Q.  Tell  if  at  any  other  time  3'OU  heard  a  crowd  passing  after
that  'i

Mr.  GIIAIIAM.  I  v/ould  rather  you  would  not  lead  the
witness.
Mr.  BOYDEN.  I  try  to  avoid  it  and  I  make  it  a  rule  not
to  ask  leading  (paestions  in  every  case.
Q.  [By  the  Chief  Justice.]  Go  on  and  tell  what  you  heard?
A.  In  the  night  afterwards  I  heard  some  coming  alont^-back.
Q.  What  time  was  that  ^  A.  It  M^as  before  day  in  the
morning.     I  don't  know  how  long  before  day.
Q.  Were  there  more  of  them  when  they  returned  'i  A.
They  did  not  make  as  much  fuss  when  they  come  back  as  wlien
they  went.
Q.  State  if  you  looked  in  the  road  the  next  morning  and  if
so  what  you  saw  ?  A.  That  was  when  I  looked  the  next  morn-
ing.    They  came  from  Ilillsljoro

Q.  We  will  not  talk  al)out  that  now — that  took  place  after-
wards— you  say  that  on  the  night  Morrow  v/as  hung,  about
liine  or  ten  o'clock  yo:i  heard  ipiite  a  numl)er  of  persons  pas-
sing your  house  on  horseback  ?     A.  Yes,  sir.
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Q.  And  you  tlihik  there  were  twenty-five  or  thirty  ?  A.
Yet^,  sir,  I  heard  them  go  along.
Q.  Tlien  you  say  that  hefore  day  you  heard  a  number  coming
back  into  Alamance — coming  towards  Alamance  'i  A.  Yes,
sir,  I  heard  them  going  and  coming.
Q.  You  heard  them  going  towards  Orange '(  A.  Yes,  sir,
and  coming  out  that  way.
<).  Goiiiii'  from  Alamance  towards  (Jranffc';'     A.   Yes,  sir.
Q.  Did  you  hear  anything  about  a  boy  being  taken  out  of
jail  and  shot  in  Ilillsboro  ?     A.  Yes,  sir.
i}.  Did  ycju  know  him  ?     A.  Yes,  sir.
