Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-04-13

. material witness. He said he i about 29 years of age. but does no
 know the name of his father. Hi! mother d ed when he was two or three
 years of age. He remained around Silver City, Miss. with different per sens until he was 12 or 13, when ht left Silver City, coming to Lake Vil
 lage, Ark. Of his wanderings from that time until 1914. when he showed
 up at the Jenkins farm, witness fur nished but little information. He'C ! just been around, never having [
 stationary residence' at any place fol , any length of time. lie left the Jen.
 kins farm, he said. in January ol i February of 1915. wandering around
 some more, and returning in Septem- : Der or October of the same year. MT Bradbury was a the farm when he re- 1 turned.
 i He related circumstances taking place on the night of the tragedy, his replies to questions asked under direct examination making a story
 like this: He was employed by Mr. Jenk ms as a yardboy and was given single barreled breech-loa ding shot | gun to guard hog meat. The fowling piece was given to him by Bradbury at the direction Of Jenkins. With the
 gun he was also given two shells, one containing brdshot, which he fred in the air the night following receipt of the weapon. "jes' for fun,' and the other loaded with buckshot. which he gave to negro named William John- son. About dusk on the evening of the tragedy, Bradbury came to him and instructed tness to place some wood on the fire in defendants room. This was the first time witness had heen ordered by defendant to perform such chore. The fire did not appear Dhadly in need of fuel, he said. When ne returned to his room, the gun had disappeared. He was que to notice tn s because when he departed he had placed beside the gun can of oil from which he was filling his lamp when interrupted. He resumed the task immediately upon his return. He told Mir. Jenkins about the disappear ance of the gun, and was "joshed" about it. Mir. Bradbury was also asked if he had removed the weapon
 Jenkins ordered 'tness and George Lockhart to make thorough search, and this was done. without success. While witness and Lockhart, the negro house boy, were eating supper, N". and Mrs. Jenkins and MT. Brad bury were conversing in the room occupied by the Jenkinses. After supper. Lockhart les witness out, and carefully locked the door from with in. It was Lockhart's duty to close up the house each night Lockhart left the house immediately afterward from door on the porch. Witness was positive the screen door and the panel door were locked by Lockhart.
 He was lying on a lounge when he heard the discharge of gun, and then heard Mrs. Jenkins scream: O. Red, run here quick" He found Mrs. Jenkins kneeling beside Mir. Jenkins who was lying on the porch. and Bradbury was running to and from the telephone. Bradbury ordered witness 10 summon doctor, and defendant also said scmeth Ing about ringing the plantation bell. Witness helped pr. Gregg and Alvin Tyler to remove .Jen- klns from the porch to the little bed room in front of the dining-room and then went after water at Brad bury's instructions, af,er the physt- clan had called for water. Witness noted the gun on the table, and re- marked about it. Bradbury picked Up and "broke" the piece, and then lad It down again. Witness was un- able to say if there was a shell beside the gun. but MT. McBurnett. the deputy sheriff, had shown him One that Was loaded. Witness was positive that the door between tine dining room and the kitchen was not locked at that time.
 Witness Chilled.
 Attorney Rogers subjected the wit ness to a grslling, bringing out the eact that Martin was unable to g,ve any information about his, parents or ahout his wanderings from the time ne was 12 or 13 until he appeared at the Jenkins farm in 1914 After this, witness testimony under cross-exami- nat on was mostly denials of interro- gatlons propounded by MT. Rogers. He emphatically denied that his real name Is Claud Alexander. and that hs step-lather is Louis Barte of More head, Miss; he denied that he had served a term in Mississippi prison for shooting man, or that he is aswhite man posing as negro: he denied that Hardy and Ernest Alexander of cape Girardeau, Mo, were his