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Interview: Vick Richmond |
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Vick Richmond, witness for the Defendant being first duly sworn, testified as follows in the Circuit Court of Lafayette County during a special December term in 1901. Q: Where were you when Orlandus Lester was first put in jail? A: I was in jail. Q: Did Orlandus Lester made any statement to you about this killing when he was first put in jail? A: Yes sir about a week after he was put in. Q: What did he say? A: The first conversation was he told me about that map he drawed. Q: Did he tell you anything about what he did? A: Not until he told me about the map. Q: Look at that piece of paper and see if you ever saw it before? A: Yes sir he drawed that map I saw it. Q: What is this intended to represent? A: This is Orlandus Lester and that is Mr. Mathis and Mrs. Mathis and the little boy and them is the two officers. Q: Where did you first see it? A: Orlandus Lester had it. Q: Did he tell you who drew it? A: No sir but he is the one I seen it with. Q: Did he explain it to you? A: Yes sir. Q: He pointed himself and Mr. Mathis and the two officers and Mrs. Mathis and the baby out to you did he? A: Yes sir. Q: Put your finger on the figure he said represented himself? A: He said that was him with the gun in his hand and he said this was Mr. Mathis with the lamp — but he said Mr. Mathis was setting on the foot of the bed. Q: What did he say this was in one hand of one of the officers? A: He didn’t say — if he did I don’t recollect. Q: He pointed this out as who? A: Mrs. Mathis and little boy. Q: Did he tell you what part he took in the killing? A: No more than he said this is him in the door with the gun and Mr. Mathis on the foot of the bed with the lamp and the two officers in the bed. Q: Did he tell you what he did with the gun? A: No sir — he didn’t say he shot nary time but he said he had the gun. Q: Did he say Mr. Mathis had anything else in his hand but the lamp? A: No sir.
Q: You say Orlandus Lester didn’t make any statement to you about what part he took in the killing? A: Not until after he drew the map. Q: What did he say then? A: I asked him that I heard he done the killing and he said at first he did but after they brought him up here he come back down there and said he told that Mr. Mathis done it and said he didn’t have anything to do with the killing. Q: Did he tell you whether he did it or not? A: At first he said he did do it and then he said Mr. Mathis done it and he stuck to it then.
Q: He told you Mathis was holding the lamp for him didn’t he? A: He said Mathis was sitting on the bed with the lamp. Q: And then he told you that wasn’t so — that he didn’t do the shooting? A: Yes sir. Q: He told you that Mathis told him to tell that he did the shooting so Mathis could get out and then he would come and get him out didn’t he? A: Yes sir.
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