The Pensacola journal., 1917-07-10

regarding the guilt or innocence,
stated His Honor, but satisfied the
defense that It would yield to the
evidence and were so accepted. The
| defense it will be remembered, has
five unused challenges when the jury
was impaneled. 80 Judge Campbell
therefore denied the motion. Excep-
ton noted.
1t is understood that the Laurel
! Hill witnesses, to produce when ad-
! journment was taken in the morning,
were to be put on the stand to corro>
! borate the defense's statement in ask
| ing for a mistrial; but there was no
need to use them.
By W. F. Martin, of Dothan, Ala,
| the defense proved the great pene-
trative power of the colts As, the
calibre of the bullet that was found
in the Davis home after It mad appar-
emily, been I'D at the victim from
the front door, had struck the grip
of his gun, broken two fingers, then
! been DETECTED to the floor where it cut
a long cash, finally losing its energy
and dropping upon a guilt on a chair
without breaking the cloth.
viii Blackwell on the Stand
Will Blackwell then went on the
stand. From 2:20 to sos he answer
ed first defense attorney and then
assistant state attorney Stokes, trying
to impress on the twelve good men
and true his innocence of the crime
that is laid to his door. His voice
Is low but penetrative; he bites his
words-a noticeable mannerism: the
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declared that though he had never
seen Will Blackwell until the morn
ing after the murder. he thinks, but
i will not swear, it was his voice he
heard talking to Mrs. Aswell the
night before in an adjoining room of
the Atwel boarding house in Crest
view.
! Will Blackell declared that he was
; 30 years of age; lived on his fathers
, farm in Alabama until he was II;
went to college in Mobile; had studied
, and practiced medicine in Tennessee
that he later went to various West
ern points to try to get rid of tuber-
{ culosis, finally coming to Florida in
: January, 1914, for his health, settling
. in Holt His health improved almost
. Immediately, declared Will, and gave
Florida's health possibilities a fine
= boost. He came to Crestview in Sep
( tember, 1915. In Holt he was engag-
= ed in the drug business; in Crestview
| he was without occupation.
2 Will declared he had not killed Bud
l or Nancy Davis, had never seen them
1 had never been to their house, did not
Y know where they lived, had never
h asked about them.
\ He denied the statement of L. c.
Y Carr and G. D. Adams. the defense
Y witnesses later called by tfa state
: who said that shortly before the tria
: proper opened, he had tried to set
! them to swear to a false alibi fol-
T him. He admitted having Offered
: Carr 50 for one day, when Carr sale
A that he would not accept service fo1
Y the legal 81, inasmuch as he made S;
t at his own business
d Will then denied the statement o
It Bud Adams, Curtis Adams, L. H
Dollar, Geo. Jones, the men whr
o swore he had tried to get them a
i acComplices in the Davis and othe
crimes, had described to them the dis
: guise proposed, and had told then
e that Mrs, Atwell located the none,
s for him. He added that Curt
e Adams, he believed, stole some co
d caine from his drug store and had or
dered him to keep out of the shop
that he had seen Curtis Adam
e snatch a coat from a girl on a trail
o and had so written sheriff Sutton
> trying to establish motive for thei
Y. alleged grudge against him.
l. The testimony of A. J. Oglesb
s who swore that Will asked him som
Il months after trying to get the abov
: men to be his accomplices. if tn
p DAVIS family lived in the same plac
1t the accused denied absolutely.
le He told how his January an
j, bile were for the purpose of visitin
ir poses, the same being to bring prC
ceedings to contest the late elections
4 especially sheriff Sutton's
y On the first trip. he had his do
n and shot gun; on the second trip. Wi
n declared that he had his automatic
If Luger, not a Colts. The Luge
Id 45 but not exactly, as it is a size of
45 abut nat exactly. as it is a foreig
le gun and the standards are different
< Bob Wrote Cradle Telegram.
III w III ueCidI6u ltidl MS DFOLneF DO
id wrote the Cradle Bartlett Telegram
N the message summoning him to Per
: sacola the day before the murder. bu
declared that Cradle. a distant rela
tive, was there at the time and Bo
simply did it for him. Bartlett
business, he declared. was conceme
with land deal. VIII owning ~
acres of land in Alabama with hi
two brothers and sisters, but the de,
fell through,
Will declared that he had not tol
D. c. Smith while en- route to Per
sacola that morning. that Bob wa
in Texas. but said that the l;st tim
he heard from him he was ther
and did not expect to meet him i
Pensacola. He said that the ma
at the watercooler in the car ths
night whom Smith says was Bob q
not Bob but a stranger, although :