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any one else that your wife was shot BY ma
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The prisoner remember.
The district attorney-Did you tell them that
your wife was shot by the other man?
The prisoner-No, sir; did not.
one Of them. say to you after examining ysur
/ clothes that You were not shot?
Hhe prisoner-No, sir.
Ths district attorney-Did you not ask them
if they did not believe that You shot in self
| defense?s. - .f
| The prisoner-No. sir.
The district attorney-Did you not ask them
il a<,an did not have right TO shoot man In
defense Of his wife?
| The prisoner--No, sir.
| The district attorney-Did you not say to
them: The man who shot your wife fred i've
shots and that you fired i've shots at him?
The prisoner-No, sir; 1 did not.
At the district attorneys request the de-
| PENDANT, BY the aid Of the wire dress frame.
| explained the positions of himself, his wife and
Frank and Jennie Hamlink, using the District
| attorney to represent Mrs Schneider.
Before concluding the REORGANIZATION .
recess was taken at 1920 until O'Clock.
AZTEC RECESS.
After recess the crop examination Of the de-
PENDANT was continued
District attorncySSo you know boy BY the
name of-Hopper?
The prisener-Yes, sir.
Tho district attorney-How old is he?
The .prisoner-Twenty-o or twenty-five
years old. Taller and heavier than am Met
him two years ago.
The district attorney-Didn't you take his
hand and turn it back so that 1t was broken9 >.
The defense objected, on the ground that It
was too remote, and the question wae passed
for the time.
Defendant stated that the first time he was
! locked out by the Hamlinks was on the 18th Of
December. He went tohis mother 8 house and
stald there all that night He never told them
(Hamlinks) that he was at Norfolk one night
about that time.
question asked Is to the breaking of the !. per
boys hand. reading from the one hundred and
twenty-ninth article of Stevens Compendium
on evidence, claiming that anything tending to
disgrace the character of the witness was ad-
| missible But the question was again passed
without decision from the court.
The district sttorney-Did you ever own any
other revolver?
The prisoner-Yes for about half an hour,
| last December. trusted it to my brother. 1t
l had the night of the shooting were the only
| ones ever had. did get one from Mr.. Wal
ford about two years ago-a 80 caliber, which
| returned to him the next day, taking the one !
used the night Of January 81. never bought
any other.
The district attorney-Do you know Leroy
| Willstt?
The prisoner-Yes, sir.
The'6iatrict attorney-Ever sell him revolt
yer?
The prisoner-No, sir; never did.
The district attorney~Mr. Schneider, do you
believe in the existence of GOd2
The prisoner do
The district attornsy-Do you believe In Q
future state Of punishment and reward9
The prisoner-Yes, sir; do.
Defendant then stated that he made arrange
ments with Mrs. Colby. Oh q between 14th
and 18th streets. to take him and his wife as
boarders about three weeks before the shoot
ing. She never declined to take them
The district attorney-Do you know Thos.
P. Borden?
The prisoner-I do
This district attorney-Did you have con-
| versation with him on F street shortly before
the shooting?
The prisoner-Yes, sir.
The district attorney-Did you ask him if
Col. Hamlink owed him any rent; that Ham,
link was going to quit the town and that you
were going to have your wife?
The prisoner sir; 1 did not.
MORE DENIALs.'
Defendant denied having had any converse
ton with Mr. Leroy Willett just before the
shooting, in which he said that the Hamlinks
were rascals, and that he was going to get rid
of his wife and that he would soon hear from
him. .sz
The question IN relation to the Happier bow
was then allowed. when the defendant admitted
having, in a controversy with him, broken his
finger. bat he denied shooting at man at the
race track last May. He admitted shooting a
man last Decoration Day.
The district attorney-Where did you 60
after firing at him?
The prisoner-In about ten minutes time l
jumped in my buggy and drove out in the
country. 1t was the same pistol used January
last. But didn't know until the next day that
/ had slIot him.
Defendant denied ever wing known Thos.
W. McKnew and that he drew q revolver on
him at 1919 14th street.
The district attorney-Do you know a Mrs
| Foster. living in Georgetown?
The prisOner-No sir.
The district attorney-Did she not do some
| typewriting for you?
The prisoner-No, sir; I never knew her.
The district attorney-Didn't you get her to
do some typewriting for you. ask her to 20 to
| the theater, and when she refused. draw q pis-
| toll Oh her and threaten to shoot her?
The prisoner-NO, sir, 1 did not I never
| knew such woman.
The district attorney-Did you ever draw a
knife on a Mr.. Dieterich:
The prisOner-NO, sir l never did.
Defendant denied having obtained a letter
| from J. b. Thomas; a letter written to Thomas
| by him, or that he knew of his brother Frank
having gotten it from Thomas through BEDFORD
W. Walker.
He also denied having any knowledge of
| an effort having been made by Frank Schneider
| to obtain from Culpeper since the shooting,
| Of the letter written by the defendant to Miss
| Lightfoot.
At the request of the district attorney the
defendant drew slip of paper a diagram.
of the positions of the partie to the shooting.
He was handed Smith 4 Wesson pistol, which
he stoutly denied having seen before or that no
had sold it to Leroy Willett
REDIRECT EXAMINATION
Redirect-Defendant denied that he threat
ened to shoot himself if his wife refused to
| marry him, and that he ever threatened to cut
| Jennie Hamlnk's throat.
Judge Wilson-Did you shoot your wife, Mr.,
| Schneider?
Defendant. emphaticalIy-No. sir; I did not.
Defendant stated that he disposed Of lot of
| feed because he was going to Chicago. The
| man who brought him the liniment was a pris.
| oner named Kelly.
Defendant then explained the shooting of
| the man last Decoration day, claiming that he
| shot in the air. Defendant first knew that his
wife was shot after reaching the station.
| After being on the stand about eight hours
the defendant left the stand with apparent
great relief.
For the Russian Famine Fund.
Additional contributions received by the
American Red Cross for the Russian famine re-
lief are acknowledged as follows: =.
| Washington, d. C. Miss Mary Williams, s2O
Mrs. H. Y. Boynton, Is; Anonymous, 80: ETC.,