Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-12-04

been the direct cause of the shooting. Jamison then told of q meeting of Nc Cartneys friends, which was held at Clio Friday night before the shooting. Janlison was not present at that meet ing, but he testified that a friend who was present told him that at this meeting it was resolved 10 kill God frey and Bush He said he was in formed that it was also decided to put him out of the way.
 Gives Graphic Account of Shooting.
 Jamison then gave graphic de- scription of the shooting, i'll which he implicated all of the defendants He declared that he saw shots fired by Mccartney. Mrs Mccartney, Prince, Cotton and Richards, as we'll as by another man, whom he said he un- derstOod was a brother of Mrs. Me Cartney. Jamison testified that he had gone out on the<tlatform at the com missary when the train upon which lolll 'oulICA. SIttI CtlNC liuSl1 eIAN Al. R. McEwen were passengers, arriv- ed, and that when the shooting be- gan he was standing where he had 8 full view of the commissary. Jami son declared that when Godfrey, Bush and NlcEwen descended from the train they made no threatening 1 7D 4I,ot they intended b start any trouble. He declared that Jhe shooting began t.o:n the windows of the c0mmissary office soon after the men had left the rain. He declared that as soon as the shooting began the three men started to run. McEWen fell first and a minute later Godfrey dropped to the ground. Bush continued to run and disappeared across the railroad ."ack Jamison swore that Cotton. one of the defendants was standing upon the platform. outside the commissary, and that he began firing as soon as the men started to run. Jamison inn plicated individually each of the de- fendants. swearing that he saw each of them firing The witness testi- fled that he was in the office before the train arrived. when Strong called Mccartney up on the telephone from Pine Bluff, presumably ito warn him that Godfrey and Bush had left for Clio.
 Mrs. Janlison, wife of the first wit ness, was then placed on the stand. She testified that she was ill Pine Bluff on the day of the shooting and intended to return to Clio on the train that carried Bush. Godfrey and Me- Ewen. She went to the station at Pine Bluff to take the train, she stat ed. when she met Godfrey and Bush. They told her, she testified, that they were going to Clio to get their per-, sonal effects and intended to return on the local freight. They also told her that they had been told by a cer- tain party to have Jamison return with them and for that reason she did no go to Clio.
 Godfrey Shot in Back.
 R. Pugh, an undertaken, who pre- pared Godfrey's body for burial, told of the nature of Godfrey's wounds He stated that there were two bullet wounds in the hip, which had evident ly been made by shots from the rear The bullet which caused his death, the witness testified, had entered at the back of the head.
 Brooks Falk, a young man, place! on the stand by the state, also claimed to have been an eye witness of the shooting Falk had gone to the sta ton when the train arrived, and was standing near the railroad track, he stated, when the shooting began He stated that he saw the three men leave the train and declared that none Of them made a threatening move. He declared that the shooting began immediately from the office of the commissary. The witness did not inplicate directly any ot the de- feadants, with the exception of. Cot ton. who, he said, began fring*at the ,,