Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-01-14

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the report and saw the blaze and
smoke when her brother was shot.
There was no difficulty between them,
that she knew of and they were APP
parently friendly during the evening. |
She saw no pistol only her brothers
and only knew of others by hcarsay.
In her crosse examination che said
she smelled liquor on loves breath
he did not walk steady. My sister
and myself were the first persons to
him when ho fell--was present when
the pistol was taken from my brothers
pocket by Emcry-saw that it was
loaded. Did not know where Lowo
was when her brother was picked
up-said Lowe come in the house 10
or 10 minutes after we had laid my
brother on the bed. ~
Rnfus Tlrpin the next witness, ..
young man, one OF the boon compan-i
ions Of both the deceased and Lowe,
who was with them the night OF the
killing, but did not see the fatal shot
fired as he was in another room at tho
time. lie testified that he had been to
town that day and got some whisky
and some cartridges, that he
loaned Lowe his pistol and also some
cartridges. Lowe was shooting around
the house. He bought "a cartridges
gave Lowe 5, shot ten off on his way
home from tho city, and then threw
the balance away lie became very
| much confused. =
The next witness was Young lad
named Robert Handy, l6yests Of age,
who gave his testimony in straight
forward manner, but was in no mate
rial particular different from the others.
He saw Lowe at the dance, In fact,
went there with him, was near
by when the fatal shot was
fired. Saw pistol in Resner's
hand a moment or two before the
accident-he was taking a cartridge
out.of it. Saw Lowo have something
ia his hand which. was by his side-do
not know what it was ss l could not
see plainly, Was looking at them
when the shot was fired, but did not
see Lowe doing anything. II.
In his cross examination hc said the
boys he went with had a pint bottle Of
whisky-they gave him some. ,Was
dancing when we got there. Heard
shots around the house. Saw Resner
have pistol a moment before the shoot
ing. Saw Lowe have one out doors
there that night. Heard no difficulty
outside or in the house between these,
parties. Several persons were talking
together when the accident happened.
Saw no one else have pistols there.
From the Daily Of the 9Th. YYtt$s
The trial of Eden Lowe for the MUIR.
der Of Ressncr, is still in progress, and
from present appearances will not be
concluded before tomorrow, If then,
as large number of witnesses are yet
to be examined, and slow progress is
being made.
The first witness since our report
last night, was the musician for the
dance-a man by the name of Emery.
He says that after the shooting and the
consequent excitement, q search of the
persons present was made to see who
had pistols, but though Lowe was not
in the house at the time the search
commenced, but afterwards came In
and said he wanted to be and was
searched. and no weapon was found
on him. Did not Gee defendant 60 Out
or come In, and the only pistol he
found was on the person of the de.
ceased The search was made ia from
twenty to thirty minutes after Resner
died.
In his cross examination he said he
did not drink with Rnfas !Turpin that
night. Saw james West have half
| pint OF Liquor which was all he saw.
Heard the shots in the road aud
| around the house, but did not know
who. hred tho pist0ls.s : 'lhere' was
| probably twenty men and boys there
and seven or eight women, which
number he guessed Ut. Paid no At
tention to who went In or out. Saw
nothing of the shooting, but heard the
exclamation, "Oi lam shot!" There
was much excitement at the time OF
| the shooting. Would mot say that de-
fendant was or that he was mot in the
room at the time. Don't know who
all WAS in thereon. Upon examina.
| ton found that the ball struck Resner
about the middle, near one inch and a
half from the navel. He made The
search at the sugsestion Of Resner's
sister. He said it was generally
thought that he had shot himself unit
the loaded pistol was found on his per.
son. Several persons were there who
were not searceed. Eight or nine per.
sens were searched for weapons. Here
he gave list Of those who were and
those who were not searched.
g. A. PEBBLE was next sworn anG
testified to hearing three or four shot
. around the house: Did not know
who did it. He also heard the shoot.
ing in the house and was three or Ifoul
! steps from where it was done. Low,
u and Resnsr wac footing with some
thing, be did not know what, ani
pretty soon thereafter heard the re
port and sawthe smoke between, tn
parties. Lowe was rubbing his hand
! and said the ball just grazed his hand
, and when asked how it happened, di'
not say anything. Only saw tn
smoke between Loweand Resner VIII
were nearly touching each other.
i Preble on. his scross.examination