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...this point Charlie Ware took the stand to make a defendant's statement. (Since such testimony is not made under oath, he was not subjected to cross-examination.) The gist of his story contradicted that of the Sheriff's at almost every point. He indicated that during the afternoon of the Fourth of July he had had about three beers, that he had tried to prevent Coke Malone from getting into the fight by grabbing Coke's hand and walking him off the ball park. He denied cursing at Guy Touchstone...
...Ware stepped outside, was ordered to the car and told to place his hands on the front fender while the Sheriff searched his pockets. He found the penknife but returned it to Ware. Ware said Johnson then asked him, "Why have you been hiding from me all night?" When Ware replied that he had just gotten home and hadn't been hiding, the Sheriff knocked him over the left eye with the butt of his pistol leaving a deep gash that required two stitches...
...Ware said he was shoved into the back seat, and that the Sheriff and Jack Minter drove him to Newton, each taking occasional swigs from a whiskey bottle. Ware then stated that the Sheriff told him to lean his elbows on the front seat and, when he did, was punched in the mouth by Johnson. He was ordered not to lean back in the car, not to let any of the blood dripping from the laceration over his eye fall on the seat...
...Sheriff put Ware in the front and took him to a place which he recalled having a lot of trees. Since his glasses had been knocked off, he couldn't at that time identify exactly where he was. (The jail has a clump of trees around it.) Ware said that the Sheriff asked him for his knife and and placed it in Ware's handcuffed hands. Ware recalled the Sheriff contacting the state troopers on his radio saying "There's a nigger coming at me with a knife, I'll have to shoot him." According to Ware, the voice...
...Sheriff then stepped back and shot Ware twice in the neck on the left side and once in his left shoulder and again grazing him across the chest. After that, Ware doesn't remem- took it, saying "This won't do." When the car pulled to a stop, the Sheriff took a long knife of about seven inches ber gaining consciousness for at least...