, 1886-08-07
THE C0RONER's JURY.
The Witnesses Examined Before
that Body Yesterday.
A Verdict Not Favorable to Steven
son Returned by Them.

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White. or Francis LaBlanc This name in
French), by VIM. Stevenson, on last
Wednesday night. The Jury was COM
posed of Geo. W. Halves. Geo. Emery,
Il. II. Leibey, j. II. Jones. VIM. Phil
lips and s. Meyers.
Il. NJ. Gibbons testified to the arrival OF
the parties together: heard one say to the
other: Don't make so much noise ~
Then heard Stevenson call the deceased
"a = son of =" Next heard two shots
in quick succession. Then went to the
dying man and held his head. Witness
narrated a conversation with Stevenson,
the latter asking whether the man would
die, to which the witness replied, Think
he will" Stevenson said "Then l had
better skip" when the witness told him
that would do no good, as he would be
caught anywhere.
John Smith saw the shooting as he was
standing outside; the men were on oppos-
lite sides of the wagon; it was the man
who did the shooting who used the insult
ing language; at the first shot, witness ran
into the 'dobe; saw the deceased before
be died; it was too dark to see whether
deceased tried to use a neck yoke.
Peter Link was in the bunk house
writing; did not know the parties but
heard one man swearing at another; cor
roborates the first witness as to the Ian
guage and the shots; in a few minutes
someone came to the door and said
he had shot a man and wanted
help to take care of him; witness did not
90 out.
Charles Peterson was in the adobe
when a team drove up; Hoffman and he
went out doors; deceased asked if they
could stay all night; witness replied that
he supposed they could, when deceased
returned to the wagon; saw a man very
drunk taking the saddle off a horse
hitched behind the wagon; soon after
heard the man who did the shooting
swear at the other; heard the deceased
saw. 81 wan to sneak a few words with
YOU" The other was still swearing:
heard the deceased say, Tomorrow,
when you get sober, | will fix it up with
you" Then the other used the insulting
language, repeating it twice, and then
went to the end of the wagon; witness
was returning to the abode when he
heard two shots and saw the body of a
man on the ground; heard the man say,
He tried to hit me with a neck yoke"
went out with Peter Lind and saw the
dying man; did not see the other man
afterwards.
Thomas Gilman had left Cheyenne
with Stevenson and "Frenchy;" there
was half a gallon of whisky in the wagon
and both drank quite freely; it seemed to
have more effect on Stevenson; at Otto
witness left the wagon and went to get
wood and build a FIRE; had Just lighted
the fire when he heard two shots;
ran up to see what was the matter; Ste
venson said he had shot Frenchy, but did
not intend to kill him but to shoot over
him; "he tried to strike me with a neck
yoke Witness then put a blanket I'M
der the dying man as he was lying on his
back. The neck yoke was lying twelve or
fifteen feet from the body, near the track;
Stevenson got water and washed the head
of the wounded man to see where he was
hit. After some conversation, during
which Stevenson seemed to realize that
he had done something wrong, he left on
horseback, and witness had not seen him
since. Witness staid with Frenchy until
he died, about two or two and a half
hours after the shooting. Here witness
identified a pistol taken from the body Of
the deceased as one he had loaned him.
Deceased could not get cartridges in
Cheyenne to fit the pistol, and the cham
bers were empty; witness heard no quar-
rel.
Austin Gibbcn first noticed the three
men when deceased was unhitching his
team; heard Stevenson call deceased a
son of -, two or three times; the
deceased picked up the neck yoke and
walked toward the man who did the
shooting; then the latter drew a revolver
and fired twice; the men were ten or fit
teen feet apart. Witness testified as to
subsequent acts and conversation Of Ste
venson substantially as stated by the pre-
vious witness. The shots wers close to-
gether, the first being fired upwards.