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* ; ' - / / / f t - /-T - - ) K/i'V i - f J ^ _ ' ' ^ . 4 . . ^7 / / "' ?', ffiw Ihlilil ^'SSi|^SS^:8il^'i':" f ' - v ' ; | V-/ . " , . t' ^ v *> - t- SJ'} "ISjjMbOW & CARTER." j A jfrgxte, -M ._, ;._v . p^rtha Ptxzzv&oi* <&&* Pr.'.r \ ,-. ~ ,y .^'\T.->lt ' Tfil.v &?:> 4 1 tr. qggggjg^ ? ' ;. ' A?nTTlVEKK JjtV fc A N C A 8 T'fi U. \1 A U A Mfltflhlo Mnr/lor Trial I box in front. <>r pi^i^.. .c, n >,. ! ??. 1 : , 1 - t\ lWlUl/IV IIIUI UVJl 1 1 111 I Proceedings in t'io Trial of 0 Skipper, Charged With the Murder of .las B Caskev, Held in Winnshoro This Week. Winusboro, Feb. 28 ?Spccu to the News and Courier: a this part of the Stato is in tores ed in the trial now in progre? hero As far back as Christina of 1903 Jatues B. Caskoy wu killed by Charles B. Skipper The case has boon hanging fir for one reason unci another i Lancaster county, wheretho kil ing occuired, until the iast teri of tho Ouurt., when Judge Watt directed a change of venue t this county. From all account the case has occasioned a gres deal of feeling in Lancaste c unty aud it becarao an issue i the last primary in that county. The Caskey family, to whic the deceased belonged, is ono c the largest and most mfluentif iu Lancaster county. It is est mated that tho direct and collai eral branches of tho family nuir ber more than five hundred pei t il a A 1 - ? - ? (.'iv. til ilirj l a I (1II V IS UU of prominence. On the othe hand Mr. Skipper has for te years been the superintendent < the successful Lancaster Cotte Mills, and he, too, lias large ii fluences back of him Aside frot the feeliug that has grown 01 of the case and the suggest entrance of politics into the cas< which 1 irgely brought about th chauge of venue, there is ver little unique or unusual in it The testimony today was noitl er sensational nor remarkablt and the promise is that toraoi row's testirmny on the part c the defence will ho rnimllv r?rr ? - i ?"*/ r saic. The whole of tho matter seem to he that there was abaolutel no feeling or cause for foeling b< tween Caskey and Skipper. Th cotton mill, as usual, gave ball on Christmas Eve, Mi Skipper being present to se ihat order was kept and to giv his countenance to the enjo^ ment of his employees. Caskey, while not in the en ploy of the mill, attended th dance, aud in some way h< came so objectionable that b was ejected. In fact, it deve oped today that he was about t bo thrown off a balcony aboi: twentv feet high, and that Sum Skipper insisted that Caske should not be hurt. The nes morning Caskey met Skippe end insisted that he should ri turn to bim his pistol and a bo tie of whisxey taken from hit at the dance. Skipper told hit that he did nothavo the article1 or at least gavo him no satisfy tion, whoreupon Caskey tol him that he was going to g< even with him , and they had good fashioned row. The Stat claims that Caskey said that h was willing to let the matte rlrnn t.hnn nnrt t.h?rA if SUnm r r ~ t'v thought it was not right to r< turn the pistol and whiskey thf had been taken from him at th dance. The State further claim that Caskey had made up hi mind that the matter had enc ed, and that when Skipper fire upon Caskey with a shotgu aud killed him it was a renewt of the quarrel. They conten that Caskey had no thought ( trouble, and was seated on \ ? ~ j >u4 n i/up i o ; nu store w hon shot The State1If ^ eveu suggests that Oasko;. was'ad ashep and undertakes to prove J P. that tiro deceased was unarmed s.d when Skipper cnnio up with \v< two of hie friends and shot his lof victim without warning. Sev- Pi; oral of 'Jio witnesses for the Statu th< ^ el ?ini that the only words pans- ftn 1' od at tho scene of the tragedy da wero that one of Skipper's co 18 friends remarked "There ho i<,M cij, 9 and