The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-07-23

there, having secured the permission
OF Mrs. Stockand. Gilbert left raylog.
saying he was going 70 ths Wells
building. where he said he had q pick
ct out and was going - see how the
boys were getting aIong.
Harry Hutchinson. = witness OF
several days ago. was recailed. He
told Of knowing witness Ben Rogers
and Of having . conversation w3th
Rogers ct the time R1gers was sub
poenaed for the grand jury In this
ease, I'm which Rogezn told him he
would like to see Welbs sent to the
pen for twenty years - tor life. call
ing Wells a name unlf for print. and
further. that Rogers sd II his testi-
mony would stick Wei, he would go
TO the pen. 49,.
George M. Smtth. secretary for the
L. F. d. Sutfit. teatihsd that he met
Charley Gilbert on the west side of
Main street ON March and asked
him what the crowd Of a dozen men
there were doing. Gilbert told him
they had quit working ON the Wells
building and that scabs had been put
ON In their place.
c. w. De Freest. land agent. told of
being in Alameda HeigAts the day be-
fore the shooting looking at some
work that WAS being Yot in there by
laboring men. the work being the lay
ing of either water or sewer pipe.
witness did not remember which, and
at this time Mr.. Wells was approach
ed by a workman out of the ditch.
who held q conversation with MIR.
Wells. Here the prosecution objected
to the giving of this evidence. which
proved to be a warming from the
workman. who claimed to be a union
man and claimed to khow what he
was talking about. The warning as
repeated by the witness, was. that II
Wells went to his building the next
morning he would have trouble and
might have his light put out" De-
Freest said the man gave no reason
for warming Wells. but said that he
knew what he was talking about and
that ought to be enough.
The jury was sent out while this
evidence was given and discussed as
to Its being material. The matter of
giving warnings as evidence was a lit
tie beyond the lawyers In the case
and they were given time to present
legal authority for the presentment
Of said evidence. The jury was then
called in the taking OF testimony pro
ceeded. witness De Freest being tenn
porarily Withdrawn. while legal au-
thority was being sought for pre-
senting to the jury his statecnent of
the mans warning.
Bob Cryer, a teamster of east Third
street. Roswell. then testified that he
had lived here eight years and knew
w. T. Wells six or seven years: that
he remembered the killing OF Shir-
ley by Wells: that ne knew Shirley
two years and Freeland six months.
and knew both we'll: that he saw
Shirley and Freeland on the after
noon before the killing in a crowd of
six or seven men across the street
from the Wells building. who We're
|talking- Witness said further that the
men were talking about the negroes
going to work on the Wells building,
one asking II the negroes were going
to be put to work on the building and
another answering with angry ex-
pression Of face. 81 don't think
Justice of the Peace A. J. Welter
then took the witness stand. He con
ducfed the inquest over the body of
Ollie Shirley hut did not remember
finding a knife on the body, but was
not sure. He knew he did not have
the knife now.
Justice WeNer told also Of issuing
a warrant for John Doe" on the
morning of the killing. complaint be
ing made by John B. Gill for a man
whose name was unknown to him but
who was alleged to have been making