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[be]friend him. The excitement & confusion was
very great, so much so, that it was some time
before, I could any information of the particulars.
Amongst other persons of whom I inquired,
if they saw the transaction was Hopkins
L. Turney, now a Senator in Congress from the
State of Ten. He answered "He had not," but
I was satisfied from his manner, that his statement
was untrue. Handley very soon removed
A. to the Law office of John Gershwin, the friend
& partner of Mr. Campbell, Anderson's brother-in-law.
I found my son, in great pain from his wounds
but in the perfect possession of his mind : He
had, I have no doubt, been decoyed by some person
to me unknown, across the public sqr, to the place
where he was murdered. I always suspected a
man, who in other respects, acted a double party
in the unfortunate difficulties between Thos T. & his
wife's relations but having no positive evidence of
the fact, I will not name him. Thos T. had
been in the town of W., two months after his return
from Florida, but I do not believe that at the place
or near it, where he was murdered, during that
time, he had no business there. Mr. Thos Wilson, occupied
the house, on the N.W. Corner, Mr. Howell, merchant
occupied the next one, South of his. Mr. Campbell, where
A. had stopped, lived on the street immediately N. of
W. Corner, & from his porch, or front door, there was a clear
view, to the front of Wilson's & H. stores so that T.P.T.
being at H's door, a person could by signal, notify A.
who was at C.'s, that his visitor was there. That signal
was given, I have no doubt by Turney. He admitted when
under examination, as a witness, that he had been sitting
at W.'s corner, for an hour, or more. It was a
public day, his office was in a different part of the town
he was not on