The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-26

Mitchell's house to arrest him. wben
l arrested him / told him / wanted
MIN as witness in Il case: I fold him
l wanted to go down toward Nets.
ana when we got opposite Laura
I1aii L said to him: Lets 90 i'm and
see Watford." He Went in with me
voluntarily and without any remark:
when | got in the room l found Wat,
iord In bed and the follow
ing persons in the room:
FRED Callahan, Emma Williams.
laura Hall, and some others whom i
alu not know by name. When / got
III sald: Bill Watford, is this the
. .iIal VINO shot your" and he said
yes. Ills eyes were open. / re-
peated to him the question and fold
MN TO look good, and he again said
tnat Rublrth was the man Wiashot
him. The clothes Rubirth pnf on
after l arrested him are the same he
has on now. l arrested George Nit.
chell the same morning, and carried
him down to where Watford was in
bed, and L asked Watford if George
Mitchell was the man who struck
him, and he said, 81 think not. but
can't exactly tell; think he was a
darker man." Same parties present
as named above, and perhaps Others.
l then released Mitchell.
RE-EXAMINRD.
Watford said the man who struck
him was behind him, and he could not
see him very well; that he could not
really tell whether Mitchell was the
man or not, but did not think he was;
thought the man who struck him was
darker.
| EMMA WILLIAMS,
recalled, testified: After Watford was
shot he came directly into
the house. He was standing
at the time he was shot, on little
foot-bridge in front of the gate; after
shot, he came right into my room,
which is front room, as soon as L
could unlock the door; he asked me
to pull off his shirt, and i pulled it off
quick as could l pushed him down
on the bed; he was bleeding and could
not talk good; l asked him who shot
him; He replied, at first, "that fat
| yellow barber" l asked him again
and he said: "Bob, the barber" Laura
Hall was there; there were others
there, but l don't know who they
were.
OItOSc-EAAMlNED.
know James II. O'Connor. and If
he was on the gallery when the
shooting occurred, / did not see him;
l did not see any white man on the
gallery at the time of the shooting
there was no white man leaning
against the door, facing upon the
street; O'Connor did not ask me to tes-
tlfy, or Laura Hall, in my presence,
that he was on the gallery. Billy said
that he did not know who hit him, but
on the night he was shot he said a
man stepped behind him and hit him
with pistol. George Mitchell had on
his under-shirt and pants.
LAURA HALL
| was then recalled by the defense and
testified that when OConnor came
out os the court room he had told her
that he had testified that he was on
the gallery when the shooting occur
red, and that ne wanted Emma and
myself to swear that he was there:
told him that | would not do so, be-
cause he was not on the gallery.
Deputy Sheriff M. A. White, and
Constable A. j. Thorp testified with
reference to Watford saying that
Mitchell was not the man that struck
him.
Jim Smith. colored, gave unimportant
testimony with reference to Mitchell's
position before the shooting, and his
running through Metz saloon after
the shooting.
Both sides then rested, Mr.. Wooten
speaking in behalf of the state, Mr.,
Pendexter for Rubirth, and Newt
Walton for Mitchell and Jerry Willis
Judge Won Rosenberg will deliver his
decision at $50 this morning.
NOTES.
Jerry Willis says what he hated
about it was he was cut off from cele-
brating the 10Th.
Rubirth says it is HI to be yellow
barber about this time.