The Cairo bulletin., 1910-02-20
NOTES oF ThE HEARING.

Inc witnesses were examined DS
States Attorney Wilson and cross ex.
amned by members of the jury, prin
cipally Foreman Parham, Some inn
portant points were brought BY
the latter and by the coroner Two
of the witnesses, Douglas and Hudson
were made TO involve themselves.
The former claimed that he had fired
all his shots in the air although he
had declared that he obeyed the sher-
IFS orders which were to fire only
the first &. OF in the air; nor could he
give any satisfactory explanation OF
his statement that he had no am
munirion for his Winchester rife
which he brought with him for use.
He admitted having offered his ser
vices to Sheriff Davis to protect the
prisoners on the night OF Nov. H.
Douglas could not explain, when
asked by the coroner, how re came
to recognize Capt. Greaney by his
voice. but could not recognize the
men who were with him in the cir
cult clerks office at the time of the
shooting although he had admitted
that he knew all of them we'll Doug
las denied he had heard any talking
rapher Comngs were referred to
which quoted him as saying that
while he could not see well enough
to know there were any men in the
room he had heard them talking. An.
other important discrepancy in Doug.
las testimony was that while he
claimed to have heard many shots
fired by the mob into the circuit
clerks office causing the glass TO
fall thick and fast when he went
into the office to open fire he fred
through one OF the sgiass panes in one
of the two windows in the front Of the
office which was nearest the front
stairway up which the mob was com.
ing.
| The militia had possession Of the
court house and would permit no one
to enter who had not pass or who
could not be identified BY some Of
the court house officials.
Representative of the city papers
were present and sent out very full
reports of the proceedings, They
seemed to be strongly impressed by
Sheriff Nelis' statement, particularly
when he spoke of the probability of
being mobbed in one Of the saloons,
had he attempted to secure aid there
and when a member of the jury had
advised him to go 10 The Halliday
and go to bed Juror Miller took TINS
accusation good naturedly, contend
ing that the suggestion was given
in humorous sense and In the belief
that there was no danger OF any mob.
George Jackson the old war veteran
VINO said he was GA years old and
! had seen nine years service in the
Irregular army impressed the jury
strongly. His positive statement that
he saw the sheriff fire the first shot
and that no one outside had done any
lshooting up TO that time, and that the
lsherifs shot was the signal for the
deputies to open fire was considered
Ian important point in his story. But
/ this and his other statement that he
stood in the open door and kept
Ishooting after the sheriff and Deputy
Fuller had gone inside is contradicted
lby the statement OF these two Off
cials who declare the sheriff did not
fire at all on the front porch and
lclosed the door when he went inside.
Sheriff Nellis made a point when
| he declared in answer to a question
from one of the jurors, that he coul'l
not get all of his white deputies. one
of them, he said, Sam Wessinger.
whom he had appointed deputy at
the request of the M. e. o. officials,
was a member of the mob