Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-11-15

stable, 1 am told, when he served the war
rant at his house had searched him and
found nothing. AS Dr.. w. started, he
stepped into his Office for moment saying
be would get Mrs. Walker who was going
along, and it is surmised that he took the
opportunity to secure a revolver and a dirk.
| The little court room was literally crowded,
for the insult to Mrs. w. and the subse-
quent threats of DIR. w. had for several days
been the subject of conversation.
Out of regard to Mrs. W., the matter of
the insult was not brought up land evidence
was heard simply Oh the question of breach
Of the peace. Mrs. Walker, who had come
with her husband, was called and the oath
administered, and stated in a low voice her
knowledge of the threats and her apprehen-
sions OF a breach Of the peace. Miller testi-
| fed to the threats made in the letter.
The Magistrate then announced to DR..
| Walker, who was standing near and front
ing him, that he would have to require HIM
to give $500 security, to keep the peace for
one year towards Henry Miller and all other
| citizens OF the Commonwealth.
Dr.. Walker refused to give the security
and said positively he would not.
The Magistrate-"Then | will have to
send you to jail
DR.. Walker-"That is what I want. l
will be happier in jail than out of it,
Dr.. Walker then commenced q sort of adj
dress to the Court. He said Magistrate
Bosworth was right in his decision, but he
wanted to go to jail and would not give
bail, and added, "Will you let me have my
dinner before L go to jail ?'
The Magistrate-''Certainly, you can
have your own time to get it. Instead of
sending an officer with you, will give you
the papers and let you go to jail yourself
and surrender yourself"
DR.. Walker-''I don't want that, I want
an officer to go with me.''
After a moments pause DR.. Walker said
to the Magistrate-''I want you to grant
Inc one request before go. l want to slap
Henry Miller in the mouth for insulting
my wife"
The Magistrate. -"Doctor you can't do
that here.'
DE-. Walller.-''I am going to do it.''
THE SHOOTING AND STABBING COM
MENCE.
With that, Dr.. Walker put his hand in
his hip pocket and drew a pistol. He was
trying to cock it before he got it entirely
out of his pocket. David Miller ran to him
and Wrenched the pistol from his hand.
In an instant all hands crowded together
and everything was in confusion. The
magistrate vainly tried to separate the
parties BY that time Dr.. Walker had
reached over and grabbed Henry Miller and
had out adirk and was stabbing Miller rapid
ly in the breast and back. Miller stood up
for moment OF two, then fell over on the
bench, and then fell to the floor, dead. In
the mean time rapid firing had been going
on and Walker had been shot and mortally
wounded in the back, it is supposed by
David Miller, with the pistol he wrenched
from Walkers hand. BY this time the
pistols had been handed to the other Miller
boys from the porch landing, and their
firing was general. DR.. Walker turned
and walked over to a bench on the other
side of the room and laid down on it.
THE SHOOTING OF MRS. WALKER
Mrs. Walker ran from the other side of
the room over to where her husband lay on
the bench, and sat down Oh the bench by
his side. She had a hands atchel with her,
and opening it took out a camphor bottle
and commenced bathing his face At this
moment James Miller went over to her and
saying, "Y GU have killed my father and you
shall all die TOGETHER shot her behind the
ear. She died instantly and slipped off
from the bench. She sat upright on the
floor, dead, with her satchel and camphor
bottle by her hand and the blood porting
from her head.
Dr.. Walker, seeing this, got up off the
bench and laid down on the floor by his
wife. While lying there, William Miller
went to him and pointing his pistol right at
him. shot him three times.
The first two shots of David Miller re-
celved by DR.. Walker struck him in the
back and ranged down into the bowels.
The later shots of VIM. Miller inflicted
slight flesh wounds.
That ended the fray as far as shooting
was concerned. Miller was lying dead on
one side of the room, Mrs. Walker was
lying dead on the other, and at her side lay
her husband mortally wounded Several
persons had been more OF less injured in
the fray, but all slightly. David Miller in
the confusion had received a shot in the
back from a pistol in the hands of one of
his brothers. William Miller had his nose
injured by a blow from chair, and six 9TH
Ell had bullets through their clothing, and
bruises gotten in the fray. Samuel Beaver,
a constable, had his neck severely cut. how
Oh by whom could not be clearly ascer-
| tanned.
The Miller boys took their fathers body
out and getting an ambulance sent it home
The friends of DR.. Walker took him I'D
and carried him in their arms down the
hill to his home land the body of Mrs. Wal
ker was carried home in the same way.
Magistrate Bosworth gathered up the
pistols and guns which were left on the
scene.
DIR. WALKERS LAST MOMENTS,
When Dr.. Walker was gotten home, DR..
ID. E. Strain, formerly Of the W. L. Asy-
lum, was sent for and was the first physic-
ian to arrive. DR.. Samuel Morrison and
DR.. Rudd Morrison arrived later. DR..
Strain found Dr.. Walker suffering from
seven wounds, two of which were mortal,