The Pensacola journal., 1917-07-10

who had stood by HIM, The judge
commanded him to answer; but the
prisoner was adamant.
Will said he took breakfast next
morning at preacher Bracher's house
and told him to tell his father that
he was all right. He told of his
wanderings, and said that his con-
science kept pulling him back, al
though he had paid to get free, be-
cause he was an innocent man.
Will and Bob were stood up to-
gether, and they were of the same
height In this connection, it will be
remembered that the man who has
been identified as Will by SophrOnia
Holmes and Harrison Davis was de-
clared by them both to be taller than
his companion, whom Sophronia iden-
tifes as Bob. Harrison did not see
HIM plainly enough
Will declared that he had consented
to bribe his way loose because he
knew he was to be railroaded.
VIII declared that he had been
treated very we'll up to Saturday
evening. by Sutton; but then, in the
| presence of Dan Cobb and John
Adams, the sheriff had called him
- when he declared
that it wasn't right to arrest the
witness MelviF without producing
warrant. +
asked if Will |had not been the one
| TO call Sutton a - - -
adding a couple of other epithets that
could hardly be repeated even in
mems club. Will declared positively
he had not. Cobb and Adams will
; probably be put on the stand tomor-
row to settle this point.
/ Beginning the cross examination
assistant state attorney Stokes Chai-
| lenged Will Blackwell to make good
/ the boast that he would tell who set
! fire to the temporary courthouse at
/ Milligan and who destroyed the tax
books, and why Mr., Stokes had not
prosecuted him. Blackwell was un-
! able to make good, declaring that he
simply believed, but could not prove.
/ that the reason was that Mr.. Stokes
was Mr.. Richbourg's attorney, where
as Mr. Stokes declared he had been
employed by w. A. Mapoles to act
for the community, of Crestview in
preparing certain petitions regarding
the county seat election.
Mr.. Stokes insinuated that Black
we'll had left Tennessee because he
gave a dose of poison to somebody.
Blackwell acknowledged having
been convicted of selling whiskey in
Santa Rosa. but did not do time on
the county road because of his tuber-
culosis.
/ Prosecution asked if Blackwell
could not name a single person who
saw him between : 6 and II o'clock
on the night of the murder. except
Eliza and Fannie Atwell, and when
the answer was in the negative, asked
how he could explain such a lapse Of
memory when only one week later
he was arrested charged with the
gravest crime on the calendar.
VIII declared on the cross eXami-
. nation that the pistol he had on his
second trip in Obie Adams car, was
not the Luber, but a 38 automatic
for which he had swapped his gun
with a man named Barlow, of FlOrala,
during the Mardi Gras celebration
here. Mardi Gras was in February
the trip in Obie's car was on March
=, 6. the day of the county seat cleo
tion, To make the discrepancy still
more noticeable, Will had testified on
the direct examination that it was
the Luger gun he had with him.
He might have done so, said Will;
) he might have pried back the paste
= board hidden the membership card in
a fraternal organization there, and
l taken the picture into another room
he could not say; he did not remem-
. berthe most deadly admission OF
: the day!