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TIIMVKl 1 TRIAL BK(ilNS Tempoi'in Insanity IMea lor Mail Accused oi I\;llintr Walker. i Xews and Courier. Gree.ville. May is.?Temporary insanity will be a plea of the del" nee in *he case of (I. W. Tidwell, Sr.. on trial I.,?.. +v>,. Me 1>f7? fliarffPfl \vi f h Jcillinir ;!11C AA/4 A. f iN. ? K. Em met i Walker, rn tl:e 12 day of '.ast March. Tidwell. was arraigned vest' rday, in :he gen ral sessions v-our . witli .Judge T. .1. Mauldin. presiding. The State is represented by Solicit r Honhani and tbe l'i'in of Oothra . !>ean & Cothran. The defonce is represented bv Tow.ies, Earle and Price. Testimonv taken *od ty. w;i? var *y corroborative ot the estinu>:)} takou at tne coroners inquest. The manner of the killing was r;?viewe.-.. I Tidwell to k the stand lat in he afternoo.1. and was undergoing a severe cross-examinati n at t.ie hands oi' Sojici or Bonham, when coirt adjourned Mini: tomorrow, when he will resume his story. Tidwell ..id O;' a mne. w.iich caused him to ccnie to Gr eiw "!le, but denied That the writer of the rote had u"ui in j structed to wa.ch his wife a .1 da ugh- ! er. Notwithstanding this fac , the 1 writer sent the no;e to Cheraw where Tidwell was at the time. ! was also shown that the note could not have reached him had i: been nailed a; the lime he said he presumed i was mailed. Several of the jurors v p* v.'.i-n the j mother of the bead boy i :ok t e stand. J Col. Dean had this question pu: o L jurors: "If selected as a juror in this i f case, will you act according to the evidence you hear c.' the s'&na and according to -he law a.-, explained by :he court, uninfluenced by other mo- | tives?" This, it is said, was to head ; off the "unwritten law*' plea. The : jurors are mostly farmers. Eleven of : them are married men \vi h daughters., Ollie Tidwell, the girl whom the defence charges young Walker seduced, : rcok the stand, but her testimony was i cut short when the defence changed i:s procedure and introduced the defendant. Interest in the case is intense here, j as Walker was a member of a prominent family and as iho killing took ! 1 onrtV. i ooncuHr?a 1 marmOT" I j^JidOC ill OH VII U. OVUOU^V'Ui The killing of Walker was the result of the arrest of Tidwell's wife and daughter in an alleged house of disrepute here on March 7. The woman and the two men were in the same room of this house. Tidwell came to Greenville the night after the arresi was made and the following Thursday he went to Carolina Mills, called Walker out and shot him dead. Walk er was unarmed at ;he time. Tidwell, i: is claimed, had endeavered to get Walker to marry his daughter and to J get the other man to marry his wife. 1 Each had refused. Daughter of Tidwell Tells Story of Shame. News and Courier. Greenville, May 19.?Thr^ j hours of severe cross-examination this aft?r- i noon failed :o materially alter the orginal story of Miss Olive Tidwell as ! told to her fatehr on the night'!.e reached here from Cheraw, S. C., ana which three days la er resulted in his 1 " * ' - - J?j-V T-? n? ? snooting to aeaui rv. j&iumcu wain.*-.!, a prominent young man cf this city.' whom the girl alleges caused her ruin.! The girl and her stepmother. Mrs. Isabella Tidwell, were arrested in an . alleged disreputable house on the o-i:skirts of the city "our days before Walker was killed. Miss Tidwell was on the stand during the entire session and despiie the rapid fire of questions hurled at her 1 by Solicitor Bonham, she maintained J an ou: ward demeanor of composure, j crying only upcn one occasion, ana j mat was wueu xier iaiuci s aci-vi uc/ read a letter she received from Emmett Walker. The letter contained words of endearment and was piu in evidence. George W. Tidwell, Sr., the defen-' dant, was kept on he stand throughout the morning session and tJrxis afternoon j his pretty young daugh:er, "OHie*/'' .vent through a cross-examniation | equally as severe as that undergone by j j her father.. She stood the test even better than her fa:her, answering all1 questions in a quiet, timid manner, but ' showing no signs of breaking down. A drooping panama hat partly hid : the features of the pre.ty young girl from the audience oefore her. Excep: j when answering questions