The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-05-21
Taking of Testimony in the Trial
of Schmidt.
THE HUSBAND OF THE MURDERED
WOMAN ON THE STAND.
A Hard Character of Arizona Murders
His Wife Because She Refused to
Live With Him-A Stockton Bar
keeper Shot and Killed by Woman
With Whom He Had Lived.
Special TO the REcoRp-UN1oN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
NAPA, May 20.-The trial of Carl
Schmidt for the murder of Mrs. Green
wood, on her ranch near Vallejo in Feb
ruary, 1891, was resumed to-day. The
jury was completed and the taking of
testimony began. Captain Greenwood,
husband of the murdered woman, who
himself received three bullets from pis-
tolls, was put on the witness stand and
told the story of the crime substantially
as follows:
1T was about dusk and l was working
near my house, my wife having driven
to the house Of a friend. L saw two men
approach, one of whom was Schmidt.
They asked me if my name was Green
wood and said they wanted something to
eat. l told them TO go up the road mile
where meals were sold. One of them, a
dark man, who was Schmidts compan-
ion, said We want money! Each pre-
scented a pistol to nay head, and I told
them I only had 8. They then pushed
me into the kitchen, placing me into a
chair. The dark man took a rope from
his pocket and told Schmidt to tie me.
He then said 'I'll give you something to
put you to Sleep He asked me where to
find a cup and water, then forced the
stuff down my throat. Finding it did
not work fast enough he gave me chlorO-
form, Schmidt all the time standing hold
ing pistol in his hand by my side.
Just then my wife came. She got out
of the buggy and came UP the steps. Just
as she reached the door the dark man
opened it. She stepped backward. fright
cned, falling off the porch lie brought
her in, placed her in a chair by me, de-
mandlng money. She said there was
only two dollars and fifty cents in the
house. The dark man then led her into
the bedroom, closing the door, Schmidt
al the time standing guard overs me-
Schmidt opened the door, and | saw the
dark man with his arm around my wite's
head, forcing something down her throat
from a bottle.
''Ten minutes later the dark man came
where l was, and proceeded to make a
gag with the handle of Il small broom,
which he put on me. Later they led me
into the 'front.' hall past We're my wife was
lying on the bed. AS / passed l heard
the rafting of her throat and thought she
was dying. They placed me on the floor
OF the hall. Taking picture-cord they
drew my feet and hands together behind
my back, then gave me more of the drug
and gagged me.
They then ransacked the house, and
later 1 heard. a. buggy drive away. [
~ S'SS7sS ~ my SCH " where my VIE was
and tried to attract her attention by tug
gIng ut her dress with my teeth. Then I
lost consciousness.
The next / remember I was being
drugged. The men had come back, and
Schmidt held light while the dark one
shot me. Three bullets took effect in my
head. The men then left about daylight.
managed to work my way to the bed
where my wife lay, and I kissed her and
thought her dead, her lips were so cold.
| worked my way to the door and man
aged to open it. 1 crawled though faint
and sick from my wounds, to the gate at
the county road. After waiting half an
hour Hugh Kelly came along and we
gave the alarm"