Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-27
Felipe Chavez and NJ. Bru-
nette Held Answerable.
THE VERDICT OF THE JURY.
Testimony Of the Witnesses and
Statements of the Accused
Before the Coroner.

SOutn6Iu IdClUG IAllrO6u eTdCk near Dy
was resumed shortly after O'Clock yes
terday morning by Coroner Meredith
and District Attorney Kelly. The fra
witness called was Stewart Spencer, {
horseshosr, who formerly worked fol
Glass. He stated that he attended the
dance at the Hunter house on Saturday
night, in company with Franklin Pierce
and three others. He was not at the
saloon, however, and knew nothing o.
the row until it was all over and Glass
was missed. He was one of the party
In Cassidy's express wagon and crossed
the river with some ladies about the
time the fight occurred. On returning
with Cassidy and four others in the
wagon he heard the remark made by
Cassidy to Dolenty, the East Side sa.
loon.keeper, about one of the party being
missed, and saw the former raise Glass
coat from the seat and say, "This is all
that is left Of him." but did not attach
any particular meaning to the remark.
o. W. Stevens, alias "Shorty," was
next called to the stand. He testified
that he worked at Budinger's stable,
and that he met Charlie Glass about 8
p. m. on Saturday night. After that
they went into the Empire stables to.
gether, and Glass engaged two-seated
surrey. They then drove along Main
street and picked up Mcmahon, Sweeny
and Pierce, and they all drove to the
dance at the Hunter house together.
Everything was quiet at the dance. The
crowd was composed for the most part
of Mexicsns of both sexes. Charlie
Glass left the dance and went to
q saloon about quarter of a mile away.
About 80 o'clock he said: "Boys, let
as 60 home" He then got the team
and inquired for Charlie, and one OF the
boys said he had gone to the saloon.
Mcmahon, Pierce and Sweeny got in
and he drove down to the saloon. They
got ont and went into the saloon and
took drinks. He tried for half en- hour
or more to get them away from
there, but could not. Some
of them were willing, hut
Glses and Sweeny would not 90.
Pretty soon several Mexicans came
down and said that someone had stolen
some hats; the wagon was searched and
they found four hats. Sweeny made q
remark that he could lick any -
that accused him of stealing. Glass mis-.
understood him and fight ensu d, and
he saw q Mexican with q bottle. He said.
NLet the - come" he would fix
him. He struck one of the men, but the
witness could not see who was struck.
There were about ten Mexicans present.
There was q general fight. The man
with the bottle spoke in broken English.
10 4
drove off with Sweeny: Know nothing
blood on the carpet and cushion of the
buggy came from Sweeny, who was hit
on the nose. On getting back to town
he returned the surrey to the man in
charge OF the Empire stables, after which
he returned to Budinger's barn, and
after wash went to breakfast. Did not
hear that Glass was dead until about
hali-past IL.
made postmortem examination of the
body at the request of the Coroner. He
found a confused wound four inches long
on the right side Of the dead mans neck,
q cut at the angle of the mouth, the
upper eye tooth knocked out, an irregu-
lar wound, three and one-half inches
long, over the right ear, the frontal bone
with fracture two and one-half inches
long and one inch in width, scalp
wound one inch long back of the left
eyebrow, a confused wound two inches
broad under the right armpit, and three
fingers OF the right hand crushed and
torn. The wounds were apparently
made with blunt instrument.
He thought that the wound under the
armpit might have been caused by a
boot-a kick; the wound on the right of
the head was sufficient to cause death
instantaneous. A man receiving such a
wound would be only able to take few
steps. The wound on the left of the
head would not cause death, but il might
cause temporary insensibility.
DR.. Granville MCGOWAN, who assisted
in the autopsy, was of tho opinion that
there we're two wounds on the deceased
that might cause death; the one on the
neck has the appearance of having been
delivered with sufficient force to cause
death.
Chas. Sweeny made statement sim.
liar in every respect to that made when
under arrest at the Police Station, and
which has already been published in
the HERALD.
Felipe Chavez was then called and in.
formed that he need not testify if by 80
doing he thought he would criminate
himself. He expressed desire to make
statement. however, and testified that
he was present at tne dance at Hunters
house on Saturday night. After being
there some time he with others went
down to Mirandotte's saloon. There was
row outside, and some one called for
help. A man came running out of the
saloon and made for the witness, who
jumped aside and struck him on the side
Of the head with bottle full of whiskey
as he passed. The man staggered away
after being hit. and just at that moment
the witness was called away by his mo-
ther, and he took her away from the
place. When he struck the man, a
friend named Van Press stood close to
his side. but he disappeared after the
blow was struck. The witness said that
he was told by Sam Hunter that Bru.
1ette had informed him that af.
ter the man had been struck
with the bottle, he (Brunette)
followed him up and hit him again with
his revolver. Frank Snee had row at
the saloon early in the night, and the
witness saw him leave the ballroom with
q dagger in his hand. He was also al
the saloon shortly before the row. Joe
Hunter told the witness to keep away
from Glass, as he was bad man and
could knock them all ont. Tho witness
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