The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-03-27
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THURSDAY, March %.
Mrs. Jane Smith s,1orn.--l know nothing
about the case.
.jnO II McCIannall, syorn.-On the 18th Of
June was on my way to the Court House,
and as | was half way between my house and
Mr.. Burroughs, heard the report of three
guns. The two first were in quick success
sion the third one was between three and
five minutes afterward | continued nv way
on to the Court House; stopped at Mr..
Woodhouse's store, and after being there a
short while saw Mr. Land pass the store ::
he spoke to me as he usually did he contin-
ued in the direction OF DR.. Ways corner |
soon saw him return in company with Mr..
IL. M. Woodhouse I saw him no more, and
know nothing more about the case The re-
ports OF the guns were in the direction of
Lands house. | think | was from half to
three quarters of mile from Lands house
when heard the reports. 1t was about 0
0,cleck, A. NJ, when he was returning with
Mr.. Woodhouse; it was very few minutes
before that he went towards Doctor Ways
corner. There was very few minutes inter-
val between his going and coming; it was
not MS every day dress he had on when |
saw him it was about three quarters of
mile from Mrs. Haynes and was not as near
Lands as Mrs. Haynes There is no house
between my house and MIR. Lands, which is
about halt mile from mine. MIR. Wood
house is lawyer it is about half a mile
from the public road to Lands house. Mrs.
Haynes is the first house you pass after
leaving the public road to 60 to Lands; his
house sets in skirt of woods. The reports
| heard were not in the direction of my
house; l could tell that it was not from
MIR. SCOTS house. | turned my head at the
first report and stopped, and knew t he d.
rectiOn 10 which the guns were shot; there
was no other house in the direction from
which the report came but Lands. | re-
marked it at the time that they came from
the direction of Lands house. lt'was be-
tween and o'clock in the morning that
heard them.
Jamet Hargroue, s,oorn. IL happened to
be back at my new LAND, and heard the re-
port of two guns these reports were in the
direction o. Mr.. Lands l was about three
quarters OF mile from Lands house at the
time, it was between and 0 o'clock in the
morning the reports were in quick sue
cessiOn; | thought at the time that they
were in the direction of Mr.. Lands house.
l. was in the rear of Lands house at the
time.
Mr.. Bundock, st0orn.-l was summoned
on the inquest over the body of the deceas-
ed ; was called on by DR.. Way to exam
inc gun which was in Lands house; took
the ram-rod out and ramned it down both
barrels it was a double-barrelled gun; |
found one barrel empty, and the other was
loaded with powder and wad, but the wad
lacked five or six inches of being down to
the powder; the barrels of the gun appear
ed to be recently shot off; the gun around
) ha t.tn h,l klni ~ ho,n
wet, dark and smutty | found in the house
shot belt, which contained some shot,which
| took to be No. 4. Flanagan's body was
found lying down beside the porch of Lands
house the body had few slabs over it, |
think, and was very stiff.
Cross-examined-Fla Flanagan and Land were
brothers-in-law | never heard of any diff
Guilty between them; some three or four
weeks before, saw them together, and they
appeared to be very friendly indeed, SEEM
ed to be in playful mood together.
DR.. Way, sworn. Il am a physician of 80
years practice my knowledge of this case
is wholly confined to the facts which came
under my observation when acting as Coro-
ner, the duties of which office 1 performed,
in consequence of a vacancy of the office of
Coroner, as the most convenient magistrate.
The warrant for holding the inquest was is
sued about ~ o'clock on Saturday evening,
the 18th day of June last, and the inquest
was held about 10 o'clock at night in Mr..
Lands yard as soon as reached Mr.. Lands
house, about ten O'Clock, p. NJ, went to
the body of Mr.. Flanagan, and examined
his features. then placed nay hand
upon the chin, and by using some force
opened the mouth and put my finger in on
the tongue, and found the surface entirely
cold, as we'll as the inside of the mouth
Having sworn the Jury we proceeded to the
examination of the body. The first point to
which | directed my attention was the posi-
ton and situation of the body, that the Ju-
ry may understand me on this point, and in
other matters of which | may speak, it will
probably, be better for me to make
remark or two in regard to ~Sne locality
about MIR. Lands house. MIR. Lands house
is rather small, single storied house with
front door, without any passage, the front
door of the room opening about the middle
of the house, the front door opens inside and
there is back room, commonly called
shed room, communicating with the front
room, by door in the partition, nearly OPP
poste the front door. In front of the front
door is small porch, the ground by the
side of the porch has a slight declivity, ap-
parently produced by the drippings of water
from the ewes of the porch, and there is the
same sort of declivity Immediately in front
of the house, apparently produced by the
same cause.
The body of Flanagan was lying ON the
right side of the porch as you approach the
house and on the left side of the porch as
you come out of the honse, just on the edge
ofthe declivily speak OF, the toes of the
lower extremities were toward the ground,
the heels up, the middle Of the body was
somewhat tw listed ON its axis, SO that the
face instead of being toward the ground,
was turned toward the bottom of the porch;
the right hand was under the head and the
teft arm was upon the head, the feet extending
some ten or tweve inches beyond the front
edge Of the porch, the body was partially
covered by slabs and there were two or
three slabs lying by the side of him with
some stains o. blood upon them. searched
Mr.. Flanagan's pockets and found nothing
except such articles as are ordinarily found
in the pockets of farmers found purse
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