The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-15

| went there" The woman declared she did not retain shreve for fear of pros | ecution.
 h coneiusion she was examined min uteiy as to the flight of the women | from Montgomery.
 At 2:Io o'clock, court recessed until
 Court convened again at 3:s0 o'clock. l Mrs. M Johnson was called to the stand by the prosecution. | On direct examtnation. she said she | was witness against Caffey and had appeared and been recognised in court as q witness.
 | George Shreve. she testified, told her they couldn't hurt her if she'd get out | of the state. He said he would rive | her $200 If she would leave. She left here the night after she had been recognized in court, Her account of the flight of the two>women in prac- ticaliy every detail corroborated the 1 statement of Miss Brown.
 Before the women left. she said they 1 told Shreye that they had been recog- nized by Judge Thomas.
 On ross-examination, she said she appeared once before the grand jury | in refereace to an operation performed on her. After that she saw George | Shreve twice, first at Mrs. Dickerman's 727 Pollard street, the day before she 1 appeared before Judge Thomas, and the last time at his office the after | noon of the day she appeared in court | Dsd Net Pay shreye. She did not pay MT. Shreve any money at his office. She had been ad- vised only through shreve to leave the l state.
 The fellow who run the automobile. she said. paid hef s2oo, Miss Brown received 3100.
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 The witness said she didn't remem- Der whether she told Shreye in his of flee that she was afraid because of having made contradictory statements before the grand jury. She acknowledged knowing Daisy Gordon and paving been twice to her | house { Sharp street. She denied teli- ling Daisy Gordon anything at all. Sh c also said that she told Mrs. Diekertnan nothing concerning the faffair.
 in regard to the Caffey case. she testiAed that George shreve advised her she could not be prosecuted. but for an offense similar to that against the negro physician.
 The court sustained MT. Dents ob- jectien to question as to whether she asked a railroad man to get her a pass. The witness, though. volun- tarily answered that railroad man offered her pass. but that 1t had nothing to do with the case. The of- fer was made at Mrs, Dickerman's.
 In Dallas, she said, they told her she was arrested for running away. She said she had been in jail since she has been here and had haen in the custody of forty dozen" persons. Says No Promises Made. Has anybody, either the sheriff, the deputy sheriff ar the jailer. or dep uty told you you would be turned looses" asked MT. Sanford. She re- piled negatively.
 l There hasn't been anybody prom ised me anything like that" she said
 On redirect organization. Mrs. John son said that In the presence of Hen ry Robbie, at the Jail, when she told the story of the fight. Mir. Dent had declined absolutely to promise any | thing.
 Charlie. Henry, 2 middle aged man | Who resides at Cheehaw, was called by | Mir Dent He saw the auto. bearing tne men and women, come to Cheehaw. 1 He identthnd Mrs. Johnson and Miss Brown as the two women. After look ing all over the court room, he was unable to identify anyone of the men. 1 Hard aR SandersOm.
 When directed specifically by the So- llcitor to the row of defendants and their attorneys seated behind the de- | fensc's table, the court room was con- | vplsed with laughter when MT. Henry 1 pointed to r. A. SanderHon, Rn aIfor- ney For Shreve, as one of the men in the automohiiA. However, after more mature thought. he pointed out Jesse shreye almost positively. The other man. of the automobile, he said, was in the witness room
 l Will chambliss, of Tuskegee, Super intendent oflthe southern Improvement h. tion, testified to having seen the auto mobile bound from Cheehaw to Mont gomery during July. The machine. con- tained two men He easily pointed out Jesse Shreye and said the other occn- pant of the auto was in the witness room.
 city, was called by MT. Dent. Hs said he was employed to furpish the auto mobile from Electric PaFk to Cheehaw A ''ladys called up for the maehines Jesse ShFeve went with him in the ma chine to Electric Park and from there the women accompanied them to ches. haw.
 The women paid him s3S for the au- to hire at cheehaw. He didn't know who the lady" was who had engaged the automobile.
 .. A, Fonvilie. local manager/of the Wc5LHNu OHtOu AcbGHF4pH GOtip&HSs testified reluctantly concerning a mes. sage sent to Dallas from Montgomery. August 2, 1907, addressed to Mss Gussie Day." the name under which Mrs. Johnson was supposed to be tray cling, and signed, "J. O." The rules nf the telegraph company prohibit ang telegrams being divulged.
 A copy of the telegram followsI Miss Gussie Day, care of St. George
 Hotel, Dallas, Tex.
 Your letter received. Have written care General DeliveryA See letter.
 tSigned) "I C."
 W. A. Sheppard manager of the Postal Telegraph Company, testified that no messages were sent through the Postal office to Gussie Day signed by either of the Shreves.
 Deputy Sheriff George Wilson, when called to the stand by Mr, Dent. said that, when he went to Dallas to bring the women back, he saw George Shreve on the train, first at New Orleans. then at Houston, and finally at Dallas. He touched briefly on the Dallas habeas corpus proceedings. He was asked specifically about efforts to make the womens bond in Dallas, but knew only what q MT, SpellmaR had told him. On being recalled by the Solicitor. Mrs Johnson identified the telegram r-t,ar fin hAy Manager FanvliIa aa hay.