The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-07-30

At the pond, however, 1t was found
that a buggy had been backed down
to, and partially into the waters edge.
Search was to be made In the pond;
and it was made in every imaginable
way. Hundreds and hundreds were
engaged in raking, fishing and drain
ing. After much fruitless effort in this
way, on Thursday morning the mill
dam was cut down, and the water of
the pond partially drawn off. and the
same processes Of search again gone
through with.
about noon of this day, the officer
sent for William, returned, having him
in custody; and a man calling himself
DR.. Gilmore, came in company with
them. It seems that the officer arrest-
ed William at his own house, early in
the day on Tuesday, and started to
Springfield with him; that after dark
awhile, they reached Lewiston, in Full
ton county, where they stopped for
the night; that late in the night this
DR.. Gilmore arrived, stating that Fish
er was alive at his house. On reaching
Springfield, the doctor reasserted that
Fisher was alive, and at his house.
At this, the multitude for q time was
utterly COMPOUNDED.
"Gilmore's story was communicated
to Henry Traitor, who without falter-
ing, reaffirmed his own story about
Fishers murder. Henry's adherence
to his own story was communicated to
the crowd, and at once the idea start
ed, and became nearly, If not quite
universal, that. Gilmore was a con-
federate OF the Traitors, and had in
vented the tale he was telling, to Sc
cure their release and escape.
Excitement vas again at it's zenith.
About three o'clock the same evening.
Myers, Archibald's partner, started
with a two-horse carriage, for the
purpose of a~scertaining whether Fish
err was alive, and if so, of bringing
him back to Springfield with him. On
Friday a legal examination vas gone
into before two justices, on the charge
of murder against William and Archi-
bald. Henry was introduced as a
witness by the prosecution, and on
oath reafirmed his statements, as
heretofore detailed, and at the end OF
which he bore a thorough and rigid
cross-examination without faltering or
exposure. The prosecution also
proved by a respectable lady, that on
the Monday evening of Fishers dis
appearance she saw Archibald, whom
she we'll knew, and another man whom
| she did not know, but whom she be-
| lieved at the time of t%estifying to be
| William (then presently, and still an
! other, answering the description OF
Fisher, all enter the timber at the
northwest of town (the point indi
Gated by Henry, and after n or two
hours. saw William and Archibald re
turn without Fisher.
Several other witnesses testified
that on Tuesday, at the time William
and Henry professedly gave up the
search for Fishers body, and started
for home they did not take the road
directly. but did go into the woods
as stated by Henry. By others, also
It was proved, that since Fishers dis
appearance, William and Archibald
had passed rather an unusual number
of gold pieces. The statements here
tofore made about the thicket, thu
signs of a struggle, the buggy tracks
etc., were fully proven by numerou:
witnesses. At this the prosecution
rested.
"Dr. Gilmore was then introduced
by the defendants. He stated that n
resided in Warren county. about sever
miles distant from Williams resi-
dence; that on the morning OF VII
liam's arrest, he vas out from home
and heard of the arrest, and OF 1T
being on the charge Of the murder Q
Fisher; that on returning to his oWl
house, he found Fisher there; tina