The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-09-10
THE CHISHOLM MURDER.
Commencement of the Trial of Henry j.
Gully.

Commencement of the Trial of Henry j..
Gully.
DEKALB, Miss Sept. s.-The hearing of the
evidence in the trial OF Henry J. Gully for the
State and ss for the defense. were sworn and
was the first witness. She testified that an
excited crowd of men entered DeKalb on the
ceased the following morning. Sinclair,
then sheriff, arrested her husband on
the morning OF The 18th. He asked TO be
sought instant investigation OF the charges
against him. Armed men kept coming
with them and then to Chisholm. Chisholm
told one crowd, 'You cowardly scoundrels,
you will kin me before evening, but before
DUST" Sinclair came to my husband at about
Il o'clock and said, They say you must go TO
nelia, accompanied my husband to jail.
Mr.. Moseley and Mr. overstreet went inside
the jail with the party, and the door Of the
Ewes % n1Gr 9I sne }a sS was o % Senina da the
husband on an errand; Heard the firing as I
behind the jail. Rushed inside the jail and
was at the top Of the stairs, and William
Gully trying to break the lock OF the upper
@ Ms
Ss' face ssedins Ss sass e my
Rosser ired the irst shot through the broken
arm. The door was here broken open and my
little boy fell, shot through the heart. Some
men caught MIN by the heels and dragged him
down stairs. Ny husband was bewildered at
the death of Johnnie. and my son Clay car
ried the dead boy down stairs. Corne la and
father came down stairs. Henry ]. Gully came
up and raised his gun: I closed the grated
the neck Gully fired through the, the
scrssmed ant shot Judge cE shoim nusnser epee
Gully came out Of an adjoining room with
another gun, and again fred At him, ana ne
fell. Clay and assisted my husband In reach
ing home. My daughter was bleeding in the
was shot IL the wrist, in the az lie, and in the the
heel. she was shot by Henry Gully. She died
Of
nelia's bracelet, which was broken driven in
TO her arm); also, five buckshot taken out Of
ser. by the God that made him
sSs ans ws wbom he oSss % De .as sna
ned with the blood Gilmes and Mcclellan. He
% would shoot any woman @ nsf Who stcod % betWesn rW m
himself and Chisholm" The defense asked
the witness. "Did she not know Cornelia died
ness said she did not know. In relating the
scene connected with the death Of ner son
Johnnie, Mrs.Chrisholm tainted. When asked
IL Sheriff Sinclair was not over
powered by a mob, she said she
could not tell whether the sherin
commanded the mob or The mob commanded
the sheriff DIR. Chamberlain, who waited on
Cornelia Chisholm, testified that she died Of
the effects Of her wounds; that one Of the
bones OF her leg was broken, and two of the
bones of her arm, by buckshot, and that she
was wounded in the face by some blunt in
strument,. and that no treatment could have
saved her life
with Gilmer, in custody of Deputy Sheriff
Britton: was fol owed to town by eight armed
men; ssw many others In town with guns; as
shoot Gilmer IN the back. 0ilmer hallooed,
"Oh, Lordy, I'm killed. 7" and ran down the
by the shotgun Of Virgil Gully. Rosenbaum
corroborates the statement Of Mrs. Chisholm
fire witness ran into the JAN, and did not see
the shooting Of Chi1holm and hss daughter.