f=he hung j her head in quiet grief. Part of the j testimony is of too sordid a nature to ; nTin* otiH if- ua<5 U*"th t>?P STPaieSt I - 1 difficulty the Solicitor drew this infer- ; matioii from the witness. The girl's j father patted her "enderly upon the I shoulder on one occasion when she | was permitted :o eo Jie from the stand , for a brief rest. . George W. Tidwell. Jr., a well-known young man, of Augusta, Ga.. gazed ki..dly up :n his young sister as she de-. clared he" ruin was caused by Walker upon his promise of marriage. , mmai 1 ,.ji .. ? One burner c > flame or higher a hot one. I New Jfe] %S11 means better less cost. soot, no ash( In 1, 2, 3 ai sizes. Also a model?4 bi oil range with ingoven. An venience am Af rloolnre II vl uv^aiv/io tt ii' for catalogue. STANDARD 0 Washington, D. C. (New J< Norfolk, Va. BALTE Richmond, Vs. Beside the young Tidwell sat his s.epmother, and directly in front of him was his gray-haired father watching every move or his a'tornevs and j listening with keen interest to the testimony of his daughter. . It is now predicied that the Trial wall last until Thursday, or possibly Friday. Many witnesses are yet to be heard, among these being Mrs. Isabella Tidwell, the wife of the defen-1 dant. She will probably ;ake the stand early tomorrow. i o DEFENSE RESTS. The Prosecution in The Tidvrell Case j Introduces Five Witnesses. i The S:ate. Greenville, | May 20.?The defense in the case of. the S ate vs. G. W. Tidwoll aomicorl of t'np 7rmrrt#?r nf R Emmett Walker, rested its case this j morning. The prosecution introduced evidence contradicting s:atemen:s i made by the defendant and by his 1 daughter. The evidence was salacious. It told cf sordid acts and dual lives. The State won the right 'o introduce such testimony on the ground that if the reputation of either woman was notorious, the defendant must have known something cii it. And if the l i defendant knew anything of the moral i deliquency of his wife or dau^h-er.' he could not have become suddenly j insanse at the recitation made by his j whpn hp ramp hprp nil i March 7 to investigate her conduct. j The defendant had stated tha: young . Walker, who was prominent socially i and was paymaster at a local mill, had come to 'his hotel room armed and wearing an overcoat. Testimony o: two witnesses who accompanied Mr. Walker refused :his statement. ! The girl -ad testified tha' she was j not iir?'rv:ral with any man other than ; Walker. Another man volunteered hi:-. J I i I mim\ oLj mi. ^M? I IWJL R tr four?low 1 ?a slow fire I j 1 1 1V> K r/?di'on I EHZEEE3*- 1 R-stove cooking at I Jo coal, no | ^o* id 4 burner j l new 1914 v | irner cabinet j j fireless cook- J ; larvel of con- I | i efficiency. I j ere, or write direct IL COMPANY ersey) Charlotte, N. C. MORE Charlestown, W. Va, Charleston, S. C. ^ | <? testimony as to his personal knowledge of her morals. Several new 1 V. . i? names were uruugui m. The defenadn 's statement that he had received a note from a Mrs. Xorris here telling him to come to Greenville was denied today by Mrs. Xorris. She-wrote no note, said she. W. G. Woods, J. P. Bussey, A. M. Rickman, S. M. Brunson, and Mrs. Xorris were the principal witnesses for the State. The arguments will begin tomorrow. The attorneys, are fighting every inch of ground. The case may be given to the jury tomorrow TRAIN LEAVES THE TRACK No One Seriously Hurt In Wreck Above Darlington?Big Engine Turns Turtle. News and Courier. Darington, May 19.?Atlantic Coast Line Train No. 69, Maxcon to Columbia, was wrecked four miles north of nere this afternoon. The engine was derailed and turned tur:le, dragging with it mail and baggage cars and day c^aclies, leaving only ;he Pullman car cn the track. So far as can be learned no one has been seriously injured, although the passenger cars were well filled. The porter seems to have been more seriously hurt than any one else. All o:* t^~ passengers i.i the day coaches were .jre or less severely bruised and scra:ched by their falls. A relief train and wrecking crew were promptly sen: up from Florence, and the passengers were transferred, ana after their wounds had been cared for were sent on to their various destinations. 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