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HARRY COLEMAN CASE RESULTS IN MISTRIAL. (Continued from page 2) Coleman at home. Been up there about one-half hour when I heard a shot. It was about 7 o'clock, but won't say for certain. Heard shot and located it as being in direction of Uncle Beb's. Got up aand went to the door. I thought it might be fire. Harry came in, it might have been one-half hour later. Was in his usual manner. Played with the children. Said he had not come by the house. Ate supper. Stayed at Cook's a good while after Harry came in. Harry invited the Cook children. I said Uncle Bob would be glad to have them. Mrs. Cook was not there. Oldest boy and Mrs. Cook were in Spartanburg. ^ Smith, Beulah finH f ho f U/A liftlo rri rla wo*>n fhowa Wt?V> V11V V?? V ICVVIV 5?k?0 TT VI V VIIVlVi I insisted on them going too. All came along to house together to footlog across the creek. Children passed on ahead. The little girls went in first. I followed with lantern. I saw Uncle Bob in a pool oi blood. I said, "Catch me, I'm fainting." I hollered out, "O Lord, somebody has killed Uncle Bob." We all thought he was dead. Hariw said the gun was in the shop. Harry and Smith ran after the gun; came bacl< to where we were at the creek. Gur had been in shop nearly two weeks. Uncle Bob carried it there. He told me he had to do some work on it. We went up to Mrs. Cook's house. 1 told them not to leave us by ourselves. Harry said he would stay All were crying. Harry put his arms around my neck and said, "I have neither father nor mother to looV to." He loved little children. Harry was crying. I was at Mrs. Cook's when Harry went to Mr. CricV Horn's. Harry pulled off his shoes and dried his feet an dthe shoes. Put shoes on again in a few minutes. 1 was not at Uncle Bob's again that night. I said to Beulah Cook, "Have you an ywhiskey?" She said, "No.' I then asked Harry. He said he hac some but Smith had it. I wanted whiskey to quiet my nerves. I had been terribly shocked. Saw Harry at Mrs. Cook's early next morning. He came to breakfast. Told us to gel breakfast for the sheriff and two 01 three others. Harry looked sad nexl morning. I know of no reason whj Harr yshould have killed his father Harry got pretty much what he wanted. Gun was- put beside the little bureau. Saw no attempt to conceal it. Gun remained there till Mr. Norman took it away. Cross examined by State: Harrj was sometimes quarrelsome with me, Know nothing about Harry's gambling. Know nothing about his runnnig with negroes and gambling with them. I had a difficulty with a negro fit-1. She knocked me down; Fostei hompson's girl. I told Uncle Bob; it'made him mad. Heard Uncle Bob say nothing as to it. This was last summer. Uncle Bob made the girl's father whip her. Smith f!Ank nayf -txrifnoaa oalliu). I went into living room with Harrj that night. Harry gave ine a halfpint of whiskey and told me to put it away. Miss Beulah Cook next called, and being sworn, testified: Daughter of Mrs. R. S. Cook. Live about 25(1 yards from Coleman house. Day Mr. Coleman was killed my mother and oldest brother were in Spartanburg. Miss Lizzie Coleman came down to our house that evening, one-half hour after she came we heard gun shot in direction of Mr. Robt. Coleman's. Miss Lizzie went to door, also Smith, and looked out. Miss Lizzie was uneasy about fire. Harry came in onehalf hour after gun shot was heard, as teasing my little sister, who is about nine years of age. Gave her chewing gum. Said, "If you don't love me I won't give you any chewing gum. Harry invited us all to go home with him and spend the night. Nothing unusual in this. Miss Lizzie also joined in the invitation. All went together. Two little girls in first, Miss Lizzie carried a lantern and went in behind them. She screamed and said, "Somebody's kill eu uncie hod. She said, "Catch me, I'm fainting." We took her to the branch and bathed her face. On way to house we were all crying. Smith went after Mr. Eleazer Mabry. Harry and Smith went back to Mr. Coleman's. Harry pulled off his shoes, and dried them before the fire when he came back. We had been living on Mr. Coleman's place about three weeks; lived near him several years. Never heard of a dispute between Harry and his father. Saw Harry Thursday afternoon. I'd been over to Mr. Horn's and met him. He was going in the direction of Jonesville. It was after 4 o'clock. Saw him that nitfht at our house, about 8 o'clock I guess. v^ross examined by state: Harry put on brother's shoes when he took off his shoes to dry his feet. Heard nothing until Harry opened the door. Harry asked three times for us to go down and-spend the nifjrht. (Witness here endorsed her testimony at coroner's inquest). Next was read an affidavit given by Hosea Webber J. G. Coleman next sworn, and testified as follows: Robt. Coleman my uncle, Harry is my first cousin. Saw Harry at Jonesville day Robt. Coleman was killed. He, I and Hosea Webber were together at oil mill. Hosea Webber left us there. This was about 6:30 o'clock. While here we got idc worth of liquor, one-half pint bottle nearly full. We all took a drink. We