Evening journal., 1892-11-30
TYLER BEFORE A JURY.
The Caroline County Mans
Trial for Murder.
COURT ROOM DENsELY PACKED.

and Plenty of it ON Both Sides.
EAsToN, Nov. 30.-Wnliam Preston
Tyler was arraigned yesterday in the Cir
cult Court for Talbot county, and put on
trial for the murder Of William L. Shaw
on the 1lth day of July last. The affair
occurred near fredericksburg, Caroline
county, from which county the trial was
removed TO Easton The state is repre-
sented by William E. Stewart, the states
attorney for Talbot county Robert J
Jump, the states attorney for Caroline
county, and Colonel Philip w. Downes
who was assigned by the court TO assist
the prosecution. The defendants law
yers are Senator Charles H. Gibson,
CharlesS Darlington. George NJ Russum
and Henry r. Lewis. In securing Jury
the state used thirteen of its twenty per
emptory challenges and the defense one
of its four
The jury is as follows; Zebulon Stat.
ford, Charles II. Brunker, Denny VIII
liams, George G. Moore, Edward G. Lowe,
| Samuel j. Slater, William Hughlett,
Thomas f. Chance c. Thomas Stevens,
Edward W. Hughlett, Isaac Bryan, John
w. Beckwith.
The court room was crowded almost to
suffocation The prisoner is a slender,
| frail looking young man, with an intel
lectual face. and u countenance indica-
tive of anything rather than viciousness.
/ His grandfather, father, mother and aunt,
residents of Delaware county, and of
/ Philadelphia, were with him in the
courtroom
The Defense Opened.
Mr.. Russum made the opening state.
ment for the defense. He claimed the
defense would prove that on the morn
/ ing of the killing Tyler was on his own
/ premises within twenty feet of his door,
/ when he was assaulted without warning.
/ by William Shaw and knocked down
! Tyler extricated himself in some way
and went to the house, armed himself
with pistol and went about his bust
ness. He had started to the barn, when
he was met by Shaw's father and son,
who assaulted him and tried to take his
/ pistol from him. Tyler ran from them,
| going thirty feet beyond his own door
before using his pistol Mr.. Russum
claimed he shot in self defense.
State witnesses Testify.
Levi d. Repnoyle, the first witness for
/ the state, testified as TO the location of
/ the Tyler farm. where the tragedy oc-
CURED. He said the house occupied by
Tyler was eighty-fve perches from
/ Shaw's who lived in the mansion house,
! Tyler living in tenant-house. He had
not seen VIII Shaw that morning until
he saw him lying dead with his head in
his mothers lap about half way between
the two houses.
DR., Alexander Hardcastle and DR..
/ Frederick Dunning who performed the
autopsy of the body of Shaw, described
the two wounds found on the body. The
fatal wound was in the left side of the
neck. The ball grazed the skin half an
inch before entering. 1t pas ed through
the neck and through the top of the
lungs, embedding itself in one of the
ribs, about two inches from the vertebral
column. The man shot must have been
STOPPING or the man shooting standing
on an elevation. Shaw was taller man
than Tyler The wound in the hip was
superficial, the ball touching no vital
| spot The pistol and the balls were ex-
| hibited in court.
A Mothers Pathetic Tale.
Mrs Shaw, the mother of the young
man who was killed, testified that Tyler
had been living four weeks in the tene-
ment house after living three months In
| three rooms of the Shaw house. He had
been away visiting his father Saturday
young Tyler ana his father both came
/ there The father returned home Satur-
/ day afternoon About 10 o'clock Sunday
morning young Tyler came to the Shaw
| house and demanded of her where her
/ husband and son viii were She
! him somewhere about the premises.
| Presently VIII came and he demanded of
him some cultivator clevises, and was
told to look aud if he could find any be-
| longing to him to take them When
/ the elder Shaw came according to his
testimony, he made the same demand
and was given the same answer. Tyler
afterward showed the elder Shaw one
which he had found and was carrying it
off Mr. Shaw would not say whether
it was his or Tylers. Mrs
/ Shaw said Tyler was angry and excited
and stood with mis- right hand on
/ TIE hip pocket Monday mornin Young
Shaw and the farm hand. Perry Wright.
colored, went to get the cultivators to 20
| TO work, and all were without clevises
| Young Shaw started off 10 Tyler's to find
them. That was the last either the mother
/ or Wright saw of him alive. After he
/ had gone Mrs Shaw felt anxious about
it, fearing from the angry and excited
manuer of Tyler the day before that he
would use violence, and she started her
/ husband of after him. From the time
I young Shaw left until she saw his dead
body was about half an hour
Mrs. Shaw maintained her composure
on the witness stand very well, although
she became agitGted, and the tears trick
led down her cheeks as she described
how she held her dead boy in her
arms
The Father Recounts the Murder.
William Shaw. on direct examination.
testified that when he went over to
Iylers at the request of his wife on
Monday morning, after his son had gone
there for the clevises. he followed leis-
urely He heard a pistol shot and saw
his son running toward him. He stopped
when they met. His son said Tyler had