The Washington times., 1921-11-06

started to rise my father kind OF stepped
uL> the side OF the bank and ! think he
saS IL, and before ! got up to him he
dropped the Gun and lay down. too
$50 your father dropped the sss,
then? -.
A.-Well, he put II down beside of him.
Then as the boy tried 10 raise himself up
| could see he had the pistol In his hand,
and then fired and reloaded and fired
again. Just then my father came up and
he was re-loading the gun. The boy
wasn't still He was kind of moving
around and he raised himself up. Ny
father stepped on him as he moved up On
his shoulders and he stuck the muzzle
Of the gun right down on him and shot
him through the shoulders The woman.
was still screaming down back there In
these bushes
Q.-The woman was still screaming in
those bushes.
Ayes, toward the brook there. and he
moved down there, stepped down close. TO
Mrs. Ball and heard another shot fired.
and that instant she stopped her scream
ing. My father beckoned to me and he
spoke low and he told me to come down
there. ! was at the corner of the house
and he told me to lay my rifle down there.
He laid the shot gun down and he said:
I'VE have got to get these bodies into the
house" He had hold of Mr. Ball. He
passed right alongside OF the old gentle
man Ball and he put his foot down on the
body and fired. Then we took hold of the
l.eople, took hold of one and then took
hold of the other and dragged the bodies
in there and closed the door
Q.-Through the open door?
Ayes. the door was open. The door
Sad been opened. And then as soon as we
dragged them in we came back and the
woman was kind of tumbled over these
pushes. My father went around and we
both took hold of her and dragged her IN
the same door and she laid side of the
man. Then we went back. We pulled him
IN the cellar so his head got clear of .he
door and dropped him. Then we went
back and got the woman and pulled her
in. Father got ahold of her | can't re-
member whether he got her by the feet
or not, and then we took the boy in and
dragged him In free of the door, walked in
over the other two I think we walked
over the other two. They were lying side
by side think. We had the door clear nj
The body. l had put the rife on the little
knoll at the corner of the shack. Then
we went up over the hill above the ceme-
terry and started for home.
Q.-After you started for home was there
anything said between you and your father.
and If so, what?
A.-Not right away, no; not at the time
But as we were going over this hill he
turned and looked back, and as he did he
spoke and he said. That fire is burning
fine Ii is pretty"
Q.-Was anything else said along the
road as you walked home?
Any father said to me in case anyone
was on the road, anyone came along in a
machine, to jump in the bushes, so no one
could see us, and then we continued on
the main road, and Just before we got to
eur house | hollered to my mother. We
never carried key with us. | didn't have
to holler but once, as mother came right
down and opened the door and just as she
did so father passed the shotgun to me
duu Ht Sdlu Idht lHt SUOlBuU anu JnC GlUC
down to the henhouse. We always kent
hem in the henhouse in a little apartment
there. We had always kept thc guns in
there, so | did so. After | did that In
walking from there I came TO the mouse.
but didn't go around TO the front door.
came up the back way and our cellar door
was open There are several steps that
goes down a trapdoor, and came down In
there and | saw a light in there before I
stepped down into the cellar. Then I
opened the cellar door. and in closing the
door | saw father had basin OF water
down there and he was washing HIS hands
and he said, "If there is any blood or any.
thing on your hands wash them of" !
saw him scraping and scratching with his
fingers. He was there still washing them
Then went up out OF the cellar and went
TO bed upstairs
Odd your father wash his hands he.
fC p YOU wont upstairs?
A.-Yes. sir.
Q.-Was there any conversation between
your father and you as you went through
the woods on the way from the scene of
the fire?
A.-Well, we went across the main road
and came on the hill a little west, a short
cut that way from the main road, aud
father stopped, and as he did so also
stopped. He had small bottle. Il was a