The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-02-10
Prisoner Goes on the Witness
Stand and Denies Charge
Against Him.
OTHERS SEE FURBIsH
Riding Rapidly Toward Home
Soon After Alleged
Assault.

with the court house packed to its
limit, the closing argument was be-
ing made by viii E. Morris in the
case of William Kurdish, negro,
tired for criminal assault on Miss
Flora AnglIn, white person, aged
40 years, near Weston the night OF
December "a last at press hour Fri
day. The instructions were given
before noon and the argument begun
about 1890.
Furnish on Stand.
Taking of the evidence in the case
was completed at 1O:45 o'clock Fri
day morning, the testimony of the
defense having been brief and the
state having rested at 9:15 o'clock.
Rides Home Rapidly.
Frank c. Fornash, a rural mail
carrier, testified that he saw Fur
Dish in Weston about 1870 O'Clock
the afternoon OF the day OF the as
sault and between $50 and 1880
O'Clock he saw him on his way home
as he was passing Fornash's barn.
Foraash heard horse running rap
idly. 1t was dark and he said he
did not know the rider until he
heard him speak to the horse. Fur
Dish stopped his horse near the !FoS=
nash gate long enough to count fifty
and then rode off at rapid gait.
Fornash had no conversation with
furnish at the gate, and did not
know what he was doing there.
Fornash had known Kurdish ten
years.
o. L. Harrison, chef OF police of
Weston, saw Kurdish in Weston sew
era1 times the afternoon Of the as
sault, the last time little after )
o'clock on his horse.
Seen by Harrison.
C. L. Harrison, residing between
Weston aad the .Angln home, saw
a man about $3.50 or O'Clock,
judging from the horse he rode, he
took to he Kurdish. He recogn' Ged
The horse and the rider was colored
but said he might he mistaken, hut
did not think so. There was another
colored man named Bennett residing
there but he did moi think the rider
waS Bennett. The witness had no
conversation with the rider. Ben
nett resides near the fair grounds 4
half mile from the Anglin home.
The accused negro, Prof. C. j..
STACK and two other negroes were
the only witnesses for the defense.
No attempt was made to prove the
character of the accused man.
William Kurdish, the negro ac-
cused OF the crime, stated that he
left the Stack home at : O'Clock the
morning OF the day of the assault
and that he went to Deanyille IN a
buggy or fiat wagon to get clothes
at A. L. Whites where the Stack
family washing was done. He re-
turned home and then went to Jane
Lew, leaving at o'clock and re-
turning at 1890, he said. Furnish
said he ate dinner at home, did
Some feeding and left home at 1880
for Yves on. He arrived there
horseback. he said, about ESQ and
staid in Weston until about 7:3O.
lie stated that he was with Will
Lee and VIII Rifle and they were
around in the streets and at the
railroad station, being AZ the latter
pace in the evening when the train
for Clarksburg ran. remaining there
until after the train departed. Then
according to his story they fooled
the time away in the streets awhile
and nj the Ralston jewelry store he
saw that it was 1880 o'clock by the
clock and he started for home. 30.
ing to the mill. where his horse was
hItched, distance of not. more than
800 yards.
Furnish stated that he then went
direct to his home, the road was
slippery and his horse fell at the
Stone Coal bridge, where the road
is paved and where there is a de
scent. He said he was thrown from
the horse as it fell and his leu
shoulder strnck the curb but he did
NOT know his left shoulder was dis