The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-08-17
ARTHUR MARTIN BOUND OVER

Judge Futch conducted the prelIml
nary hearing of the two white boys,
Martin and Whitesides, who are charg-
ed with the murder of Robert Law
renee on the lot back of the foundry
: few days ago.
Officer Bronson was the first witness
for the state and told OF the discovery
OF the murdered man and the general
happenings that night.
A 13-year-old negro girl named Al
berta Jones was the next witness. Al
certa's story follows: She and an
other girl were at the depot and saw
Arthur Martin and two other white
boys there. Arthur told her to go on
up the A. c. L. railroad towards the
orange packing house, she said, and
they would follow. They went up the
railroad as far as the packing house
and sat on the railroad. When A. c.
L. train No. 9 passed at little after
8 o'clock they all hid behind trees and
bushes until it was gone and then
came back to the railroad. As they
sat on the rails in front OF the packing
house some one threw a rock and hill
Martin. Martin jumped up and look
| ed around About that time a negro
| man came up the railroad from the
| railroad and Martin stopped him and
asked if he threw the rock. The man
| cold No opJ want on I1pt0uD Martin
then said he was going to kill him a
negro. Alberta and Lumb then left
| the boys and walked on down towards
the creamery. When they got to the
creamery they heard some one say,
| ''Oh, Lordy, Lordy; l amt the man., .
and heard Arthur Martins voice say
"I don't give damn" Albert said she
| had known Martin for some time and
knew his voice well. She and Lumb
then walked on around toward the
Seaboard freight depot.
Upon cross examination, Alberta
seemed positive that Fred Whitesides
was not one of the boys with Martin,
so Whitesides was released.
The attorney for the defense show
ed Alberta letter that was purported
to have been written to her by her
chum Lumb while they were both in
| jail. Alberta denied having read the
letter. The letter was introduced in
evidence and was request from
Lunb to Alberta not to tell that they
were at the packing house and to tell
that they heard the shots and thought
it was an automobile tire.
The state then rested and the de-
Tense brought forward Lumb Jones as
| it's first witness. Lumb denied writing
the letter that was produced and said
that she wrote letter on unruled
paper while this letter was on lined
| tablet paper. She was requested to
write the letter in the court room so
that the writing could be compared
with the letter in hand. The two writ
ings were entirely different. Lumb
said she had written Alberta to tell
the truth, and that she gave it to Oscar
| Ellis to deliver and that Oscar had
first shown the letter to Mr.. Chalker
and then tore it up.
| Sheriff S. C. M. Thomas was put OH
the stand to testify that Lumb Jones
had told him two different stories
since being in Jail. Mr.. Thomas said
that she first said she knew nothing
about the shooting and then told prac-
! tically the same story that Alberta
had told on the witness stand.
Mr.. J. L. Hillman testified that he
went down the railroad from Wash
ington to May streets Sunday night
about 1880 to 8 o'clock and then turn
ed east across the pond on the fill on
May street. When he was on the fill
a man stepped out of the bushes and
grabbed him by the right arm and ask
| ed him if he was the G
who had thrown rock at him. Mr..
/ Hillman said that he did not know the
man and that it was not Arthur Mar
tin, because he knew Arthur we'll and
had known him six or seven years,
Oscar Ellis testified that Lumb
gave him the letter that was before
the court and requested that he deliver
it to Alberta. He showed it to Nh
Chalker and then tried to deliver it to
Alberta but she refused to take it. Mr..
Green asked Oscar what he was doing
in the Jail. Oscar replied that he was
doing ninety days.
Mr.. Horne testified that he was at
the S. A. L. water tank the night of
the murder between 8 and $50 and
that he saw Arthur Martin there with
another boy he did not know. He also
saw the two negro girls there. He
heard two pistol shots about $50 but
did not know what direction the shotA
were fired. He said that when the
shots were fired someone remarked
that Arthur Martin said he believed
he would shoot his Luger and see how
i sounded. Baker Terry also testified
to about the same story as Horne
Fred Whitesides testified that he
was the boy with Arthur at the tank
and that they left the tank and went
10 Davidson's a few minutes and then
went home and he was in bed by nine.
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