went to B. Frees corner and Harry went on down big road; this was 10 or 15 minutes after we left Mr. Webber. From this point to Mr. Coleman's house is about three miles; same to Mrs. Cook's. Takes 51 minutes to walk this distance to Mrs. Cook's, I did this. Could not make it as quick at night as in day. Dark night that Mr. Coleman was killed. Have known Harry all his life. Never heard of any fuss of any kind between Harry and his father. Harry has always been a kind-hearted boy?one that loves children. Cross examination: Oil .mill closes at 6 o'clock. It had closed when I was talking to Harry. Had been I ROYAL Baking Pc is the great* time helps t and biscuit i home ha kin' profitable, food more i guarantees alum and e I i ; closed 10 or 15 minutes. Know I nothing about Harry's gambling; have played seven-up with him. Did [ not look at watch. Nothing unusual with Harry, was sober. Robert Smith, colored, next called and testified as follows: Saw Har' rv Coleman on evening his father was : snot. It was at Ed Smith's restau rant just above the depot. It was ' after 6 6'clock. Saw no difference in ^ him; like always. Was about 6:30 i o'clock I guess. t Cross examined: Thought it was 6:30 because sun was down. I farm t Have known Mr. Harry Coleman. ! Never gambled with him. Have took ' a drink with him. I plays for fun. I Never saw Harry play with anybody; I never saw Harry drunk. 1 Richard Foster, colored, next t sworn, testified as follows: Live in s Jonesville on road to Gilead, one; half mile, betwixt Gilead and Jones ville. Was at home evening Mr. ; n-ooen v,oieman was killed. Harry r Coleman came there that evening. . Mr. Harry was there 15 minutes to i 7 o'clock?stayed about 10 minutes. . His manner same as usual; carried . on fun with baby. Asked about the , harp. Harry did not seem to be mad. Smoked a cigarette while there. I ' looked at the clock because I was , looking for the harp. Don't know . which way he went. Cross examined by the State, tesi tified: Luther Davis the man who > summoned me. Harry was always stopping by there. Was playing with ; baby who is three years old. Have ? played skin, but never with Harry. ; C. C. Alexander, sworn and testii tied as follows: Uncle by marriage to Harry Coleman. I married his > aunt. Knew Harry and his father r well. ' Lived in house with Robert . Coleman. Did not attend the burial , of Harry's mother. I was at the house before she died. Harry is re, puted to be averse to looking upon [ the face of the dead. Harry is n ( kind-hearted boy. Never knew of his having any trouble with his fath; er. He was obedient to his father. (Cross examined by State): Never heard anv one sav Harrw won ouoron ' I to looking upon t^e face of the dead. My wife said that when Harry's 1 mother was dying he would not look ' upon her face. ' W. J. Haile, being sworn, testified: Am a shoe retailer. Sold shoes in Union for 17 years, am a merchant of Union. (Here given shoes already | offered in evidence and claimed to be from Harry Coleman's feet). We ' have more trouble with these welt shoes than with any others. The welts often burst that way. This ! shoe is the predominating style now worn. This is a usual size, more of 7% to 9 sold than any other. Would ' fie more people than any other. Cross examination by State: One sole is just as liable to crack as the other. The condition of this shoe is no unusual thing. The shoes shape ' to the feet of the wearer. It would be an uncommon thing to find two shoes worn by different people shaped just exactly alike. I have been taking interest in this case because I was a great friend o fhis father. I went to see the boy for the reason that I feel sorry for one in trouble. Affdavits here presented as to what witnesses would testify if they were present. One from Mrs. Alexander in which she stated that Harry would not look upon the face of a human after death; and that the coffin of Harry's mother was not opened at the grave. Harry Coleman on the Stand. Harry Coleman, the defendant, was next nut nn tho otomi _ r v.. V?.v tfVMiiu* lie UCU . As son of Robert Coleman. Mother died three or four years ago. Since then, Miss Lizzie Coleman has been living with us, keeping house. I know nothing as to who killed father. I would not have hurt a hair of his head. We never had a quarrel of any kind?never disobeyed my father, never talked back to him a time in my life. I had two bales of cotton, holding for it to go up. Some days ago, a week before, he told me I had as well go ahead and sell. I went on i my own cause that morning. Sold it to Mr. Free. Paid Mr. Free guano and store account, and left me $7 or $8. I had no cause to be hard up. I owe Mr. Free a small account and another small account. Not over $10 1 required to settle all my accounts in i Jonesville today. I drank, but made no special habit to drink. I never was to say drunk but once, that was when I was a boy. I gambled some times: l have bad habits like other boys nave. When I would carry whis- ' key home I never let father see it; and then only a little to give Lizzie to make camphor with. I was at home up to the evening of day father