The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-04
THE HOWELL MURDER.
THE CoHONER's JURY HUNTING FOR
THE MURDERER.


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place on Mardi Gras evening. The following Is
the testimony elected. DIR. G. Ohastsnt e.
White and VIM. Murray were the first three
witnesses called. and large bullet being shown
to them identified It as the ono taken from the
body Of Sell Howell on the evening following
the murder.
AID B.A. MDoNoGH.
| On the night of the twenty ftb ultimo ] was
| In Krost's saloon / heard q shot fired and ]
| Immediately ran out In the direction from
whore heard tho shot across st. Charles street,
and into Common. | caught man running
| bare headed from the upper to the lower eide
| of Common street. His name he stated was T..
| 4. Townsend turned him over TO Officer Clew
| of the Harbor Station. and told him to take him
| to the Central Station.
In front OF Reea shoe store. on Common
street stood Ed Howell. In the middle of the
door. with two Trantets saying, stand bHok.
| you s-us of BIS" / advanced on him and he
| fired. and as | closed on him he fired again. !
| grasped him by both wristlets, and be said. i
did not know 1t was you, Mac tai Q my pistols. .
! took bis pistols. placed him under arrest. and
| tlipn he said. Sell IA dying let me gee him"
| ] went into the shoe store with him, He told
me that Wimberey was the ether party In the
ARRAY, and wrote his name on piece of paper
| / requested the officers present to go and try
| to find Wimberley. believing him TO be In some
Of tho saloons; DID not know Ct ,t that time
and Ed Howell. The three reviewers Ia the
poss,ess2an Of the coroner being shown witness
to m with a
bers empty, No. 90 COS. Double trigger Tranter
No. B7.sH Identify IA also being In the hands
Ssll howell, iii. Howell stating that it was bis
brothers pistol: llve chambers were empty.
Ed. Howell did not say how he got possession
handed to him by Dr. King. which he's he stated d,
tho ,wenty-nfth OF February at the Charity
Hospital.
LOUIS MEYER
On the night of the twenty nth instant. agout
o'clock, was at Wittums, taking u glass of
beer. All at once | heard shooting outside on
the banuuette. | ran out and saw - gentleman
coming towards Wittum' and when he got to the
shoe store coming from st. Charles street some
body fired into him when he got In front of the
shoe store. ! did not see who fred. / did not
know who It was that fred. they fred on this
man tour, or five times. He returned one shot
The man who fired the one shot ran into Wit
tums and won't into the back yard. / followed
en- !, into The yard and then he went into No "a
~; Charles street, from the back entrance
When no got into the store he handed mo his
pistol on full cock.
An improved Smith Il Wesson pistol being
shown witness, he identified 1t as the one
handed him in the store No. "a st. Charles
street. The number OF tho pistol is 10 9o4
l Kept the pistol In my possession three or
four days. Why kept the pistol was because
the man who gave 1t 10 me told mo to keep it: il
was the last word hessaid to me.
did not lose sight OF the man who gave mo
the pistol from the time he ran into Wittum's
until he fell In the store No. "a st. Charles
street. He said to me. For Gods sake give mo
some morphine. or 60 for doctor" ] told him
to sit down.
when hg gave me the pistol he said, Keep
this until call on you for It,"
| have never been out to tho hospital to gee
the wounded man.
Why did not give Aid McDonogh the pistol
10 give It NJ. knew. Aid McDonogh was an
officer. When Aid McDonogh called ON mo
for the pistol | told him that somebody had
taken 1t away from me.
Witness WINS taken to the hospital and on HIS
return said that he recognized Kimberley as
the man who gave him the pistol. and Mr.. Win
Derley also recognized tho witness by his coat.
WILLIAM KERN.
On tho night OF the twenty nth instant was
firing commenced
| ran into the allayway along side Of Wittum's
While was standing In the alley a man came
into the alley from Wittum's. As he came in. "A
door leading from the store on st. Charles
street opened and tho man ran in and ran in
behind him. The man had pistol in his hand
A. soon as we had entered the man barred the
door.
tered with me said / am wounded / am dying !"
and asked me to 40 for a doctor. There was n
man In the store ahead of me. i asked him
why he did not go for doctor no replied that he
was also wounded In the heel.
! then asked that the door DO opened so that
could go out
When he opened the door a crowd rushed in
and crossed St Charles street the st. Charles
Hotel. saw q man whom | thought was the
man who said he was wounded and boy. were
the only persons, tn ink, In the store.
Witness was here shown the pistol. No. IL. g04,
and identified 1t as being similar to the one In
hands OF the man who entered the store with
htm.l l would recognize the man If saw him.
He had the pistol when left the store only
81 In hn All tEun
There may have been more persons in the
store, but did not 500 them. There was no
one with tho wounded man when I last saw
him.
LOUIS COOK
The ball extracted from the body OF Soil How
ell having been shown wttne5S. he states it to be-
ss-loQ cailbre; that is OF the kind used In a
Smith Il Wesson revolver; that IL could not be-
fired from q Tranter revolver though both OF
the same calibre. The Smith h Wesson Is a
central IRE, while the I'ranters are rim fire. and
both cartridges are d ISIS milar from each other
me witness. being al expert gunsmth. Is we'll
qualified to make the above assertion.
C. MADDEN
was sitting in Wittums saloon about half
past o'clock on the evening OF the twenty ffth
when heard shot fired. and some seconds
afterwards three or four In rapid successi IN
upon which we all stepped to the door and look
came saw man standing on the sill Of the
shoe store next door to Wittums, who was
ing on the banuuette
The man on the banquette had no weapon In
sight. but was using both hands, with the an
parent endeayor to draw one from the right
side. He suddenly leaned to the right, as if
he had been hart. He then advanced
towards the man who was shooting at him. |
then moved back into Wttums. and lost sight
q 81 both parties. 1 next saw him In front of
Wittun's front door. which he passed, came
back. ~N vi nou
When he turned back the post interviewed be-
tween him and me. While he was behind the
post heard another shot fred apparently nv
him Whe a., h9 first went by the door noticed
tum's saloon. through the first door. remarked
70 MN. IS he came toward me with his pistol In
come In heref don't bring that fight in here p
ne s answered; I've got it; can't somebody get
want to die this way" | then passed out to on
the oanquette and heard a man standing in
the shoemaker's door say, Keep away there.
don't come nigh me! I'll kill any one who comes
near me-! then went back into Wittum's and
AFTER l was up stairs, heard two or three