Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-04-22
ST.LOUIS INQUEST CLOSED
Additional Testimony in the East 4
Louis Horror.
Nine Deputy Sheritfs Held Responsible
for the Shooting.

ST. LouIs, April 15.-Coroner Wood. a.
sumed the inquest this morning on tba
victims of Fridays shooting. A numhe.
of witnesses were examined, their test
mony being mainly repetition of tho,
given yesterday. The inquest was con.
Guided this evening and verdict render.
ed to the effect that the deceased person.
met their death at the hands of the dem,
ty sheriffs now in jail at st. Louis ana
holding them responsible therefor. II Il
probable that a requisition will now be i.
sued for the deputies by Governor Oglas.
by, and that they will be taken to H.
Belleville jail under escort. They will
then very likely be admitted TO bail. tha
railroad company going on their bond.
James Scotland, who was shot in the Ia,
near the bridge on Friday, died about
midnight. His body was taken to East
st. Louis this afternoon, and three wit
ness who saw him fall when shot wera
sworn over the body. Scotland was onlv
eighteen years of age, and came from
Stamford, Conn. His funeral will tale
place tomorrow under the auspices of the
Knights of Labor.
Thomas Murray, who was also shot in
the leg is reported sinking, and it is not
thought that he will recover.
Charles Jones, who received ball in
the thigh, is in very precarious condi
ton and will hardly survive the coming
night.
This morning Coroner Nidelet began
the inquest of c. II. Thompson, the man
killed on the bridge on Friday by the den
uty sheriffs while they were retreatinp to
ST. Louis. The nine deputies were taken
out of jail and sworn over the body al
the Morgue. They displayed no emotion
at the sight of the dead body. G. 7.
Wewlett, special detective of the Louisville
d Nashville road, who had charge of the
deputy sheriffs, was the first witness He
explained his connection with the road as
deputy sheriff. The witness could not
positively identify the body, but he
thought 1t was the same man he had seen
fire two shots from a revolver at the dep
uties while Mayor Joyce was assaulting
Laird. The deceased fired from behind
lamp post A pistol was smoking in his
hand and he afterward fired twice He
did not know what deputy shot him.
Mrs. Moggie Thompson. wife of the
deceased, even never knew her husband to
carry a revolver.
deputy sheriffs, eOrroborated Hewletts
testimony.
Charles Kinsler, the cowboy, testified
testified that his occupation was mining.
He said Mayor Joyce attempted to strike
Hewlett with a musket, and afterward drew
a revolver TO kill him, Hewlett said: For
Gods sake do not shoot or yOu1l be kill
ed Joyce then give his revolver to
tall man with side whiskers, who stepped
behind lamppost and fired three shots
at the deputies. The witness, after the
second shot, faced the man and returned
the fire with his rifle, but did not see the
man drop. Hewlett leaned over and
aimed, but didn't fire. The witness pos
itively identified the body in the morgue
as that of the man who was using the re-
yolver on the bridge.
Mayor Joyce was then placed in the wit
ness chair. He said he had tried to hold
the "assassinsn on the east side of the
bridge long enough to send word to the
authorities on this side of the river. He
had seen a statement that he had given
his revolver TO a man to shoot at them.
Gentlemen of the jury said the wit
ness. "never in my life did / carry a re-
yolver. / use the weapons nature gave
me, and that is all If he had a revolver
on that occasion, he said, he might have
used it. Some of the deputies had hit
him with their rifles on his shoulders and
arm, paralyzing his arm and forcing him
to let go the hold he had on two of the
deputies, one with each hand. He showed
an enormous discolored mark on his up
per left arm, and said the blow on the
shoulder was even worse Police Officer
John Dowd gave testimony similar to that
of Mayor Joyce.
Several other witnesses were examined
and the inquest closed with a verdict to
the effect that the shooting was unjusti-
fable and holding the the deputy sherifs
responsible.