MR F. C. WILLIAMS TALKING

                    
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MR. F. C. WILLIAMS TALKING
January 29, 1943

Neither Bill Payne nor Jim Livingston stole cattle. He did not believe that Payne killed Poe, as had been said, because Poe tried to get him to join in stealing some cattle, and that Payne told him that he wasn’t going to do that any more, that he had boys who were beginning to notice, and that he was trying to raise them right, and that Poe was supposed to have said, "You are just a ...... coward." He said that Poe was a constable.

Mr. Williams’ version of the Poe killing was that Payne and Poe fell out over "handling" a colt. He understood that they and Griffin were riding together and that Poe left them and went to his house and got a pistol and returned. That in the meantime Payne had dismounted. He met Poe, grabbed the reins of his horse and shot him. Poe was a large man, that when he hit the ground, he grunted like a hog."

That Payne had talked about Poe and Hal Williams in connection with the colt, intimated that they had stolen it.  Mr. Williams said that he went to Payne and told him that he had heard enough of that talk and that it had to stop. (Hal Williams was Mr. Williams’ brother.)

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CHESLEY'S  HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS

BY

HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.

Born: 21 November, 1894

Died: 17 July, 1979

 

 

 

 
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