Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-04-19

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never had any wortla, but | ex.
peet pugan was more of an enemy
to Apgar than my husband was to
him, They had trouble about a
COW, ! never heard nugan make
any threats or say anything about
the matter. | didn't know my
husband had an enemy In the
world. Apgar had a pistol and al
ways kept 1t under his pillow; he
didn't have II with him when he
started out but he came back after
it, ! stopped him from going any
further and he knelt down there at
the foot of THO bed and that was
the last of him, IThe pistol was
exhibited at this stage of the in
quest and shown to have nor ~
discharged recently. This
plodes the suicide theory thas.l..
been ADVANCED ! didn't h,
any noise after the shot was fred,
Mr.. Flora, who lives aeros the
street, was the first to come to my
help after / screamed. The out
side door of the dining room was
open when l went out, but | closed
it. This occurred about half past
two. | went into the kitchen after
Mr.. Flora and MI. Surber came.
The door was open, but nothing
was disturbed but a drawer of the
safe ; it was pulled out and ran-
sacked nothing was missing. Only
one shot was fred"
The next witness called was
Mintie Apgar, the unmarried
daughter of deceased. Her testi-
mony was merely corroborative of
that of her mother and is not
especially interesting. She said !:
81 was not at home last night !;
sometimes | come home and some
times / don't, just as the notion
takes me. l stayed at the Ringo
House last night, where l work.
Mr.. Raum, the clerk, told me Of
the murder. There are two child
rel of us, Lizzie Mrs. Dugan) and
myself. Lizzie lives in the West
building /; her husband don't live
there !; he was in Louisiana I do
not know where he is now he
left here in February. He and my
father had several fuses, ) at /
guess they made up all right n 9,
had a fuss just before Dugan fel.,
and [ don't know whether it was
made up or not. | never heard
him make any threats, but / heard
that he did make them. It has
been a long while since / heard of
them and I don't know who told
me. 1t was before Dugan went to
the pen. He said to some one that
if he " got out he'd get even.
He wanted to abuse sister and pa
wouldn't let him. He wanted her
to go to Louisiana to live with
them; pa told her not to go, but
she would have gone if she wanted
to. Dugan never did get along
pleasantly with her. She was
making arrangements to come up
here andlive with us after Friday"
Jacob Flora, who lives across the
street, then testified that he was
awakened by the sound of a
woman's voice at about 2:30 this
morning. He went to the door
and saw Mrs. Apgar standing on
the south porch. "She called to
me-" he said, ssto come over at
once, and l did so. / saw Mr..
Apgar lying at the foot of the bed.
He was in a sitting posture with
his head bowed down. I spoke to
him, but he only shook his head.
Mrs. Apgar and myself put him on
the bed, and by the time we had
laid him down he was dead. /
then went for the doctors. and DIR.
Murdoch came. / was not ac-
quainted with deceased"
No more testimony was taken and
the corpse was uncovered and the
PosT-MoRTEM EXAMINATION
began. 1t was found that the ball
had entered to the right of the
breast bone, between the second
and third ribs. It ranged to the
left and was taken out. The ball
was from a % cartridge. After the
post-mortem the jury was relieved
until called together again by the
Coroner. This was done in order
that inquiries might be made and
more evidence secured.
THEORIES.
There are numerous theories re-
garding the murder, but only two
of them are at all plausible One
is that burglar entered the kitchen
in the attempt to steal something
and ,on coming out, saw the old gen.
tleman in front of him and fred the
murderous shot, thinking he was
cornered. The other is, that some
one went to the house purposely to
kill Mr.. Apgar, and made the noise
to bring him out and shot him
down as soon as he came 10 the
door. 1t is difficult to believe that
so dlabolical a deed could have
been in any mans heart, but it is
learned on good authority that
threats have been made to kill the