying to shove the towel in her mouth to keep her from screaming. He said he tried to stop them, but Vance Garner said. Co on away from here. I know my d. business better than anybody else"
 Testimony as to the same confession from Hunter was given by H. c. White. chief of RQlice of Gadsden.
 OtE&r COnfessions Made.
 Confessions of two different charac- ters were made in the Birmingham jail by Hunter and their substance was given by Deputy Sheriff J. D.Curtis and Inside Jailer J. D. Pinson of Jefferson County.
 The first of these confessions was the same as that made on the train. Hunter said that the crime had been committed by Johnston, Richardson and Garner, and that he had come upon them while they were holding Mrs Smith. Some days later he told them that his first confession was not true. He told them that he and Garner were the men who did the work.
 On the completion of MT Pinson's testimony, the court adjourned until s:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The testimony of Bunk Richardson and Annie Mayo is looked forward to with anxious interest. Both have been un- der arrest since the crime. Both are known to know something of the crime and it is believed that they are going to tell the truth about it.
 LOUIs'S FINAL COMPLIMENT.
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