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persons, who witnessed any part of the transaction.
Altho' Thos. was excusable at least, in what
his did, it was very difficult, to make the proof
and even, if it had been entirely convenient &
the witnesses had been in court, I would not
have produced them. I objected & protested against
all such incompetant evidence. It was all, the
state concluded.
Amongst other witnesses, called by the defense
before the examining court, was ___ the same
who made a ridiculous figure on the
trial of Judge Williams. He swore that on the
night of the day of the July term of the Circuit
Court, in 1829, he could not he said be mistaken
in the day, for it was on the night of
the day, that a suit of __ is __ (giving the
norms of the parties Thos. T. [?cted] him to his
room, for the purpose, as he said of employing him
as one of his counsel, in the suit brought in
the Chancery Court, at Mt. Minnville by Mr. Campbell,
& others as heirs of Caroline Taul, to set aside
the deed for the Nashville Lot -; that they
had a lenghthy conversation about the Case
that Thos. T. complained in strong terms about
the manner in which he had been treated by
Mr C. Colo. Anderson & others, & said he could
not die contended without killing them (C & A. & he thot Dr. Wallace Estill) or
that he intended to kill them. Every word
of which was false. No such suit had been
brought at the time, or threatened to the knowledge
of Thos. T.. He did not know, that any
such suit had been brought until weeks afterwards
when it was communicated to him for the first
time by Dr. Dixon, as he proved on the trial
The idea of Thos. T. consulting such a nincompoop
& pettifogger as ___ was not believed