Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-25

thrusting il in front OF me | fired two
shots, the second blow in the meantime
striking across my right arm. At the
discharge of my pistol. he cried OUT
"Great God, boys, he'll kill US all ]"
With this / turned and ran, and | saw
two others rushing out OF the west end
of the alley, at whom l fired two more
shots as they retreated. The other party
had run eastward, and followed him,
shouting that had one more shot left, or
something of that kind. Saw him dash
into the alley running south, and as l
pursued met man and woman with. a
lantern, inquiring who had done the
shooting; they were neighbors. then
went into my house, where l saw Mrs.
Mix, whom asked to send her husband
in, telling her l had been shot. Before
firing / looked over my shout
der and saw the other man APP
preaching me. l heard other shots,
but don't believe any of them were fred
by the man who struck me, | fired four
shots altogether-two at my assaiant and
two at the men retreating at the west end
of the alley; l scarcely heard the report
of my first two shots, in the excitement,
and wondered if the weapon had really
discharged. My pistol was Al in cali
bre. (The pistol was here produced and
was identified by Collin; it was six.
shooter. Marshal Phillips was also asked
to produce McMurrin's pistol and club. }
Mr.. Dickson to Marshal Phillips: This
is similar to policemans club, is 1t not
Yes, sir.
Does it appear to you TO be new?
1 don't think it has been used much.
Collin resuming: l only carried five
chambers loaded, so as to have
an empty one on which to rest the trigger ;
did this always to avoid accident in case
OF dropping the pistol. did try to fire
fifth shot but the cartridge did not ex-
plode. went into my house immedi-
ately after the shooting. 1 could not
possibly identify any Of those men.
Shortly after got home-about two or
three minutes, think-Mr. Mix came
in; l was endeavoring to remove the
cylinder from my pistol; asked Mix to
accompany me to Marshal Ireland's
house, which he did. My clothing was
then examined and were in precisely the
same condition as they are now as
regards the holes and burns. My clothes
had been perfectly sound prior to the
shooting. When l first got home
l felt something hot in my hand and
found bullet there, which 1 put down
on the table. (He here produced the
bullet.) did not know where the ba.
nanas were, nor know 1 had got hold Of
the bullet; this is the bullet, (producing
another one) which was taken from the
barrel of my pistol; was certain it was
can't say how the bullet (the other one
came in my hand
Marshal Phillips: McMurrin's pistol
is a 38-calibre.
Marshal Ireland and Captain Green.
man had examined my clothing about
half an hour after / had reached the
Marshal's house; l was then taken tc
the penitentiary when l was examined
by Doctors Dart and Taggart; my bruises
were on my collar bone, left arm and
right shoulder; my left eye felt as though
burned or scorched with fire or powder
there were indications OF injuries on the
right shoulder, and showed them to sew.
eral OF the guards at the penitentiary;
had been warned to be on my guard by
Marshal Ireland about the previous Wed.
his desk and explained what he had
To Mr.. Dickson: Did not comment OF
VIC ~ ult
not surprise me. The empty barrel had
been always kept that way for safety
the hammer was always let down on the
empty barrel. He was shown the bullet
found in his hand, and was of the opinion
that it had been fired. 1t was, in his
opinion, of larger calibre than his own
pistol. Believed it had not been fired
against anything hard, or it would have
been fattened. He had found the bullet
in his left hand-the hand in which he
had held the sack of bananas. Had G
| piece of the paper sack in that same hand
when he got home, and also the bullet
| Was about hall way between the west
end of the hall and the door when at
tackled; had crossed the alley to pass
between the two men about six or eight
feet from the east end of the hall. The
street lamp reflected light very little
beyond the west corner OF the hall, but
not ut all along where the encounter took
place. What light there was east
Of the northwest corner of the
hall was but dim reflection.
The man whom / saw walk out OIL
OF the alley was tall and rather bent over
Had gray coat and light hat on. Did moi
discover whether the man had beard OF
not. Had thought the man was Bshor
McRae, and therefore did not scrutinize
his appearance. McRae had been there
before and his form was familiar to him
Since McRae's testimony had been given
he doubted its being him, but had nc
other evidence to shake his first convic.
ton. The person who attacked him was
about medium height and wore long
overcoat. Had met and conversed with
McMurrin in Eardley's store once before
the shooting. Had visited the store tc
subpoena parties there, and McMurrin
who was present, made some remarks
rather disagreeable about the subpoena.
ing OF the parties, in connection with
which he had said: "You fellows are such
internal liars up there" Had seen Nc.
Murrin often; there was enough light in
the alley that night to enable me to
barely distinguish the general outlines OF
the person who seized me; there were nc
words exchanged or uttered, excepting
the remark already referred to.
MIR. Dickson here had Collin stand I'M,
and asked if he COLLIN thought it pos
sible that the hole and burn in his coat
had been made by his own pistol. Collin
thought not.
Continuing called rather loudly after
the person retreating eastward through
the alley; it was about opposite the
third house east OF the Social Hall.
Had cried out, "l've got another shot LETT
or something like that. There were
two persons retreated through the west
end OF the alley after the firing. Thought
one OF them was McMurrin; had lust
spoken about the bullet found in his
hand to Judge Hoge the day following
the shooting Did not carry any loose