Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-03
ANGUS-JOHNSON.
Yesterdays Habeas Corpus Proceedings
in the Bradley Murder Case.
Number of Witnesses Add to the Details
OF the TraEedy-The State Rests Its
Case-The Other Side.

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and Charley Ross, Tom Angus and others
were playing dominoes in the rear part OF
witness saloon, 504 Main street; they
! played three or fou1 games, when Gus
toners came to the bar; he left the game
TO serve them, when Angus left the build
| ing; ne was in good humor, and there
| was nothing unusual in his manner; w.t.
ness heard several pistol shots three to
ten minutes after Angus left; witness did
not remember seeing Dick Johnson that
morning, but admitted he might have
| been one of the men he had served at the
! bar when called from the game of domi-
! noes.
Cross examination: The killing took
place between and 10 a. m, on the
| 10th of last January; Angus and john
son are intimate friends; witness saw
Johnson soon after the shooting but did
| not remember seeing him prior TO that
| time; he did not notice a pistol about the
! person of Angus while they were en-
gagged at dOminoes, nor had he ever seen
him with pistol; witness was acquainted
with Bradley; he saw Bradley in min
ute after he fell; he was lying on his
face; Angus and johnson frequently
came to his saloon, and their hacks some
times stood in front of his house.
Lee Cohn testified that Angus and
Johnson were poor men and had no rela-
tives or friends Of wealth or influence
At this stage of the proceedings the
applicants announced that they would
rest their case.
Charles ScheTzer was INTRODUCED as
witness for the state. Witness lived with
his parents on the corner of Wood and
father; he knew all the parties involved
in the case and was a friend of Bradley;
he didn t see Johnson the night before
the killing; the night before that event
Johnson had called at the saloon and
asked for Bradley, -, who came to the
saloon about one hour and a half after
Johnson left.
Cross amination-Bradley was
frequent visitor to the saloon and lodged
IN the house whenever he failed to catch
the train for Oak Cliff, which was once or
twice a week; witness was acquainted
with Meyer, but did notsknow where he
is now; Bradley was not acquainted with
Meyer; there are wine rooms at the sa-
loon for gentlemen and ladies; they
sometimes come together; there are two
lodging rooms; witness had been the
companion of Bradley on several routs
but had never seen a weapon on him.
Richard Scherzer testified to the pres
ence of Dick Johnson at his saloon the
night before the shooting and asking for
Bradley, who had been there the night
prior to Johnson s visit; johnson was not
driving hack the night he came.
Cross examined-Witness kept q beer
saloon and two wine rooms for women
and men; Bradley came there two or
10 hut no IO1p
there; did not know whether Bradley
carried a pistol or not, bat saw him
shoot Meyer with one about year ago;
johnson came nearly every day to his
saloon. -..
Al Cook testified that he was hack
driver and knew Angus and Johnson and
Bradley by sight; he saw Angus and
Johnson ten minutes before the shooting
on the corner near the Cabinet saloon;
first met Johnson on Austin street, near
the corner, and in short time Angus
joined them; witness talked to Johnston
several minutes before Angus appear
ance; Johnston and Angus walked off to-
gether, going IN the direction of the
Board of Trade; witness moved eastward
~ along Main street a few yards and
never noticed Angus or Johnston any
more until he heard shooting, which was
two or three minutes afterwards; when
they moved away from witness he heard
Angus say to Johnston, "Let's take a
drink he heard the remark, son of Il
- but dom t know who uttered it or
to whom it was applied; witness did not
know whether they had a hack that
morning; the last sight witness had of
them before the killing they were near
Swope s Mangold 8, or about half
way across the street going in that
direction; they first moved to-
ward the board Of trade, but changed
their course; witness had walked fifteen
or twenty feet when he heard a shot, and
then two others in rapid succession;
Angus fired the shots; witness turned at
first shot and saw Angus and Johnston
standing close together, Johnston IS po-
sitiOn being in the rear; Bradley was
running with his hands in the air when
first saw him; at the second |
shot ne clapped his hands on his hips;
Bradley had not reached the |
sidewalk when the third shot !
was fired; witness heard no exclamation |
except perhaps from Bradley; Angus |
and Johnson halted but minute on the |
corner near the Cabinet before crossing, |
and witness saw no pistol on either of !
them that morning, nor had he ever seen !
either with a pistol; witness had never |
before seen the pistol which counsel ex- |
hibited
S. W. White being sworn testified |
that he was in Dallas on the day of the |
killing; witness was sitting in a chair on |
the east side of Swope s Nangold S sa-
loon about fifteen feet from the |
corner, when the shooting began;
Bradley was walking rapidly past the
corner moving east and had got three or
four feet past that point when the first |
shot was fired; shot came from Bradley IS !
rear; witness saw projecting arm and |
hand in which was pistol pointed east;
saw Bradley and the pistol moment be-
fore the first shot; when the first shot |
was fred Bradley threw up both hands
and exclaimed, "Oh;' n second shot
soon followed and the shootist had ad-
vanced some; third shot succeeded and
the shootist was still further advanced
toward Bradley.
Cross examination: Witness saw no
one enter or issue from side door of
Swope s Mangold s, nor had he noticed a
ST. Get car standing on the track on Aus
tin street to the left of him; the sight of
Bradley and the arm with presented
pistol was practically simultaneous; wit
ness didn I see Johnston at all; after the
first shot Bradley did not make move as
Il to seek refuge behind q car on
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