The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-06-22

wanted to meet him face to face in
the light.
Re-crossed.
Asked by Mr. RUSSELL if he had not
been indicted for carrying a pistol, he
said yes, but that the case was nolle
pressed by the Judge. Asked if the
bill in the damage suit did not contain
three counts; one for alternating the
wifes affection, one for seduction and
one for adultery, he said he had un-
derstood that it did; but that in set
thing the case it was distinctly under
stood by all parties that he was pay
ing and in a manner admitting only
to the one of alternating the wife's af-
fections; that the other two we're alb
solutely false and without foundation,
and that it was positively so stated
and understood in the agreement for
the compromise.
Frank G. Smith.
This witnessed corroborated Tow
ler's statement as to Gordon coming
out of the Bethel House and stopping
near them at the foot of the steps.
Fred r. Gamble.
This witness did not see Gordon at
the Bethel House steps, but did see
him pass them at the postof1ce cor
ner. He also saw Meredith King pass
there, going towards the square. He
testified that when fowler returned
from getting his pistol that he and
Digger offered to escort him home,
but fowler said, mo, do not think
that necessary" or, 81 will not ask you
to do that" He testified that when
they separated at the corner fowler
went on up Seventh street towards the
square, and that he and Dugger went
toward Eighth street; that they walk
ed slowly because of a sprained ankle
with which he was suffering; that
when they had reached Oaks & Mich
OILS undertaking establishment, they
heard two shots in quick succession,
followed by a short intermission, then
several other quick shots, with a
slight intermission, then another shot.
Tom Digger.
This witness corroborated Gamble.
In answer to a question from Mr.. Fus-
sell he said he thought it at least twice
as far from the postoffice corner to
where the difficulty is said to have oc-
Cured as it is from that corner to
the point where he and Gamble were
when they heard the first shot
Meredith King.
This witness passed fowler, Gamble
and Digger at the postoffice corner.
He was on his way to Matthews
livery stable to get his horse. Just
before he reached Satterfield & Dod-
son he met a man he did not know,
and three or four feet behind that man
he met Matthews Gordon Gordon,
he said, came out of Satterfield & bod
man were going down the street to-
wards the Bethel House. Witness
went on to the stable to get his horse,
and heard the shots while he was in
the stable.
Charlie Morgan.
Charlie Morgan is a policeman. The
night of the difficulty, FIVE or ten min
utes before the shooting, he and Tom
Mclean, another policeman, had ar
rested a COW and were taking her to
the pound; crossing the Square on the
West side of the court house, he saw
Matthews Gordon standing at the Far
mers' & Merchants bank corner When
they had put the COW in the pound,
and were returning they heard the
frs shot They were on East Sixth
street at the time, so or rs feet from
North Main; they both started in run
and turned the corner about the time
the third shot was fired and saw the
flashes of the pistols as the other shots
were fired. There was slight pause,
witness said, between the second and
third shots; he could not see the par
ties doing the firing, but from the
flashes of the pistol could Judge of
their location, and he thought they
were in front of the fowler residence.
There were at first, he said, two quick
shots, then a slight intermission,
then about five shots, then another
then another shot He
saw and recognized Matthers Gordon,
he said just before he fired the last
shot. Witness said the defendant
walked out from under the darkness
of the shade trees in front of the Tow
Ter residence and he recognized him.
The defendant, he said, took two or
three steps toward the square, then
whirled and fired upward, as If he
might be shooting at some one in the
second story window. Witness then
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