The daily gazette., 1883-09-10

i let the man alone; that they had killed him
| now. He told his son to jump on him
(Taylor) and beat him. asked m to 40
away and let him alone and then his son.
! said something to him and took him away;
could not hear what his son said"
LIST TELLS HIS STORY.
"Have you any questions TO ask 2" said
the Court.
SIN the first place." said the prisoner,
this morning my son sent his little boy up
to my house 70 tell me to come Eight down.
Said 1, what does he want o He said, 'he
wants you to have q settlement; they are
taking things out and he wants you TO come
down and bargain 80 that he car get clear
Of paying more than half the rent / put
on my hat and down went -"
Here the prisoner was checked by the
Court and advised to confne himself tb
crOss-examining the witness.
"What was 1t / said when | first came
into the housef
The witness could not remember, but her
niece (Mrs. Dean), who was present, spoke
up: You wanted to know what was going
on
Further questions put by lat ELECTED that
inferentiRlly because of the quarrel Of Mon
day, Mrs. Dean wished TO move and had
packed up her furniture TO take away.
and Dean, who occupied one-half of the
house, was a sub-tenant. The rent was SIS
per month, of which each family paid half
List objected to the Deans moving out, be-
cause he feared the landlord would hold
him responsible for the whole rent; and had
said that morning that he would shoot any
man who would come In there to put the
goods out. The elder List had said that the
Deans should not take the goods out;
that Mrs. Dean should not even take her
clothes out. Mrs. Dean replied that they
could not keep her from taking away her
clothes. Then Mrs. Dean went up to
Esquire Coles, to consult him, and came
back with the statement that the ESQUIRE
had told her she could move the goods
There was no fighting in the house; it began
and ended in the street.
Here the prisoner added "When TAYLOR
came there, how did he come to the door
l thought the door was coming in. Then
he strobe into the back room and saws he,
What's all this fuss heres If there's any
article In this house you want, have it right
out now9 Then said, MY dear sir, under
stand one thiDg-my son has rented this
house and if they take away their things my
son has to pay the whole SIS or lose all his
little things And then in comes In the
husband (Dean) and says, Il will go right
away to the landlord and bring him down
and give him clearance of the $780, The
next thing there was another knock at the
door and / said to Martha (young Lists
| wifp), Go and see who that is.' She came
back and said, Lou, you re wanted outside
Next thing heard this man (Taylor) say,
Come out on the pavement l went to the
window and saw him (Taylor) haul off and
knock him (youg List) down aud com
mence beating him, jabbing him with his
knees in dangerous way, and l hollered
out, with an oath, Stop that; you'n kill
him. He was driving down with his fist
into his face; and then heard the pistol go
off,"
James P. Ford, recalled-Repea sed his
| former testimony adding that after the elder
List struck at Taylor with bis club he called
out to his son, "shoot himl shoot himl shoot
himp After the last shot, and before he
ran through witness house, young List
said, 81 have shot himl have shot himP'
Afterwards the elder List came up and said,
81 have another for him." or something like
that; In the first instance young List had
drawn his pistol and was using both hands
in cooking It when his father called out,
"Shoot himP
The prisoner-"When the first shot was
fired was not Taylor on top OF my sonl"
Witness-"No, sir; your son was about
the distance of that window off from him.
(about 80 feet.)
"When Taylor got up and ran, didn't he
turn back before my son shot at him2"
"No, SIR"
The prisoner asked If Taylor did not re.
tuln with two bricks In his hands, but the
witness explained that he saw nothing OF
Taylor between the time ne disappeared
round the corner and the firing of the last
shot.
LISTS FOURTH CARTRIDGE.
Hugh Stewart, sworn-About 1890 was
sitting on my front steps; a man came up to
the first tree box below me and stopped; he
had a pistol In his hand and said, Il will
will shoot the first G-d-s-of a
b. who comes near me; / didn't know
the man but have been told 1t was young
List; saw the prisoner coming down the
street with q club in his hand and supposed
he was the man the other man threatened
to shoot; thought / had better save the
old mans life; stole up quietly to the man
by the tree box and, just as / got up, he
turned partly around and grabbed him by
the shoulders; he twisted around and said,
'I'll shoot you too 2 had him so tight that
he couldn't get his hands free, but he pulled
the trigger and the bullet went right over
my left shoulder; then saw he meant bust
ness and clung to him pretty tight and
showed him against the fence; then the old
mas came up and said Let him GO; said,
WON'T; he raised his club and said, Let
him go or I'll knock your damn brains out;
my wife came out then and | hardly knew
what to do, so l gave him a shove and let
him go; then went into my alley and he
snapped his pistol at me but it didn't go off;
1t would have struck my wife If 1t had.
MAN WHO SAW 1T ALL.
George Bates. sWorn-About Il. 80 | w, s
coming up to my dinner and saw Taylor at
Eleventh snd Pine; asked him what was
the matter; he said he was going to lick
somebody up a Lists and asked me If l
would go along and see fair play, as he
expected the old man would jun on too; we
went up to Lists aud he called young List
out; they talked for about two minutes and
Taylor struck him; then clinched and went
down in the street; then the old man came
out and struck at Taylor with club; then
Taylor ran OFF; the old man said: "Shoot the
s. of b.; shoot the s. of b" List
fired twice; Taylor ran round the corner and
came back with two stones in his hands; he
threw one of them at him Gold Lst), but
didn't hit him; then he came up with the
other stone near List, who was standing in
the doorway; then the old man said: Shoot
the s. of b. now," and List fired and
Taylor fell
The prisoner-"I tried my best to get him
to stop beating my son; l begged him to
stop; the women and children were holler-
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