New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-30
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Their testimony was as fol-

Jof,sa Henry, sworn-On last Sunday, the 27th
cay q May 1850 and three others went into the
ttsEfiage t Of the deceased. w. L. Gill, to 20 and
.a .ake drink. Coming back we met Bill Lock
@ VINO told me to get ont of that carriage YOU
/ seIn ,aenfy, you son Of a b--h. The driver stop
Rsu 1,s carriage. and told him to 20 on, Char
jumped out ~ mnT ~ vas q the carriage with me,
gan,Psa ont On the other side As soon AZ Iill
Locs ~ WOOD saw me jump out Of the carriare. he
then he re vd Twice s'eps e behind the carriage and
carriage.driyer, VIM. L. Gill; He fell off fNe n.,.
rage, and the horses ran away vc,,1.r, 49, y 80
VINO VINO was IN the carriage with me stopped the
horses by getting on the upper part Of fhe car.
riage and taking hold of the reins. came into
town in cab. Bill Lockwood was alone /. M
4 other person was with him at the time About
hffeen elapsed between the first and second
shots. Bill Lockwood was dressed in black and
| wore hat, to the best of my recollection. The
| ahray took place between and s O'Clock P. M,
inside of the gate. When Bill Lockwood ad-
dressed himself to me, he was about ten Yards off
and advancing toward the carriage. | had no
arms upon me, but made q motion as if drawing
| weapon when jumped ont of the carriage, and
then Bill Lockwood ran about fifteen steps back Of
the carriage, and fired.
Charles Oa,1ey, sworn-On last Sunday evening
was standing by the dancing pavilion. / met
John Henry, and told him to look out for himself;
that the sooner he left the place and went to town
not know what to do, that he had no weapons
about him. told him that had none either.
then told him to 60 and sit down in my carriage;
but ne paid no attention to me. stood in the
same place for about ten minutes, when saw that
he was not going toward my carriage. told him
to come along with me. We went together to my
carriage. There WE saw VIM Gi, who had hfs
carriage near to mine. Gill was dspnting or omar
relling with q man who appeared to be police
officer. heard words passed, but could not under
stand them. Gill told me that the said officer had
struck him with cane. told him that be ought
not to pay any attention To him. Gill remarked
urh in fbp psnr nj a Il Ii ii Trryoo
trying to pacify him, young man who drives the
st. Charles Hotel coach, came up and invited me,
John Henry, VIM. Gill and Harper To take a
drink; and am not certain that the last men
toned name, Harper, was the right name Of the
man. We all agreed to take a drink, and the
Young man who invited US told us to come along,
and he started towards the bar kept by John
Lynn. told him not to 40 there, as we could noe
get anything worth drinking. He then asked me
where we should go. pointed to another stand,
and told him he could get good beer. there. Gill
remarked that y was too far 70 go without leaving
somebody to mind his horses. Some one in the
crowd told him to drive rs over there; he said he
would; we got into his carriage, and John Henry,
on the back seat and Harper and the driver Of the
the ~. Charles Hotel coach on the front seat.
When we arrived at the stand, we ali GQt out
and took our drink. We got into the Mage
again, in the same position we were befl le, and
started back to the place from which we had come.
We were about half way from the place we started
from, when heard some one halloo. I looked out
of the back window, and saw William Lockwood,
and heard him say, .Get out of there, John Henry.
Gill, the driver. said, Are you talking to me ~
Henry, get out d that carriage.H Whilst Till was
going on, Gill turned his horses facing Lockwood,
who stepped to the right of the carriage. He then
turned his back to the carriage, holding his hands
down; he remained in that position for about
twenty seconds; he turned around again, raised
his right arm, and saw a pistol in his hand /
saw the fire flash out of the pistol twice in success
sion have omitted to say, that before the firing
IL raf nIlt nf In arrfu ntxf INA
left side saw Gill fall over, as if he falling
from the carriage; whether he fell or not cannot
say positively. The horses started off to run
away. saw Lockwood start after the car.
riage, and he hallooed to three Of his friends
who were standing there. to follow him; they
followed him; one of them ran about twenty ive
feet and started back Immediately towards John
Lynn's barr that man was William O. G. Donnell
the other two were William Colson and William
Demo. After the carriage had started to run away
heard third shot, but do not know who fired it.
started to look for my load, and met them and
told them that one of my friends had got into
difficulty. They asked me several questions about
the difficulty, but did not give them any satisfac-
tory answers. About five minutes after the shoot
ing, perhaps more, met William Demo. / passed
by him, and got on my carriage, and came to town..
Being questioned as to the lapse of time betweeni
the first and second shots fired, witness answered,
it must have been about half a minute.
Upon the above testimony, the Coroner's jury
rendered the following verdict: !" After postmor-
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c.n ~ - Aau.n, : NV e1as :"
in the right eye, the bullet passing through his
brain and out at the back Of his head and from
evidence given before u.s. we do say that said
wound was inflicted with a pistol IN the hands Of
ono William Iockwood nm the 27tb dav os NAV
1890 batwaan Tho bonrs ~ ! and d o,c,ooa, D M 4
and therefore We charge the said William I,ock.
wood with the crime of murder
Whilst the inouest was progressing Tockwood
who had received word that the Chief of police
wished to see him, was on his way up town il an
omnibus. Whilst in the omnibus he was hailed by
friend, who told him that the Goroners jury had
rendered verdict Of murder against him. He at
once got out of the omnibus returned to the Third
District, surrendered himself at the police office,
and was locked up to await examination. He as
serts ms innocence and upon examination expects
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1lgatloh reia.ive 70 .he aea'l ol 'onh l.. eonrad'
VINO was k'lea a1 the Yoiksiesl on sunday night
week, Y se1 ior 1o-aay.
WOUNDED BY DRAYMAN.-Olfcer Price yes.
terday afternoon sent to the Hospital an unknown
man whom he reported was danoerousIy wounded
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