St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-08
ssBULL Dog, KELLY,s TRIAL.
Evidence in the Case Against the
Notorious Prisoner.

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Yesterday Edward, or Bull Dog"
Kelly, charged by the authorities of British
Columbia with having murdered Robert
McGregor Baird on the 9th of November,
1884, and who was brought here from Crook
ston on an order of theUnited States commits
sioner at that place, afterwards discharged
by Judge Nelson and Immediately rear
rested on another complaint, was yesterday
| taken before United States Commissioner
| Spencer for hearing.
The first witness was NJ. Dainard, who
| testified that On the 9th of November,
1884, he was travelling from Johnson's
ranch, twenty-four miles south of the
Canadian Pacific road, in British Columbia.
Robert McGregor Baird and Harvey Mey-
ers, he said. were travelling with him on
horseback. Il was first" said he, BAIRD
second and Meyers third. The trail being
but one and One-half feet wide we tray
eled in single file. When we were about
three miles from Johnson's ranch 1 heard a
shot and Mr.. Baird gave yell and, after
| riding twenty feet fell off his horse. l saw
the smoke, which came from gun just be-
hind a root. There were two more shots
fired that were apparently intended for
Meyers
The witness then described the person
that fired the shots, and said that he first
saw him at Crookson, and then at Vim
cent, and identified the prisoner. Edward
Kelly, as being the person. The witness
ran down the trail half mile or so and
then took to the woods. He afterwards
came across party of Indians and white
men to whom he told the story, and they
all returned and found the body lying dead
on the trail, with his shoes pulled off. His
pockets were turned inside out his clothes
torn open, his pipe and tobacco and some
letters lay on the ground beside the body.
Baird carried a A Colt revolver, but when
| they found the body the revolver was gone.
The witness and an Indian started for
Johnson's ranch, leaving the rest with the
body. Near the root from behind which
the shots were fired were found three empty
shells and two loaded ones, which had been
snapped and didn't go off. Baird was shot
from behind, and the ball came out from
the left breast, near the nipple. About a
mile south on the trail they found Baird's
outfit or pack, cut open and the contents all
fed to their having found a trail travelled
by one man which they followed, but found
nothing. The witness
ON THE CROSS EXAMINATION
testified that he had been blacksmith and
was at one time at work in Duluth before
he went up into British Columbia. While
up there he engaged in selling whisky.
| When the question was put to him as to
whether OF not he sold whisky within
twenty miles of the Canadian Pacific road
the witness resolutely declined to answer
The witness said he was armed with A
Colt revolver and Bull Dog with short
barrel. The cross examination of this wit
| ness was continued till between 5 and 6
O'Clock, when an adjournment was had
A. G. NJ. Spragge, barrister, of Beaver
Creek, British Columbia. and c. A. Cong
don, assistant district attorney, appear for
the prosecution and John Cathcart of
CrOokstOn for the prisoner. 1t is under
stood to be the intention of the prisoner to
offer testimony for the purpose of proving
that at the time of the shooting he was
over forty miles distant