The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-04-21

said
Man Described as White
Did Wilson describe the man
he saw running down the aisle7"
Lomax asked.
Yes. he did. Hughes replied.
But later he said he was
white man"
Fine" Lomax shouted. What
did he say?"
HE said he was a white man.
He said he could tell he was a
! white man when he turned a.
round to look back as he was I'M
der the light in the elbow of the
car"
To emphasize the point, Lomax
shouted:
He said he was a white man."
eyes" the porter replied.
Wilson, occupant of Upper Is.
ust above Mrs. James Berth.
had testified he saw man fleeing
toward the rear of Car D just be-
fore Mrs. James fell to the floor.
He described him as "either a
dark white man or light colored
man."
In later cross-examination of
Hughes. Lomax directed his aues-
tioning to bring out that Folkes.
chrged with first-degree murder.
was in the dining-car galley, bak-
ing mullins, at the time of the
Staying.
Hughes said he went to the
rear of the train, seeking Mrs.
James assailant six or seven min
utes after the tragedy was discov-
cred. He saw Folkes in the galley,
stocking the stove.
Between Is and 20 minutes af-
ter the tragedy, he said. he saw
another porter eating a muffin
that Folkes had just knocked out
of a pan. He added that he for
merly was cook, and knew that
it took 10 or 10 minutes to bake
the mullins.
A bit of comedy was injected
during the cross-examination.
Hughes had told Lomax that he
had seen Folkes stocking" his
stove.
Stocking Is Question
What do you mean-stok-
ing?" the attorney asked.
Exasperated Hughes replied:
Sticking the fire, like you stoke
any fret"
ITO get it straight, describe
what Folkes was doing" Lomax
insisted.
Turning to the court reporter,
Kathleen Miller, Hughes ordered
loudly:
please strike that, Madam,
and make it 'shoveling'."
The courtroom crowd laughed.
In redirect examination, Pros
ecutor Harlow Weinrick asked
Hughes to place the time he heard
Wilson describe the running man
as a white man. He answered that
it was shortly after the train had
left Eugene, Or. about five
hours after the tragedy. Asked to
whom Wilson had made the state
ment, Hughes replied:
81 don't know who was ques-
tioning him, but I understood 1t
was a deputy sheriff - at least
he was acting as deputy sher-
iff."
Hughes added that the Negro
Porter Shaw, he believed, heard
the marine private utter such a
description.
Asked if he had told anyone
that Wilson had made such a
staement, previous to this morn
ing's testimony. Hughes said he
did not recall. Pressed he replied
heatedly:
81 believe 1 said so. 1 don't
know for sure. I'm under oath,
you know"
In his direct testimony, Hughes
had said he was with Folkes in
a Mushroom a few minutes before
discovery of the Staying. Asked
by Weinrick how long that was
before Shaw ate the muffin.
Hughes said it was 40 or as min
utes.
Curtains from Section IL, 10,
IA and Is in Car d were exhibit
ed. A mattress also was brought
in.
Watch Was Fast
Hughes said he couldn't identi-
: fly the mattress positively, but "by
, the stains on il, it could be the
mattress from Lower 49,"
The porter. under questioning,
saidt hat a Pullman curtain, prop
erly buttoned, cannot be opened
from the aisle Improperly but
toned, he added, it can be opened
from the outside of the berth.
Weinrick questioned the porter
about the accuracy of his watch.
Hughes previously testified that
he was in a Mushroom at ABS a.
m, a minute or so before the
Staying. He admitted to the prose-
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