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


this train stopped at Helena that aft
ernoon, and took on passenger who
paid a cash fare to Spearman's, the
next stop above Helena. He said
Helena was only a flag stop, but he
recalled only about three times the
train missed stopping there in the five
years he had been regularly on the
run.
Donald White. =,
Mr.. Donald White, son Of Mr.. J. ".
White, testified that Mr.. Hipp came to
his fathers store at about II o'clock
on the morning of March to trade a
single-barreled gun for double-bar-
relied gun. He said Mr.. Hipp told him
one of his boys had a SINGLE
gun and he wanted to trade it for a
double-harreled gun; that the trade
was made then, but that Hipp did not
have the single-barreled gun with
him, and said he would come back
later to make the exchange. He iden-
titled the gun which he was to let Mr..
Hipp have. He said he was not in the
store when Mr.. Hipp came back later
to make the exchange. He said the
difference which Mr.. Hipp was to pay
was ten dollars, and he had charged
it up to him on the books
Shed Jackson.
Shed Jackson, colored, a preacher,
said he went to the station at Helena
on the afternoon of March 8 to mail
some letters on the 2.48 Southern;
that the train stopped at Helena and
he mailed his letters; that woman
got on the train at Helena, and that
a man got off with bundle. He said
the woman who got on lived just
above the station, and her name was
Annie. He said he talked to Frank
Lindsay on the train while the train
was at Helena.
Annie Davis.
Annie Davis, colored, testified that
she got on the train at Helena on the
afternoon of March 8 and went tc
Spearman's, on a visit
Frank Lindsay. =
Frank Lindsay, colored, testified
that he left Newberry on the Southern
at 2.48 on the afternoon of March 3
and went to Spearman's; that the
train stopped at Helena and the wo-
man who was just on the stand had
got on at Helena, and that Bill Glider
got off thereon, at least, he sat with
Glider until Helena was reached and
Glider left him, there. He said Glider
had a bundle in. his hand, but he did
not know what it was.
Bill Glider
Bill Glider, colored, testified that on
the third of March, the day Mr.. Gill
liam was killed, he was sick and was
sitting down opposite the postofflce,
and Mr.. Hipp came down the street
very hurriedly and passed him, and
asked him where he thought Sam
Boozer was; that at Mr.. Hipp's re-
quest witness went to the depot with
him, that the train was moving off
when he got there, that Mr.. Hipp beck
oned his hand to him, and he got on
board; that Mr.. Hipp got shot gun
from one of the boys on the train, and
gave it to witness, and witness got off
at Helena, and gun presented to him
: looked like the gun, but it was wrap
ped up and he did not pay very much
attention to it. He said it was wrap
ped up in show paper, but the paper
wasn't so red. He said it was at Mr..
Hips request that he took the gun
to Mr.. Hipp's house and gave it to-
Mrs. Hipp. He said Mr.. Hipp also
gave him a box of shells at the same
time, with the same instructions, and
he carried them along with the gun.
On cross s-examination Glider was ask
ed as to being convicted of selling Ii
euor, and said that this year Mr.. Hlpp
had loaned him for thirty days $40 OF
a seventy five dollars fine imposed
by the town council, and that he
had paid it back in thirty days.
In reply 20 a erestion he said that it
might have geen two or three days
after Mr.. Gillian was killed that he
went in the Hardware comDany's
store and asked for so: -. shells with
Nublack powder and No. 4 shot, and
was told they didn't have them. He
cai1 he wanted TO go down on the