The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-02-27

dcI u puiiing IL OUT. l nave not seen any
one since to my knowledge, who was Al
the tin shop, except defendant. have sta,
ted all that recollect, Of what the defend.
ant said at the tin shop; what he said was
IN answer to enquiries made Of him; think
should have heard any other remarks, il
they had been made, The particular atten-
tion of the persons standing around was d.
rected to the defendant.
JOHN Snow sworn--l have lived in ST..
Paul since the month Of March last; He-
man Snow was my son. Sometime during
the month Of September last, / think the
18th day, he came where | was at work,
and asked for press board; he took i, and
went awayj short time afterwards, MIR,
irvine came to me and said that my boy
was shot. immediately went to the house
ana saw him lying on the bed. Blood was
running from his mouth and his right eve,
which was closed-a shot wound being lust
under 1t, and also wound on bis left cheek,
he lived from that time about two hours,
then died. | sent for physician, DR.. Potts
came. n
THOMAS PoTTs sworn--l knew John
Snow; 10 the afternoon Of 18th September
last, was called on to visit boy that bad
been shot. Invent Immediately to the house
OF MIR. Snow, and found the boy lying on a
mattrass, as entered the house ] saw the
boy lying very stupid, and breathing heavi-
ly, as ] approached nearer, saw two
wounds on his face, one under the right eve,
the other on the left cheek: the right was
very much swollen. | probed the wound
one inch and half or two inches; knew
from the depth Of the wound it would he
useless to attempt TO extract any foreign
matter that might he ia it, in the condition
the boy was in.
The boy was lying very stupid, opened
and shut the eyelid of the left eye, and the
pupil was permanently dilated. He began
! IN short time 10 troth at the mouth, and I
regarded him as a hopeless case; think l
told his father SO. Willing, however, to do
something for him, directed them to pre-
pare solution of sugar-of-lead and Iauda-
mum, and put over the wound; knowing |
could do nothing more for him, left the
house.
could not feel any foreign substance in
the wound, the cause of death, think. was
the shot penetrating the brain, the eve was
not injured. the shot passed under the ball
OF the eye, through The socket and the bones
OF the socket to the brain.
RUTH ANN SLOAN sworn-I knew He-
man Snow, | was at Mr.. Iryre's house,
when he was shot: it is across the road
frcm the tin shop. heard the report Of
the gun, heard the boy cry out, went im-
medIately to the door-saw two boys at tho
tin shop--one WAS deft. he other was An
gus brown. Saw one of them throw the
gun under the shop, and run down the hill:
the other boy remained there. ! was very
much frightened at the time. Could not
tell which boy threw The gun, under ,hs
shop-I do not recollect what time this was,
| cannot tell whether the boy iha, threw
the gun under the shop, was the one ths,
run down the hill or not.
Cross ErGmtnation Il was in the dwell
ing house Of Mr.. Iry!ne's, opposite the tin
shop when heard the report Of the gun
| went Immediately 10 the door. saw
Hemsn Snow, and heard him say he was
shot. Saw deft. and Angus Brown near tin
shop. | do not know which hoy bad the
gun. cannot say whether it was deft or
not, who remained at tin shop. Mrs. Ir.
vine went to the door with me, we were
alone; one of The boys remained standing Of
tin shop ill the people came there.
ANGUS BROWN sworn--I am eleven
years Of age; | live in St. Paul, and
am the son Of Joseph r. Brown, know
the deft. Isaiah Mcmillan, have known
him since last summer, when he lived
in st. Paul. knew Heman Snow, he
lived in St. Paul. know when he was
shot, it was by the tin shop in St. Paul.
The first time saw deit., the day He
man was shot, was about noon or a little
after, at the tin shop--deft and | went
to Mr.. Sloan's store, while there we
went down into the cellar, and ate
watermelon: we then went to the tin
shop, because deft. wanted to go there,
while we were going, deft. said he was
going to shoot Heman Snow who was
coming along with prcss-board; we
could see him, he vas going east, down
the street, we went from the cellar to the
tin shop; when We got there deft took
the gun and pointed it at Heman Snow
and shot him. The gun was under the
shop when he took it. / told him it was
loaded, he said 81 only want to scare
him, when he fred the gun ] run home;
went down the hill---An Indian loaded
the gun; the only persons near the tin
shop, were Heman Snow, def. and N.Y.
SELF | could see no one else, after the
gun was shot and before ran away: Mr..
Bevans and Mr.. Holland came out of the
shop, when we were eatiug the water
melon in the cellar we saw Heman Snow,
and deft said he was going to shoot him.
deft. held the gun in his hands when
Heman was shot; no one else touched
it. He held it as if he was going TO
shoot bird, this is all know about it.
Cross Er-I know deft. he was u
playmate of mine at school last sum-
lner, during summer played with him
daily. Heman Snow was also play
mate of ours; we all went TO school
together and were good friends together
and were so up to the time Heman died.
Heman and never quarreled and do
not know that def. and he did; we all
then were play-mates and very good
friends. ! have been very often talked
to about this matter. ] have been told
that deft. was guilty, and that if def.
got clear, he would shoot me. | have
been told that | mast tell the truth,
From what has been said to me, should
be very sorry to see deit. get clear.