The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-05

9. Now we come to Saturday night
How many times did you see him
within a week or two weeks or three
weeks OF the murder?
a. Well. he was over there in the
store about a week. IL may have been
two weeks. before the murder. and
That was the time he was talking to
mo trying to put his brother David
in the navy. and then had the argu-
ment about the property that his
mother had left 10 him. He said he
had gotten lawyer to look after his
interests; that my father had been
trying TO cheat them out OF It,
Saw Him In Store.
G. Did you see aim the Saturday
night preceding the homicide?
A / saw him in the store the early
part OF the night, and when ! closed
the store that nigh or rather. my
side. was going out to light the big
lights on my machine. when nc came
from towards Twelfth street and asked
was going TO Richmond. and II he
was going over. to come on. and
would take him over
Q Did you have any enga gement
with him TO come over?
=. No. sir.
Q. What time did the store close. can
you state Il accurately?
store. which IS 10 o'clock. but on Sat
urday nights there are always a lot
of customers IN there, and we have
TO finish waiting on them before we
can close. I was waiting on Gus
toner that night at 10 o'clock After
I finished with the Gus toners had
20 lock zap my side. and I always let
down the roller awning in from on
Saturday night because the porter is
not there on Saturday nigh.
g. Nov. give IL accurately. What
time did YOU leave the store with him?
What time did you testify TO a; the
coTone-'s Inquest, do you recall?
Know. Nothing of Gun.
a. don't recall; It must have been
utes after 10.
Q. Now. did you go to Sixth and
Main with him?
a. Sixth and Main?
Q. Sixth and Broad on Saturday
night?
g Do you know anything about his
going TO a pawnorokEs shop?
Q. Do you know anything about
his buying gun?
a. No. sir
Q. You don't know anything about
that?
A. No. sir
Q. Did he bring you gun back at
Sixth and Broad Streets. and you put
1t In the car?
a. We didn't go to sixth and Broad
Streets. and / never have seen him
with gun.
Q. don't know whether we have
laid the foundation for this. but be-
lieve IL was understood that we could
contradict him without recalling him.
Did you hear him state here Al this
trial that you got in the automobile
and put the gun in there?
Could Have Seen II.
a. heard what he said the other
day, yes, sir.
c. What did he say at the coroner's
inquest about that? Did he make the
same statement or different state
ment. or do you remember?
A. really don't remember. If
had done as he said here the other
day, about my getting in the rear of
the car, II had put It under the seat
OF in the top. as Mr.. Scherer states
he would certainly have had TO no
lice what l was doing; he would not
sit up In front and gaze straight
ahead.
MR. wENDENBURG:-D argue
IT: lust testify TO what occurred.
BY Mr.. SMITH
q. Did you see any gun on that
night at all?
4. No, sir
O. Now. coming from Manchester
with him that night, what route oia
you take to come?
A. When I left the store l went
out Twelfth Street to cambridge.
down cambridge to Seventh out
Seventh across the Free Bridge; l
wouldn't say then whether l went up
Ninth Street or Seventh Street; some
times I go up Ninth and sometimes
go up Seventh.
O Sometimes you so straight up
>,nth. and sometimes you go around
by Patterson's. or at the depot?
4. don't know which l did, but
ANYBODY going from the Southside VIII
go up either Seventh or Ninth to Grace.
because Grace is paved clear down to
Ninth.
Saw Police officer.
a. Up Grace to Fifth Fifth 10
Franklin and up Franklin.
o. Where did you meet the police
officer?
O. Had you had any trouble with
your lights?
A. The lights had gone out three
times in coming from Manchester to
Richmond. ! unscrewed the lamp but
I couldn't see what the trouble was,
and 1t kept on going out. AT Fourth
and Franklin / decided to change
them; I took one of the side lights
of and put it on the rear. After
nut 1t on. 1 noticed a policeman walk
ing up the street, and 1 called him
and asked him If that was all right.
He said it was. and that If everybody
had as good light 1t would be fine.
@. Paul Beattie said that when the
policeman came there. you had the
gun in the machine; he said that You
got il at Sixth and Broad. and that
you had 1t there. Where you stopped,
was ii light there?
a. Yes. sir. II was right under the
electric light at Fourth and Franklin.
O Did YOU all ask t:.e police officer