The morning call., 1892-02-12
THE HARPER CASE.
Further Inquiry Into the De
Greayer Killing.
An important Witness for the Defense Gets
Slightly Tangled on the S3nd-The
Case Continued

Oliver c. Miller, the clergyman who saw
the shooting of Harry de Greayer in Golden
Gate Park, was placed on the rack for the
space of one hour and a half at the pre-
liminary examination of Park PatrOlman
Harper in Judge Rix's court last night.
The reverend witness told substantially
the same story as at the COroner's inquest,
but cOntradicted himself slightly on cross
examination.
1t seems that Judge Rix had heard of
Septimus de Greayer's mute hostility toward
Harper last Tuesday evening in his court
room. His Honor sent for Detective Rogers
shortly before the proceedings opened, and
asked the detective to point out De Greayer.
Rogers did so, and the Judge called De
Greayer to the bench. He there admins
tered mild lecture, and told De Greayer
that he did not want any tragedies in his
court.
Mr. de Greayer assured the Judge, in an
swer TO a direct question, that he had no
weapon Of any description on his person.
Attorney FoOte. who was standing close by,
also assured the court that he (FOote) had
no gun.
The Judge then ordered the defendant to
be brought into court, and the trial pro-
ceeded. Attorney Knight was absent but
had a representative in Attorney Heggerty.
THE PEOPLES WITNESSES.
Before Mr.. Miller was placed on the
stand four witnesses for the prosecution
were examined by Attorney FoOte. Miss
Annie DOlan, the dead mans attlanced, was
first called. AT the first question put by
Mr.. FOote the young lady burst into tears,
and on several occasions during the recital
of her story the witness was completely
overcome by emotion. Her testimony did
not differ materially from her statement
taken ar~the inquest.
Otto George Miller, a physician at the
German Hospital described the wound IN
De Greayer's shoulder, stating that the
deceased had died from the effects of it.
recess of ten minutes was then devoted
to waiting for knight to arrive and take up
the cross-eXaminatlOn. lie arrived few
minutes behind time, but did not examine
either Miss DOlan or the doctor.
Peter Brandon, hOrse-trainer, told what
he saw from the road in front Of Dickey's
saloon. His story in substance was that he
saw Harper raise his pistol and IRE twice at
De Greayer. The latter had no pistol that
the witness could see.
On cTOss-eXaminatIOn witness said that
lie Greayer put his hand in his hip-pOcket
bt fore Harper drew his weapon from the
hO Ster on the saddle.
The next witness was r. D. Leggett He
was playing pedro in Dickey's Darkroom
wdel he heard shots. He went out to the
NOuu ltu iiIdUt HtiDtu AilLl lutO llC ediUObs
and removed his outer clothing. lie also
took De Greayer's pistol for fear OF further
trouble. That night he 10 ked the pistol in
his desk, where 1t remained just as he had
received it until the next afternoon when
he turned 1t over TO the authorities.
The weapon was produced in court along
with the one used by Harper. The latter
identified his pistol as the one that killed
De Greayer and Legg6tt test,f, d that the
other weapon was the one he took from the
wounded man.
THE WEAPONS.
Detective Rogers took the stand and iden-
tilted both weapons. This finished the
prosecution and Rev. Oliver &. Miller was
called By the defense.
Mr.. NJ Hers story has been published in
detail and he told it again last night in
plain straightforward manner that carried
conviction until Attorney FOOte set TO work
to tangle the reverend gentleman. The
cross examination and redirect lasted
over an hour. Mr.. Miller wore a tired eX-
preston when Foote finally got through,
but he stuck TO his story with slight vaTl-
atoms.
Miller stated that the coat worn by De
GreayeT on the day of the shooting had a
cape. When the garment was produced in
evidence II had no cape, and the prOsecu-
ton proved that II never had one and that
it was not that kind OF coat There was
an unusually large collar 10 the garment,
which Miller had doubtless mistaken for the
cape.
After q great deal Of questioning, FOote
drew from the witness the fact that he had
gone 10 knights Office TO offer himself as a
witness. The witness admitted that he had
told his story 10 Knight, but had refused to
make any statements TO the prosecution
After few more questions as TO the ex-
act location Of the parties to the tragedy
and his own position on the ground the wit
ness was allowed 10 60.
The case was continued until next Tues
day evening at O'clock