Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-06-22

Tie Hdu llfSb entered jenkins employ
as share croppcr, and left after max
ing his crop, to return again early in
1913, remaining on the place continu-
ously until Mr.. jenkins was killed. Of
the occurrences around the Jenkins
home the day Of TIE murder, and tie
day prior to the murder RED" told
in almost every detail the same story
he had told at the previous trial, and
which is we'll remembered. He told
how he was given the gun by Brad
bury at Jenkins order. that ne might
guard the meat haEging in the shed in
the yard; how he received two shells,
firing off ono and giving the other to
y negro, William Johnson; how Bad
bury came to his house Sunday after
noon, while he was abscot. to gc.
warm, after having returned from
Sheriff.; how Bradbury came to his
house Monday afternoon and ordered
him to put some wood on the fire in
Bradbury's room: how he missed tho
gun, when he returned to his house;
how he reported the loss OF the gun to
Mr.. Jenkins, just after Jenkins had
finished supper, and before the wit
ness and Lockhalt had thei" supper;
and Of how he found the gun in the
kitchen Of the Jenkins house after the
killing.
Gun Reported Missing.
Witness explained IN detail how he
happened to know the gun was in its
customary place IN the corner OF his
room when Bradbury came to get him
to replcnish the fire in Rradbury's
room.
81 had just come in with can Of oil,
and | set it down on a box in the
corner where the Gun was, SO
coudn bel p seeing the gum" he said.
When he returned, after putting the
wood on the fire, he went to get the
can of oil to fill his lamp and noticed
the gun had disappeared. Despite
lengthy questioning by Attorney Eog-
crS, on cross examination. this state
ment of the witness remained as orig
inally made and was not confused
Much Of "Rcd's' testimony was
minor detail as it explained only his
actions in detail Saturday and Sun
day, December Is and rs He denied
specifically that he had asked Jenkins
for money or whiskey and had been
refused. 81 never asked Mr.. jenkins
for money in my life that he didn't
give it to me- he said. In his direct
examination, "Red" mentioned that he
was lame, cripple. On his cross cX-
animation, Attorney Rogers asked him
why he had not testified at the first
trial that he is lame "Mobody asked
me-" he replied.
AS to how he left the jenkins home
after supper the night of the killing,
"Red" testified Lockhart let him out
the kitchen door leading into the yard
and he knew Lockhart locked screen
door and wooden door, because he
heard the bolts as they were shot into
the catches. 1t was remarked by court
officials that "Red" not only repeated
in every detail the story he had told
at the first trial, but had corroborated
George Lockhart, the houscboy, in the
details as to the locking of the doors.
As to tho bunch Of keys, about which
such importance was apparently at
tached during the afternoon session,
Red testified that the keys were for
lock on a gate in the yard and for
the lock to the feedhouse, thus mega
lively testifying that the keys would
not unfasten any of the doors in the
Jenkins home.
Reads Bradbury's Testimony.
Official Court Stenogranher II. l..
Sternberg was sworn, and after iden-
ltifying the record in the previous hear
ing, read numerous excerpts from
Bradbury's testimony at the earlier
trial, and in virtually every instance
these excerpts corroborated in detail
testimony just given by "Red' as to
some material point.
Other excerpts dealt with the leas-
ing of postoffice box 1S9 here by
Bradbury, under the name of T. S.
Shaw or Thos. S. Shaw, the CORE
spondence between Bradbury and
"Mrs. Belle Shaw" through this post
office box, the admission that "Mrs.
Belle Shaw" was Mrs. P. G. Jenkins,
and Identification of letter written
by Bradbury to "Mrs. Belle Shaw"
and which was introduced.and read at
the previous trial. The letter was
read again. 1t is the now-famous New
Gascony letter to "My Dear Little
Sweetheart" in which the writer
spoke of his lonesomeness and de-
spondency
All these matters were brought out
over the objection of defense, the OBJ
iections being overruled. Almost every
objection was based on the same
ground, that the state must show how
it came into the possession of the evil
dence. When the direct examination
of Mr. Sternberg was concluded, the
defense announced it will cross-ex
anime him today.
Negro Got One Shell.
William Johnson, for a dozen or SO
years employed on the jenkins place,
testified that shell for shotgun was
given him by "Red," while they were
hauling cotton. There was no cross
examination.
DR.. Pyatt's Testimony. /
DR.. E. C. Pyatt was called, and
while he was on the stand only short
while, and brought out little new mat
ter of direct bearing on the Jenkins
murder, he was the cause of some lit
tie commotion in the court because he
stated, during his cross-examination,
that che could tell a lot of stuff now
that he hadn't testified to" at the first
trial
DR.. Pyatt repeated the testimony he
gave at the first trial, relative to
meeting Bradbury at Little Rock,
where Bradbury told him of his trou-
bles; that Bradbury's wife had d.
vorced him and had been awarded the
$50 a month which Bradbury had been