Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-08-20
LOCAL ITEMS
THE HARRINGTON MURDER
TRIAL.
Testihony for the Pro.eeut;o,
Continued.

Jurors Tor the trial were omitted. They
were as follows: Maurice Marks, ". NJ
Young. W. NJ. Coffee, John A. Peterson
John Chisholm, ID. b. Shankland. A. r
Garnett, 7. c. Poujade, J. NJ. Pierce
Thos. McMasters, Louis Gros. Michael
Fay. As may be seen by this list three
OF the jurors-D. B. Shanklank. John
Chisholm and ]. NJ. Pierce-also served
In the trial of Jefferson Howard, con-
vlcted of manslaughter.
At 10 a. IN. yesterday the taking of
testimony for the prosecution was con.
tinued. Below We give a condensation
OF the testimony of each witness, omit.
ung what is merely corroboratiye.
WIN. Weber (who was EMPLOYED by
Lynch as WAITER, sworn.-Besides those
mentioned by the last witness there were
Two women, one Of whom is called Fred
Ole, IN the restaurant. l heard a shot
went to the door and heard second
shot, which | saw Harrington fire into
the crowd. ] then turned to 90 back
again, and as turned / saw Lynch fall:
i then heard a third shot. When Har-
rington fired the second shot Lynch was
standing two or three feet from the
other parties.
Fredricka Clark, worn.--When Schoon-
maker arose from his table and
went across the room he said, "That
dog is mine, and you mustn't hurt that
DOG. If you hurt that dog you hurt me"
one OF the men got up from the table
and cave Lynch, (who had also came
over, hard look, and said to him
words something like ''you amt agoin'
to interfere with this" | didn't know
him at the time, but have since found
that his name must be O'Neil. Lynch
replied. lyon don't want to either,i and
walked away from the table and out of
the door. O'Neil took glass of water
at the counter and said, "all l have to
say Is, my partner is coward" Schoon.
maker said to O'Neil "what would Won
do? Would you hurt the dog?" O'Neil
replied mo | wouldn't hurt the dog"
DIR. Bergstein, sworn-At o'clock on
the morning of the 9th of July called
professionally on John II. Lynch, whom
| found lying insensible with a gunshot
wound upon the right side of his head.
On further examination undanother
wound in the back of the shoulder. John
ii. Lynch died at 90 minutes to 2 clock,
a. m. July II, 1873. There was post
norton examination. Lynch died from
the effects of gunshot wound Of the
brain,
The court took recess.
h.
Squirting was called and sworn. I was in
Charley Sturm's saloon; heard an alter
cation outside and went to the front door,
and, looking towards Lynch's chop
house, | saw Schoonmaker, and a man
pointed out to me as O'Niel, wrestling.
l saw two men standing on the sidewalk,
and Lynch sitting on step.ladder along
side OF the saloon. | saw Schoon-
makers cane fly up as O'Niel
was backing him into the restaurant.
Lynch jumped off the step-ladder, drew
pistol out of his pocket and commenced
to beat O'Niel over the head. One of
the other men rushed into separate
them. / suppose. Immediately after |
that saw Harrington fire shot into the |
crowd. Either Sullivan or Harrington, l |
don't know which, got Lynch from
ONeil. They all seemed to separate,
excepting Sullivan and Lynch, who |
wrestled two or three steps along the |
sidewalk. Then when they were sepa-
rated, Harrington fired another shot.
Lynch and Sullivan got into the door by
the side of me. Lynch said: " Don't |
shoot any more; I'm killed" The man
who had hold of him (Sullivan) gave
him q kind Of push, and he fell out |
from the door upon the sidewalk. There
was another shot fired just at that time.
and with that they all disappeared The
same man fired all the shots Lynch, |
while striking O'Neil, was trying to get |
him from Schoonmaker. Lynch had q
self-cocking pistol.
II. Witkowsky sworn. When Lynch |
and another man, whom do not know
Sullivan were wrestling. one of them
had pistol in his hand, by his side, and
think it was the other man. Lynch
then had his arms around the other man.
body. The pistol was like one Of those
big ones Colts sixshooters) there on
the table.
H. Woodruff (officer), sworn-I ar
rested Harrington on the morning of the
9Th of July. Harrington started down
Main street, and when we came nearly |
together Woodruff was going up the |
street he turned sideways and fired an
other shot. l arrested him and took his |
pistol from him; found three loads dis
charged. recognize this pistol which |
he had in his hand as the one l took
from Harrington.
Frank Ryan, sworn-I saw Lynch IT, |
ing on the sidewalk, and picked up pis-
tol something like that one ga Whistler"
which was handed to him about ten or
twelve feet from where Lynch was lying;
went up to him, stopped down beside
him, lifted his head with my hand; found
that he was bleeding; saw that he was
shot in the head. helped. carry him
inside. We laid him on q table, and
after that j. H. Larkin asked who shot
him. He said in a very faint voice that
a man named Kelley shot him. About
five minutes after that he said that Frank
Shoemaker shot him. gave the pis-
tol which l picked up to Geo. Boyd,
half minute or a minute after found
it. | gave in my evidence before the
Coroner's Jury, but was not sworn.
Smith Gray (officer), sworn.--I ar
rested Sullivan; he was bleeding and
there was blood on his pistol.
George Boyd (oficer), sworn.-I gave
the pistol handed me by Frank Ryan to
Yves. Travis, the Sheriff, about an hour
and a half after got it.
The court then adjourned until to-day
at 10 a. m.
This morning the prosecution will
probably rest the case, and the testimony
for the defense will be taken.
INcREDIBLE.-In the Harrington trial
yesterday one witness made this state
ment; "They tell me there were only
three shots fired, but thought there
were dozen" Attorney-"Are your
ears so unused to the sound of pistol
shot that Won could think there were