Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-23
|THE COFF MAN CASE.
Now on Trial in the Seventeenth
District Court.
|Ns KILLING OF ROBINSON
la AS Bcardhg-IIouse in This City last
Summer
/ l,sounl Of Insults offered 10 Mrs. coH.
nan, Carefully Detailed by the vii.
hcsses The Case to be Con.
iinued Today
mt KILLING OF ROBINSON

f An until p. m. was consumed in i'm
-anelling the jury, who ara: J. l..
6dson.u Leland Williams, II. II. Aas-
8in A. j. Anderson, A. $. Dingee, G.
IA Isbell, NJ. @. Hurley, w. b. Garvey,
n 4. Price, J. NJ. Vincent, w. II. Fish
4 and n. NJ. Williams.
W. II. RUSSELL
s.s the first witness and he testified to
N residence OF Robinson at the board.
r. IN house Of Mr.. and Mrs Russell; that
NR5binsOn was killed in his lRussell'sl
house; that he went up town leaving
'BobinsOn, Mrs. Goldman and Mrs. and
7Nlss Russell at home. When he came
IA Robinson was on the floor in the
arlor just breathing. Robinson had
f barled with him since january, 1891.
'|Ns Cofiman had boarded with his
{ anily, and the latter We're intimate
HIM The Coifmaus and the Roths, who
i i,ed just over the way ind often
Unchanged visits. He described the
Rounds and did not notice any differ
noe In the size of the bullet holes in
f aobinson's body.
"A On cross-eSamination he said Robin
ra bad represented himself as an UNI
married man and he had since learned
. .hAt all OF the time he was married.
he had learned it from the papers and
nom Robinson's brother-in-law.
MRS. RUSSELL TEsTIFIEs.
Mn. Russell was upstairs when the
-cimans and Roth came over TO her
use. MIR. Coiiman asked for Robin
on and Mr. Buchanan about the same
lme called to hor about the ice, Rob
lrson came down stairs while she was
Skiing to Buchanan ON the back gal
nv and she did not see him.
4 ilr attention was drawn to the
iont part OF the house by
rarreling and she went 10 the parlor
i tRin. COffman aud Robinson We're
hiking about the insult offered to Mrs.
oaman, for which an apology
E demand from Robinson.
he denied any insult, and
rs, Cofiman about the same time told
r rs Russell what it was and also that
BE was harboring a scOundrel in her
puse In the person OF Robinson who
DE married man though he had re-
8Nsented himself to be unmarried.
lr, Russell had heard this accusation
f siore but she did not believe II, for Rob
tsou had denied it and she had
onidence in Robinson. Mrs. Russell
l1ly saw one pistol and that was held
la Cofman, though she saw Mrs. Coli
tan once have hold of the wrist of the
siol hand Of her husband. Goldman
; ianied Robinson TO get on his. knees
ID apologize to Mrs. Coiiman for the
sult offered her, and Mrs. Russell seq
* there was going to be trouble, went
I'D stairs and was there when the shoot
BIZ took place. When she came down
lgain Robinson was lying ON his BACK
the parlor, speeches.. The insult
pat was spoken OF, was Mr., Robinson
lling Mrs Coffman he loved her, and
: p witness was told this had been said
Aybe six or seven weeks before the
llling.
The oross-examination developed
llat Ooflman and Roth were both tray
Il Ing men, who were from home often
bat there was an intimacy between the
70 families and frequent exchange o.
sits; that Robinson came homt
thursday before he was killedan Con
pan late Saturday night. She made
" EFFORT to stop the quarrel, for sh'
~ so shocked at what Mrs. CotimaI
I'D told her she scarcely knew wha
az was doing. She would not have
srmitted Robinson about the house a
was had sho known his true charac
N and that he was not a widower, a
represented himself TO be, Sh'
Ever knew Robinson to own or carry
stol.
WALLACE BUCHANAN's TESTIMONY
Wallace Buchanan was delivering
az the Russell house when th'
!, tonble began. He heard a noise as o
7 Amming doors or knocking on doors
something Of that kind and started
Eards the front OF the house, whel
saw two men, neither OF whom h
neN' standing in the ball shooting
s'ols, and he, TO get out OF harm
Il ran back as quickly as he coul
"a ran around the house towards til
tont gate. AS he ran by the CALLER
.seral people were standing there an
II ne thought il was COiiman, aske
ms one else to give him a pistol, o
nat pistol. He heard th
aooung before and after th
eguest, but none Just q
y lime. He saw no one with a pisto
aospt Coffmsn until after the shootin
over, when he took from Mrs Cor
N an American bulldog 5-shoote
~ two chambers discharged, Il
greatly excited himself and did nc
- u the pistol was warm or snoh
I'M AIRS. Coffman was hysterical an
not seem to be sure OF what she wa
ms Or saying. but she was crying OF
nm,e have killed him. or II hay
ue9 him, and just after he got u
SUI she tainted and he assisted
~ ing her home. He gave the pl
70 j. W. Buchanan, that IL migi
40 The hands Of disinterested pa
he saw a pistol he thought was
eAloer, large size, lying near 10
(, 9ns body when he went hack IN
N house after the shooting. The pl
IN 1as Just at Robinson's right han
~ sihAn was wounded in several placi
IN could only use one arm. Sever
i.,lloers Of the Robinson pistol wei
'sshsrged.
ssfeis-examined he said Mrs Russ
- aot left the back gallery when Il
rSeAhg began and could not he
was said. When he next 50
~ russell after the shooting 81
sFying and wringing her han
i.ss5ing She expected something
Sina. He did not see Roth With
~ a. any time, nor did he ey