The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-06-19

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saloon, on East Elm street, In East nul
las, The diving man stUtrd several tinp'
that Jim liunnicut shot him ana that hi
siw him when hr lid il, Joe Pulsrr
who WAS n party iu the quarrel
in the face OF all this, wultIcs voluntary
70 the front and says he himself shot
Humphreys, who was making an assault
on him with knife, Notwithstanding
Polsor's statement the jury of inquest
fnilcd Ia lind that he was the man who
did IL, However he was arrested and
lodged In the county Jail. Polscr was
sent 10 the penitcntiary Hiow years since
for hutchering the wrong cow and
served out his time. llunnicut has moi
vet been arrested, though IL II claimed
he was in the city yesterday. The fol-
lowing Is the testimony OF witnesses and
verdict of the jury:
TIIE INQUEST.
Inquest held ON the body of i. T..
Humphreys, on the 18th day of June,
1881, Killed ut the Stock lnrk saloon, In
/ East Dallas.
The first witness examined was
J.p. HERNpoN.
| was nj the Stock Yard saloon on
yesterday evening, and the deceased
and Joe Polscr met there and We're quar-
! rclling about Il steer or stag; PolScr told
deceased that his brother, when the
steer was killed, saw the steer and hide,
and made no claim Ia IL; they quar-
relied some time and made IL up and
took II drink; this was repeated
several times, until 1880 o'clock
NJ night, when they quarrcllcd
again and Palscr again treated; they
then started back 10 the back room; the
| deceased had his knife out open IN his
hand, Ms he had had il several times
during the evening; when they got
back toward the end of the billiard table,
] ID. a al. l al.
can do TO satisfy you, and If You don't
like il, YOU can -; deceased then
threw chair at Polscr. which struck
him and knocked him up against
the door; the deceased then
advanced on him with II knife
in his hand and got within
two to five feet of Polscr; just then
saw flash of apistol and heard the re-
port; the deceased wheeled and ran
rapidly 'out of the back door of
the saloon; Polser walked up to the
counter and said that he guessed he
would not try to cut anybody else that
night. and took drink and cigar and
walked out, saying that he would 90 to
bed; pretty soon. in about fifteen min
utes, II party came TO telephone for
doctor; / did not see Polser any more I'M
til this morning; ! went down in half an
hour to see Humphreys and he was then
dying; there had been several quarrels,
almost II constant quarrel, between de-
ceased and PolSer until the shooting oc-
Cured: the deceased was advancing ON
Polser in Il STOPPING position when the
pistol fired.
GEORGE WALLER,
the second witness, testified as follows:
| was lying down resting my head on the
counter; was suffering with neuralgia
of the head; they had been quarreling
OFF and on all night, and
had stopped the fuss; heard a fuss
and rose up and, as / did, / noticed Il
chair flying and it struck Poser and
knocked him up against the side door;
knife in hand in STOPPING position, and
was attempting to cut him when the
pistol fired; the deceased wheeled and
Poiser walked up to the counter
and laid the pistol behind the
bar and said let's take II drink, and he
then walked out and said: "Boys, i am
going to bed" and said something like,
that if they wanted him, to tell them
where to find him: am pretty certain
that Poison did the shooting; no one else
in the room could have shot him.
IKE HUNNICUT,
the third witness, testified: Heard de-
ceased and Polser quarreling about Il
steer; Polser said that he butchercd and
presence of Il brother of the deceased;
Deccls said it was d-n lie. Polser
told him that he did not want him to
talk to him that way; that deceased was
drunk and he did not wish to hurt him,
and told him to take his hands out of his
pockets. Heard rafting of a chair, saw
deceased approaching Polser with his
knife. Just then | saw Polser put the
pistol towards deceased and fire, deceased
ran out back door; Palser laid the pistol
behind the bar and called for the drinks
and walked off; | was opposite
Palser: he was very near the
deceased; he could have hardly reached
him: he could not have reached his arm
out from his body; I think the blaze of
the pistol reached the deceased.
II. j. HURLBI RI,
the fourth witness testified: About s
o'clock last night, Mr., Humphreys
came to my house and asked for a bed,
paid me for it and asked me for my
pocket knife; ] gave it to him; he
handed my knife back and said he
would be in about . o'clock: some
time after l had gone. to bed,
| heard some one complaining, saying
he was shot, to let him in; went out and
let him in; asked him who shot him
and he said "Jim Hunnicut shot mo;"
I asked him how he knew, and if he cer-
tain, and he said: Eyes, knew it was
him, saw him as plain as daylight" |
went for Il doctor and he made the same
statement to him; the last thing
he said was, sob, jim, don't,
don't;" deceased had been drinking, bus
not much; he walked stout and spoke in
loud voice, and i helped him to bed
and he asked me to get a doctor, which l
did.
VERDICT.
After hearing the testimony of the
above witnesses, the jury of inquest re-
turned the following verdict:
"We the jury find that the deceased
came to his death on the night of the 10Th
of June, 1884, from the effects of gum
shot wound that entered his right breast
about two inches below Il line between the
nipples and came out at point about
two inches above the right hip. We fail
to agree as to who did the shooting"
There is one thing about the affair that
is rather mysterious, and that is that the
wound showed that Humphreys was
shot in the back and that the ball came
out in front.
LATER-Hunnicut has been captured
and lodged in Jail.
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In a LITTLE hook inst issued from the