The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-09-18

do not believe there is any one
that could describe that feeling.
Witness broke down again.
laid him down there in the road.
That was all | could do for him. |
thought he said he wanted some
water and L tried to get him some in
my hat II was a straw hat and
would not hold water ] was in great
grief at that time and do not know
what my feelings were. | do not
know who the first people were that
| saw afte rthe killing. ! tried to get
thcm to stay there with me. The pis-
: tcl was discharged accidentally.
did not know that IL was cooked. /
did not want him to hurt me with it
and had no intention of hurting him.
| lIo was pretty drunk and mad. My
IpHpose was to disarm him. | do
not remember whether / was holding
ITer's head or not when the colored
people passed there. remember
something about having Ben's head
in my lap. | do not know who was
the first man, white man, that got
there. II may have been Mr.. Free.
My mother was at home at the time
Of the shooting The last time
saw her before the shooting was on
Monday before when we left home
| think Frank Caldwell went back to
Marietta with me that evening.
heard Mr.. Free and other gentlemen
testify that | said my brother was
assassinatod. | do not know every
thing | said to them. ! know what
thought. The only reason that |
had in telling them that Ben had
been assassinated was in order to tell
my mother about it myself. | wanted
to tell her just how it was and the
truth about the matter, and thought
III would be better for me to tell her
than for some one else to. | do not
know what words | used in telling
these men that My mother was eX
recting us TO be assassinated and
hats why | said that | suppose.
wanted to tell her about the matter
and tell her the whole truth. did
nos sec my mother that night. | sem
for her as soon as | got back tC
Marietta. | sent the liveryman aftc,
her | was at the Love hotel at tn,
time | did not see my mother fo
four or five days. l was here in jai
at the time ! saw her | wanted tc
be the first one to tell her how j
was so that it would not worry her
| wanted to see that she got tn
straight truth about it. That is VIII.
| wanted to tell her myself. | do no
know how long Ben lived after H.
was shot. | know Granville Youne
heard his testimony. | was not Il
= the horse lot with Ben at the time H.
testified. | was not in the lot OF
that Sunday at all Ben was i'm be-
as.eep until noon that day. The frs
> time | saw Granville he was int
breakfast and | told him to haul som
IcOln. | did not have any converse
tiCn with Ben about the Grahar
murder that morning. saw ID
Bray pass there that morning. II
; was going toward the store He wa
" gone a little while and came bac
. by and / went out and talked to hir
, a couple of hours. DR.. Reid came b
=. after a while and he stopped an
y talked with us awhile. | invited tn
gentlemen into dinner. At that tim
was dressed in my shoes, pant
and undershirt | think my mothe
: was sitting there on the porch wit
me when DIR. Bray called me out I
the gate. There is not a word {
truth in the statement made by Graz
vile Young relative to the talk SUI
posed to have taken place betwee
Ben and myself with reference I
he Graham killing.
Cross examination by Mr., Wa
Ter.
4 Ny relations with Ben Stewart o
h he day of the killing were friendl.
- Since the killing of DR.. Graham tn
relations between Ben and myse
:. We're always friendly. Here in tow
n he got a littlS riled with me.
o never had any talk with Ben wit
4 reference to the killing of Or. Graham
:. is not fact that Ben, on one {