The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-03

S WSaa tell who the man was that was shot
"nen she came out she was CRYING.
ia, Bill, says she, ats EDDY"
Ia faxed with Eddy and he said:
soa,h, ymliliam, take me home I'm bleeding to
p. mnt BE we were carrying him home ne ssid
ARK hoplnson was the man who shot him
mere was no cross-examinatiou OF this wit
ness. David Edmunds testified as follows:
knew Eddy Williams lived next door to
MN. saw him at Black Diamond On the aft
ernoon OF the shooting. Nv wife and I cana
home on the train that evening. saw Eddy at
MS mouse after ne was shot. He was suffering
agoany' ne asked me in Welsh what tbs doctor
sala. didn't ike TO answer him, but he asked
again ana told him in Welsh that he could not
i've asked him IL he was positive it was PARK
he was
Characterization of Edm unds brought cut
nothing new, aud at its close recess was taken
until 100 D. m
Inc hrst witness Of the afternoon session was
j. Z. Thomas He swore that he had seen Eddy
Williams, Norris, Jones and Tommy Williams
on the county road while he was walking with
MS wife. None of the four men were armed.
Inc next morning he saw Morris body He
mad been shot twice. One ball went in at the
pack OF the neck and lodged in tho front part
OF the neck. The other ball went in at the
cheek and came out the mouth.
SfIommy Williams swore as follows:
4 was with the two men who were killed
when they were standing talking near the com
pany's store We ran up the road tovethar and
then OF up the hill. until We got to Park Rob
inson's house. | lay down behind log and
Williams and Morris kept on up the hill
After some shots got up and went in sunerin.
tendent Williams house. Eddy Williams AMI
Morris were both unsrmed. While / was in
Williams house, Park Robinson came in with
his gun on his shoulder. He asked who was in
ths house, and Williams said that was Will
iams asked me If knew who ran up the hui.
and because was afraid l said no.
Mrs. J. c. Thomas was with her husband
when he met the four men She swore that
they were ali unarmed. When the shooting be.
gan we went up the hill, and for time got be.
hind log
A. :. Cameron testified that he first saw Eddy
Williams that evening where he sat on log in
the woods calling for help The witness helped
carry MIN to Mrs. Jones' house. He stayed
there few minutes and then got his family
togethsr and went to Black Diamond
David W. Evans saw Eddy Williams about
e:SO In the evening at his mothers house. The
witness had gone for the doctor before that
Eddy told him two or three times that he was
going 10 die and said that Park Robinson was
the man who shot him.
Evans story of Williams' DYING declaration
was the same as that told by previous Witnesses
On Contamination he swore that he had no
ill-feeling against Park Robinson because he
did not leave with the other miners but STAYED
and worked with the negroes
Deputy Sheriff James Wells testified that he
had found Morris body lying on the hillside,
face down, above Park Robinson's house about
4o'clock on the Monday morning
Jacob Olsen swore to seeing Norris body on
the morning after the shooting. It was in the
woods, about forty or fifty yards above Park
Robinson's house. He saw the coroner cut one
of the bullets out of the froat part of the dead
mans neck. The witness thought it was A.
caliber.
The testimony Of Mrs Thomas II. Williams,
wife of Eddy Williams brother. was as follows:
saw Eddy lying on the floor of Mrs. Jones
house. had been on. walking with my hus-
band. talked with Eddy and he said he was
bleeding 10 death. They carried him home on a
sheet. He told us that Park Robin son was the
man who shot him. He said:
HE shot two innocent fellows who had moth
ing TO defend themselves with"
Thomas Fl. Williams was recalled and testi-
fed that his brother Eddy died at $40 O'Clock
on the morning after the shooting. The coroner
came to the house, but held no inquest and no
autopsy. The body was buried on the Tuesday
following.
With this evidence the state rested and the
defense was called upon to state its case to tho
jury Mr.. Burlsigh said that he wished at this
point to move that the state be required to pro-
duce a witness on its behalf Deputy Sheriff
Ben Stretch, who was said to be the first person
to find the body of Morris after he was shot
The name OF this man, the attorney argued, was
Endorsed on the Indictment found By the grand
jury, and the state had no right to select from
the witnesses before tbs grand jury such as 1t
wished to use and leave out those that would
iDjure its case.
Mr.. Hughes and Mr.. Mcbride both addressed
the court, maintaining that they could not be
compelled to procure a witness who, they were
confident, would hurt their case They were
informed that stretch would testify that he had
found gun underneath tho body of Norris
Furthermore Robinson was being tried for the
shooting of Eddy Williams, and not OF Morris.
Both parties desired to argue the question,
and as Judge Humes announced himself I'M
prepared to decide IL, a recess was taken until
this morning, when the legal point involved
will be argued.