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AM BOZER (ONIC;ED: JOHN C. HIPP ACQUITTED (Continued from page one). his mother's mothei. He said Mr. Hipp unbreeched Mr. Gilliam's gun to see if it was loaded, and it was not loaded, and Mr. Hipp put it back on the rack. Hie said Mr. Hipp told his grandmother to put the sl*lls away. He said at that time his father was in the house lying dowNLi asleep. His father woke up. he said, as soon as .Ir. Hipp w,-nt in and spoke to him, :and he was Hipp went out to ,he shop, where his father wanted to show him a broken plow, and they -hen caie back to the house. and Mr. Hipp told his father not to come out, that the boys would feed, and his fath er said he was going out and feed the .stock. and got the keys and started out. He said he was in the lot, at the trough, looking through a crack, and he desc'ribed the killing as follows: "Papa got the keys and went to go out, and papa says, Hello, Sam, and he says, Mr. Gilliam, don't say hello to me "Q. 'Was that Sam Boozer? "A. Yes, sir; and papa says, Wny7 He says, What in the hell you hone today? Papa says, Nothing. Sam says, Don't you come up to me. And papa stepped up a little further, and Sam stepped back, and Sam raised up- the gun, and papa said, Sam, I won't come to you, and Sam put down his gun, and papa turned around and started to go back to the house, and Sam shot him." He said Sam then took out the empty shell, put in anoth er shell, and went off towards the wood ple and shot t.wice. Mr. Hip-n, he 'said, who was in the yard, but did not see Boozer at the time of the shooting, ran up and saw his father after he was shot and said, "Oh, look here." On cross-examination, he told of the positions of the various parties in the yard, and also of having heard when he got back fi ai school of his father having cut two negro women, Sap Boozer's wife and daughter. He said when his father turned back to wards the house, he walked "pretty peart," like he was going for some thing, and he supposed he was going for' his gun. Col. Johnstone directed a good many ques;tions towards show ing that the young witness' grand mother and grandfather, Mrs. Gil liam's parents, and Mrs. Gilliam, and ,a number of negroes were on the premises. and that most of them were eye-witnesses, and could have been u.sedi as witnesmes. T'. MW. Fellers. Mir. T. M. Fellers, who lived about a half mile from the Gilliam home, said that Sam Boozer's wife and Idaughiter, after their difficulty with Gilliam, came over to. a negro house on the place he lived on, and sent back to their house for a shot'gun. He said -one of the women had a slight cut on her throat and the other a slight cut en her hand. Later Sam came to the house where they were, bringing a gun with him, which looked like a *'brand new gun," a double-barreled rshot gun. He said the women had a double-barreled old shot gun, which he took to be Sam's. He saw Sam go back towards 'his house. ar3 later heard the shooting, and he ran up on the hill from his field and saw Sam leaving. Ife said Sam left th' gun .which .he had at. his (Sam's) house. J. S. Crvucb. M~r. J. S. Crouch, who lived about a "alf mild from the Gilliam home. said "he was in Newberry on the third of March and went 'home on the 2.48 'train. He said he saw Mr. Hipp on the train, and saw Sam Boozer and Amos Boozer board the train at Newberry and get off the train at Old Town. Sam, he said, had a bundle, which was not very large around, but which was longer than it was around. His rec ollection was that the train did not stop at Helena. When Sam Boozer got off at Old Town, fie said, he still bad his bundle. Witness said be car Tied his wife on home, threw his bun dles in the piazza, and then went 'and tried to get a couple men to go up tc Mr. Gilliam.'s with him, on account or what he had heard, but the men re fused to go, saying they had just comt from Mr. Gilliam's at 12 o'clock. TH said he then went on alone, and wber hae was about 300 or 400 yards fron Gillia,n's house the gun fired, and af ter that he heard two more shots. H( ran on to Gilliam's and saw the bod: in the yard, he said. He said Mr. Hip] and Amos Boozer and Aaron Tribbli were standing off about 75 yards, nea: the cotton house, talking, and he wen to Mr. Hipp and asked him what hai happened, and Mr. Hipp told him Sar Boozer had killed Jim Gilliam. H said he asked Mr. Hipp where Sa1 Boozer was, and Mr. Hipp told hir Boozer had gone in the directionc Boozer's house, and