Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-28
WARD---WHITE.
THE SECOND DAY or THE GREAT TRIAL
ar ABINGDON.
Two witnesses Describe The Shooting
The Part Taken BY Whites Friends
Rigid Characterization.
Ispecial ,elezram TO the Dispatch. !


ABINGDON. Va, March 27.--The
cross examination Of Judge Ward in the
White case was completed this morn
ing and without any new developments
OF general interest. The next witness
for the prosecution was Martin III.
Keller. lie stated substantially that
he was on the day Of the shooting in
front of Colds drugstore when Judge
Ward came out and went towards the
Colonnade. lie saw DIR. White emerge
from the entrance Of shoe-store
opposite the hotel. walk TO the curb
stone, raise his gun, and tire IN
the direction Of the hotel. Witness
looked and saw Ward fall near the
hotel steps, with his back to the street
and dead, as wit0ess supposed. lie
saw White return to the store entrance.
and soon come back to the middle Of
the sidewalk, with his gun raised, and
fire again. With the discharge Of the
gun he saw the muzzle fly up and
White start back. as from a recoil
from an overcharge Of the gun.
lie saw no effect Of the second
shot, as he supposed Ward to be
dead. Witness approached nearer to
Ward before the second shot was fired,
but stopped at the FIRE of that shot. lie
saw Ward in somewhat sitting position
with his face toward White. Ward
drew pistol from his hip pocket. lie
looked across the street, saw Graham
White and Dan. Campbell with pistols
out-Graham White behind tree and
Campbell about ten feet east of DR..
White near a stone horseback about
two feet high on the edge Of the side
walk. Ward fired at Graham White,
and they exchanged three or four shots.
Campbell shot once. Ward was then
carried off by his friends. Witness
picked up Wards pistol with four
chambers discharged. lie Afterwards
counted thirteen buckshot holes in the
hotel wall and two in the window pane.
Nothing Of general interest was elected
on crosS-examlnation.
W. W. Gold, the next witness, testi-
fed that he was standing at his store,
opposite the courthouse. He heard the
first shot, turned, and saw nr. White
in front Of the shoe-store opposite the
Colonnade. DR.. White and some one
had hold Of gun. White recsled into
the store entrance. lie next saw ID. L.
Campbell, who came from the front of
the shoe-store near to the front Of Cap
tain Bars house. Witness was going
down the street, when Campbell called
to him to stop. White came again on the
pavement and fired. About this time
Graham White and Ward opened fire
across the street-Graham White from
behind the larger Of the two trees in
front Of Captain Bars house. Seye-
raj shots were exchanged between
them. Witness started across the
street, and Campbell SAID for the third
time. when witness was about two
thirds across, "Stop." Witness went
back. He didn'. see Graham White
before the pistol.fring. Between the
first and second gun.shOts he saw
Judge Ward draw himself up. Could
not say whether Ward or Graham
White fired first.
The DISCRIMINATION Of this witness
was rigid and extended. A number of
questions asked were ruled out and ex-
ceptiOns made by the defence to the
Courts rulings. Witness stetsd that
! he went to the depot the Saturday pre-
vious to the shooting expecting to meet
Judge Ward. Did not exhibit pistol
in the presence Of DR.. White or at all.
At the depot he said if difficulty had
taken place, man to man, between White
and Ward, he would not have taken
part otherwise it would have depend
ed upon circumstances. Witness being
asked if he had not employed or helped
to employ counsel to prosecute in this
case, said, Yes" Witness said he
had no pistol during the difficulty, an.
had no interest in the Southeast Erdm-
iRer.
At the conclusion of the examination
of this witness the court adjourned to
A. NJ. next Monday.