The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-12

bling. and it had been kept in McMurray's
trunk locked up until the trial.
On cross examination by Mr.. du Bignon.
| McMurray's story did not differ MATERIAL '
from the details OF the trouble as given in
the direct examination. Buttimer had fol-
lowed aud annoyed him, and he had struck
| him as he SAID he usually does when an
noyed in that manner. He was questioned
at length as TO his age. but he could not say
in what year be was born. although he said
I he was 81 years of age. His affidavit when
4 he was made a cltizsn was admitted in evil
dence after a legal wrangle, and he au-
swered that it was false that he came to
this country in 1880, as shown by the affida-
| Wit. and admitted coming 10 this country
| in 1854.
DIR. DUNN's TESTIMONY.
DR.. NJ. +. Dunn testified to being called
| in at Miss Prenty's on the night of the stab
bling. to treat McMurfay's wound, which
was an incissd one. one inch wide, one-half
| an inch deep, the middle of the wound
being deeper than the edges, and it was
wound such as the knife exhibited could
have made. 1t the wound had been little
| deeper it might have struck vital point
but it was not serious wound. McMurray
was laid up twelve or fifteen DAYS The
clothing impeded the knife.
Policeman Gaffney Identified the knife as
one he had obtained from Goss, aud which
k.du
in his judgment the fit was perfect one.
The witness arrested Maurice Buttimer the
morning after the stabbiog.
Miss Mamie Prenty testified that on the
night of the trouble she went to the door
with Mr.. McMurray as he was leaving her
house, and she heard Maurice Buttimer
say: That's that drunken policeman who
arrested us at the East Side mission; let's
do him up" and that then Maurice
Buttimer, LovetE, and Dan Butnmer
crossed the street. Sue did not witness the
affray outside, but in response to the news
given to her by win Barrett that they We're
numbering an innocent man she hurried to
the barroom, where the parties were assault
ing McMurry inside, got the cane away
from them and McMurray and threw 1t out
and got McMurray to her house.
THE KNIFE IDENTIFIED
Henry Goss identified the knife as the one
Maurice Buttimer had grabbed up and ran
out with when Co.'s had refused him a
pistol, and he had found the knife bv the
bar-room door shortly after tne trouble was
over. Goss did not know what transpired
outside after Buttimer went out with the
knife, but he witnessed the first
trouble. Buttimer followed McMurrav up
and the latter turned and hit Buttimer
powerful blow on the head with his walking
stick. Barrett came in about the time the
crowd had McMurray backed up against
the counter, but Co.'S saw no cutting inside
or outside the barroom.
John Fleming, Jr., testified that he was
in the mayors court the morning. after
Buttimer's arrest for blocking the sidewalk,
andiheard Maurice Buttimer say something
about doing McMurray up, but on cross
examination he explained il was something
about the crowd doing the officer 40 for
arraStinU than for ha A..
walk
Policemen Davis and Baughn testified to
hearing Maurice BuLtimer say in the
mayors court that McMurray had made a
threat to break up the crowd on the corner.
but before he did that the crowd would
first do McMurray up, or words to that
effect.
MoNAHAN on THE STAND.
James Monahan was the first witness
called for the defense. He testified that he
was standing on the corner opposite to
Goss' store the night of the trouble
and Buttimer said: "Give guess
who | sse9' abiding to McMurray,
and then said: Lets 60 over that way. y
McMurray stopped at Goss' store and said
something to Maurice Buttimer, and pushed
him off the sidewalk. Buttimer followed
McMurray, and the latter hit him on the
leg with q stick. McMurray went to the
name as the witness, and couldn't get in.
Buttimer then ran into Goss' store and got
a knife. and, meeting McMurray coming
back at the bar room door, sad,
'You are man and | am nothing but
boy, and you hit me with a
stick Monahan didn't see Buttimer cut
NcAurray, but he saw them going into the
bar room door facing each other. Buttimer,
he said, struck McMurrav with his fist, and
wanted him to give up ths stick. The wit
ness said that he saw William Barrett in
the barroom drunk, and with something up
his sleeve.
Patrick Curry saw Buttimer and Nc
Murray come struggling into the bac room
sideways, and Buttimer hit McMurrav with
stick, and Lovett struck McAIurfaY
The witness didn't see Buttimer with a
knife do saw the struggle to take the
cane from McMurray, and saw William
Barrett in the bar earlier in the evening
with knife with which he threatened to
cut Dan Buttimer. Barrett was drinking.
DIFFERENT STORY FROM ALL.
James Brown was a witness who differed
from all the rest in his statements. He
swore that he took the stick from McMur-
ray; that it was a leather stick with a steel
rod in it; that Nc Murray was leaning on
the counter frcLting it and holding the
stick. and that Barrett was walking up
and down in the baTroom with a
knife up his sleeve, and in his
hand, and that within five
minutes Barrett had told the witness
that he had stuck the -, and he
wished he had stuck him again, aud showed
witness the pocketknife, with which he had
stuck him. There was a long legal argu-
ment as TO the admissabiiity of statement
as to what Barrett told Brown, but it was
admitted.
The defense sought to introduce Justice
Frank McDermott and Alderman w. f.
Reid to prove that some days after the
stabbing Barrett had admitted that he had
done the cutting, but it was objected TO by
the state, aud the objection was sustained.
BUTTnIER's STATEMENT.
| Maurice Butgirner then took the stand
and made statement. He said that he ac-
companied McMurray and Kehoe TO the
barracks the night of the trouble at the
| mission chapel to stand Kehoe's bond, aud
| that the mayor did not fine him for the
| charge put against him by McMurrav: that
! he said in the mayors office that Nc Murray
| had made threat to break up the corner
where the boys congregated but they might
break him up; that he met McMurray by
| accident at the corner near Goss' store
where he had invited Lovett to go over and
"take something" and that McMurray first
accosted HIM and said, You got even with
me before the mayor" but added that he
would get even, referring to the church
matter, and Buttimer told him he was big
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