The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-05-16

inquire OH Oeudl1 VI Tic OtdC0 WHEN
and by what means the said Aaron
oaths do say: That the said Aaron
Dobbins came to his death from nine
gunshot wounds in his stomach, appa-
rently made by a load of buckshot
from shotgun, in the hands of some
person to the jurors unknown.
T. j. LARKIN,
w. p. VINsON,
III. G. Downs,
VIM. H. FERRY,
II. w. MCCLENDON, JR.
The principal witness, and the only
eyewitness, was the boy Ben who is
some Is years old.
Ben johnson sworn says:
was out on tho gallery at Aaron
Dobbins' house last night about 8
o'clock, when a man came walking
along slowly to the fence in front of
the house. The house is about IL feet
from the fence. At that time Aunt
Mariah Williams was calling Jennie
Wimberly. The man stopped ut the
gate. I hollered and told Aunt Mariah
that Jennie was not at home she still
hollered for her. The man asked me
where was Jennie Wimberly; I told
u1tA L SttU 11Ot hAo" "HO1C SIG was
there was light in the house, she
must be at home (she lives at next
house to left as you face the depot).
The man walked that way few steps !;
then Uncle Aaron Dobbins asked me
who that was. I told him did not
know who it was. He asked me was
it white or cOlOrcd. I told him did
not know; if he wanted to know who
it was he could come and sec. He
then came to the door, and the man
shot him. Did not see the gun saw
the flash when he shot. He shot twice,
and then broke and run across the
street and across commons toward the
depot. Aaron called me and said he
was shot. 1 asked him did he know
who did it, and he said he did not.
He was standing just inside the door
when he was shot. and fell back to-
wards the window to the right of the
door as you face the street. He got up
from there and lcant down on a wash
stand between the door and window.
The shots were very close together
Dobbins fell at the second shot. left
him leaning against the washstand
and went to Perry Jackson and told
him about it. There was no light in
the house, except a little fire where we
had been cooking, and I saw no blood.
did not come back till this morning !;
he was dead then. The man who
shot came from towards town when he
first came up to the gate, and walked
few steps back that way when he
left before he shot. Dobbins had not
gone to bed; he was lighting his pipe
when the man first came, and when
he got it lit went to The door and got
shot. The man who shot was a tall
man. 1 never saw the note produced
and shown me by the Coroner, marked
X. have a brother older than I. He
and my father did not get on we'll be-
fore he left. He is now on Crew Lake
working for w. II. II. Mullin he can
write little; tho voice was not my
brothers. 1 did not see the man who
shot throw any note over the fence.
BENZ. x JOHNSON.
mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this 18th day of May, A. d. 1879.
j. w. LOCKE, Coroner.
Perry jackson, an elder in the color
ed Baptist church and who lives not
over rs yards from Dobbins' cabin, tes-
but knew nothing further. He went
to see Dobbins in about minutes after
the shooting, and inquired of Dobbins
if he knew who shot him. His reply
was that he did not, and did not know
for what reason.
Caroline Dobbins, the wife of the
deceased, was sworn and testified:
know nothing of the shooting last
night. 1 was ut Mrs. Ezelius' at the
time came home about IL O'Clock.
My husband, Aaron Dobbins, was dead
when 1 got home. I know of no diff
Guilty between Aaron Dobbins and any