Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-07-25
THE WOMAN BEATING
J. ". Lambert Charged With In.
tent to Kill.

MAOG8hne eAAO u bn0p - 0C@A
Her Testimony and That o
Many Others = Mrs. Bowman 9
Vigorous Witness-Bhe vsnquish
- - Man With q B0ttle-A very
Interesting Case Reported I'm Full
The case Of John W. Lambert, charged
with assault upon Mrs. M. e. Koran will
intent to kill, was called for preliminary
examination in Justice Mclaughlin
Court. Ruby Hill. yesterday afternoon a
2 o'clock. e. R. CARRIER, District At
torney, represented the State, and Fitz-
gerald & Beatty appeared ~ counsel fol-
the defendant. The trial took place In
Miners Union Hall, and was attended oil
through the day by from fifty to sixty in
terested auditors. The following witnesses
were sworn: George Dell, J.. Purcell, ].
R. Morrison, H. O. Barnum, A. @. Good
win, Dan. A. Manning, Sam. Potter, B.
Jury, N. R. Shuert, ]. Cullen, DR.. Nesbitt,
F. j. Mette and Mrs. Bowman. After
which the taking Of testimony, a. given
verbatim below, began:
MRS. NJ. z. KORAN
Said: On the 18th day Of July about half
past 4 O'Clock in the afternoon, on Ruby
| Hill, the trouble occurred. / was in .
house opposite J. W. Lsmbert's store. Mr..
Lambert drove up in his wagon. He
jumped of the wagon and ran into his
store. ] saw him come out with . revolver
in his hand, and run across the street to
the house that / was in. He took his
| ~six-shooter and broke the window
right in, and fred . shot at me.
| Then he broke the door to the floor right
off the hinges. l ran to the cellar. He
ran right in after me and flourished his
revolver and said: IF you don't 60 out
I'll kill you right here" With that he
| struck me with his revolver on the fore
head and called me the vilest Of dirty
names, and he continued striking mi over
the head with the revolver. I think he
must have knocked me insensible, for
| when / came to be was dragging me by the
hair Of the head. He kept OF repeating
those vile words and beating ne over the
| head with the revolver. The v marks
on my forehead and one on the back Of
| my head were made by his revolver, and .
number OF bruises not cut through. My
body was badly bruised and my clothes
we're torn off my body. When he got me
| outside Of the door he 1ourished his re-
| volver and declared that he would kill any
man that attempted 10 raise Q hand to
assist me, or kill me like Q dog il / tried
to 90 back into the house. He repeated
| this . number Of times. There was quite
q crowd there and l said: "Gentlemen, you
hear what he says" I could see Mr..
Lambert when he started across the street
towards me through the sash Of my front
| door. 1t was not q window he broke but
this glass sash. The revolver was about .
foot long. I don't know what kind of q
revolver it was-am not posted Is to quail
ity or make Of pistols. I don't know
whether there were any loads left in it
after he fred the shot. He was standing
right at the door and fred just after he
broke the sash in. ] was back about three
feet one side from the door when he fred
at me. / became insensible after he
struck me q number OF times. but came to
while be was dragging me to the door.
Cross-sxamined-When I first raw pistol
Lambert was coming out Of his store door
across the street. He had the pistol in
his right hand. He stood just at the door
outside with the hand that held the re-
volver inside the sash. There was moth
ing to prevent him from killing me but
his excitement. / saw the fash and heard
the report. l don't know whether it was
q revolver or not. I I'm not posted in
pistols. / call it Q revolver for conyen.
ience. / know it was q pistol because he
fred once. I know he fred once. / had
locked myself in the house. At the time
/ had no particular feeling for or against
Mr.. Lambert. We had had some trouble,
but l thought it had been settled by the
District Court. When l locked myself
in l anticipated no trouble from Mr..
Lambert.
1T ought to be stated that "the house.
which has been and will be frequently re-
ferred to. is the immediate cause OF the
recent row. 1t belonged to Mrs. Horen,
but was on Lambert's land according to
decision OF the District Court, who was
using ii as q storehouse, the time allowed
her by the Court for removing it to make
II her W having expired. When Lam
| bert drove up to his store he learned that
she had got possession Of the building and
had been pitching his goods into the
street.-Reporter.
MRS. ISABELLA BOWMAN
This witness is . very vigorous, sharp
| talking, elderly, Scotch lady, who spoke
her mind quite freely and brought down
the house many times by her vigorous
shots. About s O'Clock on the 18th Of July
. boy came to me and told me Mrs. Horen
| wanted to see me. / went TO her house,
found her sitting in . rocking chair, with
| two bad cuts on her forehead. Found Q
| bad cut in the back part Of her head; sew
ersl other bruises on her head; her body
| also badly bruised. The scars on her fore
head were made by Q bolt or . pistol.
| II l had been there, I'd Q been up to him.
| Laughter There was . long Jaeger" on
the back Of her head that you could put
your thumb in.
Oross-examined-"I tell you, gentlemen,
il we don't get Justice here wen have it
somewhere else |"
Mr.. Beatty asked II the wound could moi
have been made by . bottle.
Answer-"A bottle q bottlel con-
t~emptuouslyl. I hit . man with . bottle,
and IL WAS . wound. I tell you, sir,
IL the man had served me 30 I'd . been
After his skin. Those wounds could not
have been made by Z bottle. The only
wounds she was bleeding from were those
In the body"
The witness spoke freely and tartly Of
her history on Ruby Hill, and went for the
defendant, much to the delight Of the
plaintiff, who exclaimed: II would rather
have her than all the lawyers. She would
have been worth more to me than all the
men on Ruby Hill, not one Of whom
dared to help me. She would not have
skulked away from Lambert"
The witness vent on and told how she
had nursed wounded miners.
A voice In the crowd: "Thavs 20. old
lady" which was received with applause.
y. r.. MoRRIsoN's rEsTIMoNy.
About 8 o'clock, or Q little after. I heard
. woman scream. ! was coming from sup.
per and passing Kyle's saloon, which ID
about rs feet from Mr.. Lambsrt's store,
I went up to where I heard the noise and
found Mr.. Lambert pulling Mrs. Horen
81 the door. He had her BY the hair.
grasped Mr.. Lambert by the arm and told
him to let 90. Mr.. Bsrnum then rushed
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