The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
BEATRICE TRAGEDY.
GRAND JURY or MONROE WILL IN.
 vfesTIGATE.
Oetails ef the Deadly Dael sunGmy Af- ternO0m tn Monroe County, When
 English and ynlsten
 Were Killed.

saonroeVilies Jan. S1.--tSpecia.l-- The Monroe County grand jury win meet here the second Monday in April at which time a complete investigation Into the Sunday afternoon tragedy st Beatrice by which Ed English and Henry Waiston were killed. will be in- vesfigated.
 As result of the preliminary hear ing pr. D. R. Bradford charged with conspiracy. was released and o. B. Deason and J. P. Parish were held in kl,o0o ball each. The negro. Hue Me- Reynolds. was also held.
 There Ia considerabae sSeeling in the case. Ed English was the man wno Killed John McDu6Ele in this county about i've years ago. McDufae and Walston were close personal friends and Walston was in sympathy with the state in the prosecution Of Eng fish. English was acquitted.
 The State provsd in thls case that Blue McReynoids, a negro, sent word to Walston Saturday by a man named Palmer, Walston's brother-in-law, that ne wanted tl0 and that English would be over to the plantation of Walston Sunday to move him (McReynolds). iWalston told Palmer to tell Blue Me- Reynoldb if he saw him that he (Wal- ston) would be over there about l v e~A1~N 91tt08y 1kIGEAOQHs
 According to Deasonm testimony, Walston called at hotel where Dea- son was boarding, on Sunday afternoon just after dinner and asked Deason to take ride with him out on his plan tations which Dea9on did. Alter they left Beatrice WAiEten told Dphean inst his negroes were s.apgtFaaedH and he vas going out there to. ''round them up' and that that fellows referring to English, would be there.
 The Solicitor for the state. in his ar- gstment to the court, practically dlare- garded the testimony of the State and took the position that Deason was guilty after Walston made this state. ment Co him, and that he was bound by Welston's subsequent actions: in other words. that 1t was a conspiracy.
 pr. Bradford and Parish went Ain buggy together; Walston and Deason went in a buggy together; welston and Deason arrived a few minutes ahead of Bradford and Parish; Bradford claims to have had no knowledge cof any trouble between Walston and English In reference to the negroes and that he was on his way to see a patient when they requested him to drive out to the plantation of Walston with Far fish.
 Parish. 1t is contended, knew that tuSEo was trOuDle brewing between the two dead men; that he was going there to settle some matter connected with a transaction in which e check for $40 figured. Parish contends that he went as peacemaker and that they all dId everything they could to prevent the fight. Parish claims that he caught hold of the arm of English when he raised his hand the first time to shoot WalstoM after English had dlsmounted. EnglisH was on his horse at the time Walston and Bradford rode up, and after introducing Deason and English Walston said to English: What does this mean7" English replied, 'I am going to move these negroes" Wal ston told him that surely he was not going to move them until he paid him what they owed him. English aaId he would settle their accounts, and de- manded an itemized statement of their accounts. Waiston said he did not have an itemized statement, but the negroes knew how much they owed him. English said he would not settle that way. English also told Walston while he was sitting on his horss that he had heard a good many things Wal ston had said about him and Walston responded that he had heard c lot of d--d lies, or something of the sort. English said he would not take that from any man. sf
 At this time according to the tssti-