The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-06
RICHARD BULIoN's STATEMENT.

Mr.. Bullion was seen by a STATES
MAN reporter, yesterday, and inter
viewed on the difficulty of the night
before. He said after the shooting he
went to the lodge and the part es who
said he did not want to be interviewed
had no ground for saying so. He did
want to see THE STATESMAN repres-
entative and give the facts as he
understood them. AS to the difficulty
he said: Il sent three suppers ID Mr..
Hunters When the waiter went for
the dishes Hunter sent bark word that
the dishes had been returned. l sent
the boy back and informed him that
none had been returned to me. He
found out that they had been taken
to Simon's and sent word they were
there. He sent boy and got two
trays back and one set of dishes.
/ There were some dishes exchanged.
The knives were exchanged. l took
a statement of the dishes l had sent
over and the dishes returned to me,
PART MINE AND A PART NOT,
and went to Hunter and told him
the facts and asked him to look after
my dishes. Hunter said 1 might go
into Simon's and he would give me my
dishes back; that he could not refuse
to do so. Hunter said for
me to get leave to pick the
dishes out. We went in together
l stopped in the room where the cigar
case is. Hunter went into the dining
DOM and then called me after him.
When l got to the rear 1 found out
Simons was not there. l required the
waiter to send for Simons.
Hunter did the same thing.
SiDonnO fOr Of
and
SHORTLY ARRIVED.
l stated the facts to him in a clever,
gentlemanly way, saying: There
were some dishes exchanged, etc. His
answer was that every dish had been
sent, and if did not like it I could
go to court, and if l did not take the
dishes l had brought back with me
pretty soon and get out of there he
would throw them out, and started to
take> the tray in his hand. / replied
he need not do that,
TWAS GOING TO TAKE THEM
out. These dishes are the ones took
back. l never got the other dishes |
He is still in possession of them. AT |
ter he said he would throw the dishes |
out l said he need not do that. He |
said: do not you know what house |
you are in ?" l said: do; and when |
you say to get out of here will do it. |
We then started to come out by COM |
ing through the .dining-room. He |
said, l do not go over and bother you |
about my dishes. l then said, you
have no dishes at my place, but it is
a fact there were dishes belonging to |
me
BROUGHT INTO YOUR HOUSE
tonight, and do not see by what
right you want to keep possession of
them. l consider these dishes as stel-
en- by you. We were near the
front door by this time. He then
turned around and said: You are
ID liar. L replied: You are a
ID liar. We were close together.
He tried to hit me with his left hand
at the same time grabbing with his
right hand his pants. l thought he
was going to draw a knife l did not
suspect he had a pistol. At the same
time
BULDU CoNNELL
pushed Simons back with his left hand
and me with his right
and said, Hello, boys, what's going
on here?" Simons replied: What
right have you to interfere here?
Balda replied to him: l will show
you, and pushed him back three or
four feet from me. Then Simons
stepped behind the desk. l thought
he was going to draw knife but he
drew his pistol and shot. After he
shot I took a cup and threw it at him
to keep him from shooting again, and
went away. l have not been arrested.
All the parties, who saw the affair,
will tell you threw the cup after he
fired.