The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-06

you should curse me 10 that mannerp
DO you consider yourself any better
than anybody elsep asked Garrigsn.
mo, but have done nothing that should
cause You to curse me-"
Gerrigan replied with an oath and struck
him Ia the mouth, knocking his umbrella
out Of his hand. He grappled with Garri-
gan and told him 10 consider himself under
arrest. A struggle followed aud Kavanaugh
called for assistance. Chubby Sullivan ran
over and catching Garrigan ad vised him to
go TO the barracks without any trouble.
NOT TILL HE KILLED HIM.
Garrigsn's reply was: an never 90 until
| l kill the informing - - -"
and at the same time struck him again.
Kavanaugh asked Sullivan to hold GarriS
gan until he could go nto the express stables
and telephone for assistance to the barracks.
As he started to go into the stables he met
James Brown, James Mcbride, Jr., aud a
crowd coming toward him yelling "Kin
the - - -; kill him" Kavan-
augh ran back 70 where Garrigan was and
catching him tried to take him to thu BAR
| racks.
The crowd broke his hold and began kick
ing and outing him until they got him on
his knees. He warned his assailants to keep
away. but their only reply were yells TO kill
him. While he was down on the ground on
one knee, with blows and kicks being rained
| upon him. he drew his revolver from his
holster and raised 1t up TO intimidate them.
FIRED THROUGH HIS COAT
Seeing it had no effect be dropped it back
| to his side and the hammer caught 10 his
coat, which accounted for his shooting
through his coat. Kavanaugh said he fred
straight IN front without taking aim at any
| one.
After the shot was fred Mike Daley
wrenched the pistol out Of his hand, and as
the crowd began yelling to kill him, and,
| feeling that his life was IN danger, he ran
Kavanaugh exhibited his torn and be-
| draggled clothes TO illustrate the manner in
| which he had been treated. He was an hour
on the stand and told everything in q clear
voice and In q perfectly cool manner.
The defense rested on the prisoners state
ment and the state then began its rebuttRl
| testimony. DR.. Stone was the first witness
put up. He said he had examined KAY
anaugh shortly after he had been brought
to the barracks. While the physician did
not find any marks upon him, yet the
| policeman had the appearance of being the
| wreck of cyclone and was suffering from
| great mental excitement
TRYING TO KEEP OUT FLIES.
| Mrs. Hawkins said she was standing In
| her door across the street from the scene of
| the shooting when it occurred. Both Gar
rigan and Kavanaugh were standing UP,
| and she saw Kavanaughs left arm around
Garrigan's waist and in his right was a pis-
| tol against his hip under the GOAT. A mo-
ment later she heard shot.
| The cross-examinRtion of Mrs Hawkins
! brought out a peculiar incident Mai
| Meldrim asked the witness IL she remen-
bered where she was on Tuesday, Feb. II.
about l o'clock. She couldn't refresh her
| memory.
| DO you not remember" said Mai. Mel
| drim, seeing Policeman P. G. Brown, Mr.
Adams and myself standing at the horse
rack on that day measuring 1t, and you
| passed by, fiirted your dress, and remarked
loud enough for everybody TO hear: Shut
mouth catches no fiies'T"
| Mrs. Hawkins admitted that she might
have said so, and then Mai Meldrim wanted
10 know what her motive was for the re-
mark-if there was any danger Of getting
| flies. The little affair caused considerable
! pleasantly among the spectators
NO ILL FEELING AGAINST HIM
| James Mcbride, Jr., swore that Kava-
naugh shot Garrigau before any one struck
| him. He denied for himself that he ever
| struck the policeman. On cross-examina-
ton Mcbride said neither he nor his father
had any i'll feeling toward Kavauaugh.
| Thomas Kenny corroborated McBride's
| testimony. be claimed to have seen thu
shooting and said that Kavanaugh was
standing up when he fired the shot
! The cross-examination by Mai. Meldrim
rather ratified Kenny, and he admitted that
| he never sow the pistol until Daley and the
| others we're soutfiing in the sand for the
| weapon.
Tom Noon was put up 20 deny Kavan-
augh's statement that he was at the scene
| Of GarTlgan's shooting. He was rather in
solent in his replies to Maj. Meldrm, and
| apparently Is blessed with a peculiar mem
| DRY. judging from the fact that while look
| ing out the window of his room he could
Fl,.k e.
same time couldn'tsay whether 1t was day
| ighB or dark.
SAW 1T FROM HIS WINDOW.
John Harrigan saw the affair from his
window across the street. His sister woke
| him up and told him that there was big
| row across the street but asked him not to
go out. Hsrrigan said KaYanaugh seemed
| to him to be bent over the horse rack when
| he fired the shot Garri0an was clipohed
| with him at the time. There was only q
! few people around when the shooting oc-
Cured, but Immediately afterward a large
crowd assembled, and he saw Mike Daley
wrench the pistol out of Kavanaugh's
| hand.
All the evidence was In at o'clock aud
| an adjournment was taken for an hour
| When court reconvened at 8 O'Clock the
crowd of spectators was so great that the
whites divided the gallery with the negroes.
T. 5. Morgan, Jr. opened the argument
His speech was probably the best
he ever delivered. Taking each one of the
states witnesses he held them up
to ridicule in the most scathing
terms, saying that most of them
had told the poorest lies he had ever listened
to. The meanest thing he could see in the
whole gang was that none of them corrob-
GRATED the big. good>natured, wide-fsced
Jim Brown who thought the worse the
statements were which he swore to, the
harder it would go with Kavanaugh jim
Brown in Attorney Morgan's opinion, was
the Lucifer of all the states witnesses.
THE VICTIM OF CONSPIRACY.
Mr.. Morgan said there was never any i'll
feeling against kavanaugh until he had
placed Mcbride on the docket for violating
the Sunday law, but since then he had been
the victim Of one OF the most outrageous
msrciless, hesrtless and cruel conspiracies
ever concooted. 1t had remained, however
for the trial Of Ksvanaugh TO bring out its
intensity and extent. In the daytime he
was subjected to insult and a. night the
shadow of the assassin lurked in his path.
Walter s. Chisholm, Esq, followed Mr..
Morgan with the opening argument for
prosecution. He introduced his argument
by reading several authorities which he
said he proposed TO rely upon for a conyic-