The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-07-18
The Cairo Bulletin, July 1S.

John Clemens there, doing nothing but
standing around; there were several
around; saw defendant there walking
around | said to defendant 'whut have
You done ~ He replied, 81 have not
done anything; it is all right now-l am
satisfied | went to deceased, to raise
him up; / got under one arm, and John
Oicmens under the other, and raised him
up told him not to be so foolish, and get
up; he replied, ooh Hoffman, am
killed; 1t was said in low voice; he said
THIS to mo; myself and Charley George led
MN of; l do not know whether Charley
GEORGE helped us raise him or not when
Clemens let go of him George took his place,
we brought him back TO Gump's house;
we dragged him TO the fence we held him
up and dragged him along he could not
bear his own wait my wife, myself and
some others got him over the fence; after
We got him over the fence he walked 10
the house without any help stood by the
fence and talked to the boys about the mat
teri do not know where defendant was
then saw no more Of defendant that
night the last j saw Of deceased was when
walking from fence to house; deceased
said nothing after we got him up; re-
manned at the dance until I or . clock;
1 looked for him in about two or three
minutes, but did not find him; deceased
was sober when he left the party to 10
home ] saw him drink two or three glasses
OF beer that evening; ! saw him take moth
ing but beer next saw deceased Monday
about Cor 7o'clock u: his home in bed hc
looked bad he did not open his eyes any
more and did not talk
saw him after that ten or
fifteen times; would say quarter Of an
hour and sometime longer; | went for
DR.. Hames, he got there carly in the
morning Sunday; was present when
the DIR. came; Dammermuth died Tuesday
morning ut I o'clock; | was present; he
got no better from the time | first saw him
until he died; l did nothing with my feet
when went out to place of difficulty ca
cept to kick decesseds leg little to get
him up; had on n pair of slippers
Ckoss EXAMINED ny JrDGE ALLEN.
did not dance got the slippers | had
on from my wife I live about three
quarters Of mile from Gumps | walked
out there it was not muddy; the fact that
] have been charged with kicking deceased
is not reason why ] swear that wore
slippers wore them for my own accomo.
dation the road from Dongola 20 Gump's
is common good road deceased was not
drunk the evening of dance; did not see
him drink with anybody except myself
] cannot state positively how many times
he drank during the evening; DR.. Han
ners drank with deceased and myself once;
had drank four or five times up 10 the
time Of difficulty; it takes 40 or 30 glasses
TO make me drunk; ] do not know how
many brrrcls were drank that night;
was sober; the deceased Was fond Of beer
! was well acquainted with deceased;
whom under the influence Of beer he acted |
funny do not rccollcct seeing deceased |
Aick, but have seen him under the influence |
of drink soon as / heard tho crack, I
went out nj once; was then standing with |
DR.. Hanners at the counter; when ! got
there found Gully, Clemens and Misen-
hcimcr and many others; deceased was
lying on his face | saw no one having hold
OF him. was the first person who took
hold Of him do not know As Clemens |
told mo not to kick him l am certain that
words passed between defcndcnt and my
go. there: spoke etc. 20 /
defendant before took hold of deceased
! do not know as Clemens was present
when / spoke 10 defendant; got hold Of
deceased frst; do not know "a any con-
vcrsation too place between Clemens and
defendant when We were raising deceased
up; did not hear Clemcnssay, "Abo YOU
have done the work for joe. ] did not
hear defendant say, Il do not care IL did
Il will 60 for more of the d-n Dutch:
n good deal was said around there and |
do not rccollect over onc-tcnth uf what
was said cannot cay that 10 or 30 person,
were around there; think about 20 per-
sons were there; when ! got there | saw
Gully with u stick In his hand no one wa.
very near deceased; did not see Benton
there; We found deceased north Of the
house was friendly with deceased; never
quarrclled with him; did not strike him
with chair ] do not remember his hay-
ing his head tied up about two weeks be-
fore the difficulty happened
deceased worked ut my shop, and also al
times on my farm; never struck deceased
not In my house or shop; went to the
house in four or five minutes after de-
ceased left the fonce was examined be-
fore Judge Crawford, in this case, in the
month Of August; ! said that there were
three or four mon standing around de-
ceased; i did not swear there that went
out 10 where deceased was in COMPANY
with John Clemens did not swear there
that took deceased o. the house; did
not swear there that my wif1 helped no !
carry him To the house, aud that he could
not speak arn positive I did not; the
stick sawi in Cullys hand was about two
and a-half or three feet long; Gully threw
1t away ] saw him throw II; he threw IL |
away, believe, before We began 10 raise
deceased up; the stick was rs large Il, my
wrist,
C0SQtERkD Ar LAST
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