without another word the an LB shooting was done. WHAT THIS DKKICNSK CLAIMS S? On the other hand, the dr-i'^ n ! ('i. j fence has already undertaken to show in the cross-examination r3' u rrr of the Stato's witnesses til t is 1>, Oaskey was in the habit of car* 0 . rill rying arms, thut ho made threats " ' against Skipper, and that l e was of a quarrelsome and dis- JUl agreeable disposition. Tho de- ro< fence will undertaico to show t0* j that early on the morning after ^ ^ the dance SkippVr and Oaskey l1'' , had a quarrel and that Caskov. U'J together with a friend, lounned|cl t around 8kijfper"a homo to the!0' alarm of hir immediate family. 1 A iThey will thou undertake to show, so it is stated, that Sun- dt e , crinteudent Skipper went to the 01 mill store and directed the dis- 1 ' tribution of one thousand pre* j 011 ents to tiro mill hands, and thot ^ while thure he received fully P? half a dozen warnings that Cas st' key was hunting him and m6;int *n it , to kill. After tho distribution in c! of tho presents, which was about ?n 11 o'clock, Skipper was notified 18-< that Caskoy was at his borne,1*11 ^ and h<\ accompanied by two 'ie friends, started towards h:s S< |. : . home to see if Caskoy was there, th Upon going out he noticed that fir ^ Caskey was in front of Dens's ^ ktoro, aud he went there to noti "I ty nun to keep away from hi* S,J house, and upon his approach- 811 ing Caskey, the deceased, ma do e3' ^ a motion to rise with his hand tu on his hip pocket, and, fearing nn bodily harm, coupled with the repeated warnings that had lis beeu given him during the morn Ju ing, Skipper shot and killed Caskey. du There w 11 bo a great deal ofj"' j contention about Oaskoy's ciis 0 position, his quarrels and wheth- wi er he bore arms. It has already L< , been contended that Caskey for ho two years was a constable for St Q the magistrate at Lancaster, and sit for eighteen months was a (lis- of t pensary costable, and by virtue th y of these two offices for almost wl >t four years had the right to carry sit arms. I'he Stato will pursue toi 3 this line, whereas the defence th t will contend that he was a dan uj v gerous man, and will further try to 71 to show that Skipper was one of pc f.hft mnfit cftnuniTiiitru nM ? - w V wuuwr V U VI V O [?lil| UV'II* til a, tempered men in the community, th j and one who always avoided in ,. trouble if there was any waj wl _ out of it. W; a When the Court met-here this th morning practically tho entire be audience was made up of people tit from Lancaster, and when Solicitor Henry asked that the fa* witnesses, excepting the iinme- it? 0 diate members of the family, b'e at lg excluded uutil called for, the ex lg antiquated court room was al ex 1 moat deserted. of J WOMEN IN TIIK AUDIENCE, of n Ooe peculiarity of tho audiil j ence was that a Urge number of a^ d ' young women, and especially >f j school girls, were present. What th a in the world they wanted at ed ' 5# ? * . r % i i neuriug ii is n u'ft ru & i\ . they expected iornHtbiiig t-t'ii fctonal tliev wort* di'appointed, rhaps 11:o array <>f legal coins1 ? ?<! tli'. tn in huiievo that there ;i?? going to h : a great deal of ?el pvrot'( >iei, liut Judge irdy kept the machinery of :: (Jourc working it a pretty M gai', and at the cl<e n of tlie y, willi tho co-operation of the tinsel, tb" jo" was inane up, ? ? \ ? M ' VP > 1 i . - ? u ?.v i miiN.i^ (1 too Si lie clostid its cnso. Tho Statu i-: represented by liintor ilfiiry, who is assisted Mr W. 51. Ne-.vbold, of tiro i ester Bar. Tho defence iv proa nted l)> Messrs Yancey illiuns, W. (J. Hough and moo Williams, of tho Lancav Bar, and Mr J K. Mo Don 1, of tho Winiuboro B^r. The rv is about ns pood and as repjentativo as could bo gotten *ether in tins State in a largeagricultural county. There