The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-08

lit. Wade's testimony was very positive
 and was not shaken by the close ex-
 aInination of MT Comstock, attorney
 fer the defendant.
 At the afternoon session Mrs. John
 Wade was the first witness. She tes-
 tiied to Arthur Jones coming to her
 house and leaving with her husband
 on the day that Holland was killed. She
 was corroborated by Beulah Wade her little daughter Arthur Syphus testified
 to conversation that he had in last September with Arthur Jones relative tc | the killing of Holland. He said that Jones told him that he had killed that negro chicken conditioner" and that | the trouble grew out of a dispute be- tween him and Will Watson and the negro about an alleged charge of chick
 en stealing.
 Wylie Mcdaniel and Henry Bufora
 also testified that Arthur Jones had told
 them of the killing of Holland, Bu ford stating Jones told him pistol I fell out of the negros hip pocket when he was shot.
 With the examination of Buford tho state closed its case and the court ad- burned until o'clock
 | When the court convened at o'clock the case of Will vickers. white charged
 with assault, was called. The attorneys for the defence asked for a continuance which was resisted by the state. A jury was organized by Judge Cahalan and the ! case taken up by Judge Samuel F. Greene,
 who had completed his docket in the sec ond division and the court and jury re- 1 tired to the second division courtroom,
 where the case is now being tried. ] The first witness for the defense in the Jones case was Walter Jones. brother of the accused, who himself is indicted for
 the killing of Holland. Jones testified that the day before Holland was killed
 he had had a conversation with the negro | about the dispute that he had had with 1 Will Watson and that he had told him to
 come and straghten it out. He told of the meeting with John Wade and his brother Arthur and Will Watson in the
 woods He testified that Wade had sent l for Holland for the purpose of straight ening out the trouble between him and Watson and that the negro came armed with a shotgun and pistol. The witness testified that he asked the negro to let
 him see the gun, which he broke and ex- tracted the shells in order that he might look through the barrel. He stated that at this time Arthur Jones was talking to
 the negro when the latter attempted to pull out a pistol, and while doing so l Arthur Jones shot him with Winchester | rife.
 | He denied parts of the confession made 1 by him and his brother about this killing
 and stated that his brother had shot in | self defense. Watson was put through a | gruelling cross-examination by Mir. Burr
 and Captain White. He was made to de-
 scribe all the circumstances that led up
 to the killing of Holland and also the
 scenes of this killing He was questioned
 closely as to his confession, or rather tho statements he made at the time his
 brother acknowledged killing Holland
 which he denied in part. He was kept on
 the stand a considerable time. but was unmoved in his testimony.
 own behalf. He told of the trouble be- tween Watson and the negro and stated that the proposition of meeting the negro
 Holland/ was to square the matter between