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1C1cVaei-letolee.xT?rf-etill%%in)r18to;3.V.• *:etl.}•CL*litftlIt!•ictoV!•1CDeclared Jim Smith)} 1-tVr 'Confederate WaOniy. Sensation of thc Morning Whs When One ipt the Wit; nesses For the Defense, on Cross Examination, Stated That;Jim Smjth Wth Other Men From Oglethorpe County Robbed Confederate Train and Tdak Gobi' From rft^B^fensc Pats Witnesses ;on- Stand.' (Special toThe jHcrald.) i : rMacon, Ga., April. 10.—-The nearing in the, United States court on the Jim Smith ease was resumed bcforcJudge Emory Speer in this city today. Two Tjitpcsjses. ,nrc« .examined who were put;Om the'stand by the defense-to show that James M. Smith was o le: jritimatc sen of Zadoc and Mabry Smith!? -.-..-V i*JlODBEp WAGON/TRAIN.Utile. seHsathm ’developi^ii other than .the :statCTjfent ofi.Uack. ,W. .Anderson, of Wilkes county, who testified: that Sniith i* obtained a large quantity of mqnfcy,jbsrcther’ with sev-eral other men living in the same section. from a confederate waeron train whf?b .they robbed of .its grid.- ... .Anderson stated that - the Know Smith since early boyhood ;and thnt he had known him ever since visit: inghim at his home at Smithonia-onseveral occasions. He-also i testified ‘that Smith claimed '-Mary Jonfes as his half sister and had stated that he intended to build aihoteldt Smithpnia and put her in charge-of Jt. ?AhjiqrsonihowcUar perfect memory and traced the Ufe.o£James'.M.i9mith from-the age of six years to thfctime of his death and stated positively that Jim Smith, ithe bey and James M. Smith the millionairei were one and the same; Attorney Jfb ward the close , of the , cross-examinatmnbrought outlth efact that the witness’s wife and the daughter of-Bobby Smith, one of the chief claimants of the Zadok heirs, were very closely related. A V. •lt;. . -* Mrs. Lon ,T. Estes, next took thestand and testified that she lived'wUh Mrs. Mary Jones, -who she stated was Jim Smith’s half siatej and that-SmUA lecoprnized her as «udu Sne,waa tnfn questioned as to the various relations of:Jim Smith, and testified that on one occasion when Mrs. Wylie Smith, one of the New York claimants, was visiting Jim Smith she statW politive-ly that the w»s not, related to him. A letter Wai . later introduced by the defense in'which Jim Smith‘addressed Mrs. Jones as sisteV’ and the other side came .bach with a letter in the same handwritihef that,waa addressed to' Miss Dora Smith, a daughter of Mrs. Wylie Smith addressing her ascousin.
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Athens Daily Herald
Athens, Georgia, US
Mon, Apr 10, 1916
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