The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-06-20
P0LSER PEACHES.
HIS TRUE STORY" ToLr
They Tried to Play Him fora sucker hut
u Wouldn't work-Deiails or The
Highly Ingenious Arrange
ment, SEMI successful.

Murder will out. When Joe Polscr, In
the face of what +. Il. Humphreys stated
on his dcath-hed, boldly asserted that he
was the man who fired the fatal shot
and that no acted solely In self-doicnse,
there were fow who refused To believe
the gnuzy story. Humphreys stated,
while his lilc's blood was
obbing away, that Jim Hun
nicut shot him, and that he know
IL was him because he saw him,to use his
own expression, as plain as day. Not
withstanding this, Polsor came To tho
front and stated that he shot Hum
phrcys, who was making am assault on
him. At the coroncrs inquest the tosti-
mony ofGoorgo Waller, the proprietor Of
the Stockynrd saloon where the shoot
ing occurred, John lierndon
and ;6S ota sS tb ia""'G the G deceased ID
was shot by Polser. Tho jury of inquest
however, was dubious, and In their vcr-
diet failed to find that Polser was the
man who did the killing, notwithstahd-
ing his own assertion and that OF Others
that he did. However, he was arrested
and lodged in tho county Jail To await
further developments. The grand jury
and county attorney visited the scene
of the shooting Wednesday
and investigated the bullet
hole In the door and took in tho sur
roundings. From what they saw ana
heard on that trip they were more con
WINGED than ever that Polscr was not the
man who did the killing. Yesterday
morning two of the granddaughter
visited him ut the Jail and held confer
cnce with him. Whom they came out
their faces wore more satisfied air, and
soon after their return To the grand-jury
room message was sent down TO the
shcrinrs office to bring Polser
before that body. Deputy Sheriff Wins
ton brought out the prisoner, who, AFTER
so, was returned to his cell. All this
time the curiosity of n HERALD reporter,
who was taking In all these proceedings,
got the best of him and he began to
rustic for the true inwardncss OF il all
sounding the various oiicers-and iail-
ing to get any satisfaction, he called
Mt the jail and tried Capt.
no purpose, for he protested total ig-
norancc as to anything ola newsy nature.
The request of the reporter To see Polscr
was granted, and he visited the prisoner
I'm his cell on the second floor. The re.
porter told Polser that ii was understood
that he had made a clean breast OF
the shooting, and that he acknowledged
he did not do it. He said he
had. "Jm Hunnicut did the
killing, and Hunnicut and his
party persuaded me, while / was
under the influence of liquor To assume
the murder telling me they they would
get mo clear and that | would not lose
anything by doing so. | consented, and
now see what u fool | was. IL Is true
that Humphreys and ] had n quarrel,
and that lie threw u chair mt me. As he
did so, Jim Iiunnicut shot him.
Humphreys cried out, so, Lordy,
save me-" and ran out the
back way of the saloon.
There were present at the
time of the shooting, Ike Iunnicut,
brother of Jim Hunnicut, George Wal
Ter, John iIcrndon, myself and Hum
phreys. After the shooting, / went
home, and about 4 or 3 o'clock that
morning John Herndon called on me
and proposed that | should say that /
did the killing. | went down 70 the
saloon with him, where we met Waller
and Herndon, and it was fixed up that !
should claim that did it. George Wal
lor was there, but he did not have
much to say about it.