The daily gazette., 1879-12-09

sitliig room and Thirteenth street re-
specliyely. Mr.. Conwell testified that
the doors had been so arranged that
"heh The two communicating with the
Oar room and sitting room were opened
person standing in the bar room could
only look into the sitting room through
space btrelytwo and half inches. This
last testimony b. ars somewhat upon that
OF the next Witness.
AT the conclusion Of Mr.. Conwell's
testimony the plot was put in evidence.
WEAK voIcRDwITsEss.
Martin Coleman next took the stand,
having been brought out OF Jail, where
he has been confined siuce tie crime in
default Of the bail In which he was h. ld
as witness. Martin has a serious trou-
oie WIN his organs of speech and could
not speak much above "A whisper thus
occasiohiDg mach III iliculty in ascerta;t-
ing what he said, aud causing the Court
TO ftinark once during the afternoon,
stand out "a hil and let us look at you !;
we have been ~ ing to hear you iu vain
Tor half an hour
MARTIN LEMAN's ST RY.
Martins t'slmohy WAS to the follow
ing thect i knew Richard 81. Rowe
and rene N her the day on which he waa
X iled,-on Saturday, May 81 first saw
him that day at O'Clock or little after
in the afternoon he was at Dugab's sa-
loon over Eleventh street biidge when ]
first saw him Hugh Dugan, Mrs. Du-
gan aud Rowe were there, and Rowe
called me III Rowe had left word At my
boarding house that day that lie au,ed
10 see NE. aud | was lOokIng for him AT
the Tune dinner was ready when / went
In ard Mrs. Dugan asked Rove to take
dinner with them, which he did they
| seemed sociable en- ough with regard to
liable talk, AID l heard no hard words
| used, iheugh Dugan had but little TO say :
VI hall an hour Rowe and lcf together,
aud orme along Heald street toward
Eleventh and stopped under some shade
trees which wereabOut two squares from
Dugan's house we talked there about
some work on The quarry lot. CAT El-v-
nth aud Pine, whlcb Col. Rowe was
grading at the tine-RRP) Finally two
colortd men came up ami asked Rowe
| tor soiDe money on account OF II contract
thy were doing for him he gave one
| OF Ihem "A dollar and said ne would pay
the rest Monday morning about 4 o.
| clock he invited the three OF us To Du.
gan's to taSe something 10 drink, and
VIZ went io the saloon together we EN-
| tered at the side door on Thirteenth
street and entered the bar room by CON.
ing around through the door back OF the
| bar.
| Up to this point In his testimony Mar
| tin had said much that was inaudihle, +,
until Mr.. Bates had repealed 1t His
voice nav, however, appeared to get
| better, and he spoke with tOierable dts
tnctiven 81. He continued: "There
WAS no one IN the house but Dugan anu
| his wife. Dugan sat at the window III
the sitting room, looking onb Oh Thir
teenth street; MIS-. Dugau waited on us,
and We each had two drinks, and re-
manned standing In the bar room"
| MCGAUGHEY ON THE SCENE.
edward McGaughey came soon after
| this" Continued Coleman, "and tried to
get in and knocked at the doors: Dugau
SAID in IA muitercd sort of way that he
did not want him in the house; NJ c.
Gaughey had first been at the door on
| Thirteenth street and then came To the
Heald street door, but soon went to the
sitting room window where Dugan sat;
| he aud Dugau had souIe WoIds, and
| talked an instant at The window: Dugan
| seemed angry, aud left the window and
came into the bar room; McGaughey
cont nued to knock AT the side door, aLi
said il they did not open 'he'd get in
somehow" we had all been in the bar
Room in front of the counter up to this
time, and now Rowe started behind the
COUNTER to go to the Thirteenth street
door, where McGaughey was knocking;
Dugan followed HIM and came next; as
| | wentln noticed the pistol on The
mantle piece IN the bar room; Rowe
| stood near the door on one side and Mrs
| Dugan on the other, and 1 think he
opened the door, though | did not see
| his hands; Dugau WAS five feet away
and still with me behind the bar; as soon
as the door was opened McGaughey EN-
tered, and he, Rowe, and Mis-. Dugan
went into The sitting room; Just thrn
Dugan stepped past me To the manii
piece; he put hts hand up, aud aa h.
turned saw that he had The
PISTOL IN HIS HAND,
and then started to go past me into the
,itting room; l opened my arms and
stopped him, telling him TO have some
sense: he got angry, aud tried to force
himself from me, as If full Of the devil,
aud | brgan to get afraid of my life;
after q second or ;wo he put The pistol
in his hin pocket and went from me to
the sitting room door; both doors were
open, and Dugan starred To enter the
room and l followed hun up as far as the
passage way, ] saw MeGdughey make
'oward Dugan then aud hit hin down
ward blow along the breast and abdo-
men, while he (Dugan1 fell back to avoid
it; as he struck, McGaughey exclaimed,
|
pistol out then; / did not see Rowe; Mrs.
Dugau caught hold of NJ, Gaugbey's arm
and held 1t back.
THE FATAL SHOT.
Question: What did Dugan do after
Nc CGaughey hit at him. Answer.-H e
stepped back and put his hand in his
DO il ct and took out the pistol.
Q.-Can You tell us what followed?
Al got frightened then and wen.
back into the bar room and to the door
! Opening on Head street but came back
and, standing outside the bar, l looked
into the sitting room through the two
door-ways.
O.-Was Dugan still standing in the
doorway, and what did he do?
Ale still stood III the same place
he held the pistol in this manner, illus-
tr,tipr) and had no aim, because he held
IL no higher than his hip; ! saw him hrt
bu, could not see McGaughey or Rove s.
OF out on the ilreet through the froni
door in hurry aud ina minute l saw
McGaughey come out of the thirteenth
street door and run to his house, near by
with all his might; did not go int
the house again, ana did not see DuRaI
afterwards until the next "Wednesday
when they were bringing him To Jail;
saw Rowe after he was dead.
Ooestiop.-Was the reason you tried
IN stop Duran when he took down the
pistol hat you feared he would do some
one ha m.
q .iecled to by Mr.. Bird, but not sus
tained.
Auswer.--fes.
| n unu Ionp WAS it between the