Evening star., 1923-08-02

WneH uiu you stop
Aren't you head clerk of o. G. Flip
Clerk or errand boy. or something"
What do you call yourselfr'
Il am manager"
"Didn't you tell Ed Anderson that
you would take no more meal ground
at the Garrett mills?"
Yes. because I had had my -four
ground there and they were slow in
, sending it to me and they wrote me
| that they would grind no more of it"
Wasn't that because you and your
wife had been going around slandering
the Garrett's?'
No
| Present mt Meeting.
Weren't you at meeting at
which were present Ollie Flippen.
Eugene Davis, David Stewart. J. NJ.
| Sheppard. c. D. Flippen, K. p. Flip
pen. Donald McRae and Charlie Cor
! son. at the home of Willie Gray, at
which it was proposed to kill r. o.
| Garrett?"
! Yes"
. Did you propose killing him?"
| Did any one propose killing him?"
| Objection by prosecution that r. o.
Garrett was not on trial was over
ruled by the court
| Yes" answered the witness.
Who proposed it?"
| We'll, do 1 have to tell that?
do not want to-"
| Name Shielded.
| objections and the witness did not tell
| the name
Il know Mr.. Flippen got up and
! said il anything like that was going
to be done he would leave the meet
ing at once" said the witness.
4 L
| an attempt was made to kill r. O.
! Garrett and that a. NJ. Chandler was
! shot from ambush by mistake" asked
Mr.. Wendenberg.
Strenuous objections by the com
monwealth was sustained and no an
! swer given by the witness Mr.
| Sheppard denied telling Mr.. Clayville
! who runs a bus, that he could do no
business with him if he handled Gar
rctt business.
! Attorney Byrd then brought out by
questioning the witness that it was
four years ago that the meeting was
held at the Gray home.
When recalled Sheppard was asked
specifically by Mr.. Byrd who had
made the suggestion at the home OF
Willie Gray TO Kill r. o. Garrett
Witness demurred to answering
said David Stewart had made the re-
mark.
MIR. Stewart is now a friend OF
Mr.. Garrett and in business with
him." asked Mr.. Byrd.
Yes" responded Mr.. Sheppard.
You wouldn't have minded saying
who il was if he wasn't favorable to
Mr.. Garrett now. would you?" asked
Mr.. Wendenburg.
1T was confidential" said the wit
ness
so you did not tell Mr. Garret,
of ~go. It?"
Defense Calls Trial
The prosecution rested it's case al
11:30 o'clock, but reserved the right
to cali DIR. J. Shelton Horsley as is
witness as soon as he could be
brought t" Cumberland.
The defense then put on the stanC
as its first witness DR.. a. l. Dodson
physician at st. EliZabeth's Hos
pital. who produced the bullet with
which l.. Q. Garrett was shot in the
back the morning of the tragedy anc
which was extracted at the Rlcn'
mond Hospital. He said that the bull
lett was weighed by Coroner J. NJ
Whitfield at Richmond. and IL weighed
il42.46 grains
DR.. Dodson described the wound il
| Robert Garrett'S back and the latte
was then brought forward and bare
his back to the jury, which inspecte
the scar of the wound.
! The witness said that r. .. Garret
was at the hospital about month
Mr.. Byrd asked If the doctor had no
made an affidavit on the appiicatiol
for bail of the CARROTS stating tha
r o. Garrett could not leave the hos
pital for three weeks.
Il should like to see that affidavit.
said DR.. Dodson.
The affidavit. said Mr.. Byrd. wa
made on June 26.
Now. how long after you mad
that affidavit did Garrett leave tn
hospital?" asked Attorney Mann o
state counsel.
"A few days" responded the ply
sician.
LAS a matter of fact it was the fol
lowing Friday, wasn't it?"
Somewhere about the end OF tn
week"
A. NJ Chandler, farm implemen
| salesman, was the second witnes
called by the defense. Mr.. Chandle
! was shot from ambush on May whe
he got out of an automobile to remov
! some obStructions in the road abou
| three miles from here.
Mrs. Pierce Testifes.
| The testimony of Mrs. Pierce yes
J terday afternoon was the most dra
matte event of the. case SO faT. sine
. it was brought up in the court befor
| Judge q. w. Hite last week. IN
widow sobbed through her story, an
several times was so overcome wit
:emotion that she had to stop. At I'll
end, though she was not questione
by the defense counsel, she was nea
collapse and had 10 be assisted fror
the courtroom.
The witness described dramaticall
the arrival of the Garrett brothers a
the Pierce home early in the morn
ing, before Mr. Pierce had arisen; tol
of the fight; in which she said he
husband was terribly beaten by Lar
kin Garrett; of her efforts to rescu
: her husband and of being twic
! pushed away by r. 0. Garrett, VIII
: stood by with a pistol in hand: ant
finally, of sitting on the ground cry
J | ing out to her dead husband who la
with his blood-covered head in he
lap. ,
: In her fight with her husbands as
, saflants she was handicapped, Sh
said, by having her two-months- -oi
: baby girl in her arms.
: The testimony of Judge Smltl
, though he was a state witness, wa
regarded by Garrett's friends as yer
| favorable TO the defendant in IN
= trial and his brother, who is to go o
trial when the present case is hr
ished. Mr.. Smith made the positiV
statement that the minister hred Tn
first shot, the one that wounded Rot
ert Garrett, and that Larkin Garre