The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-05

There were only two men shooting.
aud the one ou the bridge advanced
on the other rapidly after the third
shot. Witness turned back just be
fore the shouting was over.
This witness was put through Il
long cioSS examination, during which
he said hc went back to the Lawrence
7 House after the Shootiu" and heard it
discussed, hut did not tell any body
what he had seen; uftcrward started
+ home and crossed the bridge Just aS
they were removing Gauhrcll. hat
did not stop: did stop awhile at Mr..
SchwartZ'S further on and told them
there had been Il shooting on the
street, hut did not tell what lac saw ::
didn't tell his own family about it
when hc got home: didn't know the
corOncr'S jury WAS investigating the
case; was ut the habCas corpus trial
one day, but didn't let any body know
he saw any thing: visited Hamilton in
Jail, but didn't tell him, and didn't
tell any body but lIamilton'S lawyers
Just before the trial was first to begin
at Brandon.
Lamar fontaine, civil cnginccr,prc-
scented diagrams of the bridge and
course of the balls, and said the bali
which struck the post of the wire
fence came from the northwest corner
of the iron bridge. Also that he first
discovered the ball hole in top of
l+amiltons carriage early next morn
ing after the shooting. The hole is
i'll right side of top, about IS inches
from rear end, and seemed then to
have been made by 3S-calibrc ball.
Horace Potter. colorcd, testified
that he was in front of Government
building, on east side of bridge, 80
wards from the shooting, going toward
! it. and saw two shots from the north
west foot-walk going southeast.
Turned and ran back and only heard
the other shots; the third one WAS
! very loud; saw carriage approaching
west end of bridge just before shoot
ing began. ON cross examination
witness said he was positive the ear
ma@e had twO horses in it, and that
/ the horses feet struck the bridge lust
rs the shooting began. Didn't tell
any body for Il long time what he saw,
] l,,,1r IA no Z /.
going ON, and then he told jim Hill.
Most of Saturday was spent in eN-
amining Paul II. Wol1ord, of jackson.
Witness has license to practice law
and makes living collecting claims.
coc<-ti%hting and playing poker. He
testified that on the night of the kill
, ing he was going up the bed of the
creek (Which WAS then dry between
80 and 60 wards north of the bridge.
and had an UnobStructcd view. He
/ first heard Il shot and turned. Heard
another shot and saw the flash going
/ toward the Government building.
/ Then there were two simultaneous
shots and the cry of ..Oh MURDER" or
"Oh God :" He located these shots
/ about where the northwest approach
connects with the bridge. He could
! see two men, one approaching the
other. and the firing was then very
rapid. until he last shot. which went
northwest. Supposed from the drcc-
| ton of the flashes that one of the
men was down. After the last shot
witness say one of the men 20 east,
and then the crowd began to gather
/ Heard the carriage run OFT the bridge
after first shot, hut did not see it.
On cross examination witness cX-
planned that he was going up the
creek to carry Il game chicken to his
wash woman. Kept ON and didn't
| find out who was shot until he was
coming back another way. Had ncv-
en- visited IIamilt0n'S house before the
killing, but had many times since and
frequently ridden behind his fine sor-
relS: is very intimate with DR.. Buck.
| IIamiltOn's brothcr-in-l law, and often
sleeps with him, though he has IL
room of his own. Has frequently
ridden with DR.. Buck, the Doctor fur
niShing the team, and visited Hamil-
ton in Jail. Denied telling Ford
Chiles and Ramsey Wharton that he
just missed seeing the shooting by be-
ing too far up the creek; didn't tell
Tom Barr and \. II. Jayne as they
We're going back over the bridge the
night of the killing that it was "a
! ID assassination; didn't say to
John Martin the same night, 'Bv
God, they murdered the poor fellow
like a dog, and they shot him from all
round; had never offered Miss Hat
tie Baskins, of Clinton. money to tes-
| tify in the case for Hamilton.
Major Van Eaton was here Friday
and Col. DeaSOn Saturday to testify to
lIamilton'S character as man of
peace. Like all the other character
witnesses, when shown Hamilton's
two big pistols, they wilted, and said
they had never seen him with any
thing on like these.
Ellis Young, George Washington,
John Criddlc, W. +. Todd, John Nc
Neil, Oliver Cromwell, Horace Potter,
NJ. f. Hart and Paul Woiford are Wit
neSScS who have never testified in the
ease before, and are greatly relied on
by the defense, but the State is in no
wise disconnected, and is now more
confident of Il conviction than any
time since the trial began. 1t is now
manifest that lIamilton'S strikers, re-
alizinG The terrible danger which over
hangs their chief, have gone to man
utacturing testimony to order by
Wholesale, and this impression seems