Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-06
THE LENTINI CASE.
DEFENDANT RELATES THE INCIDENTS
ATTENDING BIS FLIGHT.
A Great Deal of Conflictiag Testimony
Some One Has Committed Perjury
The Case Nearing a Close.

Some One Has Committed Perjury
The Case Nearing a Close.
The Lentini trial was resumed at "A. NJ.
yesterday.
Timothy Lee said he had visited Troai's
place, and found no blood stains on the floor.
He thought that blood stains would remain
on floor for fifteen months, and as far as
that was concerned, for fifteen years. He
said there were blood stains on the floor of
the county jail that were made when Morti-
mers brother was killed many years ago. He
contrsdicted fatty the testimony given by
Deluchi, who stated that John Lentini ad-
mitted to him in jail that after the row at
Troars place on the afternoon of the 22d of
February. 1882, he went to his house. re.
turned the same evening to T1oai's place and
had another difficulty with Trosi,
Sheriff Estill was put upon the stand and
corroborated the testimony of Mr.. Lee rela-
tive to the statement of Deluchi, Mr.. De-
luchi told witness he could not understand
LentiHi well enough TO interpret what he
said
Cross examinstion-Delu told the wit.
ness that Lantini said that Troai had q diff
Guilty with his wife, and that Tr1ai had a gun
in his hand. Lentini took hold of the barrel
tried to take it from TroAi, wnen the gun was
discharged and no one injured
WILLIAM RAFFETY RECALLED.
Said he wished to make correction in his
former statement. Land thst he described
as being in section Is was in section g. Went
over the ground where he saw the murder
committed, with the District Attorney, and
explained the situation of all the parties.
Cross-examined-Did not think that he
stated at the Armstrong examination that
Trosi laid the body down south of the house.
Did not recollect of stating on that exsmina-
tion the position of the child and woman.
In reply to several questions relative to his
answers he made at the examination referred
to. ne answered: 81 don't recollect; 1
might" Said he visited the spot where the
woman fell a Jew days after the murder !;
found the grass trodden down and saw some
blood.
John T. Carey said he had visited the
ground described by Rsffety, and was shown
by the latter the exact spot where Troai and
his wife stood at the time the murder was
committed. He judged from the points
shown him that Iroai stood twelve PAGES
from his wife when he fired the fstal shot.
c. C. FUGETT
Said he lived at Gait, and at the time of the
murder of Mrs. Trosi he held the position of
Constable; went to Troai's place the next
morning. Mr.. Edgerton tried to prove by
the witness that he met Mr.. Raffety the same
morning and was told by him that Lentini
was not the murderer. Judge Holl objected
to the testimony and the objection was sus-
tanned.
HENRY ECKHARDT
c. l. skL c.
ramento. He had been in the gunsmith busi-
ness for a great many years, and considered
himself an expert. A bored.out rife loaded
with shot and discharged at a distance of ten
feet would make target not over six inches
in diameter. and a wound something like a
hole; at a distance of eight feet would not
scatter quite so much at thirty feet it would
scatter eighteen inches; at forty five feet,
about two feet. A smooth.bore gun shoots
closer than a double-barreled shotgun. Len
tinis gun was shown witness, and ne said he
believed it had originally been rife. A
No. 10 Moore gun, at distance of forty.fve
feet. would make target twenty inches in
diameter.
Crose -examination-Said he could not say
what kind of target Lentipis gun would
make. Some guns scatter more than others,
and it depended to some degree upon how a
gun was loaded and on the size shot used.
DIR. C. C. TYRRELL,
A physician and surgeon of Sacramento,
said: The pest mortem examination of DR..
Gardner would indicate instantaneous death.
From the nature of the wound described, he
did not think it possible she could have
walked and spoken as reported. He thought
a little child, under state of great excite
ment, could receive several shots in her arm
and not experience pain therefrom for four or
five hours.
Cross-examined-It was not probable q
person would walk and talk after receiving q
wound like the one described, but not alto
gether impossible. A child receiving wound
as described would complain of the same, he
thought, within twenty.four hours.
a. FLoHR,
A gunsmith, said he had been in the business
ever forty years. A shotgun fired at dis.
tsnce of eight to ten feet would make tar.
get from four TO five inches in diameter at
sixty feet, target two feet in diameter. At
a distance of ten feet, the whole charge
scattering of gun depends upon its condi-
ton and the manner of loading. The more
you ram shot the more it seatters. In an
ounce of No. 8 shot there are 1SS pellets in
No. s, 3S5.
OLIVER SAUNDERS
Was put on the stand as shotgun expert.
and exhibited piece of tin about six inches
square which he had used as target at the
distance of six or seven feet. He had used
an ordinary shotgun, with an ordinary charge
of powder and shot, The entire charge did
not scatter over space more than four
inches in diameter. He also described an
experiment at a distance of sixty feet.
CHARLES BELL,
A chemist, was put upon the stand to testify
how long srterial blood would retain its color.
He said owing to the oxidization of the air it
would lose its bright color in ten or twelve
hours arterial blood, in color, was bright
red veinous blood is of dark color.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Robert Craig, recalled, said that a cabin
was placed on Lentini's land the 23d day of
February-the dsy after the homicide. 1t
was put there by Mr.. Woodruff, for the Lees.
Mr.. Edgerton offered to prove by several
witnesses that William Rsffety was not on
the Coroner's jury. Mr.. Holl objected, and
the objection was sustained.
MISS BELLE GAFFNEY
Said she was a daughter of Mrs. Isabella
Gaffney knew Sam Troai, his wife and John
Lentini they often called at her mothers
had q conversation at her home with Troai g
few months before the homicide he said
that before marriage he had lots of friends,
and now had no friends he said he had of.
fered to give her 5000 in money, a COW and
Chickens and wanted her to leave and go to
Stockton. He said if she bothered him much
more he would knock her in the head; saw
her at one time when her body was black and
blue and horribly beaten.
JONI LENT1NI's STATEMENT.
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