Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-28

there ut the time, shortly after the shooting.
DorsOn was awfully mad, and Mollie would
not spe ak to me the next day. Dorson said ]
should have kept my mouth shut, and | didn't
tell anybody, and l don't know how they
got me here.
JOsEPH RILEY
sworn: Live at 4O6 Water street: have been
connected with the theatre; have rooms In
Ryan's house: the blind fell from INV window
TO sidewalk about II O'Clock; | don't know
what time 1t was when Leavitt came and asked
for his wife; l was asleep; he went to Billy
room: he was not In my room, which Is the
front one: the Wind fell ABOUT half an hour
after Leavitt called; when ,L> blind fell l had
not gone to bed: | lay on the bcu reading; |
was awak from the time Leavitt called until
after the blind fell; ! did not hear the shoot
ing, | was asleep; my wife's little dog heard
the shot and began barking, this Woke ine
up: then heard the running; | did not learn
who was shot until ] got To the scene; the
running was IN every direction after the shoot
ing: it was about 1920 or ii O'Clock when ]
went to the scene: there was a large crowd
there.
JUDSON JONES,
sworn: Mr.. Haddock asked me to 90 down to
the English Kitchen and look at the windows
and take observations to see il he Haddock)
made any mistakes in his evidence. As | went
out there was half a dozen men or more behind
me. When ! went dswn they passed me on
the steps, one Of them. the smallest one. and
smaller than ]. said God Damn such men
that would give such evidence. God damn
their souls TO nell" This man | afterwards
recognized as Eberhardt. | went down to the
English kitchen, saw ten or twelve men tacrc,
one Of the curtains was drawn so | could not
zee anything. The man heard talking came
to me and said, "moye away or YOU viii get
hurt: YOU have been sent here by Iladdock
yppvn AWAY from .ti. sut..,p - Tho uluu who
told me TO go away had a scar on the left side
of his face.
JOHN FITSIMMONS.
Am in cattle business; have been here year
last march board at the Columbia House: am
the man who took water to wash Mr.. Had
docks face before he died: went I'm that night
at 9:35; read paper and went outside before
going TO bed: saw IA man standing Decide the
pile of ~cordwOod; did not recognize him; he
asked me TO 90 into the livery barn and see II
the preacher had come in with the horse and
buggy: he was pretty near in front OF Colum-
bia House: "A colored man told me the preacher
had not got in. the man hid his face when !
told him; he was not tall as am, but was
heavy, had "A small mustache: think IL dark or
red; think him American, not well dressed; |
went in watched a game of cards, and In a
few minutes heard a shot, ran 10 door: Eber-
hard said close that door, ran up to my
room where my partner was: saw two men
run across the street between the Lone Star
restaurant and blacksmith shop; after the eX-
element was over | went to the col0red man
in the barn and asked him If anyone but me
had inquired for liaddock: he said mo-; then
| told a policeman: next morning | was exam
ined by STANLEY; saw nobody but this man ii
was light enough To see a man but could not
tell his clothes; he had on a soft black hat;
not so tall AS Commit, but square; after ]
went back to the bar room after going to the
stable a man came In before the shooting: Il
chubby head. not as large as Marsh's:
asked Eberhart for board; said he worked at
Hubbard and could not pay 81 for board;
that was the only man; none of the people in
the house went out that ] know Of: the man
who spoke to me did not have rubber coat ON:
am positive; don't think ! would have recog-
nized any OF the brewery people had they been
there.
ID. &. BARNES.
Sworn: passed the place of shooting
about 1915 on my way home from More's
drug store; saw two men near Elliotts store;
think one of thcm is a veterinary surgeon:
had on light clothes; they were standing in
the rain; saw Jack Ryan in the door of sa-
loon: saw two or three parties standing
against Dineen's fence; looked toward the
mill and saw parties standing along the fence
on east side of Water street; there were men
inside and outside Of Columbia house: |
I'm u WV t'Nh - ~ % ibHAp u fh't AbA'N
men on the bridge; ! think the lamp In front
Of Columbia house vas lit.
JOHN A%RNsDORF.
sworn: Did not know anything.
CHAS. JOHNSON.
Sworn: was in Mr.. Merrill's sitting room
when ! heard the shot; as | got to the gate a
man ran by with a rubber coat on; ] said,
"Hey, there" just then ] saw another man
turn in the alley.
A. FOSTER.
Sworn: know Chas Liebholdt; saw him
day OF the murder; have not seen him since.
DENNIS o'CoNNELL,
sworn; / saw Jack Ryan in the door Of my
saloon before and after the shoting: did not
know any OF them; Joe Dunn was in tie
saloon at the time Of the firing; these men
passed within three feet OF me; the one be-
hind had light clothes on and straw hat; DON'T
know the Others ut al.
BERTHE WAGNER.
/ never told Mrs. Nichols that | knew the
men who killed Mr.. Haddock.
JACK RYAN
sworn: Theodore Chemnitzer Is one OF the
men | met going from Water street east after
the shooting; he is the one that came up the
sidewalk.
THEODORE CHEMITZER
sworn: ] tend bar for Mrs. Hansen; I did not
hear of shooting until the next morning: ]
closed the saloon at 10 and went up stairs,
and was not out again that night.
A. NJ. RowLEY,
sworn: Boards at Grcenyille house; saw o
hack there Tuesday night: il left there about
10 30: had four men In II; they asked If there
had been a buggy go by there with a cream
horse attached to it. Lapdlord Schultz said
no: | did not know any one in the hack
Schltz said he did not know any OF them.
FRAME JOHNSON
sworn: / live at $40 Pearl street. NJ. and
Mrs. Leavitt and Charlie Leavitt; We were all
there at to- time of the shooting; it was
about 10: 80 and We all went down to where
the shooting occurred; Mr.. and Mrs. Leayitt
were behind me and they parted with me at
the corner Of Pearl and Fourth street.
Leavitt came TO my house about 10 o'clock,
ten or fifteen minute before the shooting.
MRS. JOHNSON,
wife Of Frank Johnson, sworn: Testines the
same facts.
c.. f. DAWSON
sworn: Was at the corner Of Fourth and
Pearl streets with A. NJ. Burke; saw a party
Of meu running down street; they came from
the direction Of the Columbia house.