The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-22
TRIAL OF HARRALS0N
ACCUSED OF KILLING RICHARDSON
 AT BEssEBEER.
will Be Hard Fought Legal Battle In HTrmamgham COuFt--M0tfom to
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 Overruled. 7s Birmingham, Feb. 21.--(Speclal:)- All the sensational details connected with the killing of Grover Cleveland | Richardson In the home of Lilly Hscks, negro woman, at Besserer some time ago. were brought out in the trial of Charles M Harralson. charged with the
 murder, in the Criminal Court today.
 The case is being heard before Judge c. c. Nesmith, and attracted q large crowd to the court room on the third floor. Solicitor H. P. Hehin is perspr- ally conducting the prosecution, and Robert E. Smith and Benjamin c. Perry are conducting the case for HarrAl- son. During the trial his wife sat near him and his little children played about his knees. Half a dozen women were present in the court room and sat near the prisoner. They were relatives and friends of the Harralson famhy, who reside sn Bessemer.
 Tine star witness in the case Friday was the Hicks woman, who was ar- rested in connection with the killing, ana yaIeased on a habeas corpus writ and pIaced under bond to testify in the ease She was on the stand ThursdAy Afternoon when court adjourned until Friday, and was recalled to the stand WhAn court COUNCiCU Rts AN VI SAONs%a
 The first point brought out by the nolicltor on direct examination was Q letter that Harraison js said to have written the Hicks woman when both
 were in iall. One page was missing, and the woman testified that 1t was a reouest for her to say she killed Rich ardson, with the assurance from liar ralson that she would get only rev vaars and that he would help her get s,,t Tie woman said she had known Harralson about two years. Met him at Gadsden and that he brought her to Bessemer. For a time she sad she cooked for him and that she had tried to evade him for several months before the killing.
 Tine woman said that she purchased A set of curtains and that Richardson SaiSvered them on Friday. Shortly af- fer he left she said Harralson came in and wanted to know what the bundle contained. She said Harraison opened fine packaEe, saw the b.ll of sale and said "f know who has been here" The woman said Harralson came back for few minutes Friday night and she met him on the street Saturday morning. j On Saturday night, the night of the killing, she said that Richardson went Sc her house to collect for the curtains. He had been there for about twenty minutes. she said. when Harralson rushed into the room, and with an oath, fred. The woman sad she jumped out of the window and hid fin some weeds until Harralson left, and then she came to Birmingham and spent the night. -...,
 The case has many sensational phases and took the entire day. The Attorneys for Harralson are making hard fight to prove his innocence while the State Is leaving no point unturned, At the very outset a predicate for an appeal was laid for the defense when motion was made to quasli the indict- rnent on the grounds that 1t was based on illegal evidence. It was overruled.
 A number of witnesses were sum moned in the case.