The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-09
GRISLY TALE
OF VIOLENCE
Remarkable Trial on at
Camden.
ANDREWS BOYS ACCUSED
.NDREWS BOYS ACCUSED
Murder Of Father and Step.
Mother Alleged.
The Old Man slew wife and Then Com.
nitted Suicide, r. Plea Made by
the Attorneys for the
Defense.
ny WIN T. sheeAan.

Camden, Nov s.-(stan correspon-
dence. "a grisly tale of bloody yio-
lence, of unreliable violation of the
laws of God and man, will begin its
unfolding tomorrow morning, when. In
the first of the cases charging the
murder of their father and their step
mother, Bob and John Andrews will be
put on trial in the big red court house
of Wilcox County.
The like of the story has never been
told in an Alabama court room, II
the Indictment of the State Is sustained.
they are charged, these two men, who.
in appearance. are like any other two
farmers of limited means and oppor-
tunities, with stabbing, beating and
stamping the young woman who had
married their aged father, and they are
charged with firing the shot that killed
their, gray-haired father.
They are charged by the State with
going to the home of their father with
murder in their hearts for the young
woman, and they are charged with
doing the double murder during the
passionate violence of that memorable
evening.
Tragedy December II.
IT was in December when the old man
and his young wife died violent deaths.
me twelfth of the month. The tragedy
was enacted at the little station OF
Schuster, on the Pine Apple and Rep
ton branch of the Louisville and Nash
vile.
The neighbors heard the quarreling.
2 the screams and the ominous shots.
when they got there, John and Bob An
drews were with the dead. Their old
father was lying In the yard, with a
bullet through his body, and II Is said
his neck was broken, probably by
fall from the porch when he received
the bullet In his abdomen. His head
was gashed and hacked as also was
the body OF the young girl who had
been his wife. There was bullet
hole in her back, and SO close had the
pistol been held to her body. that her
clothing and her flesh had been
burned. 2, NssS ~ - z
In the house and the yard. frightened.
were ave children who haa seen tho
terrible death in the yard.
Bob and John Andrews denied hav-
Ing. any part in the death of the old
man and the young woman. They told
the neighbors when they came up the
old man had been living unhappily Win
his wife. He had separated under
mutual and legal agreement from has
first wife, the mother of John and BOD
Andrews, and, they said, his life with
the young woman had been quarrelsome
and unhappy. The end had come In
bitter quarrel on the evening OF De-
cember ~.
plea of the Defense.
The sons said that in the violence
Of the quarrel the old man shot and
Killed his wife. and. realizing wnat ne
had done, he turned the pistol on him
self and died the death of a suicide.
This is the defense the accused
men are placing before the jury that
Is to try them for the awful murder
the Wilcox County Indictment charges.
They have learned and experienced
counsel and they are fighting hard for
every legal inch. They have been
tried once before. 1t was at the spring
term of the Wilcox County Circuit
Court. and both trials resulted in the
fury disagreeing.
1t was said on the streets of Camden
that the jury in the case of John An
drews stood eleven for the sentence OF
death and one for life imprisonment,
and II is said that the jury which tried
the case OF Bob Andrews divided very
nearly even on the charge of murder as
II was set forth in the indictment
The two prisoners were sent to Mo
bile for the better keeping after this
trial. The sentiment is overwhelming
against the prisoners, although they
have some delatives and friends who
are standing behind them in this fight
for their liberty.
Two witnesses Absent.
The murder charge against John An
drews was called again today before
Judge John B. Miller. Two witnesses
were not present and so the case went
= over until tomorrow morning when the
rrisly tragedy will be gone into.
solicitor j. +. Thompson, in the pros
ecutton of the Andrews brothers is be-
ing assisted by Col. W. w. Quarles OF
Selma For the defense of the accused
nrisoners Messrs Miller and Bonner
ri
There is a pathetic phase of this
violent tragedy. It Is the appearance
of the two child witnesses who des'
crIhe the event of this dreadtul nisht
The mother of John and Bob Andrews
is not the mother of the children. MOI
was the young woman Killed IN lht
yard their mother. James andrews
the old man was their father. but the
name of their mother Is not made
known in the court proceedings.
James Andrews was married twice
but neither of his wives was the mother
ofs the children who say they saw tn'
terrible crime and who described 1t a.
the last trial of their half brothers.
The events that lead TO the murder
go back a number of years. At tha'
time James Andrews was married Il
the mother of Bob and John Andrews
and living across the line I'm Monro'
county. His wife has always beer
nelo IN hieh esteem ny net helE iIoot :
They separated and Andrews though
enough OF her to deed to her the farm
on which they had lived and raised
their children. She lives now in Mis-
sissippi, but she has come to Camder
for the present act of the awful drami
much of which she has seen played gu
In the Andrews family.
Married n Second Wife.
Andrews later moved in WILCOX
county and married the young woman
who met with violent death last De
ceTnber.
It is said that after some years h,
ionged to get rid of the younger wo
man and marry the wife of his you'll
again. He is said to have talked will
his friends of divorcing the younge
woman and re-marrying the older
Just previous 10 the double murder
he had a conference with Bob Andrews
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