The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-05
wAIIA uALLA NEWS.


HALLa TALLA- Dee ss--A preliminary
hearing Of sha case Of g2ases @. Cooper.
charged with the murder ~ T. " Davis
November 18th, Was held before 5Hssies
Whitman this afternoon r ]. ADders
appeared for the prosecution aud ". u.
Egheys for the defense. Twenty one wit
nesses were axarnined, and 70 testified 10
the Identity Of the prisoner. .amHel
Drum heller testified that DsyIs was 81 BIS
fathers house about u g'e10ek On the day
OF the murder Darts inquired zhere the
railroad vas, and left aud wsnt down the
railroad. This was the last seen Of paris
alive BY others than his snar6ertrs-
Henry Martin said he saw Cooper on tie
main road. tx0 ard a bali miles helow
tows, going west about 2 p. N. He took
particular notice Of fbe man. He vas
sure he met Cooper aboslt half mile
from where The body was found.
Oakley johnson met defendant coming
toward t0wn On the roadway. while com
ing home from school. about ms1s from
town. He vas walking fast aud oeea-
it was Cooper.
Dr. bingham and Keyior testified 10
making &c analysis Of the spot On
t7tF4sff-1 1fHA3trz AHFF &AfE 81 OFttA4AA
thai e was blood, bat woHld not sag Oh
whist Kind. or hcw long Il might hsye asen
there.
the evidence established beyond doubt
that Davis was murdered aud that two men
were engaged in the psTpefr1tlon Of tbs
awful deed. Evidence was addaced thai
the tracks OF two human beiass were
found, leading in opposite directions from
where the body lay. One was through a
eorgleld on the right 70 an uDoccapied
brown hoHse, and the other through
esrnaeld on tae lef. for q mile Hntil lost IN
a tblekes.
6. g. Hsrwood testified that about D.
m he saw from distance Of half nile a
man ia dark clothes STOPPING aud making
movements with his hands a. the exact
spot where the body lies. He fsrst thought
IL was a section hand when the man
arose be saw IL was not. The man dlsaI
peared Immediately on the side Of the rail
road
The case was continued until Iso to-
morrow.
ARRESTED pom A WOOD RIVER MURDER.
Last night Marshal Robinson, on infer
nation Of Henry Purcell of &siinia, AZ
rested one Williams for the murder of two
miners on wood river Ia fssa. The Idaho
authorities teiezrapheG this morning. II
appears that Williams bad also deserted
from C company of Infantry, Fort sher-
man, and been captured and sentenced 10
six years in AIcatfaz Escaping before re-
rn0xai, be went 20 Wood river, entered q
prospecsors camp, killed the two oceu-
pauik. was arrested aud pending trial again
escaped Monday he was recognized By
Purcell at waiinIa, who followed him here,
causing bis arrest When informed Of the
charges against him he did not deny IL, bat
laughed.
MURDERER BLYE HEAVILY sEsTEScEp
This morning Emo Blye in open court
-fff u tor - Il aT,d
the plea Of not guilty of the charge OF
killing Peter Morttz, and pleaded guilty Of
mauslanghteF. After an eloquent plea by
John u. Allen in behalf OF the prisoner,
Judge iapgford sentenced bye TO 20 year,
imprisonment AZ hard labor In the peniten-
uary, the extreme limit Of the law. He
was taken 10 the penitentary this after
noon.
cows MUST KEEP OFF THE TRACK.
Last evening Judge Langford. on motion
OF Hon Rufus Mallory, attorney for the
defendants In the case of George Dacres
W.. the o. X. & y. Co. for killing a bull.
gave nonsuit, deciding that the company
was not liable for damages occurring be
cause the company had not fenced its
track: that under the common Law the
owners OF cattle must keep them off the
premises Of others--in short, that the
owner OF real estate, even II railroad
company, Is not bound to fence Il against
~
special statute. This IL a very important
ruling, BY which, II sustained, the rail-
roads need not fence their tracks. The
case will be appealed TO the supreme court
wALLA wALLA NEWS NOTES.
The Fast Ore5oRiaa newspaper, printed
al fendleton, Or, will shortly issue a
Walla Walla edition, having local editor
here who viii telegraph local news over
daily. II IL proposed TO deliver the paper,
with full teiegraphie service, here at 4
n. III.
A rumor 10 circulating that strawberry
Annie and husband. Spanish halfbreeds
and wellknown here. who left q few years
ago,iand under arrest in trande Ronde val
ley for the murder aud burning OF the
body Of negro boy In their employ who
suddenly disappeared. The report comes
from the garrison.
This evening Judge Laugford sustained
the will OF Mrs. John Sheets, over which a
spirited contest has existed for long
time. Deceased was the mother OF Mrs Z.
u. Johnson