The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
JURY WILL BE TAKEN ID SCENE OF WRECK .ON THE SEABOARD
Introduction of Direct Tes- timOny in Train Wrecking
 Case Is Concluded
ATTORNEYS SHOWING
 STRAIN OF THE WEEK
Arguments Begin This Morning-De- tective Crenshaw Denies That Any Inducements Were Offered Archie
 Lee to Secure His Confession

| Lee LO SeCuTe AOuIe eSSiOu
 That Archie Lee attempted to sell mule two hours before he was arrested in order to get money enough to leave the cty was the statement of A. c. Blackmon. a special agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, who testified in rebut tai yesterday afternoon in the train wrecking trial now going on before Judge Harrington P. Heflin in the second d- vision of the criminal court.
 | Throughout yesterday the attorneys on both sides showed the effect of the stren uous week by their frequent tits. It was not infrequent that Judge Heflin would l be called upon to quiet and an hectic passage at arms between either Solicitor Hugo l.. Black and Attorney James Bar ton of the defense or Hugh Morrow of the prosecution and w. L. Stewart of the defense. Mir Morrow and Mir Stewart tilted most often and tneT spats added much to the interest of the trial.
 Going to Scene Today
 As far as the offering of direct testi- mony is concerned the trial is closed for both the defense and the prosecution. This morning at o'clock the jury, the solicitor or an assistant solicitor, a deputy sheriff, Judge H. P Herin, the attorneys for the defense and newspaper men will leave the Terminal station in a special train for the scene of the wreck near Weems last June. The jury will be in structed to make d minute exam:nation of the condition of the roadbed, as the chief o1, r,f tb ;s d rails were in such condition that the heavy train was wrecked through the neg sligence of the Seaboard railroad and not through the criminal conspiracy of Shan Henry. Archie Lee and Amos Smith
 IL is expected. according to present plans, that the jury will return to the courthouse by o'clock this morning and inn. ediately thereafter the arguments of the attorneys will begin. Judge Hefln will not limit the arguments and there fore 1t will be quite late in the after noor before the jury finally retires to de- , eide on its verdict.
 7 Hugh Morrow will likely make the first address to the jury for the prosecution and he will be followed by w. K. Stew art of the defense, Attorney James Bar } ton will also present an argument as will Circuit Solicitor Joseph Tate. The clos f inC argument will be made by Solicitor
 Hrgo l.. Black, after which Judge Heflin ; wil charge the jury.
 2 1 The defense presented only two wit i nesses in yesterday mornings session be- f fore it rested. Will Grant a car in- spector of the Southern railway, testified
 that he had read the speed indicator on a the wrecked engine and that it regis tered se miles an hour. Jim Triplett tes- thed he saw a report s-gneu by Con ductor Carter of the wrecked train that tho wreck was caused by a broken rail. a The defense then rested.
 Speed Indicator Broken The first witness of the state in re-
 buttal offered by Solicitor Hugo L.
 Black was General Superintendent Carleton of the Seaboard railroad. Mr
 Carleton testified that the wreck ; caused the speed indicator to be brok en
 and therefore it was out of commis-
 sion.
 W. L. Guess trainmaster of the Sea-
 board railroad, testified that the tools
 alleged to have been used in wreck
 ing the train were found by negro ! J. King testified to the same effect | Following the testimony of King the state introduced the damaged railroad ties on which the train was supposed
 to have been wrecked.
 After the introduction of the ties
 Detective Robert Crenshaw of the Bir- , mingham police department took the
 stand. MT. Crenshaw made an impress
 sive witness and told in detail how
 he and his partner. Eugene Eubanks
 went to Second avenue and Twenty
 fourth street on the night of the 18th
 of June and arrested Archie Lee as
 he emerged from saloon in company
 with Joe Hill. railroad special agent . MT. Crenshaw stated that Lee was X taken to headquarters and placed in = a large, roomy office where he talked 0 with countless persons and that at nc
 time was any inducement or any
 threats of any character made to the
 defendant. Mir. Crenshaw further stated s that all the statements of Archie Lee d swere made with the utmost willing 0 ness on the part of the defendant. The 0 cross examination failed to shake the n testimony of MT. Crenshaw.
 Il Detective Eubanks and Chief of Po- n lice Martin Eagan followed on the
 stand and their testimony was prac- 8 tically a repetition of that of Officer V Crenshaw.
 t Jack Bethea. a newspaper man. wal e the next witness. MT. Bethea testified s that he had visited the scene of tho
 wreck shortly after the arrest of the defendant and that In his opinion the l ties and tracks were in good con dition as any railroad tracks he had | ever seen. MT. Bethea was sub bjeCteC K to a sharp cross-examination by tho Iattorneys for the defense but his tes- :. timony suffered no material change.
 BlackmOn on Stand
 $ Special Agent A. c. Blackmon of the
 Louisville and Nashville railroad was i. the next witness. MT Blackmon stated
 that he had met Archie Lee about two
 hours before he was arrested last June
 Mir. Blackmon further stated that the
 defendant had offered to sell him a . mule and team. The defendant, 1t was . testified. further said that he wanted l to get out of the country because ol n the Seaboard wreck. MT. Blackmor stated that he asked Lee if he had ! wrecked the train but that the defend ! ant answered that his friends had MT Blackmon then testified that he prom !. ised Lee $50 for his mule and left tc notify the police. On his return Lee had been arrested MT. Blackmon tes- . tihed that Lee desired to avoid all pub lie places and sought to walk through \ the dark alleys as he feared arrest or III the charge of train wrecking.
 II A gruelling cross examination failed N to shake the testimony of Mir. Black Il mon, which went in the record as b,
 far the strongest evidence offered b, II the state yesterday.
 Following Mir. Blackmon on the stand lIJ. D. Walton, postmaster at Alton C Ii A. Franklin, O. o. Burnett and E. E
 Franklin testified as to the genera