The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-02

A. Yes, sir.
@. Now, go ahead and tell us II
your own words of just what hap
pened, Joe.
A. / got hit first.
@. Just a minute. You got hi
by who?
A. Sam Price.
@. Sam Price hit you? With
what?
A. Flashlight.
@. Whereabouts did he hit you?
A. Side Of the head.
@. Side of the head?
A. Yes, sir.
@. What effects did that have on
you?
A. Knocked me dizzy right then.
@. Knocked you dizzy?
@. Did it knock you down?
A. I turned around and stag
gered, and asked him what he hit
me for. He say, "And that amt
ALL" he said; why, he struck me
again with the light. BY that time
! seen a pistol, when I fell that
time I caught him. / got his pistol
away from him. "Sam," I say
"Pm not going to let you get away,
none of the persons, or you all.
feel like you done a wrong, but
you here until the law comes" By
that time Charley run around
causing me to see him and I say,
"Call the law, fellow. I got this
gun and I'm not going to give il
up. Don't let him hit me no more
will you please" He said, ''No"
BY that time the boy run with the
pistol. He hollered, "Shoot him."
@. Who hollered, 'Shoot him.?
A. Sam.
@. Sam hollered, "Shoot him.?
A. Yes. The gun went off.
turned around, ! fell on to the gun.
He shot me the other time. I was
laying out then.
@. Who was the fellow he told
to shoot you?
A. william Cotton.
@. Sam Price told William Cot
ton to shoot you?
A. Yes. AND he thought I was
dead. And he say, Lord, nobody
don't know nothing. That's the way
to do it.
O. Who said that? 4
A. Sam.
@. Sam told William that you was
dead and nobody know nothing
about it?
A. Nobody never know who did
it. william told Sam, "Let me get
this here gum" He said, mo, don't
put your hand on it. You'll get your
fingerprints off on it. Let him keep
it."
Q. Who told you that?
A. Sam Price told william,
Don't touch the gun. Let him keep
it. They'll think it's his gum" But
it wasn't mine. It belonged to Sam.
@. That pearl handled gun be-
longed to Sam?
A. Yes, that pearl handled gun
belonged to Sam and Sam Price
was doing it.
@. Sam Prices gun?
A. I might not overcome, but
that's Sam Prices gun.
@. Had you had trouble with Sam
Price previous to that night?
A. No, sir. We was brothers-in-
law, me and Sam Price.
@. You are brother-in-law to Sam
Price?
A. Yes. I tried to talk to him.
Why he had never did nothing. /
don't know why he got killer or
something. Just that quick. Now
we had got the car for to 60 home.
@. No, just q minute, take your
time and start over. Now, what did
you say there.
A. He got the car for to 90 home.
@. He had got the car to 60
home, who's this, Sam Price?
A. Yes.
Q. Take your time, don't try to
rush yourself. You got all the time
in the world, we're not trying to
hurry you.
A. He said, "Pm mad" That
was the time got the beating and
shooting. I hadn't thought he was
mad. I would have come right out.
They got in the car to leave, and
they come back and call for me.
@. Who called for you?
A. Sam.
Q. Sam Price called for you?
A. Yes, sir.
@. And you come out to where
he was?
A. Yes, sir.
@. What happened then?
A. He hit me in the car.
@. He hit you in the head with
the flashlight. Where did he get
the flashlight?
A. Charley. Said he had borrowed
the light and made like he wanted
to fix his car, that is what he say.
@. You rest minute and take
1t easy. You feel all right?
A. Yes, sir. / feel all right.
Q. Now, you say Sam Price hit
you with a flashlight?
A. Yes, sir.