a nine fai mers and threo clerks on the jury, and from all that u bo understood ir, is a lirstiss jury. SUM MA li V OF TIIK K VI DUNCE. O ? curious phase of the evince l?oro upon bow Skipper rried ?lit shotgun Some of e wHue s.:s said ho carried it bis shoulder, others insisted til ho held it in front of hie rson and in his hands, and hi another of tho eye?virn*r3os sistod that h<> c irrii d it swingg in one hand. Me9sr? Dee* d Young, who were in tho )ro in front of which tho sh ? tg occurred, av ore that they ar 1 Mr. B in on si* to Mr. ippor : "There h-i-5," and ?t. tho shot wad ininw>ai it< ly ed. Tho doleneo will contend at, what was re a! * said \v ? : jODkou'., then* on your right m.o of 111e witnesses, w !io re pposed to give t stim )ny us e-wituessas, had lilt ir hacks rued and say tiiAt they saw tiling of the tragedy . The statu undertook to ostabh u dying declaration, hut tdgo Purdy held that tin propovidetico had not h- on nd iced to offer the dying declarait* AiV IXNKItKSTIXU WITNESS is Dr. W. M. Crawford, of monster, and much stress will placed on his evidence. The ale contends that Cask< y was ting on a bench on the piazza Dees'a store when shot, anil at tho gu:i was fired ..tOnskoy tiile ho was in a reclining or ,ting posture. Dr. Crawf. rl stifled that tho shot entered o neck to the front and ranged iwards. Now the state con nds that this upward range is issible, evou with a man sit lg down, by the ducking of o head, while the defence wiil sist that Oh? hoy was shot bile he was rising and tli~t ho is as high as was the gun, and at tho wound could not have en inflicted had ho been sitig as is claimed. Dr. Crawford simply gave tho cts and left the jury to draw \ own conclusions as to th6 relive position of the two iii mi, cept to show that the point of ;it was higher than tho point entrance and that tho bono the neck was struck and that ero was almost com pit-to parysia of the body. W .1 8MPF8, o brother-in-law of the deceasrauu, made a very good witf"" . ; ness, as did his wife. Snipe* testifi d thut there* \vt. >: . ti v weapon on OasK* y whrn In t i>:'( eiuir^o i>i hi in ?;i<I took him to his home, where ho di> d i 1 vt-1 vi: hours after tho shooting. \ ! Suites hi-o testified that lie j t ; t cut < his lu>u.-f on O ;:ist -1 i , ni .s morning with Oaskey, and ! I that ;?y ran ahead to <-vi.r ;t | take S-tippor, and that !>v thojl ' time he joined th?* pat ty ihoy j : Imd talked for a moment' r two, jc j bu' in iu'iitfl Oft dee v pay that it ti> v had taken hi* money at tho t jdmm.e and that ho ought t > have t : iit'"n :inow (I t'? remain. S in-j: | per told him that if li(5 had acted \ | !ii. human being there would i h V - !v? n no trouble, And that i t'askoy said that there wrc ( th- j rr.i tvho had acted tno:r> iike I l)i nt' S than he had, and that U they had not been trouble1. e Cas'.ey asked a second tiir.o for i ,hi- pistol and whiskey, and i finally told Skipper that ho iwoul I attend to hi in. IT fore \ 1' >vng, however, C'askev s>id, c s i Mr. Snipes teeliliod, ti it, if i Air Skipper thought th it. was the t v. .j to treat a man, he had notli- 1 iuniosu to nay about the mattor. \ MINOR KNIGHT, \ atliii; (ii-year old, would have niudi a ver \ good witnes , but ho s-ems to have had his hack J turned on the participants and 1 Ta-.W v,oil.in?.i t ho traged y . ' RKNJA.M1N (i HUNT AND ANDllDW t WRIGHT were thw chief eyewitnesses on the part oi the Statu. Their evidence agreed alnioS n-> to details, an' in chief w s that^ S ipp r lu.t ju-t as soon as Mr. ; Barron - of, "Tin re in- is," and that (Ja?d<cy was sitting on the box v.hen fired upon. Neither of those witnesses testified' 11 tlio coronrr'rt inquest o ave evidence in the habeas corpus ' proceedings and only v. ithin the last few week' have hen n known ' in tho case, a:.d give their ? viI donee today for tlu> first time. l They both held that (hishey ! mado no attempt to got up. T? ii ' Mussey, Pin* Massey and Is. M j1 Knight woro also oye \\ itnesses. 