Morning journal and courier., 1891-07-22
ALLEN DREW BOUND ovEn

In Ronds of 81 900 to the Superior
Court for Shooting Little Eddie Hat
field July 4.
The second and last day of the hearing
in the city court of the case of Allen Drew,
who is charged with granddaughter in
causing the death of the little colored boy,
Eddie Hatfield, on the morning of July 4.
took place yesterday and resulted in Mr.. |
Drew being bound over under bonds of
81 600 to the next term of the superior |
court. There were fully as many specta-
tors present as at the previous trial last
Saturday, and much interest in the pro-
eeedings were manifested. Nearly all of
the session yesterday morning was oceu-
pied by the defense and evidence was in
troduced to prove that it was absolutely
impossible under the circumstances for the
defendant to have shot the boy.
The first witness called was Charles
Homan, a photographer, whose testimony
was introduced to show that the shooting
could not have been done by Mr.. Drew,
standing where he did, and holding the
pistol on level with his shoulder. The
testimony in brief was as follows:
went with Judge Blydenburgh to the
scene of the shooting and took this photo
graph. Here he showed photograph of
too Mr.. Holman then explained how
they took the picture. The camera was
placed in Mr. Drew's back yard and ranged
on a level with Mr.. Drew's hand, as he i
would hold pistol to fire. Thenthe boys
were placed on, Goffe street where Eddie
Hatfield was, but neither appeared in the
photograph because the fence in Drew's
back yard entirely obstructed the view.
William Hoffman of 376 Orchard street
was the next witness called by the defense.
He said that he saw Mr.. Drew fire off three
loaded cartridges on the morning of the
Fourth, and that he knew they were loaded
from the fact that he heard Mr.. Drew tell
his son to bring them to him. He said
further that Mr.. Drew stood about three
feet from his back steps and two feet from
the tar walk. He said that bullet fred
from where Mr.. Drew was standing would
have to go through the fence in order to
hit boy on the COTE street sidewalk. If
the bullet had gone over the fence it would
have gone too high to hit anybody. One
of the loaded bullets went into the out
house, and Mr.. Drew went up to the place
to see where it struck. Then he returned
to his position near his steps and fred
into the fence. Then he went up to the
bullet, returned and fired third bullet
into the willows on COTE and County
streets. Those were the only loaded shells
he fired. City Attorney Daley in his cross
examination of the witness asked how near
Mr.. Drew stood at any time to the picket
fence adjoining the high board fence.
The witness said six feet
Coroner Mix was then called and cor
roborated the previous witness in so far as
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testifying that he had picked up three
empty shells in Mr.. Drew's yard.
The expert testimony of the trial was
| brought out by the next witness, Albert
Walker, the armorer at the Second regi-
ment armory, who was summoned as an
expert. He went up to Mr.. Drew's yard
few days ago and examined the bullet
holes in the clubhouse and in the fence. In
both places the holes were made by 80
| bullet. There was only one bullet hole in
| the fence and the bullet did not go through
| the fence. He also testified that there
| were no holes or cracks in the fence, in
| range of where Drew stood and the boy
| was shot, big enough for a bullet to 90
through the fence without leaving mark.
Mr.. Walker said the pistol used by Drew
| was a very poor one and could
| not send bullet very far He said
| that a bullet fred from any
| pistol held where Mr.. Drew was said to
| have stood by the witness, Mr.. Hoffman,
could not have hit boy on the COTE street
sidewalk. He could not have hit the child
fif he Drew was in the position the wit
nesses say he was, except in the side, and
the chances are that he would hit the arm
| instead of the side. admit that if Drew
stood at the end of the close board fence
| where the picket fence begins and lacks a
| picket, he might have struck the boy as he
| was struck. But I don't think the ball
would have penetrated his body at 235
| feet.
Mr.. Drew then took the stand in his own
| behalf. He said: I never used the remark
about ''niggers" mentioned by John Will
liams, nothing whatever of that kind.
shot three bullets-one into an outbuild-
ing, another into the fence and a third at
| the willows. I didn't fire standing near
| the fence at all. I merely went to the
fence when hit it, that's all. I was firing
blank and ball cartridges five minutes.
said nothing but that it was too bad when
I saw the boy dead lying on the sidewalk.
Mr.. Drew acknowledged firing the three
bullets, but stated that he fired the third
one in the direction of the willows at an
elevation. The willows are not in the
direction of where Eddie Hatfield was
killed, and there is no obstruction which
| the bullet could have struck and DETECTED
| to where the boy was.
| This testimony ended the case for the
day, although the defense had another ex-
| pert to introduce, but as he was not pres
emit in court Judge Blydenburgh said he
would not ask for any delay, but would
rest his case. Both City Attorney Daley
| and Judge Blydenburgh agreed to submit
the case without agreement, whereupon
| Judge Pickett said: ''The court thinks that
| this belongs to class of cases that ought
| to go before the superior court. Drew is
bound over to the superior court under
! 81 900 bonds"
Judge Blydenburgh then asked that the
bail be reduced below $1,000, but Judge
Pickett refused to reduce it.