Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-21
LIKE A FUsILLADE.
Witnesses Who Testified for the Defense NJ
to the Schneider Shooting.

witnesses W no Testified for the Defense
to the Schneider Shooting.
Mr.. Melone, who vas being examined when
the regular report of the Schneider trial in THE
STAR on Saturday closed. continued his testi-
mony and said he thirty seven years old.
Il wear my glasses constantly. Nothing is the
matter with my eyes," he said The man whom
he saw. said witness, ran toward 18th street.
just then he woman. He thought
the woman after the man Witness was
on the eastern side of 18th street when the
man passed him. He said he intended to
arrest him, but just he came up concluded
not to do So
This remark of the witness caused great
laughter. when his honor stated that the next
time 1t occurred he would have the room
cleared Witness said he did not observe with
any degree of csrefulness the color of the
clothes worn by the man who ran and did not
know whether he had overcoat or not,
but thought he had. He could not say whether
Its collar was turned up or down.
District attorney--Can you say what man
did the shooting?
Witness, very promptly-No. slr; ! cannot.
witness added that he did not count the shots
and only had an impression as to the number.
SAID he was employed in the engineers office.
suppose 1 get paid" said the witness, when
am away from work. and did not represent to
the District attorney thatI would lose my pay
But dld get 81. 25 IRON the marshal
District attoTney-Oh. by the way. who we're
you going TO see on 18th street?
The witness, after a long pause--B. /. Foster,
a laborer at the Capitol
Redirect-WItness said he in the district
attorneys office long time and made a state
ment there which was written down.
COL. I. L. HoLBRooK.
Col. Theodore l.. Holbrook. No. 1853 @
street, testified that on the night of the shoot
ing he was sitting in the bay window of his
house He heard the shooting. There were
three distinct, then a chatter of shots like a lot
Of frecrackers. tLen a single shot. Think
there were certainly eight; possibly more He
went out on the street and saw a crowd. but
did not see anybody lying in the street He
Mrs. Manning and a moment later saw Mr.
Manning coming from 18th street. He also
saw Mr.. and Mrs Frank Schneider. Officer Nc
Glue and several others. He did not know
Officer Morgan. He did not See Mr. Lipscomb
He said he familiar with pistols. but he
never fired a self-cocking revolver and never
saw used. 1.-THE witness not allowed
to state his impression to whether there was
one or more pistols used
DIT NOT COUNT THE SHOTS.
Observation-Disclosures did not count the
shots II the clatter be counted as one there
we're but five shots. 1t might have been two
and half or three minutes before witness got
out on the street Witness bay window is of
copper, with five windows to 1t Witness did
not go into Col Hamlink's and does not know
Congressman Bacon. He had a conversation
with II stranger that evening and talked with
Frank Schneider. He him at his house
the next night, where there was a number of
gentlemen present. among whom he remem-
bered Mr.. Manning, Mr.. LipscOmb, gentle
man from the Sunday Herald and a Mr.. Mat
tingly. Witness said he knew Mr. McGregor
of, d. k,,x a,
state tc him there Il going to testify that
there was perfect fusillade OF shots and that
there was a man on the jury who he (Holbrook)
would let know how he wanted him (the jury
NAM to 60"
PHILIP WALKER.
Philip Walker of No. 1886 Q street testified
that he was at home at the time and heard the
shooting. There was first an isolated shot,
then a volley. which sounded like lot of fire.
crackers, then a single shot. Witness was
asked. but not allowed to state, his impression
i'll the volley were too rapidly fred to be
counted. Witness illustrated their sound by
pattering with his hands on the railing before
him. He had never had much experience in
tine use OF firearms.
Mrs. Annie b. Walker. wife of the preceding
witness, stated that she heard the shots. First
one shot, then volley, then one more. The
volley OF shots sounded just like frecrackers
going off.
James Walker brother-in-law Of the pre-
ceding witness, testified that he and his wife
were calling at the home of his brother, No.
1885 Q street. at the time Of the shooting and
heard the shots. He heard a single shot, fol-
lowed by a pause, then a number of shots
sounding like a bunch of firecrackers then one
more shot. WITNESS was asked, but not per-
mi'ted to state. his impression as to the number
OF pistols used.
Mrs. Annie b. Walker recalled and stated
that she went Immediately to her front window
on hearing the shots, raised it. looked out and
saw man running down q street from the
scene of the shooting. He turned down the
alley. She did not notice how he was dressed.
Crosse xamined-W Witness said she first no.
ticed the man before he got to 18th street, and
she watched him closely, because witness
thought from his running that he had some
thing to DO with the shooting.
BY the court-She could easily see him on
the other side of 18th street.
District attOrney-Did you this man; who
was running pass another man who stood on
q street near 18th street,
The witness did not. l am very sure that
no such man was standing there. [Melone the
cOlored witness for the defense. testified that
he was standing on Q street near 18th when
the man who ran passed him at that point.l
MRS. CATHERINE WALKER.
Mrs. Catherine Walker, the wife Of James
Walker, corroborated her husband brother-in-
law and sster-in-law as to the number of shots,
the rapidity with which they we're fired and
also as to the fact that the intermediate shots
sounded like the firing of firecrackers. Wit
ness, Immediately after the firing, ran out on
the street and went up to the Hamlink resi-
pence. She passed up the north side Of the
street and saw no one on the south side
Cross xamined-Witness said that on the way
to the scene of the shooting she met two col
ored women at the northwest corner of 18th and
z streets. She had talked over the matter of
the number of shots with the members of the
family, but had not agreed to describe the VOL