The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-06-29

Did not think it looked well in her
to do this.
Cross-Examined.
Witness said the corner where his
shop was located was one of the most
public in town. Admitted that it was
nothing to see ladies go in the ladies
entrance to the hotel and go up the
steps, but did not think Mrs. Gordon
had any business to be there. That
the hotel was respectable and said he
did not mean to say he suspected Mrs.
Gordon, his attention had only been
attracted by seeing her meeting on
the streets with Mr. fowler. He said
the first man he saw when he went to
his front door might have been Tom
Mclean and might have been some
one else, and the second looked like
Charlie Morgan. He had seen the two
men repeatedly at the engine house
and had helped them on number OF
occasions turn cattle inc the pound
Q.-Could these two men have run to
the corner at North Main street, then
run UP North Main street to the scene
of the shooting and have reached the
defendant before he had time to take
more than three of four steps?
Al don't know exactly where the
shooting occurred, but it is possible,
Charlie Goroon.
Testified that he spent the day of the
shooting in town and was with the de-
PENDANT almost all day long. Went |
home with the defendant and his faith |
re, Mr.. T. E. Gordon and took dinner
with them. The three met Wilson
Frierson on West Seventh street as
they were returning from dinner and |
the defendant called to Wilson and
asked if that book had come That !
Wilson replied Eyes" and defendant |
said well I am coming to get it, I
want to read it tonight"
Cross-Examned.
Witness said he was sure this oc-
Cured on the day of the shooting and
not some months afterwards.
At this juncture, Mr.. Hannaway, one
of the jurors, became too ill to con-
tinue on the jurors bench and Court
adjourned till the afternoon.
Monte Fariss.
Mr.. Fariss testified that he had
seen Mrs. Gordon and Mr.. fowler to-
gether several times on the streets,
and once riding; it was al
ways in the day time.
MaddinVoss.
Said he saw them together twice
Once on Fifth street near North High,
and once sitting on the North fence
Of the cid cemetery. At both times
a surrey came and they got in it.
Cross examined, he said that one of
these times was from hearsay; that
Is, he did not see them together, but
surrey with fowler. Both times was
in the day time.
Mr.. T. {. Gordon.
'ather of the defendant, was the next
called There was evident
in the audience for the faith
or of the defendant, and the jury show
I'd more interest in his testimony than
1T any other time during the day. He
could not speak of his little grand-child
without the tears rolling down upon
lis grey beard, and other eyes than
lis were filled with tears, in sympathy
or the trouble that had come into his
ife for no fault of his He testified
hat he knew nothing of the letters
Until the difficulty near the Bethel
House. After that he read them all,
perhaps a dozen times. There were
Tx letters in all. In one of them the
writer said: II will never rest salts
led until Matthers Gordon is with
ng in hell" In another letter he
laid, you are mine. and have been for
'ome time. and / cannot do without
'ou much longer. When you leave st.
Iouis telegraph me and I will meet
vou in Nashville and take care of you.
80 far as the child is concerned I will
axe care of that. We have gone too
ar to turn back now" In another let
or he said, IF he (Gordon) hadn't
'een coward he would have killed
ne when he caught me in st. Louis
n all of the letters, said the witness.
there were expressions of hatred and
malice against him as man and hus