Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-06-22
L0CkHART SAYS
!, DOOR OF MURDER
KITCHEN LOCKED
Murdered Planters Yard
boy Testifies He Locked
Door from Within.
JURY VISITS THE
SCENE OF TRAGEDY
Trip to Sheriff. Made BY Auto Yester.
day Afternoon in Order to Let
Jurors See Construction of the
jenkins Plantation Home.
The door leading from the kitchen

The door leading from the kitchen
to the yard of the Jenkins home, near
Sheriff., was locked from within on
the night that Phil Jenkins was killed
Dec. rs, 1915. This was the positive
statement made yesterday at the sec
ond trial of Tom S. Bradbury, charg-
ed with the murder Of Mr.. jenkins,
by George Lockhart, negro, aged
about As, who served the murdered
planter as yardboy for about six
years. Lockhart was not used at the
first trial in April. because, it was
said, both sides were afraid Of
him."
LOckhart's appearance on the wit.
ness stand, and the visit of jury, de-
PENDANT, attorneys and court officials
to the scene Of the murder were two
features OF yesterdays session of the
trial. Mrs. Jenkins appeared on the
witness stand in the forenoon, her
testimony being similar to that given
at the first trial.
Arkansas Red," whose real name
is Claud Alexander, and who has been
known more generally as Will Mar
tin, was the star witness at the night
session, and, although he was on the
stand under constant grilling more
than an hour and a half, he left the
witness chair apparently satisfied,
and with counsel for the state appar-
emily fully satisfied, that he had
proved even more damaging witness
than he was at the former trial
H. L. Sternberg. official stenog-
rapher, following "Red' on the stand,
and in reply to questions by the state,
read a dozen or more excerpts from
Bradbury's testimony at the first
trial, each of these excerpts cor
roborating some definite and import
ant testimony given by cred" at this
trial as we'll as at the previous trial. |
DR.. H. c. Pyatt was the only other
witness of Importance, although a
negro, Will Johnson, was on the stand
for brief stay, answering only two
or three questions.
The decision to convey the jury to !
the Jenkins home, that they might |
see how the house is constructed,
the location of doors, where the shot |
struck, the porch post, and the spot
where the MORALLY wounded planter /
fell, was reached during the noon re-
cess, and was due to a remark OF
juryman in the forenoon. indicating
the jurors were having difficulty in
following the testimony in it's rela,-
ton to diagram of the house floor
plan. The trip was made at this sug-
gestion of the states attorneys, the
defense acquiescing. Leaving here in
autos at 2 o'clock, the party returned
at 4 o'clock, having spent about 40
minutes inspecting the Jenkins home.
Judge Sorrells upon the reconvening
of court at 4:57. "There1l be no
further delay; let's go right ahead"
And the trial was resumed, the ses-
SIGN lasting until 6:10, when re-
cess until 1880 was ordered.
The Morning Session.
The morning session was devoted
to the opening statement of the case
as it will be presented by the defense.
by Attorney Robert l.. Rogers, and
the examination of two witnesses on
ly, these being Mrs. P. G. jenkins,
widow of the slain planter, and T. F.
Mays, her step-father.
Attorney Rogers, in the course of
his address, referred to the defendant ,
as victim of circumstances. The
greater part of his statement was de-
voted to excoriation of Claude Alexan- ,
der, alias Martin, alias Arkansas
Red" who had passed AS negro but
who. it was brought out by the de-
1NSose at the previous trial of this t
Use, was a white man, native of Mis-
sissippi Mr.. Rogers stressed the
confident belief that the testimony I
will show that Red" was the last !
man known to have the gun in his I
possession, that Red" had been re- 6