Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-10

inches nothing but a bullet hole was
made, and not until the muzzle of the re-
volver was placed almost against the fam
mel, not over half an inch away, was any
burning done.
DR.. j. W. Cowden corroborated DR..
Truesdale as to the nature of the wound,
the burnt hole in the shirt and also as to
the experiments made upon the piece of
flannel in connection with DIR. Truesdale
and Charles Wulff Mr.. Wulff being
called next, said he did the shooting in
these experiments and that they were
done with pistol similar to the one in
this case.
David Halves. coroner, said at Lute's
shirt with the holes in it was before him
at the inquest, but was taken away by
someone. he did not know whom; he had
inquired after it, but could not ascer>
tain its whereabouts.
Timothy Beecher testified that he too
the shirt to the coroner, and after the in
quest went to get it again. but found
that it had been taken away by someone
unknown to the coroner.
At this mornings session the only wit
ness called for the defense was L. V.
Eckhsrdt, who was one of the coroner's
jury. He described the hole in the shirt
to be larger than a silver dollar; he had
made experiments similar to those made
by Drs. Truesdsle and Cowden, with like
results. On cross>examination Mr.. Stur-
geon desired to have the witness admit
that he had taken great interest in the
case. and was the only one in the coro-
ner's jury who held out on the question
of bringing ina verdict generating the
defendant. With this witness the de-
Tense closed at about 10 o'clock.
On rebuttal the people called George
Long the deputy city marshal, who after
much argument as to his competency,
testified that shortly after the ball
was extracted from Lutte. the latter told
him that ''she sneaked into the
'toboggsn slide" and shot me" but after
TIE arrest of his wife when witness called
her out of the room, deceased turned to
him and said: 'Oh, George DON'T Liz,
zie not word against you'll 1t was all
my fault. l pulled it, and it shot-I
don't know how did it,"
Coroner Halves was called as to the
size of the holes Ia the shirt, and placed
the large ones at about as large as a
quarter of a dollar.
Charles Koch. the gunsmith, was called
to rebuff the testimony of Drs. Truesdale,
Cowden, and Eckhardt as to the distance
at which TO muzzle of revolver must be
to flannel to burn it. From his expert
ments, the distance ranged from two feet
to three inches and it was shown that at
some of the shorter ranges the flannel was
burned and more or less powder. marked
G. F. Adams, the brother-in-law of
Lutte Dimick, testified that he had not
seen the shirt in question since the night
of the accident.
Police Magistrate Wivill was called to
pass an opinion upon the quality of the
flannel of which the shirt was made, and
have it compared with that with which
the experiments were made, and stated
that the flannel used by Koch was
slightly heavier, and that owned by the
doctors much heavier than the shirt.
DR.. Truesdale said that the deceased
had on no undershirt and that the flesh
around the wound was not burned or
powder marked, and on cross examination
explained that the shirt protected the
flesh from such burning or marks.
Timothy Beecher and Mrs. Dimick
were then called for the defense to show
that Lutte had light undershirt on, and
the same was produced.
This closed all the evidence on both
sides.
States Attorney Sturgeon began the
opening argument for the state. which
was concluded al 3 o'clock. and Mr..
VIM. Jackson began for the defense. He
will be followed by Mr.. McEniry and
Major Beardsley, and Mr.. Sturgeon will
close.