The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-04-25
ARGUMENT or COUNSEL 70 BE
MADE TODAY.

Itf~uuut 70 Appointment. circuit court
met at . O'Clock Yesterday morning. The
attorneys being present. the case of the peo-
I pie ". Alfred Huffman for the murder Of
Henry Tubbs, was resumed.
G. c. Thomas testified known HUFF
man Tor IL or IS years; knew Tubbs;
was at Tubbs Sunday morning, and also
after he was shot; helped 10 put him in
the coffin, also helpel bury him Mr.. j.
Morris and ! went to see if anyone had
shot him. we found place on tho top Of
the hill behind o white walnut tree VIC
saw whore il looked like some body had
kneeled down and taken sight wo looked
| and found some bullet patching ;
| in the direction Of the house We
found marks OF boots or shoes; looked
as If some ono had laid down behind the
tree; have seen Huhmans gun, the balls
used in Hudman's gun are the same size |
use in ny CUR; did not loan Huffman my
muulds; loaned them TO John Thompsoni
my monlds made sort Of round ball; SAW
the bali taken from Tubs body; saw II
ball Wesley Ielmun had, said - have
been made with the same moulds; looked
like the ball made with my moulds; tie
tall neck OF the ball was tnere; was not
battered; don't know what became of my
mouldsi couldn't fad them suppose
| they could have been found; have seen
me mollds since; Mr.. Hodge bought tho
| gun and mould have been changed since
| | le, them go: don't know who changed
the moluds; l stepped the distance be.
tween the house and the place where the
/ shot is supposed to have been fred 1t Is
! - or 20 steps think the gun owned by
Huffman would shoot 100 yards; would be
q clear sight between the house and where
the shot WAS fred it ISIS mile or upwards
from the grocery to where Tubbs was
shot.
Cross-oxaminntion-L Live some or 3
miles from where Tubs was killed
Loaned my moulds to j. Thompson;
saw the bail taken from Tubbs body; saw
the ball W. Holman had; was ? guns alike
in the neighborhool; don't know where
Hciman got tho ball or lat moulds it
was run in; have seen my old moulds in
| Hartlines possessions mpulds don't now
make the Same ball they Gii two years
! ago; the moulds have been changed tho
ground at the spot where the shot Wa
fired was the shest-biSher than
! the calc-l5 or % feet the highest; fair
view from the tree to the ga.ei made the
examination on Sunday before dinner :
lhinl; Tubbs was shot ON Friday died the
same day in the evenings post mortem
examination was held the next day; had
rained between Friday and Sunday it
was no. much Of raini Just eaough 10
hay tae duet had ruincl lightly atTutbs
house; it could be seen that there had been
some one tacro, could not tell when
the tracks were made; the rain might have
had tendency to obliters,o the tracks
We wen. to HuGmau's aud Mr.. Hu2lewood
asked for tho bullet m9ulds; Abort HUFF
man was there; colll not lind tho mold,
l.d not hear him say anything about
D them.
- ). " DIfhan tc,,iarl--l am ucqusin.
j. ted with HqGngn; Iknew Tubbs in his
i life time; was not a. Tpbbs house before
. he was shot; was there the day after tho
\ !lracra' think tho funeral WAS en- sun.
day went up on the hill TO white wal.
nut tree, saw tract, as If some ono had laid
down bgaiud the treei saw bullet patch.
q ing which Was picked up or ~ feet
{ from the tree; tho patching Wa. tho same
d as check shifting, there was n nick Ia the
u side Of tie patch as iI torn in coming
from tho gum did no. co Tubbs
/, shortly before the shooting I went TO
a Huffman house when be WAS arrested the
drst time heard inquiries made for the
mlllds lu, thoy could not BE- found tina,
q, nighr dill not find the gun that night;
q saw Tie gun AZ the rst,riali the shooting
n was done on Fidny, Gul went 20 Tubbs'
% house On Sunday night
t CFow.examinei by Judge Allon-Jaoob
I. Hartine was ulong, don't know Whether
Y Harsiiae found the auri the gun was at
the eIsmiIaton the GrN day.
Reason Heater tesliGed-I WAS not at
tue grocery wSs !u tie acsdgv making