Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-27
INDICTED.
The Cherry Street Tragedy.

l. lie nfCA dJ H " ClUOh Ottit-
day morning, but before hearing any testi-
mony, Justice Everett issued a warrant
for the arrest of Joseph Cox, at the instance
of John Eagan, brother Of the deceased,
who made affidavit to the effect that he had
reason to believe that Cox was accessory to
to the murder of his brother. Cox was ar
rested at once and brought to Justice Ever
ettis Office, where his bail was fixed al 81
600 for himself and like sum for his Sc
curities.
DR.. Thomas Madden testified that he
was called into Mr.. Landauer store few
moments after the shooting; he found
Eagan living on the floor near the door; one
shot was Just over the region ofthe heart; he
was dead when the witness entered the
store, the deathsresulting from the pistol
shot.
Eliza Goodrich, who is house-keeper at
Mat Hofiman's Vine street establishment
stated, in her examination, that two men
came to the house Saturday night about
o'clock and rang the bell; she went to the
door and saw two men standing at the gate
who wanted to come in; witness told them
she couldn't let them in; one of the men
said s'let us in, Joe Cox and man by the
name of Powers E-
HAVE KILLED A MAN
up town and they want to hide;r don't
know whether it was Mr.. Cox or Mr.
Powers who said this, as it was dark at the
time; saw no hack; the man who spoke
was medium sized man, and had on
broad brimmed hat and clothes; don't
know whether he was sISOoth-faced or not;
couldn't see whether he had a mOustacbe
or not; he said "you will be sorTy for not
letting us in.n
MIR. Landauer testified as follows: Be
tween Z and s o'clock L was standing at my
counter when Cox and Powers came in;
they bought a cigar apiece and stood and
talked near the door; Powers went away
and Cox staid; Powers was gone but few
moments when he came back, reached up
to Cox and said, '.Give me your gum" in
an excited way, and tried to get il out of
his pocket; Cox told him to GO away, that
he didn't want him to get that gun; he
said the trigger had caught in the lining of
the pocket, and that he (COX) might get
shot; about that time, however, Powers got
the pistol out and walked Off with it, and
the party went away leaving me alone with
a colored boy; they came back in a few
minutes and / said 'Alr. Cox, don't have 4
disturbance here, for | don't want any
trouble in my house," he said "Here, take
this pistol and put it away, don't want
any trouble"
HE GAVE ME THE PISTOL,
and l put it in. my desk; probably five
minutes later, while / was waiting on a
customer, Cox took the pistol out of the
desk, and that is the last | saw of it; this
was before the killing; heard two shots
fired, and Eagan came in-walked straight
in at the front door; as soon as he came in,
saw a rush Of people towards my store, and
| being alone, L rushed up and closed the
door; Eagan was in the house leaning
against the showcase; didn't see pistol in
his hands; he slid along the showcase and
fell to the floor, and saw the pistol just as
he fell; he had
4 BRASS TRUMPET
| in his Left hand, believe it was, and his
cane somewhere about him; don't know thai
the pistol fell out of his hands; thought al
| the lime it fell out of his coat sleeve; didn't
| see Powers with Cox when Cox took the
pistol out of my desk.
The pistol supposed to have belonged to
Eagan was shown the witness, who said he
thought it was the one picked up on the
| floor.
Ed Gardner was the next witness sworn.
He said that he was going home about s
o'clock Saturday night, when he stopped IN
at the Merchants and ordered glass OF
| claret; Eagan came in and Gardner asked
him 10 take a glass; just then Powers came
up and pushed Eagan aside; Eagan retired
| tOwards the east side ofthe room and pulled
a pistol which he rested on his left arm
| and cooked il; witness caught his arm and
I 4. Al L..
/ Es.atI - IfUIIie ana Eisstit s5asl.>--i IsEa
cloak about him and started out; witness
went out; saw Cox at LandauerS; told him
| of the difficulty, and requested Cox to not
| let Powers hint Eagan rs the latter was
crazy; Cox started out and brought Powers
out of Winsteads' shoe store; witness went
up street, returning in a few minutes to
| find crowd collected in front of Landauer's
and TO learn that
| POWERS HAD SHOT EAGAS.
Witness heard no words exchanged when
Eagau cooked his pistol at Powers.
Emanuel Wood, a colored hickman,
! testified: 4 gentleman came to NE
at the corner Of Locust and College
| streets: looked as if he came from towards
the workEOuse; told me to carry him 10
| Jennie SOmers, on Vine street, and said il
| saw any policemen near the house not "a
stop; | saw some policemen when l drove
up, but l stopped anyway; he looked out
and saw the police and told Inc to drive on
but was afraid I'd get into trouble my
self, and | wouldn't drive on: the police
men came to the hack and Miss Jennie
Somers came up; then three policemen got
/ in the hack, and one got on the seat with
ME and We took the.man to the police sta
tion; he had pistol in his hand when he
got in the hack No. y; he looked like a
sober man when he got in; didn't say
anything but just opened the door and lei
| him in.
| Upon the conclusion of this witness ties
timOny, the jury adjourned until IL O'Clock
| yesterday.
VERDICT RETURNED.
No new facts were elected at the 'COrO-
| ner's inquest yesterday.
l.. G. Steward, being recalled, said that
| he stopped at Landauer's between Z and
O'Clock Saturday evening; Cox, Powers
| Landauer and Faulkner were in the store
| Cox was telling of little fuss himself and
Eagan had had at the Sherman House aiew
nights before, when he said Eagan had
struck him a hack-handed lick, with the re.
mark, ''That's the way we serve people il
Ireland;" whereupon ne (COX) had
KNOCKED him DOWN,
remarking, '.Thal's the way we serve peO
| PIE in America" Powers walked out 81
Lardauers, and Cox remarked that Powers
| had had his (COX's) pistol, but had given II
back; at the same time he took 1t out Of h:
| pocket; finding it cooked, he unlocked 1t
| and put it back in his pocket; pretty sOOI
Powers returned, rushed up TO Cox ana
said, ''Give me your gum" reaching around
to take it out of his pocket; Cox took The
pistol out of his pocket, and Powers grabbed
It; witness said, AL, go slow about tbs
matter" to which Powers responded tina
he wanted pistol to protect himself with
| and then walked out; witness advised Ian
daueT to close his doors, as he knew Their
was going to be fuss; when he heard tn,
pistol shots in the Merchants Exchange, III
said to Landauer,
1.-THE BALL HAS OPENED"
or something of that kind, and fearing tina
some shots might come through the glas
OF the side door, he stepped back into tn
rear part of the store; about that time
Eagan staggered in at the front door, Got {,
the show case, started to fall, recovere,
himself, and then fell ON his back, Strikini
a spittOon with his head, his pistol faIlin.
out On the floor just as he fell; witness re
marked to Laudauer, "There's dead man
you'd better lock your front door and cal
the police" witness saw a cane in Eagan'
| lnf% hand br,tc hcrr,