Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-15
SMITH MAKES A STATEMENT

cu:ed EEK. Friday has set to tlis
Office fourteen page type written state.
ment requesting the publication Of the
same.
He begins BY saying, 'iTuis ia t.ue
stat ,meol of the whole case against u
four negroes for murder" the story
varies tu. little from tlose he made 10
I'LL alter he had been declared guilty
of u:der in the first degree. he, how.
ever, goes into more details concerning
bis arrest aud experience while at the
station house. he repeated tbas be
vSs arrested on the night OF March Il.
1909. and was given nothing to EFT uotiI
ii O'Clock on the morning oil the l4:n'
Smith asserts that the poliee MADE
his wife say he did net stay home on
the night OF March (she night on
which Schultz is supposed to have
been murdered), and threatened to LOCK-
her up If she refused to do so. be says
he vert to his own home on the night
OF March G and remained taere all night
Smith says that while at the station
house he was taken icto the office before
Mr.. Bet t, the prisoners wife aud others,
| where Mr.. Brent made his wife and bic
| wife's son say that tbs prisoner was not
hcme on Friday or Saturday plight. de
aIso ssserts that they made Mary Earle
say be had told her he had knockei 8
white man 10 The head.
Smith taen reci.ed The story which
was circulated at the time ct the murder
| 10 The etfsct that drunken whit, man
was seen to get on nortbbound cleo
trio car on the Ftidsy night preceding
the muIdsI; also the cirtu instances COZ
cerntpg the report t1st white man was
seen lying the preceding day where toe
body of Schulz was found Sunday morn
ing, March Z.
Smith repeats the charges that be
was sweated by Chief Goods at the
station house and terrified By sugges'
lions thst he was about to be lyoched,
and says bis entire story duplicating
johnson, Pines and Dorsey YVES sug'
9ssted to him by Chief Goods. The
oegro ssserts that the chief said: "Pines
vss the FIRST negro seen out with bis
dogs. You can say be helped to kill
| that white man, and Dorsey was with
the men that got 10 trouble before ont
at Spring Park about q watch, and you
can say ha wss there and cut tae mans
throat" Smith says the chief asked
him If ha knew these negroes, and he
| told the chief he knew fellow at PARK
er's cook shop, Calvin Johnson. Ihe
chief replied. "They are crooks"
Smith then proceeded to recapltnltt
The statement be made 10 the jill after
be had been convicted In which he
alleges Officer Sampson played so i'm
portant part 10 procuring blood stained
rags which were u'sd at the trial. He
then repeats Whist he had previously
asserted to the effect that ne was com
PEELED to "lesrn his lessons" from thu
officers OF the Law before he went on tht
stand.
| Continuing Smith ssys: "Every son
ds7 the chief and MI. Bent came 10 see
ne. asked them IL was safe 10 the
city Jail. Mr.. Brsnt told me that &c
long as would stick to tbs same tale
would be safe. This, OF course, made
me stick to the same tale, end | was
sfraid to change 1t, but if they had sent
mo up to the Fairfax Jail where the
other men were confined l would have
changed 1t that day, for knew that J
had never seen this whjts man and hac
net seen Dlck Pines, Dorsey nor John
SOP on the night of March 6
| Smith then repeats his former stit
ment concerning bis evidence before the
Ijury when he accompanied them ovel
the route he alleged was taken wher
Schultz, according to his story, was con-
yeyed from the alley Oh Cameron stree
to the apos where his remains were found
next moroiog. He reiterstts that hs
was Instructed by the officers what tt
say.
Smith claims that Mr.. Bent told hin
not to fail In his tt1ry aud be could save
him. Ha says: 81 told him I would de
everything the chief told me t, do.
was told BY tie chief and Policeman
Sampson that I was going free, hut
must leave the city as quickly IS | CT I'D.
TIE chief told me that he wanted me to
talk around and see If / could find cu
for him the pame of some negro that he
thought killed the white map, George
Curtin, for he eaid he wautsd to shoH
the psople that be could find cus any
murder that vss iscps In the city.
told him I would. Tnis was tsld to me
BY the chief alone, aud he told me to
kesp It to myself"
! "Tte chief sat In ths court room al
the time behind Mr.. Brett In order 10
give me the wink when l G on my
story says Smith, and "Policemar
lSampsou went with me all the time to
let mo know what statement had been
made on the ssand last and before they
called for me to 90 on the stand. He
told me that when they asked ms 6
Iouss.ion he would clear his throst
lstop at that question and ask the lawyer
what he meant. ~. So they did
all they could to IL, me out because theJ
knew that they had scared me 10 destr
and made me tell lies on myself anc
three innocent poor negroes. \ \.
God in heaven Knows that don't know
90 more who killed that white msn than
you 10. have not seen the man at all
and did not know the msp had been
found until three days after he val
found, because You know If We had
killed that man We would not have lef
three hundred and some dollars anc
soue cents and gold watch 10 bill
pocket worth sixty or ssventy.RVe dol