1 The Maaseys claim to have - >< n 1 the actual shooting from i.rro s ' the store. The two Masseys 1 weie inclined to give the im ' pression that UaaKey was sitting ' with his head loaning over an if he might ho alseep when fired 1 upon, Mr. Williams was rather so- ' voro in his cross?examination of 1 ) these two witnesses h cause of 1 ; the suddenness and u?\\-t'-riousneaa of their becoming suc'ii important witnesses in th? case at this juncture. OTII13K WITNICSSKS. K. M. Kuight said he hoard nothing hut * . the shooting plainly from where ho was standing. James F. Hunt r, J. II. Knight, W. (I. A. Porter, John C.isKoy, a ml Jumes A.I Knight were introduced to identify tho gun, and a pistol which SKippor borrowed en hia way to the jail after ho hid surrendered ton tho deputy sheriff. There was considerable ado about ud initiiog tho pistol in evidenco, as it figured only aft r tho kill- ' ing, Mr. Knight, who vus u j1 douuty on Factory Hill, testified that ho had warned Skipper to,1 look out for fJtiskoy when they were putting l??m out of the 1 dunce hall. Mr. Knight tcsti- ; fied tnat on tho way to tho jail 1 Skipper had asked Dr. Poovoy /V l * ; lim i -i'.' Former Bi t i,if I] c.; to-uiliod 'i < t ('.i iv' v ! n n .? ? vt ra! Ill': 'tiUi s !i ; : ! ul ?lc rep r .11-. of ?v >rin. :irai?., ntui on : (:' t x ;?ui r.at \ n tes-ti i i . 1 i i 11 i". c I!> ! .for the magistrate aud ?ou ;lo. o -! nr.: i !' f< tr!y ''iir V r - 0(10 >f ill' ' t puthotic 80011" t.f the day was tin: cxotitiiiA* ion of Mi':. Bnip >, ( i ) s'-,t r of 'to tire mi 1. i wn niuii-t ' i'.ou ) j r v l'.y ilril t1 .s: v (bought the wholo difficult^ had ii'i n vi ! 1 in '' : t, rttd h t It r brother x > t<id no utther trouble v. itli Mr. Skip* )ctr ill. ? t : ' i is iii rot < x ;u ct ,o h . hoi. i'lie Bt to failed t (bow ili it C as Key r . ird d oim* ioIf in imminent dangi r of death i tid ill I > evi 1 noo > not ^ubnittmi to the j an . That us to the? (' w t r. 1 the 111 ?. i n ' i . 1 l L* n / * '? ? ' Til* . V. 4 . . V i t ix V . V ; I I i i sounrv 1 in tin: c'in- ii mornniX, and it i-> (:;tn I it ;x(> to hi' jury on P ur d ?r ' tie atest. Mrs. Snip i hi--;'children were attentive listeners * o every vord of tli > <v id * nee A. K. sr.COM> IUVV lUiOCllKl'INOS. Winnsbom, March i.? Tlit sh: i n.'i- ( : ( I <!;:v do\*? lojn <1 so.\ Jitti imo-l interest in i phases iAi.d ltis boon de.'l cl .! hum . beaten .ruck. Mr J (i (.1 mi- one of lio wilnos.-os for tho dofcUNQ, ..u.';X?s.-.t 'it t ho iiild 1 "i.l t'ask v, ,vho w .-i hided, lb i e ninlry folk were i oi wanted (it tho cotton mill mi pirns izo this point, t hat p.lo : nil t:i conn1 r. v. re .,"t v.*.- d l' ; c factory hall fir i xl point t! U i - < the ir.uaI v. it tli :' .11111(i . about tho list (pic:<lion that v. i i : shod on ho cri . exauiinn! l >11 oi ihe rot .0:1 milt wilnasros i n the defense tv u : %i\\ horo did you come :n 01 C The idea cemcd to ho ,0 'u-iri;;- out thai they wore not Torn this State, tad when tho <i Cud ml was nut on the stand his awyi rs called attention to tlie P; et that he had been named Chares 1 to..archilrd Skit per, tho mid die name bcni^ in boiu r of (.Ion [icuurc^ai d, and. one of tiio tii st jue-tionsaskolh.ini t>\ tho State a-: "limy loo^ !?ri\ c* you '.?u( si in the S >uth Mr Skipper was Worn and rais 2.1 in llaltiinoro, and testified that ii ha I ln.cn in ch:irt?t oi the Lune.s'er Mills about nine years. M >>t of die'lti lp tcftlilievi thulthe/ were North Carolinians. Yos< crduy lite Soile nnido out itse.no. Today the d.fenso es Ublishml n chain of threats, and by