The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1854-06-14

ELEVENTH DISTRICT COURT.
Statt Of .Gouisiana,
ST. JOHN. r. LlDDELL.
Dr.. JOHN s. ALEXANDER, sworn-Saw tn
bodies of Glenn and Virgins after. they wer.
killed Witness thinks this was on the 26tl
Of June 1852. Saw the bodies at Mrs. Bray'
on Little River-Wiggins' body had been
brought up to Mrs. Brays in cart.s The
wounds in the body Of Wiggins were mostly
in one side-the left side-there was wound
in the sternum or breast bone, one wrist was
broken and one anklewas also badly injured.
There was . large wound in the left side of
the head, mads By somc large ball, either Of
pistol or Yife, enSeri~fs just -aavvv-tas.~a.ls
ear and penetrating entirely through the head.
Witness thinks Wiggins could not have been
dead more than two hours when he saw him.
The front wounds would have proved fatal.
Witness thinks the distance at which Wig
gins was shot could not have been more than
ten or twenty yards. Saw Wiggins alive that
day in Trinity.
to Trinity on horseback on the morning of
the day when this occurred he was passed by
Glenn and Wiggins who were riding together
in buggy. The buggy was one which had
been bought short time before by Glenn
from man named Pryor. TWAS common
four wheeled buggy, dasher rather high--top
projecting a good deal forward-Glenn's OBJ
ject in going to Trinity Aat day was to answer
charges Of unbecoming conduct a. an Odd
Fellow. Thinks it was for threatening the
life Of Maj. Liddell, who is also an Odd-Fel-
low. The wounds in Virgins back entered
in slanting direction-were probably infic-
ted from an oblique direction Glenn and
Wiggins were very warm and intimate friends
they were generally together, in fact almost
inseparable-was not examined before the
Grand Jury that found this bill.
Ex. in chief resumed.1The wounds in
WiggiDs' body might al have been inflicted
by some person standing in front. The back
wounds may have been inflicted just as the
carriage passed, or a Wiggins turned after
being shot in front. #
/. N. BEARD, sworn.--Saw the body Of
Wiggins on the day he was shot-did not
recognize it to be such At the time, as it was
= good deal dis6gured and turned from wit
ness. Does not recollsct the day when this
happened-it was in the year 1852 and on
Little RiverA-it we close by Mr.. 0gdens
house and opposite the plantation Of Maj. Lid
dell, in the public roads gunshot
wound in Wiggins' head and also in his foot.
Saw no blood before he got to Wiggins.
Cross Examined Witness was not before
the Grand Jury to testify at the term Of the
Court when this bill was found.
r. G. WoorEN, sworr-Ssw Mr.. Glenn's
dead body in the carriage at Mrs. Bray's.-|
There was blood along the road below Mrs.
Bray's- supposes the blood on the road came
from the mag, which was weunded in the
nose-witness examined the carriage--it had
on it the marks Of some fifty shots or more
the shots appeared to have been fred from
the left side and perhaps from the front or
from behind-does not think the shots came
from both sides, but from the front and left
hand.
Gross Examined. Some Of the shpts made
two holes witness does not know how many
the top was up when witness first saw the
buggy-there was carpet sack in the buggy
there were two pistols in the sack one long
one and one short one, ,.and perhaps another,
does not remember 1.-The carpet bag was
where it could be easily reached-Glenn had
with him large knife Glenn was shot in
the face and one shot entered the forehead and
came out at the eye, 30 Dr. Alexander thought.
Witness was not before the Grand Jury that
found this bill. & & ss
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