i was shot. I had a cold. Went to 1 Jonesville; on way met Beulah Cook, i Came back from Jonesville by Mrs. i Cook's. My father and Miss Lizzie ; were at Cooks that evening. On Friday I went to Jonesville. Sold cot- ' ton to Mr. Free, then went to Henry 1 i > , I iwder sst of moderno perfect cake staking. Makes g pleasant and It renders the digestible and r _ r _ ii sare rrom til adulterants. Hames, then to Mr. Bo wen's, where I stayed most of the day. Began to rain early and rained till 4 o'clock. Played slot machine. Went from Mr. Bowen's to Gilmore's shop and got a hair cut and shave. Went with Robt. Smith, Tom Coleman and Hosea Webber. We got one-half pint of whiskey in a pint bottle and we drank some of it, me and Tom Coleman. Went to Richard Foster's home. Stayed there a few minutes. I owed Richard $2. Stayed about ten minutes. It was 6:30 o'clock when I came out of restaurant. I stayed aobut 10 minutes more. It was right at 7 o'clock when I was at Richard's home. Went on down toward Gilead. nf rj T nil J rv 1 ev uu uuii^ iicur uucau. uaK irees separated Ed Long and me. I went on by Wilson Tally's, saw a light in Wilson Tally's?saw no one. I went to Mr. Cook's by Crick Horn's house; road 30 yards from Mr. Crick Horn's. Turned from road into a path through the pines that goes right up to Mrs. Cook's. Got to Mrs. Cook's about 8 o'clock. I had some chewing gum. I gave all some gum except one little girl. I said, "do you love me?" she said, "No I don't." Then I said, "I'll not give you no gum." Afterwards I gave her some. I gave Smith a bottle of whiskey. He took a small drink. We stayed about the house about an hour and then went on to my house. Heard a gun shot. They told me they heard one shot down toward home. I invited the Cook's to go down and spend the night. I asked them but no more than usual. Their mother and older brother were away from home. Little girls opened the door. Lizzie next;<8he hollered, "Oh Lord, somebody has killed Uncle Bob." I thought, father was dead. Beulah told me to go to get somebody. Smith said he wanted the gun. We ran to the shop to get it. Shop was not locked. Sometimes me or father would leave the shop unlocked, or locked. I had my keys in my pocket. Mr. Harris took my keys; (ones in court this morning). When we got the gun we ran back. I heard a noise; I threw up? the gun and threatened to shoot. We then went on to branch the other side of house, and went on to Cook's. The girls did not want to be left alone. Smith went after Mr. Mabry and carried his own gun. My gun was left in Cook's house. I cried some. Was so shocked I did not know what I was doing. Told the little girls to go and lay down. I put my arms around Lizzie's neck and said, "Hush, you know I have not neither father nor mother now." Went down to house with Mr. Mabry and then Mr. Ed Mabry said, "Uncle Bob is dead." Eleazer Mabry said "No, he is still alive." I put up the doctor's horse and then left. Could not bear to see father dead. Did not see my dead mother's face. Loved my father and mother as well as a boy could. I told Smith Cook I could not stand to see them working with father. Smith and I went up and put Smith's mule up, then we went to Mr. Horn's to get him to rr*_n__ a ** ^ ^ .icuu it naun xitny 10 air. u. u. Alexander's with a note. We did not go straight back but went to look for tracks where we heard the noise. Went through pasture instead of the road because it was a nearer way and a better way. Went on back to house and I told Smith to see if they still working with father; he said they were. We went on for I could not bear to look at father. Went back to Cook's. I pulled off my shoes and dried them?my feet got wet going to Horn's; had been sick day before. Set shoes before fire. When they were dry put them back on. Doctors had gone when I got, home next time. Mr. Fant had come. I was cold while we were waiting for the doctors. Asked Mr. Mabry if he thought we should heat water and have it ready for use when they came. I could think of nothing; did not want to talk. When one loses the best friend they have got they can't talk,. I told Mr Vu nf I Korl nA JiJ iL . u..v . ->UU iiu juru VVIIU UIU me deed, for I knew of no one who had anything against father. Mr. Fant and Mr. Norman asked me if there had been any trouble. I told them nothing worth mentioning. I did not think those negroes had done it. Pa had told Foster Thomson to stay off the place. Mr. Ed Long and I lay down about 3 or 4 oclock; I took a little nap; got up about 6 o'clock; went and fed and went up to Mrs. Cook's to tell them to get breakfast. Ate a little breakfast. Ed Long went up with me. Mr. Crick Horn came just after we ate breakfast. Mr. \t <> k .... j <<i"? ? - *- - " " o?ij naiu, uuys, ne is aying." I did not hear him say it. If Mr. Mabry said, "Boys, he is dying," I did not hear him say it. I saw them tracking the tracks and would have gone with them but Ed Long and I stayed with father. The blood hounds came about 10 o'clock, I saw them. When I was asked to go up in the woods, Mr. Fant and Mr. Norman took two dogs tried; said they want ed to see everybody who