several very eh. tr witnesses undertook to show that CaMcey was rising from the ben ch and \v..8 iilmo-t erect, an.I li d his luiml under his ov< rcoat pocket, at or near his hip pocket, when Skipper was warned I > look tn his light, and, hell \ing that h > life was in danger, lire 1 upon Cuskoy. Tlio character wilne ses wore moat numerous. Shy rill llunler, who had k:i(inn lii deceased since childhood., testified that he *v:irpiai rolaouio, and of a vi do it doposition, ami had lit repuk ti< n of Wearing ai ma. Chief of Police 1 l' Hunt t swore thai Ca key generally went ut'iuc . t. : v. i t.i' a ipiari el-; nit; disposition. 11 I) Purdue, a police man, and 1 t .. . * ,'/ . -** V ;; v'aulhcn both agree that ;> tk. ) s reputation for bcnriug ;;.iina and for p?aeefulness and i1, bet were bad. l !>l'I.MON\ C I' TWO MAVOUS. i :i m st important character wilnos.sc?, however, wcroMrWad?! v?lii3in>on and Mr. H. K. Wv'.'.o, the former having been tun* or from_li>l?5 to 11)01 and the ! ?t:or holding a -imilur position I'i nil tii.it time to the present. Thcv both ' an.e armed with documents el the Mayor's court ami .ft r Co i>idorable legal ipiibbbug, Kx 1;: . r i limn-on showed that Ir e\ bad been tried by him thu tim is i o three diiFerent ci.iirgv s i'or violation of city ordin mce.-, and Mayor Wylio do\. : , 'd that t'askev had linen I J - uit'l by him (moo for earring coneta d k nick- a,.d for drunkenness tii! for icutting tin ollieer; on Miotln r i;o 'tisioii l'or cursing anil dl.orderly con tuct, and tinally, in Sej 'ember, before I he killing, ho ! a t Icentriid for being drunk and for lighting. I'nd'ir thu rules of evidence the v were not allowed to ic.-ii'y \\ h A disposition wua made of the cases and whether tkoreliad boon ccavicth n or net. The defer.ce~hud quite u string of witnesses who indicated that V r ( a-key had a general rep? n; ition tor earring arms und being dia igrueable. The Slate, in reply,hasprosentod thus far three or four 6uch wit. n;w hut on', of the number only one, IV. Hi s. ,J. Strait made an tind character witness and i 1 th.it Mr. Cuskoy's repu. ! r peace and (piict was {1 lie n id Mr Yancey Wili. ui s) wl. i conducted his crossx mnuuti . had it haid and fast :ot i the urees from which Dr. -i rait drew Mich a conclusion, and lien in rounding up lus attacks Mr Williams wanted to know if Dr. -trait knew that Ctiskoy had been tried three times by Mayor \ ylie and as many times by Mayor Thomson, and then ho asked tlilll if lii? l.liiliu lli.it t'.i ulrni, li'i'l | *? I?vy M lUlll VHOttVz y IKIU been kept in jail for twenty or thirty days as a penalty, that ho had ha 1 a ditlicult) .vith ,1. Hurt Suns, tha' lie hail a row with \V. B. Caulhcn, that he hail struck J. Elliott over tlio head with a I pi-t- 1, that he had threatened to i j cowhide his o\\u unele, and that the uncle had asked for police pro 'taction; that he had handed a pistol I ? Beauregard Conner in one of | his dillieulties; that ho got into a | row with Kuhanks and that Eu1 inks had shot him; that in.Mayor i !i nip-on's Court a pistol had !. en taken from his person; that I ho had shot a negro prisoner. To . ill of thes ?p;cstions Dr. Strait ud that ho had heard nothing of t m, and that ho had been attending to his own ku-incss, and that 'lie had never heard anything i pgain-t the young man who had 1 been killed. Mr .1 I* Nisbei testilied that ho vgard.d Mr Caskey's reputation t'i r pi u e and ipiicl as measurably roi !, and thai lie did not think ho e riled weapons except whilo an oilicsr. u i ! ( layton, the master me.-ni 1 (?f the mill, and (1 B Barr.n, who at one time was a book* k i or :it t lie mill, and who accom l? inied i: : ipper at the timo of the ki!!i . made clear statements. A IJKMAKKALE WITNESS. One of tho very host, ono of tko *