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

Examined By Mr.. Sale, witness said
Clayton Boozer had sent up to the
house that morning to ask Mr. Gillian
if she could come up to the well to
wash, and he went down to her house
in good humor, and came back and
said they wanted to wash and he had
nothing against them, to let them
come and wash, and she came, and
then Mrs. Johnson corroborated her
husband as to Gilliam's actions after
Clayton Boozer was seen at the well
by Gillian She said she saw him
break through a window and go in the
Boozer house after the women when
the door was barred against him and
saw the 1icks when he cut the women
after they came out. She had never
heard of any unpleasantness before
that day between Gillian and the
Boozers.
On cross-examination by the sollci-
tor, she said when Hipp came to the
Gillian home that afternoon she saw
him persuading Gillian to drink some
whiskey, saying he could control him
better that way. She denied shaking
her fist in Hipp's face after the kill
ing and telling him, "you are the low
down rascal who was the cause of
this" saying she told him that he was
"knoWing' to it, and the reason she
told him that was because he had per-
suaded him to drink Whiskey. She cor
roborated her husband as to selling
Sam Boozer some shells, saying he
sold them out of a box of mixed
shells. She said the shells sold Booz-
er were No. As, and after she came to
NeWberry she showed Mr.. John Henry
Chappell some shells out Of the same
box Asked if those she showed Mr..
Chappell were not No. Z New Club
shells, she said she didn't know about
that-that the shells were mixed. She
said she knew of Gilliam's jealousy,
and her business up there was to stay
by her daughter, she had got so dis
satisfied. She vehemently affirmed
that she never saw anything improper.
John c. uipp.
John C. FIipp, the defendant, said
he first heard of the trouble existing
at the place at about 2.35 that after
noon, about thirteen minutes before
train time, getting the information
from D. R. Scurry, just after he came
from the National bank, while he was
in the street between Summer &
Hipp's and Grifin's store. He said
Scurry did not give him any details
of the trouble, or tell him the names
of the negro women who were invOlv-
ed. He said he went to his sons store,
where the hands we're getting ra-
tions, and then walked on around by
the postohce, going to the depot, 60
ing that way to find Sam Boozer,
whom he had sent to Mr.. Whites
store for the gun he had purchased,
telling Sam to bring it to the store.
He said he had traded with Donald
White for the gun about 1890 o'clock
that morning, and had brought his
single-barreled gun to town when he
went home to. dinner, to effect the ex-
change. He said he had bought the
gun to send home, and did not, want
it to go to the plantation. When he
was near the postof1ce he saw Bill
Glider and took him on to the train,
supposing Sam had taken the gun to
the train, as he had ut come back to
the store, and he wanted to send the
gun back by Glider. AS to the shells,
he said be went by the NeWberry
Hardware store and got a box of
shells, before he heard Of the difficult
ty, and then went to the National bank
to get some change, with the shells in
his hands and it was as he was COM
ing out of the National bank that he
learned of the difficulty. IIe said he
took the shells on with him, back to
the store and still had them when he
went to the depot. When he got on the
train he said, he also <had Bill Glider
to get on, and he went in the train
and got the gun from Sam Booz-
er, and gave it to Glider with the
shells, and put Glider off at Helena
with instructions to take the gun to
his home. When he got OF at Old
Town, he said, neither Sam nor Amos
Boozer had bundle. He said he and
Amos Boozer went on up to the place
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