The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 01, 1921, Image 7
HICHAM AND WITH TESTIFY
Former <}<*? Into Movements on Date
of Killings In Ureal Ifc*ail.
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Florence. k> <'? Muivh SOllu?
Kdmund H. Bigham, defendant in
<uu. ot the most sensational cas** ever
,,-Uul in this stute, in which ho Is
eharged with murder In connection
vfUU the deaths of his brother Smiley
?uul fOUl' other mnirlur, Of l*l? family,
WCUi on the stand in bis own defense
late today.
1? receding Win on tho stand at the
afternoon session were his wife and
his 14-year-old daughter. lionise,
testimony of tho members of tho 111k
ham family, wliich had fceen expected
to come today, drew an oven target
crowd of spectators than had marked
previous sessions of the trial. ,
Mrs Blghato told In much detail
the story of the happenings lit the
Highani home on January 10. the day
of the tragedy, in which Mid M, M.
lilghftra, the defendant's mother; Mrs
Margie Black, his slater; L. Smiley
IMgham, a brother and I.eo and John
McCracken, adopted children of airs.
Black, vrero the victims?. She gave
her testimony as if reading from ft
notebook and even under cross-exam*
i nation by Solicitor Casque showed no
.signs of nervousness.
Louise ' Blgham, the young daugh
ter, also told a story that duplicated;
that <>f her mother's except in minor i
details. Ht'r memory- ' fa Med in some
details vitally affecting her father's
defense. 'When called upon to recog
nize Detective Klchelberger and say
whether site had made^cortain state-1
meats to him. she disowned ever hav
lug seen the detective.
Edmund Highani gave a detailed
-lory of his actions from January 8
to the time of the death of his relatives
lie spoke in a clear voice and appear
ed to have an excellent memory for
details. The continuity of liis stony
was broken, ^however. when he reached
the cross-examination stage and when
:i question ennic up tbat was not easily
ynswered. lie would lean toward Solici
tor (Basque, isklng him to "hold on a
i n i i) nte." or "just wait."
When h/* described the finding of
liis brother's body. Bigbam showed
the first sign of feeling, breaking
into sobs, and It 'was several min
utes before, he could coutimie, Tho
witness again broke Into sobs when
refused record. He declared that of
t is sister and the McCracken children.
Hlgham made a stateineut concern
ing the financial uf fairs of the family
trlllng of loans he bad made and de
e la ring- he never bad received any
share Im his father's estate. The
fr.mlly owed him, lie said, something
?J ko $28,000 and he had given them ?
mortgage covering the difference be
twee* that amount a?d $47,000, the
ajnonat tamed lu the face of tjhie deed
made to him by the .rest of the
It this deed, he said, Ws wife
scnght to record the day ho was placed
io Jail.
On crass examination Blgham was
asked why he had 'kept this derfd In
his pottiessdon after It had heea
F( fused record, lie declared that
Monroe Spears, of Darlington, hud told
him to keep the deed, hut admitted
Mr. Spears never ha^l seen the paper.
"Dida't he tell you to destroy that
deed Or it woukl break your neck?''
shouted the solicitor.
"No, he didn't" replied the witness,
" if ho had I wonW have done it."
The rqply caused a roar of laugh
ter in the courtroom and resulted In
?IiuIrp Mcmminger declaring u recess
until fl o'clock tonight.
With srtiblng voice, the defendant
i old of how he had seen his mother
Maggruing In the yard, her face
covered with blood, lie hud just re
furned from a short trip to Robert
1 'ox worth to see him about hauling
?dine wood. When he had left the
house with his family, he said, be had
-eon Smltey. his brother, standing near
?ome boo hives.
"The iust time I saw Smiley was
sight there," he said, "as I came at
I lio top of the red hill, I >aw Smiley,
hU hand in front of him, going across
tin- road. A.bout sixty yards from the
house. I saw mother.**
Inscribing incidents about the house
i he morning ufter the tragedy, Blgham
?v.iid that Mhortly ufter daylight be
?"?prned the blinds and then went out
(" the lot witb Mr. Flowers. "lie says
I gave him a pistol; 1 take his word
f"r it, for I don't know. Between me
inri my (Jod, I never went out of fbat
vard from that time till Sunday night.
I don't remcmt>er telling the searchers
' l>?- direction to take to find Smiley'u
^?dy. 1 did tell th?* direction I had
-?*en him going."
Ilnm "ajives, b witness for t hp de- \
T> nso. testified today to finding
'racks which ho believed to have been
by Smiley Blgham tending in
the direction towards the woods where
Smilcy's body was found. He had fol
i>?wed thene track** t?y the prints of
heel tarkx which, he mid, matched the
?h fount! on the dead man's body.
Maynes terrified be had found a
?a?h stand in Edmund'* room forced
open and erpi rwfd belief Smiley bad
taken a pearl handle p1?t<* from it.
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Alex MOVhlte anT 10 A. Illuds J
also testified to seeing the trucks dt?
snilKMl by llaym?s, tut the 1 a 1 1 v ** ad
mitted the footprints would not have* j
shown If Smiley had icouo'tfr the woods
by (He rout? l?y lOdmund.
Ju?epli Hyman, a mother witness
testified he heard a allot In (ho di
lution in which Smiley Hicham'*) luuly
was found, at 7 or 8 o'clock the night
ls/fore tho IxKly was discovered. tCd
inuud IligUaut was with him when he
heard the shot, ho said, and ho had
advised the,, aoarchers to go in the
dlnvtlou from which he heard the
shot. H. H. Williams iJkQ testified to
having heard this shot.
H. J,. Hassen swoiv that Smiley
Itlghani had told him he "was broke
and would rather he dead than like
be was.
Mrs. 'May Itlgham, wife of til? de
fendant, took the stand this after
noon and told the story of the day
qf the tragedy. She said her husband
and his brother Smiley had gone into
the wood and did not come buck for
dinner. When Edmund came home.
Mho said, he ate miuI dressed - and the
filthily started to I'u medico in an auto
mobile.
On the way back home, the witness
said, they saw Smiley crossing the
road towards the woods and the elder
Mrs. Itighaiu coming from the house.
She said lCdmund threw his arms
around about his mother and took her
buck to the house, and that Mr. Uar*
ri?wn agisted liliu in earrying inn
IhkI> and that of the little boy into
the house.
Mrs. Itigham swore her husbund did
not leave the house the night afUr
I ho killing. She Identified the pearl
ha lulled revolver as belonging to her
hU!>*band and testified that, so far as
she Knew, it wus in a drawer on the
day of the kLlliug.
Testifying about the deeds to the
Itighum property, the witness said
when she took the deed from the
clerk of the court she hid it in an
outhouse near P$iuplioo and It WW
her IdU'itUoit to try to Iuhh> the
deed. , She found the will of Mr?.
Itluok, one of those killed, she said
iift?M' the tragedy and hud given It
to Attorney Kin#. She uIm> admitted
sill' had slip)>ed a hot tie of chloroform
to her husband while he was in jail,
I#ut said she had no idea lie wanted to
roni in i I sulfide.
On cross examination Mrs. Britain
Mild her husband did not leave the
premises While aUv was preparing
breakfast the morning after the tra
gedy. She denied that her hushand
abused his mother and sister on .lanu
iiry 8. as testified to by states witness
es. Mrs. Black had left the house and
gone to Mrs. Klrtou'tt. she 4a Id, but
she did not know when Mrs. Hlgliuut
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