The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-06-16

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to come with him. He said he told
and asked Gillian not to go out in the
yard, that he would have the stock
fed, Ut waxing Gillian + go out III
tie ward because he had sai1 he was
go;ns 70 kill the first negro who PIT
his foot in the yard that evening. He
said he thought Gillian had consented
10 his requests and to come to New
berry with him that night, and they
cot I'D to go in the stove room where
Mrs. Johnson was, entering the dining
room first. He said Gillian was be.
hind him, and he went in the r;"1n
and was telling Mrs. Johnson what
he had got Gillian to consent TO o.
At that time, he said, he turned to
speak to Gillian and Gillian had gone
ont the door behind him, and the
wagon came in the yard at that time,
and passed in front of the stove room
door, and as. he turned around the
wagon passed, and he saw Gillian
whirl back of the wagon, and the gun
fred. all at the same time. He said
he did not see Sam Boozer there with
the gun before it fired. Mrs. Johnson
had gone out into the yard just ahead
of the mules, he said. He said ne
went TO Old Town and phoned for
the sheriff and coroner, and at the re-
quest of the family he came to New
berry and made all the funeral ar
rangements. He denied having con-
versation with Crouch that Crouch
testified to. As to William Hogg's
testimony, he said he didn't know
William Hogg, and had never met him
before that he knew of, and there was
not a word of truth in his testimony
as to attentions on part of witness
to Mrs. Gillian. He was shown a
box of shells, containing twenty
three loaded shells, which he identi-
fed as the shells which he bought in
Newberry from the Hardware COM
pany. He said he had used two of
the shells shooting at a hawk on the
day after he returned from Old Town,
and the two empty shells were
shown in the gun. The box Of shells,
he said, had been left Dy him with DR..
Cromer after the charges against him
came up.
On cross-examination, the solicitor
asked the witness why it didn't occur
to him to leave the box of shells at
his sons store to be sent home, and
why it didn't occur to him to tell his
son something about rne gun, instead
of hunting up Bill Glider. He said he
wasn't hunting Glider, that he ran
across him in looking for Sam, whom
he had told to bring the gun to the
store, and it was in consequence OF
information which Glider gave him
as to Sans whereabouts that he took
Glider to the train with him. He said
when he went tc his sons store after
he received the message from Old
Town, he had the gun on his mind,
and did not think about the shells,
and took them unthoughtedly to the de-
pot with him. He Said bis and Gil
Hams relations had always been most
pleasant. In answer to question by
the solicitor he said he had gone to the
fair last year and had spent the night
at the home Of a relative Of Mrs. Gil
Nam, where Mrs. Gillian also spent
the night, Mrs. Gillian having her
children with her, and Mr.. Gillian
having asked him TO see Mrs. Gillian
from the fair grounds to her uncle's
home, and Mrs. Gilliams uncle having
asked him to spend the night. He said
he bought tickets for Amos and Sam
Boozer to Old Town the afternoon OF
The killing, but that he often did that
for hands on the p..4ce. On redirect
examination he said Mrs Gillian had
all her children with her at the fair
and that at the home of her uncle
where he spent the night, he was in a
room with four boyI.
Mrs. James S. Gillian.
Mrs. James S. Gillian, wife of the