The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-03-22


were short and quick and the next
shooting heavy and fast. One pistol
sounded like Il gun. She ran out af-
ter the cry of murder and went to the
front gate where she found Miss Lucy
CahinisS and Andrew Govan. Didn't
see or hear any vehicle on the bridge
at any time during or just after the
shooting,and didn't see any one 80 up
the street. Witness could stand i'll
her back door and look across the
bridge. Heard brating after all the
shooting was over.
Miss Lucy Cabiniss testified that she
lived in the first house east of the
bridge ON north side of the street, and
was sitting at her window sewing on
the side next To the shooting, about
- Yards distant when the homicide
occurred. Heard the first shot dis
tiuctiy. Immediately followed by the
cry OF Murder" It was Il cry of
pain. Witness called her mother,
then ran out OH the back gallery and
into the dining room and called her
brother. She then went back the way
she came through her own room and
out to the front fence. When at the
fence she SAW man running in the
road making his way angling to the
side walk above her and called to him
to know what was the matter but re-
ccivcd no reply. Witness is positive
first and second shots for her to dis
tinctly hear the cry of Murder" and
after that the shooting was very rapid.
Mr.. Andrew Govan came out of the
house to the gate while she was stand
ing at the fence. She didn't see or
hear any carriage leave the bridge dur
ing or after the shooting.
VIM. Winter is IA colored merchant
and boarding house keeper on the
north corner of Capitol and Parish
streets, about 220 yards west of the
bridge. On the night of the killing
he was sitting in his store and saw
Ganhrrll pass going toward the bridge.
The train from Nicksburg had Just
left the depot or was leaving. Soon
after Gambrcll had witness
would judge he had had time to get
about half way to the bridge he saw
what he took to he lIamilton's wagon
pass. 1t was drawn by large white
horse and appeared to contain two or
three persons, including the driver.
just as it got opposite to witness,
some one inside said to the driver.
"D--n it, drive up and he noticed
the horse quickcned his pace. Direct
ly after the carriage passed witness
went out of II side door and then
around to the front and began closing
his shutters. He had closed the west
one and started to the other when
Figures and Albrccht passed him
walking. just as he had finished clos
ing the last blind the shooting com
mcnccd. The first two shots seemed
Fighter" than the rest. Saw the
flashes of the shooting and heard the
reports. 1t was very rapid and very
close together, and seemed to be be
tween and II shots in all. Didn't
hear any vehicle cross bridge during
the shooting or directly afterward.
The testimony of +. d. Fitzgerald,
deceased, who was at the government
building and who testified at he
habeas corpus trial that the first shot
was very loud and sounded like a
musket long loaded, was excluded on
objection by the defense that it was
used in that trial against Eubanks and
not against Hamilton.
Armine Scutter was in his photo
gallery about 175 yards west of the
bridge. Heard the first shot, which
was very loud like a shot gun and fol-
lowed by distinct cry of murder.
Then followed smaller report and
then Il bunch of shots-l0ud and small
together. Wasn't III Il position to see
flashes. Didn't hear any carriage
cross bridge about time of shooting,
though has heard the roaring noise
produced 10y vehicles crossing this
bridge when mile and half away.
He took the photographs Of the bridge
in Court, and man could conceal
himself under the ivon cOrdage of the
bridge, so that one coming up the
foOt-way like Gambrcll would not
observe him.
Misses Lille and Viola Asher, who
were on the gallery with A. II. Jayne
when the shooting took place, corrOb-
grated other witnesses as to the cry of
''mmder" coming after the first shot
Both also testified that they saw II
vehicle answering the description of
Hamilton's, pass towards the bridge
at an easy gait from to 10 minutes
before the shooting. Miss Irene Pur-
ser, who was on the gallery with Wal
ter Jones and her brother, testified
that distressing cry of murder fol-