The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-06-16
Sam was the man called on.

! Cross examined by the solicitor, she
said Gillian had told her he was jeal-
Gus of her, and at her husbands re-
quest she had told Hipp of this the
day before. "Mr. Gillian would quar-
rel and be mean," she said, "and when
Mr.. Hipp would come he would be
just as good to him as anybody, and
he told me to tell him, that I had it
to tell, and done it right in front of
my father" She emphatically denied
that she had given her husband any
cause for jealousy.
Jno. C. Hipp Recalled.
John C. Hipp, recalled, said that he
had not taken a drink with Gillian the
afternoon of the killing-that he him
self had taken a little today, at Gil
liam's invitation, but Gillian didn't
take any, saying the whiskey had al
ready made him sick.
Col. tombstone announced that this
was all the testimony which would be
offered on behalf Of the defendant
Hipp.
For the Defendant Boozer.
Clayton Boozer, the wife op Sam
Boozer, and Maybe1le Rock, their
daughter, introduced by counsel for
Boozer, testified as 10 their difficulty
with Gillian that morning, and that
Gillian cut Clayton on the hand and
I Maybelle on the throat. The State
directed it's cross examination to-
wards attempting to show that it was
only after Mrs. Gillian had been to
the house of Clayton Boozer that
morning that Gillian became incensed
at the negro women, Maybelle Rook
said that Gillian did not appear to
be mad when he first came to their
house, and that shortly after he left
the first time was when Mrs. Gillian
came, and that Gillian was mad the
next time he came When pressed by
the Solicitor, the women vehement1y
denied that they we're carriers Of news
to Mrs. Gillian. (
Frances Tribble, colored, testified
as to the difficulty between Gillian
and the negro women. She said Hipp
and Sam and Amos Boozer came by
her house that afternoon on their way
from Old Town and they didn't have
anything with them as she saw.
Amos Boozer, brother of Sam, tes-
tilted as to Mr.. Hipp sending the shot
gun back from Helena, and as to not
knowing what women were involved
in the difficulty until the plantation
was reached. He said when Gillian
was walking towards his brother Sam,
he heard Sam say, *fstand back off
me-" and Mr.. Gillian stepped on to-
wards him, anyhow, and he run back
wards-Sam did-and Gillian says,
"Well, wait, let me go in here and get
my gun, and he just wheeled around
and that time Sam shot" He said
Sam did the killing with his own gun.
Aaron Tribble. who was among the
hands in town for rations that day,
said that Gillian threw his hand in
his hind pocket as he was advancing
towards Sam Boozer, and turned
around and started in the house, and
said, Wait until go in the house and
come back, and then Sam threw up
his gun and shot. He Said Sam used
his own gun.
Arthur Stevens, colored, also testi-
fed that he saw Mr.. Gillian put his
hand in his hind pocket before he
whirled to go back into the house.
The State in Reply.
Mr.. J. H. Chappell, put up by the
State in reply, said the shells which
Mrs. Johnson showed him after she
came back to Newberry as the shells
which her husband owned were No.
rs.
J. S. Crouch, recalled, said be saw
some shells at Mr.. Gilliams house af-
ter the killing and they were New
Clubs.
Charged With Bigamy.