The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
JURY TO PASS
 ON CLEMENTS Decatur Trial Nearing the End. TESTIMONY IS ALL IN Verdict Is Not Expected Befors Monday. Alleged slayer .es tie EAnsaAsss Family at wesa,..a niil., Msrsaa
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Decatur, Feb. 27 27.---{Specials 1---After speech of two hours and fifteen min utes by Judge 0. Kyle for the State, the arguments of counsel In the Bob Clements cass closed tonight at s:4s o'clock.
 Judge Thomas ". Vert delivered . short charge.
 | The case went to the jury at 10:z0 o'clock tonight. A verdict is hardly probable before Monday.
 Clements is charged with killing the Edmondson family at Woodland Mills. It was f0:2o o'clock this morning when the State attorneys announced that they would rest. after placing . number of witnesses on the stand in rebuttal. The defendant also rested.
 Judge Vert stated that the court would take five minutes recess, after which the argument of coensei com- mericed. ka In the rebuttal evidence this morn- Ing the State practicatliy succeeded in breaking down the evidence of the de- fendant himself and that Of the de- fendants bright s-year-olds son, Gull breth Clements. who told such a re- markedly straightforward story on the witness stand yesterday in behalf of his father.
 state Calls Clements.
 The defendant himself was the first witness called in rebuttaI by the State. He was asked by Judge O. Kyle what he did on Wednesday. the day of the fire. He testifed he cut wood all that day about 150 yards from his house in the woods and left t lying where he cut 1t. He thoughtshe cut about two wagon loads.s yssss George Guier testified that he was in ythe woods near Bob ciements's house about two weeks ago. and found about two wagon laads of eait wood. It looked like 1t had only been cut about week or ten days.
 On cross-exaininaaion bN the de- fendaut the witness said he went tA ere for the purpose of looking for cut wood. but no one had told him to go.
 Coleman Jennings testified that he saw Henry Cuibreth. on fhe day of the night of the lire three times. and that he could not have been at Tom E.i-. mondsonH house on that day Yes. terday the defendant testified that Henry Ctlbreth was Ut Tosn Biltmuru- son's house that day sud that Cal. breth and Mrs. Tom Edmondkou won't out to- the turnip patch together anu that Edmondson and his wife qslar- reled on this account, because Edfnofi- son was jealous of his wife on ac- count of Culbreth, aud that on the night of this day. the Edmondson house and barn was burned.
 . John Jennings of vaihermosa Springs. who Is said to have been em- ployed to work up some blind tiger cases here a few days ago. was the next witness introduced by the Sta te In rcbuttal. He testified that he saw Henry Culbheth on the day in. qucs- tion. He say culbreth going in the direction of the river and in the op- posite direction from Tom Edmond sons.
 Bascomb Turney testified he picked cotton on this day and saw Culbreth that evening coming from Woodland Mills.
 What Little Boy saisl.
 Edgar Russel. on whose farm Boh Clements's family now resides, testi- fled that he had known the Bob Clem- ents family eight or. ten years;, that he knew Corbin Clements, the defendants nine year-old son; that few days af- ter Clements was arrested the witness went to .Clements's house.
 "Corbin told me-" testified the wit ness, that his father came home that morning and there was blood on his neck and on his hat band and that the defendant told his wife to get him some clean clothes. which she did. and that Clements put them on: that Clem- ents remained at home all that day in the house. but late that evening he went out to feed his stock and took his gun with him.
 When asked by the defense who brought up this conversation with the little boy. the witness said he did.
 ''I asked the boy what he knew about it." said the witness. The night ef the fire got home from the springs. where l had been that evening. a It, tie after o'clock. I asked the boy if his father did this. and he said yes. Ed Luker was with me when the boy made this statement"
 Ed Luker was the next witness and he corroborated Edgar Russell as to what Corbin Clements told them com corning his fathers guilt.
 On cross examination by the de. fense this witness was questioned con corning the reward offered for the murderer of the Edmondsons. and as to who was going to claim the re- ward.
 The witness told of meeting of John Helms. John Lenox, himself and others. all important witnesses for the State. in a store at Woodland Mills, in which the question of the reward was discussed The witness acknowledged having said in this conversation that he thought his brother. Rufus Luker, who married the defendants sister. should have the reward. The defend ant had not been arrested at this time and they were discussing his ease and