MRS. MACON CAMPBELL SWORN: . . . Rigth around a quarter past one o'clock when I saw I, it was just a little fire in the north end of the building. I went to call Macon, my husband. To get up and to go call Henry Davis to put it out. He said when he got up and put his pants on and go tout, the fire was already going out the north end of the building. He went out and said there was no use to try to put it out. . . the building burned down. . . I heard an explosion . . . it sounded like gasoline blowup. . . . Q How may explosions did you hear? A. Two. . . . Did the explosion occur first? A. Yes. It got me up and I heard the explosion, and I got up to see what it was. Q. Had you heard anybody around this station prior to this time? A. Yes. I heard a car door slam. . .
SHERIFF DOUGLAS SWORN: When I reached the scene, I found that they thought was the body in the southeast corner of the ashes of the building where it had been. I found the center section of a body with no head nor arms nor shoulders. The left thigh up to the knee joint was burned completely away and the bones still there. The right leg was burned off beyond the knee joint. You could see the heard and part of the intestines inside. There was not question in any of our minds except it was that of a human being. . . Mr. King came in and brought with him a driver's license which he had found in the same spot. . . . After finding the driver's license, we, of course, went to the home of George Lindsay and found he was not at home. . . On the way over to George Lindsay's before we left the scene of the fire, we received information that there were two sacks setting in a field about _ mile around by the road . . .and while we were at dinner a gun was brought to the office and left. . . it was found at the scene of the fire and near where the body lay there. . .
GEORGE LINDSAY, JR. SWORN: Q. George, on February 16, you father came home from work. After he ate supper, did anybody come home for him? A. Donnie Davis. . . Q. What did he have with him? A. He had a flashlight. Q. Is this the one he had? A. If that not it, it was one just like it. . .
HELEN LINDSAY SWORN: . . . Don told him to hurry up and get his hat and to let's go. Pa said he'd be back in a little while. Don said he'd bring him back in a little while. Don said if anybody asked about him, don't tell where he is. . .
MR. HENRY DAVIS SWORN: Q. Did George Lindsay come in that filling station late that afternoon? A. Yes. . . Q. What did he buy? A. He bought six shirts, to sacks of flour, a bar of candy, chewing gum. . . Q. Did you keep a pistol in your filing station? A. Part of the time my wife kept one. . . Q. Was your pistol left in there the night it burned? A. No. The Sheriff brought the pistol and asked me was it mine, but it wasn't. . . Q. Mr. Davis, that morning they had the fire and found the sacks, could you identity that stuff as having come out of your store? A. Yes. . .
LONNIE MARSHALL SWORN: Q. Have you ever seen this pistol? A. I don't know. I've seen one kinda like that, but I couldn't declare that's it. Q. Where did you see one like that? A. I saw Mr. Davis with one just about this size. . .