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

He begins BY saying, "Inis IL true
stat ,me0l of the whole case against w.
four negroes for murder" the story
varies tu. little from those be made 10
nil after he had been declared guilty
Of u;der Ia the first degree. He, how
ever, goes into more details concerning
bis arrest aud experience while at the
station house. He repeated tbas ne
vas 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 police made
his wife say be did not stay homo Oh
the night of March 6 Che night Cd
which Schultz is supposed to have
been murdered), aud threatened to lock
her up If she refused to do 30. DE says
be vert to his own home on the night
of March G and remained taere all night.
Smith says that while at the station
houss he was taken icto the office before
Mr.. Bret t, the prisoners wife aud others,
where Mr., Brent made bis wife and bis
wife's son say thst the prisoner vas not
home on Friday or Saturday night. de
also ssserts that they made Mary Earle
say he had told her be bad knocked o
white man 10 The head.
Smith taen reciled The tory which
was circulated at the time tf the murder
to the effsct that drunken whit, man
was seen to get on nortbbound cleo
trio car on the Fddsy night preceding
the muIdsI; also the ciItu instances COZ
cernIpg the report tlst white man was
seen lying the preceding day where the
body OF schulz was found Sunday morn
ing, March 7.
Smith repeats the charges that be
was sweated by Chief Goods at the
station house and terrified by sugges.
lions thst be was about to be lynched,
and SAYS bis entire story duplicating
Johnson, Pines and Dorsey was sug'
0ssted to him by Chief Goods. The
negro asserts that the chief said: "Pines
was the fret negro seen out with bis
dogs. You can say he helped to ktll
that white mao, and Dorsey was with
the men that got 10 trouble before ont
at Spring Park about watch, sud you
can say be was there aud cut the mans
throat" Smith tays the chief asked
him If be knew these negroes, and ne
told the chief be knew fellow at Park
er's cook shop, Calvin JOHNSON. The
chief replied. "They are crooks"
Smith then proceeded to recspltnltt'
The statement be made 10 the all after
be had been convicted In which be
alleges Officer Sampson played sn i'm.
portsnt part 10 procuring blood stained
rags which we're u'ed at the trial. he
then repeats Whist he had previously
asserted to the effect that he was COM
PEELED to "lesrn bis lessons" from the
officers OF the Law before be vent on the
stand.
Continuing Smith ssys; "Every San.
dsV the chief and M. Bent came 10 see
me. asked them II / wss safe 10 the
city Jail. Mr.. Brsnt told me that 20
long as I would stick to this same tale l
would be safe. This, OF course, made
me stick to the same tale, snd | was
sftaid to change 1t, but if they had sent
me up to the Fairfax jail where the
other men we're coD6neo] l would have
changed 1t that day, for knew that l
had never seen this Whjts man aud bad
net seen Dick Pines, Dorsey nor john
SOD on the night Of March 6 "
Smith then repeats his former ttat :
ment concerning bis evidence before the
Jury when he accompanied them over
the route he alleged was taken when
Schultz, according to his story, was coD'
yeyed from the alley on Cameron street
to the spo. where his remains were found
next moroiog. he relterstts that he
was iustlus !sd By the officers what to
say.
Smith claims that Mr.. Bent told him
not to fail In his story sHd be could save
him. He says: 81 tod him | would do
everything the chief told me t. do. l
was told By the chief and Policeman
Sampson that | was going free, tut l
must leave the city as quickly IS | ccud.
IRE chief told me that he wanted me to
talk around and see II | could 6nd cut
for him the psme of some negro that he
thought killed the white map, George
Curtin, for be ssid be wsutsd to show
the psople that be could find cui any
mu rder that wss dcps In the city. 1
told him l would. This wss tsld to me
By the chief alone, aud he told me to
kesp It to myself"
"The chief sat IN the court room all
the time behind Mr.. Brett Ia order to
give me the wink when | & on my
story" says Smith, aud "Pollceman
Sampson went With me all the time to
let mo knoR Whist statement had been
made on the s!snd last end before they
called for me to 20 on the stand. BE
told me that when they asked me 6
QUESTION he would clear his throst t.
stop at that question and ask the lawyer
what Re meant. \. So they did
all they could to let me out because they
knew that they bad scared me 10 destl
and made me tell lies on myself and
TIRES innocent poor negroes. \.
God 10 heaven knows that don't know
90 more who killed that white man than
yCu DO. / have not seen the man at all,
aud l did not know the map bad been
found until three days after he was
found, because you know II We had
killed that man we would not have left
three hundred and some dollars and
some cents and q gold watch 10 bis
pocket worth sixty or seventy'Rve dol
lars aud all Of o. stay In the city" Il
will be remembered thst tat little money
Vas foand on Schultz, and the three
tN ldted dollars alluded to By Smith was
| in mnnas order ON Wella. FARGO & %