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Victims
- OFFICER HUGH MONTGOMERY - murdered officer
- SPECIAL DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL JOHN A. MONTGOMERY - murdered
officer
Accused
- BILL JACKSON aka Will - Mathis friend
- ORLANDO LESTER - Mathis tenant, accused murderer
- WILL [W.E.] MATHIS - accused murderer
- WHIT OWENS - Mathis father-in-law
Prosecutors
- HON. W.A. ROANE - Prosecutor
- JAMES STONE, J.C. WILSON, C.L. SIVLEY, U.S. D.A. MONTGOMERY - Assistant
Prosecutors
Defense Attorneys
Jackson
- JUDGE B.T. KIMBROUGH and HON. D.M. KIMBROUGH - Jackson defense attorneys
[appointed], also assisted by J.H. MISE and ___ BROUGH, UM law students
Mathis
- J.H. KIMMONS and J.E. HOLMES - Mathis defense attorneys [appointed]
Lester
- HON. J.W.T. FALKNER and PROF. T.H. SOMERVILLE - Lester defense attorneys
[appointed]
Owens
- JUDGE Z.M. STEPHENS - Owens defense attorney [hired]
Judge
- JUDGE P. H. LOWREY - presiding judge at arraignment, trials
Witnesses
- DR. BRAMLETT and JOHN H. HOPE - trial witnesses re: overheard conversation
between Owens and Lester about naming Owens and identifying the gun
owner.
- OREN BROWN - Mathis surrendered in Dallas, MS to Squire Brown
- GEORGE JACKSON - helped Mathis on the run, Bill Jackson's brother,
trial witness re: Mathis statements about the murders, location of
murder weapons, Montogmery horses
- FIELD DEPUTY MARSHAL Z.T. JOHNSON - trial witness re: Mrs. Mathis
arrest and statements
- GEORGE MASK - owner of the gun used in the murders
- BAXTER CLEVELAND MATHIS - Mathis son
- MRS. CORDIE OWENS MATHIS - Will Mathis wife, Whit Owens daughter,
trial witness
- MR. and MRS. SAMUEL MATHIS - Mathis parents
- DEPUTY U.S. MARSHAL [J.F.] FRANK MATTHEWS - trial witness re: Montgomerys
sent to arrest Mathis
- REV. MR. MILLS - trial witness re: Mathis letters from jail
- JAILOR TOM [T.D.] RAGLAND - trial witness re: Mathis letters while
in jail
- ? ROBUCK - Mathis neighbor, discovered burning house, bodies
- DR. P.W. ROWLAND - performed Montgomery autopsies, trial witness
re: severed limbs
- MRS. JENNIE STANDIFER - New Orleans Picayune correspondent, trial
witness re: jailhouse statements of Mathis, Lester
- DR TURNER - Coroner
- SHELL VINES - trial witness re: Mathis alibi request
- DAN WELCH - Mathis neighbor, discovered burning house, bodies
- MRS. DAN WELCH - trial witness re: hearing gunshots, seeing burning
house
- EDGAR WELCH - Mathis neighbor, trial witness re: Bill Jackson's
presence at the Mathis residence the night of the murder.
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