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

DcDlcu gong 10 water street. UOt NOME al
ID. Don't know anything but that, In spite
of train getting in at 1913. Nobody at Juuh's
but him aud Orion when | was there. Don't
know Simonson was In hack that drove up to
Junk's. Simonson had on light coat long In
back.
HANK O'HArROw.
Saw hack early in evening with saloon men
In it.
l.. RARDIN
said Adams told one Of his men that he knew
one OF the men be was a Fourth street saloon
keeper; was a short man, thick set; wore blue
clothes.
w. J. UNDERWOOD
testified that he saw Ressigieu's bartender
drive a man across the Floyd bridge Wednes-
dry I'm the afternoon, very fast. Another
buggy followed with man and woman in it.
L FUTILE,
harkeeper at Ressigieu's. went over the Floyd
with Mr.. Cavanaugh Wednesday afternoon.
{. used to work for VIM. Lerch.
MRS. HANSEN,
owner Of the place where ~Schemnitzer tends
bar, ~testiiics 10 exactly the same as he did.
j. F. HOPKINS
says A. A. Rowley told him he saw hack drive
TO Greenville.
ELMER IRWIN
~testiiies that he went to court house to see
dirty work done; to see prohibitionists get
slagged: saw Lcavitt watching one entrance,
FRED Munchrath another, Geo. Trieber an
other, to see they did not get away. Asked
Lcavitt what they we're going to give il to
them for, and he said: "The SIS of h--s ARE
giving it TO saioonkeepers and we are go!ng
to scare thcm a bit anyway" Walker and
Wood came dOwn and Leayitt told him to go
and tell fellows who were to slug"
would not. Icayitt ran and told, but fellows
were a little slo'g and w. and W. got to Hub
bard. Hung round awhile and they went of.
At night at 9:l0 came out OF Walkers
place and saw Leavitt down street with a long
rubber coat on, accompanied by two fellows !
thought the same who were with him in the
Afternoon. Leavitt had on light pants and
stiff hat with rubber cover. They turned
down Nebraska street and | said there's
something up. Leavitt told me there was
800 In il Tor the men who We're to slug these
| witnesses. told Melon what | surmis ed and
told him 10 act but he did not do il. One of
the sluggcrs was four inches taller than Had
dock and the other not SO tall. The tall man
used to tend bar In the place Mike Dillon sold
little black mustache and stoop shoulders.
He is a dead tough man, probably twenty
seven years old; has been round town the
past two wears. The short man is a second
cook at Grove and later at Dubuque house.
IoMM1 ADA Ms.
knew nothing except that he got to IIaddock
minute after tue shooting.
FRED LENDSLER
described the large men In the brewery. Cass-
man is brother Of saloonkeeper.
ALBERT ADAMS.
Drive hack: first heard Of killing at II 80;
that evening drove TO tirecnville house; start
ed in front of Hubbard house; don't know
any of the parties; took four men; started
about 9 40; didn't hear parties talk; all went
into Clcenville house; pretty soon they came
back and tod me to drive To town: they got
out in front Of Junk's; they paid me and |
went 10 the train. Couldn't tell any of them
all about same size; all had rubber coats on.
Couldn't swear Lcavitt was not one Of them:
know him when | see him. Got to Junk's at
1913 and TO depot at 1890; didn't notice any.
thing when men unbuttoned to pay. After
ward swore he did not know Leavitt.
HENRY AZ INGRAM.
Sworn: | heard a man yell, and then ]
beard a revolver. and then another report:
| heard a terrible kind of noise and jumped
out Of bed | sew from the window, after
hearing the last revolver, two men run across
the bridge: the biggest one Of the two kept
looking over bis shoulder and running as
tight as Be coulG: the run up by the brewery
one was a big, thick-set fellow, and the other
was a small one; the men kept looking this
way and that way To ses if anponc was follow
idg them ! live just across the creek in Will
liams' house; ! think the large man was the
big. tilck, heavy-sct fellow in the brewery ]
am not positive, but this is NY impression.
BAT AARON.
Sworn: A Young man that works under
the postoflce said that he thought that the
man that did the killing slept in the same
room with him on the night of the murder,
md N litt1n Han IF Aha, 80 pA ~ ~ yth.n np On w
two men run in behind the restaurant after
the shooting.
JOSEPH TAYLOR
sworn: was in Ressegieu's saloon; heard
two different men say that if Mr.. Williams
came across the road he would not 60 back
alive; another said that he should have been
killed long ago, and said that some OF the
damned preachers would get it; Williams is
not a preacher. the party further said That ]
could tell Williams that he would Kill him If
he got a%chance: one OF the men clerked at
Rcssegieu's: did not know their names; |
heard no threats only at the liquor store;
they said the preachers would die, II WAS at
Ressigieu's and the speaker was a thick set
fellow with black hair and mustache; he said
that the christians that headed the move
We're going to die; the man that made the
threats was the one We paid for drinks.
L. w. WATSON
sworn. was NJ lIlc SHOW Only KNEW W HoaT
say and what | read in the p, pers.
TROAXi.
sworn: Was at the National house; a strange
man, very large, smooth face, black hair,
came in between 10 and II on the night Of the
murder and left orders to be called early. l
did not know the man. His clothes were
dirty and muddy. He went away without
any breakfast. After | read the account in
the paper ! thought he answered the descrip-
ton Of one Of the parties seen near the scene
of the murder.
JAMES BEAUMONT
works for Cochran: rooms at Ryan's on Water
street: first heard Of shooting in gambling
room; neither Riley nor Dorson were i'm gamb-
ling room; Leavitt was not there; | work from
80 To | O'Clock: II anybody in my room in
meantime | would not know it; never saw a
light in Ryan's louise late.
JAMES WILSON
saws its a mistake about Mis- telling anybody
anything.
MOLLY DORSON,
Live tn Ryan house; Jimmy was not In
room till 2 O'Clock that night; didn't hear
anybody come up stairs; could; heard run
ming in alley and all over. Mr.. Leavitt was
there just a few minutes before shooting.
Corroborates her husband all through.
VIM. DORSON.
Work In theater, first heard OF shot at 1913
or 1920; was In bed i'm Ryan's house.