Butte semi-weekly miner., 1888-08-22
THE MKsrERE.
Reason at Fault In Endeavoring TO Ac-
count for Harrington's Wound.

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More utterly irrelevant testimony wa,
never submitted to a jury of inquest thar
that brought before the Harrington jury
yesterday. 1t was the only testimony
procurable however. The Marsha, hunted
high and low but could find no one who
saw how Harrington was cut. The evi
dence adduced at the iniuest proved the
affray between Corey and Dougherty in
which knife was used, and that Harring-
ton had been in the room where tile affray
took place out of which he was seen to
come by ore witness who heard him say he
was shot. Instead OF this he was cut, and
that SO badly that his intestines fell
through the ap rture made by knife be-
fore he had gone hundred yards from the
place where he received his death wound.
How an accidental stroke could produce
such fatal results without being observed
IS incomprehensible.
Here were two men engaged in a duel to
the death which was witnessed by at least
two hundred men whose eyes must have
been riveted on the two central figures. OF
course, while Corey still had his ristol in
his hand and expectancy was strained to
IL,
was the figure on which attention was con.
centrated. But when the pistol had been
knocked from his hand and the men had
clinched, then the man who held the knife
would become the figure on whose actions
attention was riveted and the motion of
whose hand handling the weapon would be
observed, as it was BY some OF the witnesses
at the inquest. And yet no one at this
critical juncture saw the dead man near
She knife or saw the latter pass anywhere
near him. No one testified that he was
rear Corey or Dougherty at this time
,r at any time indeed. He was just seen
oming out OF the slaughter pen with his
lands to his stomach complaining of having
,een shot. The fact that he thought he
lad been shot goes to show that he must
ave received the wound at the time OF one |
II the discharges of the Pistol. The majority |
# evidence goes to show that the pistol |
vas discharged three times. Harrington
must have been cut at the time OF one OF |
hese three discharges. No man could re- |
eive such wound as he got five seconds |
'efore or five seconds after hearing pistol |
xplode and connect it with the latter. The |
'ain of knife slash is too distinct and |
ivid for man to be in the least doubt as |
o when it took place. He might, however,
earring the crack OF a pistol discharge and |
ceiling tharp pain Immediately after, con-
ect the two, especially if he was in
be line OF fire OF the pistol OF
he three shots, Harrington could
My have supposed himself hit by |
ne of the two fired in the sparring room.
'ne OF these was fired at the door. At this
ime Dougherty was making his way into
he room, knife in hand, to avoid his pur-
uer. At the moment the pistol was fired
e may have brushed past Harrington
ith the knife in his hand SO held as to cut
harrington, who, watching Corey and being
ear the figure the latter was aiming at,
light attribute the sudden sharp pain he
1t to being hit by the ball. This is the
My theory by which man who was cut
ould imagine himself shot, though even
,en it is ineomprehensible how the two
,uld have occurred SO simultaneously al
} deceive the injured man as Harrington
rtainly was.