The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-21

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wounds would Be Of the same description
and pet Be fired Ia . horisonfai direction.
In order % prove the nature OF the wound
in the sbdomen IL Vas attempted to intro
duce in evidence the deposition OF Dr.
Laughry. taken on Nay p the day
on which the trial Of MA Boyd
was 10 come OF. until the
abseuce Of witnesses made . continuance
necessary. This deposition was taken BY
Prosecuting Attorney Miller In the pres
ence Of the defendant. her attorneys,
County Clerk Gordon and few specta-
ter. among the latter . PosT-IsrxIlf-
oRscKa reporter. The prosecution WAS
bic, and confidently pointed ont suthori-
t,es and sections from the code. The judge
ruled that the constitutional provision in
would prevent it, introduction, and %
gave his ruling.
A deposition vas introduced in the MUIR
ply murder trial some months ago and
the pfosecution relied on that - pre-
ceds6t That deposition was introduced
by the defense, and on that account, the
court ruled. the cases were not 1t all sim
liar.
Chief Of Police Andrew Jackson was
placed on the stand after Dr.. Horton had
stood aside. He testified to going to the
scene Of the murder on the night it was
committed, in company with Capt. Hogle
and Officer Cave. He found the MUIR
dered man on the floor, with his face
against the bed, in the same position ~
was testified to by Coroner Horton. When
the witness came into the room the de-
PENDANT was sitting. or. more properly.
leaning against the bed, her arms around
Boyd's neck and her face against his.
She was kissing him and seemed to b
talking 10 him in low tone. When the
chief got this far another attempt was
made to get the plan of the house before
the Jury. Tho chief testified to drawing
the plan himself He had measured the
house carefully and would swear to the
correctness Of the measurements. As to
the position of the bed, trunk, table and
bureau, the only articles of furniture the
witness remembered in the room, he was
not so certain. When the plan was put on
the easel before the Jury that it might b
seen plainly, Mr.. Piles again made obiec-
ton, this time to the explanatory notes,
and they were carefully covered With
white paper before the court would admit
it. do you think / wanted the jury to
look at that plan and see the room in
which Col. BOYD was murdered staring
them in the face ?" said Piles to reporter
after the court had I'd journed.
The chief pointed out the position Of the
different articles of furniture and Of the
body to the jury. He gave an account
Of the discovery of the two holes made in
the ceiling of tho room by the bullets
which did not enter Boyd's body. In his
testimony it was plainly brought out that
the bullets were fired from point trifle
away from the center Of the room and de
rectIy upward into the ceiling. One Of the
holes was exactly round. showing the ball
to have been fired exactly upward. The
other hOe some three feet away from the
first. entered at slight angle. this prov
ing the two shots to have been fired from
the same point but in not exactly the same
directio
On the cross-examination Mr.. Piles
made great amount of trouble for the
witness. He had testified to the position
of the furniture, but could not say with
any degree Of accuracy that there were
not several other trunks and washstand
in the room. Piles wanted the witness to
remember how he had climbed up on this
big washstand to examine the bullet holes
in the ceiling, but the chief was not in .
reflective mood when the question was
put to him and denied that there was such
an article in the room.
"Well, now, Mr.. Jackson" asked Mr..
Piles, .'are you positive there was not
washstand in the room?" mo, sir, l am
not positive. don't remember any such
q piece Of furniture"
"Well. now. don't You remember some
water being in tho room? 1t was a we'll
furnished room, you remember" "There
may have been q fountain In the room,"
retorted tho chief rather testify.
Chief Jackson continued while to tell
ahou: the interior Of the house. and then
Mr.. Piles turned him back to the appear
ance of the defendant when he had first
seen her on the night Of the murder.
He had found the defendant with
her arms around the dead mans
neck. When he went up
to her when she had turned around. and
looking at him, said: who are you and
what do you want?" He had taken her
up from the Aoor and gave her in charge
of Capt. Hogle. who had gone to head
quarters with her.
well. now, Mr.. Jackson, when you
went down to headquarters where did you
find the defendant" asked Piles.
'She was in my office with Hogle."
ibid she seem very much excited; she
was crying and praying and then laughing
| all in one breath. was she not?" II dom
remember her laughing"
well, she was not in very sane mood,
was she?" 81 did not think she was at
herself"
| We'll now don't you know tina: one Of
| your officers had to hold her in his arms
coming down in the carriage to head
| quarters?" II don't know anything
| about IL.
Ibid you not hear her say while she was
walking up and down the room that she
wanted to be taken back TO Tom and said
Tom was not dead?" II did not hear
! her.
Don't you remember her trying to pull
Capt. Hogle down on his knees, and pray
with him. asking him if he was . Chris.
tianr" NO, don't"
We'll you testified 10 some Of these very
things at the coroner's inquest and you:
recollection of them must have been bette,
then than now" Perhaps it was"
| During this examination Mr. Piles had
copy o; the testimony of Chief Jackson
a, the inquest in his hands. and read little
extracts from it 10 rattle the wit.
ness. A; the inquest the chic,
had testified in substance that hs
considered the woman insane. Yesterday
he said that he meant insane when she
was IN the room where the shooting tool