Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-22


Attorney Rodgers, Leading counsel
for the defense, cross examined the
! witness at great length. relative to
testimony given now and given at
earlier trials, but in the main the .
witness testimony was the same as
at previous trials, although on some
points he did contradict himself.
Sheriff Williams testified to his
visit to the Jenkins home the night !
Of the killing, arresting Bradbury and |
Red and as to the marks made by !
I the gunshOt on the porch post ard
screen, these indicating the shot had
been fired from the inside, toward the
outside He identified postcards and
! letters taken by him and the prosecut-
/ ing attorney from Bradbury's trunk
/ On cross examination, he admitted
| that only one or two of the letters
found in the trunk had been found by
| him prior to the first trial, explaining
| that because of his own bad health
! he did NOT thoroughly examine the
| trunk until after the first trial of
! Bradbury. He testified the trunk had
| been found at the depot at Sheriff.,
| had been expressed 20 him at his
order, and had been in the office at
| the jail continuously until it was
! turned over to one of Bradbury's at
| torneys He admitted he had no
search warrant before entering the
| trunk
Jailer Verrett testified that the
trunk was in the office at the jail,
in his charge and thai no one had
entered it but the sheriff, the prose-
cutting attorney and he himself until
it was turned over to Attorney Trim
| BILE, of counsel for the defendant.
DR.. Pyatt On stand.
DR.. r. G. Pyatt, physician and drug
gist at Sheriff., testified that shortly
before Jenkins was killed, he had
conversation with Bradbury, in his
drugstore at Sheriff., in which he re-
marked to Bradbury that the latter
would soon be needing the services
of first class physician" whereupon
Bradbury suddenly left. The next day,
the witness testified, Bradbury re-
turned, and after stating that witness
had certainly given him a scare"
said he had thought witness referred
to P. G. Jenkins Witness said he
asked what was the matter with P. G.
Jenkins, was he in financial difficult
ties, TO which Bradbury replied NO,
but he is up against the real thing.
Attorney Rogers asked witness if
he had not been summoned. at the
first trial, as a character witness for
the defendant, and if it was not
fact that the testimony he gave now,
he did not give at that time. The
state objected, and the objection was
sustained, despite lengthy argument
, by attorneys for the defense
, What is your feeling toward the
, defendant" asked Attorney Rodgers
Don't you hold hard feelings against
him?"
The witness faced the attorney,
paused a moment, and then asked.
Wouldn't you?"
The court instructed witness to
answer the question and he answered
} Yes"
That's ALL said Attorney Rogers.
'Why?' asked Prosecuting Attorney
Parham, of witness, relative to the
J hard feelings"
! The defense objected, on the ground
that the reason for the feelings was
immaterial, only the fact that such
feelings existed being relevant, and
the court sustained the objection.
, The witness was excused At a
previous trial, Mrs. Pyatt, wife of the
| witness, identified a letter she had
written Bradbury, and following that
trial DR.. Pyatt entered suit for di-
Vorce from her. being granted a di-
vorce by Judge j. VI. Elliott of the
chancery court
Met Accused In Hotel.
w. B. Statham, of Little Rock tes-
titled that in February, 1915, he met
| Jenkins in the lobby of the Marion
hotel at Little Rock. Jenkins told
| him he was going out for a while, but
for him to go up into the balcony, and
visit with Mrs. Jenkins. Witness
said he went to the balcony and there
met Mrs. Jenkins, who was witt
bradbury. He remained only a short
time, he said. The defense moved that
the testimony be stricken out, but the
motion was denied. The state an
nounced the testimony would be CON
nected up at the proper time. On
cross examination, witness denied
that there was any feeling between
} him and defendant over a girl both
had gone with
Isom Springfield, negro, testified
that he had seen Mrs. Jenkins go into
Bradbury's office and quarters at the
gin on a number of occasions some
times with Mr. Jenkins, sometimes
with a number of girls and sometimes
alone, Bradbury always following.
Some times the door was closed.
sometimes it was open. He dill not
know what was done n the quarters.
Tom poole testified that on one &C.
casion he saw Mrs. Jenkins sitting
cross-legged on the front porch Of the
store at Sheriff., and Bradbury was
tapping the calf of her legs which
We're exposed, with light ST. itch.
Larry Clemmons testified that while
he was employed at the Jenkins s1ore,
} Mrs. Jenkins would telephone quite
often to learn if Bradbury had ar
rived, and instructed witness that if
he lid not to arrange for him to go
to the Sheriff. plantation at once IN
answer to questions by Juror, he
said Mrs. Jenkins herself tel-phoned
him frequently and an n.ren:,; had
no great difficulty hearing and under