The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-17
MAJORS ON STAND
 DENIES CHARGES Says He Did Not Write Anonymous Letters TESTIFIES AGAIN TODAY Arguments Are Expected To Begin This Afternoon and Case May Go To the Jury Some Time
 Tomorrow
TESTIFIES AGAIN TODAY

QlNlSlOn Ol liit ROdii Oh eh charge of murder and trainwrecking.
 Nabors was on the stand for over an hour during the morning session or court. and for the entire afternoon. The defense closes with the testimony of the defendant, and when his exam nation is completed this morning and a few witnesses are examined in re- buttaI the arguments of attorneys will begin.
 Majors appeared on the stand some what nervous but remarkably self possessed. He answered all questions quickly and distinctly, though the gruelling cross-e examination to which he was subjected by Attorney Hugh Morrow for the prosecution began to tell on him near the close of the after noon session.
 Majors made a sweeping denial of all complicity either in the Cunning ham wreck or that at Decatur, test1- mony regarding which has been all lowed In the present trial.
 He was shown the threatening let ters received by Superintendent T. E. Brooks and denied that he wrote them. Asked if he could identify the sta tionery and envelopes used, he stated that he could not. He identified the writing tablets procured at his home at Decatur, and acknowledged that he wrote the letters to Mir. Brooks and to Thompson & Thompson, signed by himself, which have been introduced In evidence. The witness also identi fled an examination paper which he wrote, an application for a postoin as fireman on the road and the time book which he used while employed as a fireman on the Louisville and Nash vile.
 He denied ever having been to the house of man, named Wilkerson al Flint in regard to the purchase of a dog, and repeated a statement he made in court last week that Wilkerson Tied" and that he had never, to his knowledge, seen him before. He de- nied being in Birmingham on the Southside during the early part of De- cember, as testified by Bradley Brown, who declared he had heard Majors say he was going to wreck a train. He stated that his time book shows that he was not working on the days be- tween November 2S and December 3 of 1909, but declared he could not say whether at that time he was at home with his wife at Decatur, on the road, or elsewhere.
 Majors identified 8 of the 3S keys secured from his Decatur home as his own, and admitted that three of them would unlock the switch lock at Gun ningham. He stated that he had gotten one from a fireman or other employe in the yards at Decatur, and that he had found one on the floor of the pumphouse at Decatur, where the en- gineers changes their clothes.
 Name Always Nabors
 Majors declared that he had never gone under the name of Arthur How ard" testified by some of the wit nesses for the state. When Day and several others came to the engine while at Flint and demanded dog hey claimed l had in my possession, :. said Majors, T told them Llge Brown could tell them about the dog. When they asked me If my name was Ar thur Howard. 1 said it was not How ard but Nabors."
 When asked under cross- examina~ ton why, if he had never seen Will kerson before the trial, he had mem toned Wilkersons name in letter to James Ashworth, offered In evidence Majors stated that he had meant to say Day instead of Wilkerson.
 Identifies Ink and Paper
 Questioned as to whether he had
 .t. by the prosecution as evidence, Majors identified both, stating that one of the bottles of ink was the property of his sister-in law.
 Asked if he was in Montgomery on February 21 and 22, 1910, when a let ter signed 70. R. T." was mailed from that place. he referred to his time book and stated that he had arrived In Montgomery on February 21 and re- turned to Birmingham on February 22. He also testified that he was in Mont gomery on August IA and 15 of this year when another of the letters was mailed from that place.
 Majors stated under cross-examina- tion that he had told Ashworth, the master mechanic, that he would "get even with him for placing the ne- gro fireman on his run, and admitted that he was angry at the time He
  ter of apology withdrawing his resig- nation and another after he had been reinstated.
 Other Witness for Defense
 The other witness placed on the stand by the defense yesterday was Ed. Irwin the negro head brakeman on No. n, which was the train on which Majors was employed.
 When No. 71 reached the north switch at Cunningham, Irwin stated he ran ahead and threw the switch He caught the sixth car and rode until the train stopped within the siding. After he had examined the axle boxes on both sides of the train he went up to the engine and saw Majors there. Majors was there the remainder of the time before passenger No. ran Into the siding and collided with the freight.
 Arguments for Today
 Nabors will probably be on the stand for another hour or more today, when, after the examination of a few states witnesses in rebuttal, the arguments of attorneys will begin. The case will go to the jury some time tomorrow.
 The largest crowd yet was In at tendance at the trial yesterday. All available space for spectators in the room was filled and it was necessary for the bailiff to keep the door locked.
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