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WAS CONVICTRD ON HIS OWN CONFESSION. ELIJAH EDWARDS WILL GO TO THE PENITENTIARY FOR LIFE. He Said He Stood Out and Watched While Three Other Negroes Killed J. Butler Kinard. Guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court, was the verdict returned by the jury in tbe Elijah Edwards case last Tuesday evening. Edwards was placed on trial for the murder, during June of last year, of J. Butler Kinird, an aged white man living alone on Mr. H. H. Evans' place, about four and a half uiles from the city. The occurrence is fresh in the minds of the people of this county. On the night of the 21st of June, last year, Kinard was killed and his home burned to conceal the crime. After three coroners' inquests the charge of having committed the crine was placed on Edwards, and Edwards in a confession subsequently made, implicated Tom Gary, Isaiah San ders and Greenwood Washington, all negroes. Edwards left after the second inquest, but was captured recently in Florida by Sheriff Bu ford. A severance was granted in .he case against the four negroes, and Edwards was' placed on trial Tues day afternoon at three o'clock. The case was given to the jury at about six o'clock, and after being out only a few moments, the above verdict was returned. 'rhere was very little evidence in the case other than Edwards' own confession, taken while he was in jail during June of this year, shortly after his capture. In this confes sion Edwards implicated the three other negroes. and it was mainly on account of this confession that the severance in the case was granted. Judge Haynesworth held that the confession could be used only against Edwards, and during the progress of his case the other jurors were excluded from the room and they were- stood aside when called on the case of tL - three other negroes next day. J. B. Hunter was appointed by the court to defend Edwardls. The defense produced no evidence. THF T1-STIMO0NY. J. WN. 1)errick, sworn, who lived near Kinard went to Kinard's house the morning after it was burned. Looking around he saw two bones sticking Up) out of the ashes. Took the body out. The shoulders and legs were burned off. It was lying in the chimney. He took it to b)e Kinard. Cross-exam ined, lie could not recognize the body with any degree of certainty. M. M. Bluford, sheriff, sworn, said he h ad Edwards arrested in Florid a and went after him the latter part of June of this year. Clerk of Court John C. Goggans, sworn, said at the invitation of Sheriff Ba-fordi he went to the jail to take a statement from Edwards, and that the statement was made freely and voluntarily. Witness identi fined the statement. Objection was made by Mr. Hunter to the introduction of the statement, on the ground that Ed wards had made the confession b)efore it was taken b)y Mr. Goggans and that this former confession might have beeni under duress. Sheriff Buford, replaced, said that Edwards, while handcuffed and shackled, on the train return ing from Florida, had confessed. That lhe had told Edwards nothing except that his best p)lan always was to tell the truth. Mr. H-uter argued that this state ment from a sheriff to an ignior ant negro handcuffed and shackled might have been considered by the negro a threat, and lie thought this suf fic ient to exclu1de the confessin. The objection was overruled by Judge Haynesworth, and the con fession was admitted, as follows: CONFESSION OF HLIJAH EDWARDS. Me and Isaiah Sanders, Tom Gary and Greenwood Washington were there. They made the plan and squeezed me into it. I stood out and watched and they killed Mr. J. Butler Kinard and burned the house. Killed him to get his money. They got $20. Twenty dollars is all I saw. All in silver. Greenwood Washington and Toni Gary had the money. When they brought out the money we, all ot us, went down the road and divided the money and went home. It was about 12 o'clock. Divided the nioney by moonlight. Killed Mr. Kinard with a double barrel shot gun, belong to Greenwood Wash ington. Greenwood and Tom pro posed the killing about one week before the killing. Gave the two watches to Isaiah, which he was to sell. I do not know that he sold them. Shot Mr. Kinard only once. Greenwood woke Mr. Kinard up and he opened the door. Set fire to the shucks in the back side of the room. Greenwood and Toni and Isaiah said lie had money. I did not think lie had any money or lie would have saved his place. We met at the forks of the road near where Greenwood used to live. We agreed to meet there in the road. They met me there a little before midnight. Greenwood and Toni first made the suggestion to kill him. They told mie I had better go off and gave me $5.oo a piece to help me off. I came here to town to see Greenwood and Tom and Isaiah at Toni's house. We were on the Evans place when Greenwood first mentioned killing. This was about a week before the killing, maybe a little more than a week. Isaiah Sanders stayed at my house the night of the killing. Greenwood told ime I had better leave, told ie they would either send me to peniteitiary for life or hang me. Greenwood brought the gun, it was a double barrel mizzle loader. Toni told me that they locked the door on the inside, put a hand through a hole and locked it. Isaiah told ie that Tom was going to lay it all on me and him. They told mie tile)' locked the door on the inside. They gave ime $5.oo for my part, only got S20 in all. Tom throwed the match in the shucks. Greenwood said lie had mioney to raise to pay on a wagon. The above is a full and true state mient anid I make this statement freely aiid voluntarily and without any comp)ulsionl, dread or fear of any one. his Elijah Edwards, X mark. ISworn to before me this 29th Junte, 1903. J. C. Goggans, (L. S.) While the above wvritten state mencit seems to have been sworn to vet there was no0 oath admilinistered anid Elijall Edwards was not swo'rn, but the statement was read over to him and lie wvas asked if this was his confession and lhe said ves and theln mde his mark. J. C. Goggans. XM .11 Spearmnan and his wife, col oredh, were placed on the stand and testified that they lived in the house which Edwards occup)iedl last year and that the wife had found two gold wvatchies in the house. That the watches had been turnied over to the sheriff. ShierifT Buiford, replaced, identi fied the watches. It was agreed that if Eduard Scholtz were plresent lhe would tes tify that lhe had repaired the gold open-face wvatch, one of those in evidenlce, for J. Butler Kinard. The State theni closed. The dlefenlse produced 1no evi THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE Solicitor e opelne I'r- ti-e State. He imde a clear a: d log:_ cal speech, askiig for a verdict of guilty. 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