Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-10-24

Scott and Gulf Office at Kansas City, with
jim Bell; it is thirty-two calibre, five cham
beers and has a black handle; L don't know the
number OF it; l got it at q secondhand store
on Twelfth street, about six or seven months
ago; Bell has had it about four or five
months. Bell IS u cOlored man.
her
[Sjgn II JENNIE X HOCKADAY.
mark.
Caroline Henderson, swOrn:-"1 live in
room adjoining Jennie Hockaday,s mother; l
know Ess CANT and Hockaday l was at home
sewing In my room last Saturday evening be-
tween six and eight o'clock; l heard no con-
versation between Ess Cant and Hockadal;
I could not hear in my room; I never heard
Hockaday order Cant away; there is q plank
partition between the rooms: 1 can bear
talking in the other room but can't under
stand what is said; l heard the report of the
pistol and heard hallOOing; two shots were
fired; I did moi see the shooting; l heard
screaming; Jennle and her mother screamed;
l did not see Hockaday after he was shot; l
did not see any one have a pistol; l and my
husband andTomMeneaugh were in the room.
her
ISIgnedl CAROLINE K HENDERSON,.
Thomas Mineaush, sworn:-sI live just
east of here, across the hollow, about one
hundred yards from where the killing was
done; 1 was in the house next to the shoot
ing. when it was done; l was in Will Hen
derson's room; 1 and Will Henderson were
in the room; Caroline was not in there, but
she ran in after the firing; l could hear talk
Ing but paid no attention to It; l heard Ess
saw, sHockaday has sense;' Then l heard, in
about five minutes. two shots fired; 1 ran out
of the house to the gate where the shooting
was done; then Ess went into the house;
Hockaday came up on the porch; after Ess
went into the house. Hockadsy pushed on the
| door. and tried to get in, and said, Jennie,
let me in;' somebody said, You have got to
stay out;' he said. well, 1 will stay out;' he
kept pushing on the door; the third time he
Ess said, You s-n OF a b-h, If you don't
stay out of there, 1 will kill you;' then Ess
knocked him off the porch and kicked him /;
then Hockaday got up and came on the
| The first time he kicked him in the face; ]
| don't know where else he kicked him; Hook.
aday came back and showed on the door and
haIlOoed for Jennie; Ess ran out again., hi
him and knocked him off the porch, and
threw q chair at him; when he threw the
chair it knocked him out in the street, and
then he ran out and stamped and kicked him
in the face with his feet; when he saw MIR
Williams coming he was on the porch ane
ran into the house and threw something on tn
the bed, l don't know what it was, but
think it was q pistol then he walked out on TIT
porch and Mr.. Williams was there; Ess said
DO you want meg Mr.. Williams said, Yes,
and Ess walked off with him. This is all
know of it."
his
[signedl THOMAS x MINEAUGH.
Howard Williams, sworn:--''l live In Lex
ington, Missouri, and am a deputy constable
1 made the arrest of Ess Cant Saturday nigh
between six and seven O'Clock; l live o.
Third and Maple and mad been mnsn HON
heard firing and screams Of murder; when
got to the gas house l heard somebody So
You Cd d"n - of q b. and the
heard the second shot; l don't know VIII
!, said it; I met a boy who told me somebod
, was shot at their house and to go over quick
I was on the run then; up at the corner OF th
. fence l saw Hockaday lying and asket
! what is the matter!'; be said, 'Ess Cant bit
, shot me; go arrest him. quick;' l ran up I
the house of Lydia Smith; l had my pistt
out and scattered the crowd from the frol
Of the door; I stepped on the porch and SAT-
L want Ess Can't is that himr and Jenn
Clark, l think 1t was, said, Yes; l sal
" Come with me-; 1 brought him down tue hi
to where HOckaday was: Hockaday had mo
= ed sixty or eighty yards from where l tr
7 asked him if this was the man and he sal
Yes; he not only shot me, but he has mu
q dered me; l am shot through here; take tn
= man to jall;' I asked CANT what he sh
Hockaday for, anil he said 4 did not sho
il him; 1 had no pistol; he pulled his pistol
uuC huu L ldppC u oOWu dilu IL "Vut VII =
= he shot himself;' l asked him how it car
that he shot himself the second time, and
7 said, Fl cooked the pistol and stepped baC
and 1 slapped it down and he shot himst
again. Going up the street 1 met q regul
y, mob Of about two hundred men Il took Ga
before Esquire Clayton and then to jail;
told me he did the shooting and told
~ where he threw the pistol; he told me in I
: presence of Mr.. Chinn; l did not find the p
toll; RAJ told me he brought the pistol fro
or Kansas a year ago; | think he said, Topel
Kansas"
~ [SignedI HOWARD WILLIAMS.
w The house where the shooting occurred i
ay one-story affair, facing east on Eleventh sire
" 1t stands about four feet west Of
n. street, and has a porch on the east side fl
no feet wide and about twelve feet long. ]
ny east edge of the porch is flush with the str
and Is two steps above the ground. There
ed one room and a basement in front, anC
to room and a basement IN the box kitchen
TO- the west. The yard gate is four feet east
i. about four feet south of the southeast cor
er. Of the house. There is no fence in front
NO the house, as the porch is on the edge of
Mt street line, but there is a fence on the no
,r- and one on the south, running up to
on front edge of the porch. The quarrel be
"a up stairs, in the back room. Cant "
,as down stairs, into the back room basemt
Iad through a door and into the front room bs
m. ment, and then went out at the south d.
into a narrow walk, and thence east thro
see the gate, into the street. He was folio
by H~ockaday as far as the narrow W
ne The men were then about seven or eight
we apart. Had Cant taken one step south q
ave going out of the gate, he would have
mn concealed behind the coal house, and CO
easily have escaped from a drunken n
the The evidence goes to show that Hocka
ka- was following with a knife in his hand,
close searching has failed to discover
the knife or other weapon.
oOd Jennie Hockaday is a small and rather
, ,h. looking mulatto, 80 years of age. She is
to at one time to have been the mistress of
> Wilson. She is the mother of Annie Clal
<. rather good looking girl of 10 years. A
says she thinks her fathers name was Ricl
so, SOU Clark, and she knows he was named CT
but she never saw him. JENNIE is also
and mother of a boy IL years of age, who say
father is named Simon Lewis. She was
q wife Of Hockaday, but had not lived with
use. for more than . year. HOckaday W
ele- drunken fellow. He had worked at the
0ok bousa for tom mon,ha a.o s,Iarr -, :,
Vate ~ :" noA'nS' = o"i"'J VI "
,ere month, and at his death had no clothes,
not in debt and had not enough money to pa
my 3 coffin.