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 made against me to this editor, she says she told him that said charges
 were the rumor of the country, but that as to herself she knew nothing
 about it whatever, save what she heard, and when asked from whom
 she heard it, she said that it had been soylong back, and that she had
 been so grievouslv troubled that she hadl forgotten wbo told her these
 statenents. But the editor represents her as.stating these charge as
 facts within her owo   personal T;njhledge. rlise things she claims to
 lav. bSpeard as rtimt of the bvighhleoed are.about a; follows:
     That I attyised the grand jury to paws the matters by and not inves-
 tights Dor imlict the persons W10o forged tlte order for those who killed
 John Martin a4 1Faruers, and tht I also advised John C. Day and Floyd
 Tohiver, at tae August electaon-of 184, "to kill fouror five of the damned
 Radiwcrdk.  Now. I d'enounce esieli an  everv ode of these statements
 as a base and diabolical falsehood, as well as all of the statements pur-
 porting to come fronm the mouth of Miss Martin on that occasion in ref-
 erence to me, and I defy Miss Martin or this editor, or any one else, to
 prove these statements  I say that' they can not Gwove the charges or
 any one iota of them by an, respectable or responsible person; and I
 now ask Miss Martin, this editor, or any one for them, to come forward
 and prove these charges against me, and if they cannot, they owe it to
 themselves, to the people who have listened to and read their state-
 ments an( tome to retractthem. I now demand it as a matter of justice
 at their hands to do one or the other. I here offer the statement made
 by the grand jury of the Rowan Circuit Court. who sat at the February
 term 1885) of said court, and is the only jury that has been impaneled
 in our court since Martin was killed. Two of the grand jurors, J. W.
 Nickell and Robert Keesee, have moved West, and Thomas Ham lives
 quite a distance in the country, hence I did not call on them to sign this
 statement, which is as follows:
   "We the undersigned persons state that we are members of the grand
 jury of the February term, 1885, of the Rowan Circuit Court, and that
 while we were thus engaged, nor at any other time, did Z. T. Young di-
 rectly or indirectly try to prevent us from finding an indictment against
 the persons suspected of the killing of John Martin.  We further state
 that the only case in which said Young said anything to us on the sub-
 ject of finding an indictment was when we asked his advice on finding
 an indictment against W. C. Humphrey for aiding in the killing of
 Floyd Toliver, and Mr. Young told us 'he did not think the evidenge
 sufficient to warrant a conviction against Humphrey, and this is the
 only instance in which we asked Mr. Young's advice, and the only case
 in which he gave us any advice upon the subject of indictments at said
 term of said court.           J.. A. Nickel,      R. R. Cassity,
                               Benj. Thompson,  'John Scott,
                               William Barbe'r,  R. E. Mcintire,
                               J. W. R., Johnson, 'R. A. Roberts,
                               Z K. Phelps,       E. H. Hamilton,
                               J. K. Swimm,      Z. P. Johnson.
                               A. B' Bumgartner.
    This 23d day of July, 1885.
    It will be remembered from this statement that I did not, as stated
by Miss Martin, try to induce the grand jury to pass the 'matter of the
'killing of John Martin by without investigation by said jurors. The
statement made by them shows that I said nothing to thekn on the subject
and that instead of trying to get rid of Sheriff 'Humplhrev, and do him
an injustice, as has been heretofore stated, I advised the' grand jury not
to find an indictment against him. While I believed him to be guilty
'of the eharge, I did not/believe a jury in this county would convict him,
he having ghe benefit of prestige of being sheriff of the county, and in