The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-05
BOY SAYS HIS UNCLE KILLED EDMONDSONS Details of Horrible Crime Is
 Reviewed in Court. MURDERER CHASED GIRL Gilbert Lucar Says CIemons Told Him All About Crime and Gave Him
 Quarter Not To Tell Any
 one What He Knew.
MURDERER CHASED GIRL

Decatur, October 4-(Special.) )--Gilbert
 Lucar, aged 15 years, has been the star
 witness thus far for the state against his own uncle, Bob Clemons, who is charged with murder and arson. The boy
 is the sons of Clemons' sister.
 Upon his oath he told the jury that his uncle, Bob Clemons, told him that he had murdered Tom Edmondson and his family, consisting of his wife. his aged mother, his daughter, Nettie, aged 12 years, and his little son, aged about five years: that he had their bodies hid in the Edmondson residence and in the barn; that Clemons gave him 25 cents not to tell and also told him not to go by the Edmondson home on his way to school that morning. The boy told a straightforward story and the lawyers for the defense failed to shake his testimony. The father of Gilbert Lucar, Rufas Lu- car, however, took a leading part in the arrest of Bob Clemons. 1t is alleged, and to some extent, according to the evidence in the case, was interested in the reward of s425, offered for the arrest and convic- tion of the murderer of the Edmondsons.
 Justice J. E. Helms, who swore out the warrant for Bob Clemons and aided in his arrest, according to his own testi- mony on the stand this morning, told the fury under oath that he had collected among the citizens of the Woodland Mills neighborhood, where the crime was committed over a year ago, the sum of s325 and that he had placed this money to his credit in the First National bank of Hartselle, but since that time he had checked this money out. The latter statement was brought out on cross-ex- animation by the defendants lawyers. Justice Helm testified that he held two coroner's inquests in this case. He said Rufus Lucar came to him and wanted him to swear out a warrant against Bob Clemens.
 He testified that Clemons did not resist arrest, but protested his innocence; that they had taken Clemons by his own house and showed him several spots of blood about the place and that Clemens had said: "It looks like everything around here is turning to blood"
 In his testimony Gilbert Lucar said that Clemons told him in his confession that Nettie Edmondson was so spry that he had had a time to catch her to Kill her. but that he finally caught her in an old sage field some distance from the house and killed her with a knife.
 Justice Helms testified that he had seen places that looked like blood on the sage mashed down at the place where the Lucar boy alleged Clemons told him he killed Nettie Edmondson.
 Other witnesses swore that there had been two places on the body taken from the fire and supposed to be Nette Ed mondson's. which were knife wounds without debut. The body of Nettie Ed mondson, or the one identified as hers, was taken from the Edmondson home while the flames were raging and the building was almost destroyed by the fire. The body, was pulled out with long stick by neighbors who had gone to the fire. and was badly burned. much of it having been completely destroyed.
 More than 100 witnesses have been sworn in the case up to this time and It will perhaps be late Saturday before the case can possibly go to the Jury' 1T all of these witnesses are used.
 Bob C1emons' wife, seven children and aged father, remained by his side all day during the trial, the children and the mother presenting a most touching and r,a fhetic scene.