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evidence, other than to state that they
went toward Union Station.
d. +. Carraway Of Monticello said
he was on the IRON Mountain train
on Sunday, September l. He saw
John and Albert McVay walk through
Il car i'll which he was seated Lee
Hardy. a brother Of Il. A. Hardy, the
deceased, was oil the train that day.
Clifford Wood Of Monticello testified
that he was on the southboumd Iron
Mountain train at Union Station on
Monday. September > He Was return-
ing from Little Rock with his wife.
He saw John and Ed MeVay go
through the Pullman
Miss Blanche Hammock OF Month
cello said she was on the Iron Noun
tain train at Union Station on the
morning Of Tuesday, September 3:
that she had been in Pine Bluff and
was preparing to return to her home.
cOhli -hS O.. l'ctSSCt III ouSI tue I'LL
man car, she says. going to the rear
end. She did NOT know whether he
left the car or not She saw Ed Me-
Way around the depot
a. I. Gotham. a brother-in-laW Of
L. \. Hardy, testified that he was on
the train on Wednesday, September 4,
NJ ninn Statinn i,,t at II
Ell route TO Monticello. John McVay
and Albert McVay passed through the
Pullman car that morning.
Norwood Gotham, editor of the Mon
| ticellonian. published at Monticello.
, testified that b. A. Hardy was at Pop
lar Bluff, Mo. between September /
to September ). Judge Jones, by ev-
ldence from Gotham. attempted to
show here that the McVays received
copies of Cothams paper containing
an announcement OF Hardy's depart
! ure from Monticello. He brought ont
testimony showing that the McVays
were subscribers for the Monticello
i''ttNi' b,tl NollIdlll IHtt that iit'
did not know whether any of them
ever received copy Of the paper con-
tanning the notice referred to-
Eye Witnesses Tell OF killing.
Z. L. Wilson Of Blockton, Ala. was
| the first eye witness called by the
State. He stated that he is postmas-
a a Ia n hot =,
also interested in a mill in Chicot
county, Arkansas, and that he was a
passenger in the coach upon which
the shooting took place September ),
between McVay and Hardy, Resulting
in Hardy's death several days later.
Wilson said he was going to Lake Viii
lage from Little Rock. The train ar
rived at Union Station in this city,
said witness, many persons got aboard
the coach in which he was riding and
others left the car. A lady, whom he
did not know, asked him about a suit
case which sat in the aisle. While
he Was talking to her, he SAYS. he
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d crutch. Afterwards learned that
man was John McVay. The lady took
the suit case and walked out, McVay
stepping between two seats. AS she
passed McNaT. witness said, a shot was
fired. Wilson said he dropped to the
| floor, between the seats, and that as
he did so another shot was fired. He
remained there, he says, for a few
| moments. bu, could see everything
going on around him. Ladies in the
car were in panic and he later
pacified them. especially one woman
who thought she was shot Witness
said he saw a man, whom he did not
know in a STOPPING position, leaning
over a seat in front of him; he ap-
peared to be leaning over the top of a
car seat, he said The man had his
face toward the left hand side of the
car. Didn't see any more after the
first shot. Heard somebody say.
"That,s got him. Didn't know wheth-
er the man he saw in a STOPPING posi-
ton was Hardy Or not, as he did not
know any OF the parties in the trou-
BILE, Man he saw leaning over tha
seat, Wilson admitted on cross exam
ination, was standing on his feet ap-
parently and was, he thought, on the
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