The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-11-27
ovNrsR's VERDICT NOT GUILTY.
A Deadly Failure ~ Nationals TO Paint
the Town Red.
TWO MeNxlLLep, TWO WOUNDED
A. Exciting Chase and Pitched Hattie
synopsis Of the Gsntsr cass T-.ti-
.,ony-rwo Hurdsrsrs Hung
Paris Inssndisriss.
THE DAYS CRIMES GENERALLY.

SHERMAN, Nov. 2i.-ISpecial.l The
court ro IN II again crowded this morn
ing 10 hear the evidence in tho Guntor
trial. The principal evidence WAS from
DIR. Steever, who has been physician
and surgeon for twelve years. He testi-
fed that he examined the body OF de-
ceased some i've or ten minutes after
death, and that tho wound In the breast
was large enough Ia place four fingers
in, and was from gun shot loaded with
buck-shot from It's appearance, and that
ordinarily death would be instHntane.
Gus; that If the wound was received
when dece sed was sitting down tho
probabilities were that he would not
get up--yet he might; that
ff received while standing, the prOba-
bilities were that IL would knock him
down backwards. The witness said ha
did not believe he wSiknd at all after re-
ceiving IL; but that II no did walk, that
lthen the probabilities were that he re
eelved the wound while standing or
while walking forward.
Officers Kelly and Hamilton both test
med that they saw Gunter fire the first
shop, but did not then see Thompson;
that when Gunter fired the second shot
Thoni pson was on the sidewalk walking
towatrds Gnnter. and after the second
shot tSas sIill continuing towards Gun
ter, and stopped and held on
the telephone pole; that they
did/not see Thompson TALL AZ they took
hoyd of GlIntor, AMI that Gunter fired
oHe shot rom his pistol after. they got
mold of hun; that nre or six shots were
fired in all, but by whom they could
not tell.
The defense opened by showing
threats made 10y Thompson rs fer back
~ MAY of killing Gunter and of threats
from September 3, To within few hours
before the killing, and of these icing
communicated 10 Gunter. Also of an
attompt on Thompson's part to shoot
Gunter with . shotgun few hours be.
fore the killing, ana of his being pre-
vented by Lum Sappington catching
hold of the gun and whipping the horse
attached to the buggy thew
were in at the tins.
Also of Thompson's being armed on the
evening of September 3, and looking Tor
Guntar, aud going to Gunter's Office
three times tho Same evening, and each
time entering the office with his right
hand in bis pocket, and that he had "A re-
volver in his right hand pocket when he
went to Cutters office; that Gunter WAS
formed OF il three days afterwards when
he retur, ed. Also statements made by
= Thompson as to what would have &C.
Blurred had he found Gunter i'm his office
which were, that VI Gunter had been
there, and he (Gunter) was killed, that
he (Thompson) would be hung, but that
if he (Thompson) was killed, that then
there would he nothing of it. The cause
q the luminosity of Thompson's
FART towards Gunter, was
hown to he that Guntsr had
been, Thompson surety for about 10000
which he paid and that a ter Thompson
phad' transferred his saloon in dallas
that Gunter had attached it and closed
1t up d that Thompson desiri x to
re-engagc in business believed Gunter
would again close him up. The closing
up OF ThOmpson's saloon on the evening
of the killing was on an execution out
of the coupty court in favor of the
Sherman Fair Ground association and
not in the ait by Gunter.
The balance of the evidence OF the de-
Tense was as to threats by Thompson ex-
tending up to within a half an hour of
the killing; also of his procuring pistol
about half an hour or an hour before
the killing, and secretlng HIM
self in the stairway on the north
side OF the square, where 'iunter passed
on his way home and being heard to
tell me man in 4 straw hat to go away,
he would soon be along. Tho threats
and also the fact OF his being in this
stairway were communicated to Gun
ter A IS to the killing there was some
hrst shot, but the ones who
were in the best situation to
see say the first shot was not from Gun
ter. and one witness testified he heard
the hal from the first shot strike the
sidewalk south of the Bin;ley hotel.
That both parties fired, is testified TO by
several witnesses. One witness testi-
fed that he passed Thompson ten min
utes before the shooting and that he had
pistol lying on his lap. That he re-
ceived his death wound after
getting up from the chair is
unquestionabe, as he walked twelve
feet from where he was when the shoot
ing first occurred, and full pistol that
he borrowed an h .lr before was found
in the street, some two or three feet from
where he Tell. Two parties who were
on the gallery of the Buckley
hotel say they heard the first
shot, and looking to where it came from,
they saw Gun'er fire twice from a shot
gun, the go to the shooting with pis
toll, and that the other party shot once
after they looked. The case was sub
mittea without argument at s p M, and
the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty
in about five minutes.