The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-29

us had drank, Edwards said to Wre
= c'''"t tone of voice: "Wren. VIII;
have you got against me? What hay
/ eve, uvne to you? Do L owe yo
anything?" Edwards then sa:,
seeming to get little excited: "Y o
have been talking about me an
abusing me, and YOU car
not do that behind my back, and
know you are afraid to do it to m
face l then spoke to Edwards an
said: We'll, don't let us talk abou
that. Men will frequently say thing
they don't mean, when out of hume
Let us take our drink and not discus
the matter Edwards said: No,
want this matter settled. Wren ha
got to explain what he means by talk
ing about me-
Wren commenced to say some
thing, but Edwards interrupted hin
when Wren said: well, if you won
listen to me, l have got nothing t.
say or words to about this effect
lie (Wren) then rose from the tabl
and stepped to the bar to settle for tn
drinks we had got, and Ed
wards also got up and seemed
to grow excited all of sudden
and commenced to violently abuse anC
curse Wren. He told Wren that h,
was a d-n thief; that he was a lant
forger; partner of Tullis and McCul
Tough; that the supreme court would
never affirm his judgment against the
Galveston News; every one knew thai
he was land forger. He further told
him that he would see that he was
never again elected grand secretary Of
the grand lodge l. o. D. F., as he cd.
Wards) intended to expose him, and
show the order that he was II thief.
L cannot pretend to give all of his Ian
guage, but it was most violent and
abusive. Among other things he call.
ed him a s-n of b-h, and told him
that he would wait flor him outside
the club rooms and give him the
'd-est kicking he ever had in his life.
Some time during the time
Edwards was talking the
Il. II. Brumby came up, and he and
l tried to get Edwards out of the
room. Mr.. Carleton's account of the
difficulty, which followed outside on
the gallery, was in keeping with that
OF Mr.. Brumby; Mr.. Carleton further
testified that he had seen Mr.. Edwards
at his Edward's) Office, one week after
the difficulty (about May 81 and late
that evening was standing with him
on the street, when Capt. Sneed came
along, and spoke to Edwards, who was
then pretty "full;;" and that, with Ed
wards weak condition, made him so
that he could hardly stand without
assistance.
TaDf anl x1yav,t 70
office on the morning of the 18th of
May, it being, as now remember,
the day Edwards left Austin for Gal
weston. On this occasion Edwards
showed Capt. Tom E. Sneed the lower
wound in his side. l did not notice
the wound particularly at this time,
as l had seen it before; but l noticed
enough to see that there was no dress
ing on it of any kind. He wore no
suspenders. Capt. Sneed called his at
tention to the condition of his wound
as to lack of bandage and dressing,
anu asked him if it was not danger
our for him to De odt with his wounds
undre5sed and unbandaged, with his
clothes next to them. also asked
him if his doctors knew Of his condi-
ton, and what they thought about it.
Edwards reply was in substance and
really in these words: damn the
doctors! 1 know more about it than
they do"
DOCTOR W. J. BURT,
sworn, testified: 81 reside in Austin
and have been a practicing physician
and surgeon for twentY-three years;
on the evening of April 20 was called
to see Mr.. Edwards. There were sew
eral persons present, including DR..
Weller. This was upstairs over
Childs' shoe store, in what is called the
Miller building. Examined the per-
son Of l.. E. Edwards, saw him in the
room near his ofli"o. It was between
7 and 8 o'clock. lie vas sitting up
with his shirt off, and with his back
to the door. the upper part of his body
upon examination, found six
incised and punctured wounds, five in
the back, and the lower one in the left
side, in what is called portion of the
thorax. Four of the wounds were
very slight flesh wounds, little more
then penetrating the skin;
ono of the other two
was just below the left shoulder blade.
This wound passed through to one of
the ribs. Ii it went beyond it wit
ness did not discover it. The other
wound was deeper and longer than
any of the others. This was about
two inches and half or three inches
long, and seemed to be deeper toward
the spine; did not recollect whether
the wound ranged upward or down
ward. Examined the wound closely,
and found no opening into the cavity,
could not say positively that
none existed-if it did, did not discov-
or it. Touched the lining membrane
of the abdominal cavity, and if it
was cut did not then discover it. DR..
Weller and witness stitched up three
or four of the wounds, and
the others with adhesive
plasters. There had been
hemorrhage from the
wound before witness arrived, but af-
forwards very little. Was of the opin-
ion that night, after having examined
the wounds, that they were not dang
erous. Qualified the statement by say.
ing if there was no enterance into the
abdominal cavity, and l had discovered
none, there was no symptoms at that
time or any other while under my
treatment that blood had entered the
cavity. No blood vessels of any size
had been cut at the time, l had ex-
amined the wounds and / am satisfied
no artery had been severed, else the
blood would have flowed or spurted
in lets which did not occur during my
1t might have done so
before. There is no blood vessel
any size in that neighborhood. The
Interested artery was the only one of
any size in the neighborhood of the
This artery lies ii. groom
On the inner AMI low
er margin of each rib.
The longer part of the wound was be-
tween two ribs, whether nearer the
upper or lower cannot say, but it was
between the two ribs; discovered no
cut on either of these two ribs; after
the wounds were closed, had COM
press made of wet towel laid over
The wound, and "A bandage around
that, so as to keep the injured parts as
quiet as possible; Edwards was moved
to his house on cane lounge; assisted
in putting him to bed properly, and
saw that bandages were in place;
waited till he was quiet, then went
home; did not go back. that night;
saw him five successive days there
after, dressing his wounds, the last
visit being made on Sunday morning;
stitches were removed on Saturday;
the wounds were then all closed by
what is called first intention at that
time. Never went back again;
healed as rapidly as witness
ever saw any wounds heal was
told thaf If nandpd 1u0nld ha cnnt