The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-05
@. Did you give an idea AS to his


age?
y. Well. said l didn't know; of
course, l didn't know; he might have
been forty. ho might have been NIFTY,
he might have been sixty. he might
have been = hundred. for all | know
g. 1t was just a guess. was it:
A. Yes. sir.
a. Only UP as far as MIR. Tom owen 5
house.
q Were YOU out there on the oc-
casion described by Nh Roland sydnor,
Win yellow top: were YOU that
man?
a. No, sir.
q. II mas been testified by some
young men here that an automob bile
was standing o nthe side of the road
ndinber % young men testified here
tnat All automooiIe was Standing ON
the Snie OF the road with man in
front and u lacy On the running buard
those that LETT Bon Air at haif-past
10 | ask you now whether. on the
your wife; were You standing at the
engine and she on the running board
wien those automobiles passed?
q During that ride was your wife
ever stanutns on the running board
and you out IN front fooling with the
engine?
y. No. sir. She didn't get out of her
ovens house until the murder oc-
CARED. and then she fell out. When the
man Shot that was the only time
she was ever out of her seat at all
She was never on the running board or
any other part OF the machine at all,
except her seat and right down in
front on the footboard.
-. 1t has been TESTIFIED that you
Identified that gun. VIII you state what
you knew about that gun and all that
YOU know in connection with it?
a We'll YOU are speaking OF the
statement that Mi. patton made l
reckon was III the car that took
the gun up to the scene that morning.
L don't remember VINO had the gun or
walked up, and wanted to know If
mat was the gun. | volunteered the
statement myself: yes. that's the
gun. meaning the gun that was found:
or that was picked up everybody nat
urally thought it was the gun used
that night.
9. Had you ever seen the gun, or old
did you ever have chance to look at
the gun at all?
Never Saw Gun.
a. l never had the gun in my hands
to examine 1t any time.
from the murderer, did you have an
opportunity to examine It?
a. No. sir. just threw 1t UP in the
no g, DID you see it again until it was
road?
~ was down in front of MIR. Tom
owens, and some one brought, IL there
! I o's,remember whether Mir, pettigrew
OF the negro man who threw II in
| ms wagon had It'll believe he found it.
i cont remember who found it,
g What did You say about the gun
\. = that time / don't know that
] I
-, pa YOU identity it, or was it
possible for you to identify it, as the
sun you took from tile man?
MIR. WENDttNBCECi:- That is a
i 81 ME H sMiTii.-
.. VIII ado to it, under all the
circumstances.
~ No. sir did not identify that
patton voluntarily. he asked me if
mat was the gun, and l said yes,
nr.,eanins the gun that was found.
Everybody looked for the gun along
the road: that was the only gun we
couid md. and everybody naturally
concluded that it was the gun that
my VIE was murdered with
g Read the last part of the question
ana let him answer that
wo preceding questions read
g Under all the circumstances OF
t the case was IT possible for you to
ffNehniy that as the gun you took
a. No, sir. only knew it was a
single barreled gun .
MIR, CARTEE:-If Your JJo,or
/ pIease at this point we wish this wiz
ness to get in the car ana demon
slrale 10 the jury how the murder was
u9iilmitted. how the shot was hrcd,
/ where he was and where she was and
AZ ABOUT it We would like TO do
that now. or directly after dinner. lust
as Your Honor chooses '"''
witness then stood aside