lived in the house. Mr. Fant told me to go up in the woods. I thought they wanted to have some fun. I had no suspicion that I was suspected. Mr. Fant told me to climb a tree. They blew the horn and put the dogs on my track like I would the dogs on a rabbit's track. Bobbins said, when the dogs treed me, "The best thing you can do my lad, is to own up.' Said Mr. Fant would be lighter on me. I was told by another I had better skip. Mr. Norman came and said, "Let us walk up the road." We walked up to Ed Mabry's line; heard automobile coming. He said, "Get in the automobile." I did not know what he wanted but got in. They got gasoline and went through and then I realized that I was under arrest. Up ;o the time I was arrested from the time I went over to Mr. Horn's I did not leave the place, nor go to Mr. Park's pasture. Know nothing about tracks covered up over there. 1 carried gun to shop; saw some crows after a hawk and shot at crows twice. Put gun in shop. Father said leave it there, he wanted to put a pin in it to tighten it. This was a week, maybe two. before the night of the killing. Don't know if gun was shot any more, nor anything about lead coming out of shop. Father melted lead and babit in the shop. This wad here was cut with knife. We have a wad cutter at home. Use 1 1 1 1 -1 11 - 1--i ?.ou tuvici auu IUUUCU KIICUS lHSb time two years ago. Last Thanksgiving I got the wad cutter and other gun tools and started to Lockhart to practice shooting, but afterwards did not go. We live two miles from river, one mile from Jump and Run creek. Good many white and black fish. Father and everybody else made lead sinkers. Know nothing about pieces of lead. Saw some pieces that night but did not know what it was, Said no attention. Three miles from onesville to my house. We all thought father was dead. Last conversation I had with father was Friday morning. He told me he wanted to have wood cut between the new and old roads. Never have said anything to anybody that would lead them to say that I acknowledged guilt. I got everything that I asked for. Had charge of everything and could do as I pleased. Had no reason to hurt a hair of father's head. Twenty-eight years old next October and never was in court house before. Here shoes offered in evidence as being his own). Did not go across pasture to Mrs. Cook's house. I would have gone up by stable and up ' oad. I went to Mrs. Cook's house several times next morning. All this was before the bloodhounds came. Each time came an went the road. When we went to Mr. Horn's house we crossed the tracks and crossed the pasture and Irsih potato patch. These same shoes I wore all the time. Same shoes I had on when I came to jail. Cross examined by State: I wore these shoes to and from Mr. Horn'3. Pulled off shoes to dry; borrowed shoes and put them on. Smith took a Run. In shop not since I had put gun there. I have loaded no shelis. < JJon't know anything about it. I left Jonesville 6:30 o'clock. It was after dark when I left Jonesville to go home. Had been in Jonesville sipce morning. I was just commonly doing this. I met Ed Long, we were about 8 or 10 feet apart, oak trees between us. I employed counsel on Monday. Told them a day or two later that blood hounds had been set on my track. Did not gamble with negroes. Smith, Richard Foster nor Tom Coleman. Me and Tom Coleman played for fun. I knew they were tracking me the next morning. They followed the dogs and the man followed; there had been a dozen men around this way that morning. Never had experience with blood hounds, but all other kind of hounds. I saw the dogs were not going over my track. I came out into road at cotton house, thence to Mrs. Cooks. So far as I know, I'm the only man who went up that way until Norman and Littlejohn went up. It was wet, but rained no more that night. Don't know which way Fant, Littlejohn, Mabry and other went tracking. Never sent anybody to do anything. I got Mr. Kendrick to look after my affairs. He's got my note for $200 to see after things. I've had no one to go in search of tracks. Grieved and shocked at death of father. When dogs came I did not go to track the tracks; this was while the men were gone, before the dogs came. I can offer no information as to who killed father. I did not go up road nor in field nor anywhere to hunt tracks. Made no effort to help officers. Noise we heard was in the bushes and a few big trees. Sound- | ed like some one running. Could see nothing. Noise scared me. I thought it might be the man who did the , shootnig. I was at Cook's about one hour. It was about \Vz hours from time I got to Cook's till I heard the noise. Never saw Wilson Tally that day or that night. Went to Mrs. Cook's because I commonly went 1 there?no other motive took me there. I went to door and looked in?did not kv hi?muugm iamer was dead. I told Smith Cook to shut the door. Examined by attorney for defense . again: I wanted a pair of shoes ( while mine were drying because I respected the ladies. My attorneys sent to me, I did not send for them. Mr. Alexander, my uncle, sent you. 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