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

with your aims open and Mrs. Reaves
advancing hurriedly to meet you?
| A :-Yes.
Q-Was thes statement true or
false?
| Att was false.
| Q-Do you think Will would turn his
head and run away if he saw man
and woman In that attitude toward each
other?
Witness answered this question with
significant laugh.
Q:-Now Nh Rountree, did You
ever, in Nashville or anywhere at any
time, have any illicit or improper con
nections with Mrs. Reaves; OF did you
ever make any improper approach or
proposal to her or did you ever at
tempt to have any improper relation
with her?
Al never did.
Q:-Did you ever see o. know of any
improper conduct upon her paIt, OF
have you OF did you ever have any
reason to regard her other than a pure
woman, or do you know of your own
knowledge anything to the contrary?
Al do not
DEFENDANT $ THEORY.
Q:-Something has been said about
your theory in this case. What is
your theory, ana why?
Any theory was this; 1T is pure
speculation of course. l think that
after we separated that night and MI.
Reaves went home, he heard some
noise about the barn and caught some
one pilfelIng, and got into difficulty
and was killed. l was led to this
veiw of the case partly because there
had been some pilferlng in the neigh
borhood. Some wheat and corn had
been stolen, and | thought he had per
haps run up on some one or more per-
sons stealing something from his barn.
Q:-What about the shere theory?
Carroll Dodd suggested that.
AMI so ne one said perhaps they had
used the thIesher sheIe. and search
was made for that; but when it was
found it had no blood on it,
Q:-What about the clothes being
thrown into your lap?
A :-Dt. Cox did that. l did not
know at the time what fol. They
started to fall out of my lap and
| caught them. l. afterwards moved
them from one place to another at the
house. also helped move the bloody
quilts on which the body had lain.
Yes, answered he witness, | was
there when the blood hounds came and
was close TO them number of times.
THE NIGHT OF THE ARREST.
Witness said: 81 was arrested on the
night OF Nov. End. Sheriff Forgey, w
J. Goad, Claud Goodwin and j. G. Voor-
HES came to my home about 10 O'Clock.
We were all asleep. The sheriff made
M explanation why the counsel for the
ate, Mr.. Voorhies came TO assist in
making the arrest. had not purposed
70 run away. / heard rapping at the
door ana went to it. Sheriff said he
wanted to talk with me. lit lamp
and we went into the parlor. Then he
told me he had come to arrest me. l.
told him | was sick and asked If could
give bond. He 81 Id no. | asked if he
would not remain there and guard me
until morning, that | did not want to
leave home that night. He said no,
| would have to come to town. Said he
also had an order from Judge Holding
to bring the clothes had on the night of
the murder. / told him they were up
stairs. We went up to get them. /
handed him the right suit, but he said
that was not the one he wanted. He de-
scri bed the one he wanted, and VOORHEES,
also took part in the conversation. /
told him it was downstairs in my :noth-
ei + room, " here 1 was sleeping that
night. We went TO my mothers room
for the coat. They followed me- every
where | went. | walked my father and