The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1885-06-17

testimony will be interesting reading
to most Of our patrons we surrender
the larger portion of our space To its
publication, and which was taken
down by the special reporter of the
-NeicS and Courier. We omit several
of the witnesses testimony as it is but
a reiteration Of others:
LVIDENCE TOR TIE STATE.
DR.. j. +. Mackey sworn: Lives in
Lancaster. Attended Curtis when he
was shot. Found him at the Catawba
House, dying. didn't examine HIM, as
saw he could live but few minutes.
Made an examination after death. He
had been struck by two balls. One
inflicted a bruise only. The other ball
entered under the right arm-pit about
the median line. Probed for the ball.
Gould not find it. Don't think it came
out on the other side. Think the man
.iied both from the shock and from
iuterDal hemorrhage. After it entered
horiz 'ntally, the ball ranged upward.
Did not follow it to much depth.
Cross-examined : / live across the
Streat from the Catawba House. The
street is fifty or sixty feet wide. John
liasseltine, the son of the proprietor,
called me to the hotel. Had Just
heard shots at the hotel and had started
to 60 there. Think there were over
five shots. The-e vas slight pause
aster the FIRST or second shot. Then
the remaining shots were fred very
rapidly. Think that the last shots
must have been fred by self,cock-
ing pistol. They seemed to me to follow
each other too rapidly for any ordinary
!stol. There were three walls between
me and the hotel. The last rapid
pisto! shots sounded to me like fre>
crackers popping Found Curtis in
room No. 3, lying on the front of the
bed. He was still breathing. When
the arm was down it would cover the
wound. The arm would have to be
lifted or moved out of its regular
position before such wound could
Lave been made without cutting the
arm itself Could see no hurt to the
arm. The arm must have been raised
and the muscles frightened to turn the
al upward after its entry. If it had
cen hanging by the side the muscles
would have been relaxed. Saw two
holes in Curtis's right coat sleeve as if
pistol ball had entered and passed
through the sleeve while his arm was
extended. Saw tina. night, about the
time of the inquest in room No. 2, Q
bullet hole in the Inside of the door
facing, and near it another bullet hole
through .a 6fi bind lar and fisG glass
of the window. There was the mark
OF ball where it struck the floor of
the passageway, and glaaclng upwards
Embedded itself in the newel-post of o
stairway, The direction of the ball
indicated that it had come from the
door Of Curtis's room (No. 81 The
Tall that struck Curtis, bruising him
only, hit him about six inches below
the fatal wound. 1t entered his coat,
out only split his vest, and did not cut
through his shirt. l saw the marks of
six balls and indications of a possible
seventh.
Redirect: If Curtis had been hold.
ing out his arm in warning attitude
he might have received such wound,
but ! taink IL improbable, as the
nuscles of the arms must have been
rigid when the ball entered the body.
J. ii. Hassetine sworn: Am the
clerk at the Catawba House. Knew
Mr.. Curtis. He occupied room No.
). MIR. Emanuel was in room No.
z: ! think was the first to get to
Mr.. Curtis after he was shot. His wife
was the only one with him. He vas
lying on the edge of the bed, his feet
hanging over and touching the floor.
His face was turned 10 the wall at his
left. Heard Mr.. Emanuel say he fired
the shots at Mr.. Curtis. He said this
some little time after the firing, when
he came downstairs. He had a pistol
i'll his hand. ] think Mr.. B. F. Welsh
examined it. When ! got into the
room my first act was to take Mrs.
Curtis and the two children out of
the room. Then Invent back again.
Found various people there. Saw
marks OF pistol shots in the rooms.
Saw one high up on the window
blind of Emanuel's room. Saw two
bullet holes, one in the door facing
and one adjoining. Saw another in
the post of the stairway railing.
Cross exa mined. There seemed to
be two shots fired at first then a slight
pause and then five fred with great
raPIdlty, as fast as / could count.
Don't think it was possible for the last
five shots to have been fred by pistol
that had to be cooked by hand after
each shot. Think Mr.. Curtis's position
On the bed was one which would have
been assumed by man who had
staggered into his room" faipt and
wounded. When. Mr.. Emanuel an
noupeed that he Tad shot Mr.. Curtis
he said: IL am sorry if I've killed him,
but had to do 1T to save my life.
was assaulted IN my own room" He
seemed to be much excited, but said:
I'm ready to give myself up" When
i INST saw Curtis after the shooting
hQ had apnnaf hinu in HE La,I Il n