nie told H.ipp t come ahead, and he and Hipp went o3 er' there but found the house locke ana Som go.n Hoen ho.b aked M Hipp what was the trouble, "and he said he knew Sam was up to killing Jim Gilliam, and he come up there that evening to take Gilliam off, to persuade him to come back down here at his home place and spend the night." Witness said he "further sak ed him why didn't he protect Mr. Gil liam, knowing that the negro intend ed to kill Mr. Gilliam, and he said that the negro shot him unexpected to him, that he had Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson in a room watching Mr. Gil liam while he was iL a room talking to Mrs. Gilliam, and that was when the shooting took place." He identi fied the shell about which Mr. Frank C. Sligh had testified as one which he had picked up in the yard, and which Gilliam's 'son had to}d him was the shell that killed Gilliam. He said he examined the shot in the house and they seemed to him to be No. 4's. He testified to finding a piece of paper and string in a path near the ne gro burnt church, on a hedge row, about 150 yards from Aaron Trib ble's house. He identified the string and piece of paper, the paper being a tattered portion of a bill-board show advertisement, and he identified . the went to Mr. White's store and got a piece of paper which was a bill-b6ard advertisement, an dhe identified. the paper whichhe got as the piece which had already been introduced in evi dence, about which Mr. White and Mr.' Melton had testified. The witness was put through a rigid cross-examination. He said he found the piece of paper an-. Monday follow ing the killing. He said the two gen tlemen who refused to go with him to Mr. Gilliam's were Mr. T. R. Sanders and Mr. J. S. Werts, who said they had been up there "to sorter see what the little whack-up among the negroes had been, and Mr. Gilliam said he was going to leave, quit and go away from home and never return," and they said that Gilliam wouldn't be there. He said -he wouldn't swear positively the train did not stop at Helena, but that to the best of his recollection it did not. It struck him, he said, that it slowed down a little. He said he wasn't noticing, the train particularly. On re-direct examination, he said he was 'apprehensive from what he had heard, that something was going to happen, and that was the reason he wanted to get some of the neigh bors to go with him to the Gilliam home. J. W. White,,Eecalled. J. W. White, recalled,,said that all the bill-board paper which he bought; for wrapping paper was not of t;he same pattern. He said the piece of paper Crouch testified to having found looked like some of it. With refer ence to the cord Crouch testified to finding, he said he thought he had had some cord like it. Levi Longshore. Mr. Lxvi Longshore testified that he1 came to Newberry on March 3rd and went back on the 2.48 train. He said he saw Hipp come to -the train and saw him give a negro some money and then hand him a paper shell box --he didn't know what was in it-but a box like loaded shells come in. He said he saw a chunky negro standing at the depot with a gun wrap~ped up in two pieces, one under each arm. William Hogg. Mr. William Hogg, who lives at! Chappells, testified that during June of last year he went down to Mr. Gil liam's house to see Mr. Hipp about~ getting some peas and that while there he saw Hipp paying attentions to Mrs. Gilliam. The State closed its testimony in chief With the- evidence of Mr. Hogg. The Defence. The witnesses offered for the de fendant John C. Hipp were first plac ed upon the stand. One of these wit nesses, Mr. D. R. Scurry, has lately recovered from illness, and his state ment in writing was admitted. D. B. Scurry. The statement of Mr. D. R. Scurry was to the effect "that on the third day of March, 1911, he passed the home of James Gilliam, who was killed later on that day, and that Mrs. James Gilliam asked him to tell John C. Hipp. in the town of Newberry, that James Gilliam was crazy and had cut the throat of one negro woman and the hand of another and was threatening to kill Lthe negroes; that the said D. R. Scur ry saw the defendant, John C. Hipp, in the town of Newberry, and deliver ed the message to him only a few minutes before the train on the South ern railroad was due to pass Newber ' ry going to Chappells; that the said t D. R. Scurry did not te)ll the said Johr iC. Hipp what negroes had been cut.' 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