Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-09

went ont: he came into Landeuer5 cigar /
store and fell: didht ses any pistol IN his |
hard, dft,nf see Cox and Powers any more |
after the shooting, they were not IN the sa- |
loon minute before tlle shooting tookplace; |
I was leaning against the door facing when |
the shots were fired; Eagan was walking up
the saloon. took his horn ont and dropped
his hand behind his coat; didn't hear
Eaesn say a word; he was going toward the
door when shot; had his left side toward
Powers and was looking back over his
shoulder; he didn't have time TOT say anything
after Powers told him to take his hand
from behind him.
Cross-era,nined-Fo llowed Eagan's party
into the saloon; Eagan was walking up and
down the saloon when Powers and Cox
came in; Eagan was aiming to 60 out OF the
door; had both hands up to the horn:
when Powers sail what he did, Eagan had
his right hand to the horn and his left hand
dropped; he dropped his hand straight.
ALBERT CRUToHER
testified as follows:
was and am hack-driveS knew Msr-
rice Eagan; saw little OF the fatal difficulty;
on that Saturday night L was standing at
the Maxwell House; heard some persons
going across the street, and saw Powers
with a pistol IN HE hand; Cox came up and
asked what was the matter, and Powers
said that an Irish son of a b-h drew
pistol on him; Cox told him the man was
crazy, and then they went into the Mer-
chants Exchange. they ~era standing OPP
posite the Maxwell House; i've or ten min
utes afterwards Eagan and some other gen
tlemen came out of the Maxwell House,
and went across to the Exchange;
try
Ing to get to haul them; Powers
went into the Exchange after Eagani Brains
| ford went after Eagan and his party and
went after BransfarJi; Powers and Cox
went in and Eagan went off from the eoun-
| ter blowing his horn and went to the far
door and got pretty near to the door, when
| he threw one of his hands down; had a
cane in one OF his hands and horn in the
other; he was blowing the horn; when he
got near the door, heard Powers say some
thing and fire; l ran out and LETT
Jesse Bransford therei saw Eagan
staggef to the door Of the cigar
store and fall; he was lying in the cigar
store, and the horn was on one side and
stick was on the other. When Powers
came down to the Exchange he had pis-
tol in his right hand; was holding right
| down by the side of his coat. Eagan came
out of the Maxwell House about or 10
minutes after that; Powers then was
standing at the peanut stand next door to
| Landauer's. When Eagan came out OF the
| Maxwell House, Powers and Cox were
| standing near together; Easan and party
went to the Merchants Exchange and
| Powers and Cox went in just as soon as
Eagan and his party got in
CroSs-erdnined-saw Powers look in at
| Winstead's shoe store; he had pistol; Cox
came up to HIM; | was standing in front of
| Wlnstead's shoe store by the crossing;
heard Powers say that s.the damned son OF
a bm-h" had drawn pistol on him; went
across the street to the Maxwell House
| side: don't know whether Powers had
pistol in his hand or not when he and Cox
were afterwards in front OF the peanut
stand: [ could recognize them across the
street. They followed Eagan and party in
| TO the Exchange; Powers didn't have time
| to take any drink before the shooting; /
didn't see any glass sitting out before him.
| There were glasses before Esgan and the
| other men; | did not see any bottle before
Powers; was looking at Eagan and not at
| Powers; wanted to see, if | could get to
haul him. After Eagan was shot lit out.
q. VI. d. CANTRELL
was next called: | was introduced TO Mr..
| Eagan at the Maxwell House the night he
was killed; was talking to Leiper and Lell-
Yeti at the time; Eagan said "GOd bless
| the bows, love them all" and then said:
''Boys, let's 90 and have a drink" he then
said we should go to the Merchants tx
| change: we walked over and Eagan said to
the bar-keeper, "Give these gentlemen
what they want" Powers and Cox then
| came in and asked for whisky; the bar
keeper said he would wait on
| them in minute and handed
out glasses. Eagan walked toward the
| second door and was blowing his horn, and
when about three feet from the door, said:
Il will take liquor in mire;;" as he turned,
Powers said: '.get from behind me-" and
then shot; saw Eagan when he started
out bend half forward; he had his horn and
cane in his hand: a second shot was fired
a little while after the first; | left after the
second shot was fired; went out and
passed by Landauer's front door, and
saw Eagan lying in there; saw the pistol
and the horn; think the pistol was
lying behind Eagan body; it was bright
pistol; did not know Powers; if Eaga
used any threatening language after Pow
ers and Cox came into the saloon didn't
hear it; couldn't repeat the words he used;
he was laughing and going on; nothing was
said about any previous difficulty L saw
no sign of pistol on Eagan until saw 1t
on the floor in the cigar store.
Cross-erdmined-I couldn't tell what Ea-
gan's object was in going out Of the door;
he stopped before he got to the door and
turned around; he threw his hand back
over his hip; do not recOllect that Powers,
| h., nd x-r11
think he said sget from behind me-" he
said something in continuation Of that; it
was in lower tone.
| JOHN EAGAN
testified: got the pistol said to have be-
longed to my brother, from George Wright;
he does business on Church street; it was
loaded when got it; had not seen my
brother for three DAYS before his death; he
was on a spree; he had been on spree for
over two weeks.
CroSs-erdmined The bill for the pistol
came to me; | never saw Maurice with
| the pistol; never saw him with pistol.
]. W. JOHNSTON
testified: / was not personally acquainted
| with Maurice Eagan; did not see any part
of the difficulty which resulted in his death;
l am lot acquainted with Powers, but know
| NOA. was Oll NlNlAs StACO~ ~ "a ~
two pistol shots; 1 stepped into Landauer's
when Eagan ran in and fell; when he fell
Landauer turned him over on his back;
Eagan had a horn in his left hand and had
| nothing in his right that l saw; Landauer
closed the door and went outside; after he
went ont colored boy and myself were the
only persons that noticed in there; / saw
no pistol there.
| nR I w MAnDIN
testified that he was called upon to 60 into
I.andauer's and see Maurice Eagan after
he was shot; did not observe especially
what articles were lying about him; exam
ined the wounds; the wound in the side
was calculated to produce death; thought,
but could not state positively, that pistol
was lying by him.
| ROBERT HOOPER, (COLoBED0
gave the following testimony: Was not at
the Merchants Exchange when Eagan was
shot, but was there few minutes before;
saw Eagan going from the Maxwell House
to the Exchange; after he went in, saw
two men scIIffiing in Landauers
! cigar store; one of them was Cox; heard
one of them say to the other, ''give me that
gum or something like that; first thought
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