The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-25
iITLY 4 SIWASH ROW.
urtorr Peters Assailant, Pat
Elade, Acquitted
.,.orLEy ARRAY OF WITNESSES.


rz-,rv~rcus groups and hits Of randy
- ~k;eh woaid have delighted an art
s q 80 me faint but unmistakabie odor Of
- selsnon and stsle CLAIMS been but a
-. - urevaient, were the features OF
=. dav in the usually prosaic superior
zssert Yesterday afternoon, when motley
rmblx III the young men and nnaidens
y eellssf ixland's four hundred flied the
80 Iornesd upon the staarways and
<.1ke1 cignrettes and chewed gum in
- ocruer. The cause Of the gathering
y - shsrfxines was the trial Of Pat slade,
: 1900 Indian hop picker. on q charge OF
s<.sasxiur with intent 70 murder an old
1900 named Doctor" Peter at Patrick
nsves' bop ranch On White river ssptem-
RI e1ss came up for trial before Judge
Hnenes sstsr the noon recess sisds had
sIftsdv pgssded not guilty TO the indict-
rse,t bsoaght in ~ true bin By the grand
garr. bas Il was generally supposed that .
nonvicfion would be secured. 1t was not
fAouxb, nd at $50 o'clock yesterday
,yeaine b rxs rs free as his noble ances-
ION srer ssre. the jury having deiiberated
sai s few minutes on kis case. Then every
1n1ssn IL the hall had TO shake hands
xish him. an operation performed with
dus 1olemniiy.
Tbe cd man who was assaulted was not
nk.e b attend court yesterday as . witness
atsi1zf klaie. but be sent an able repre-
s.ssxssse in bis wife, Jennie Peter, an
n7lJ Old crone with her teeth worn down
= he gums from chewing spruce chewing
IN She was the first witness placed on
iAsstand after q jury had been obtained.
=. bad 10 tell the jury all she knew ofthe
sztts, long tale il was. too, through an
hsfFpetsr. bright young Indian. She
- that on the night Ia question the
e1ola camp Of Indian hop pieksrs was in
rkndanee At the dance. Several bottles of
e1iFky had been obtained for the pur-
- OF making things nerrier and ail
hnds except the papooses aud the dogs,
peFs intoxicated. SIade was especially
tllarions at first and afterward especially
<aarreisome. He fancied finally that old
Peter. her husband. had done him an In
isfy and proceeded TO infiict summary
panishment by fhrowing an empty
shlsky bottle At Peters grey
htsd, after which he knocked
Nm down and stamped and kicked him
Until be was insensibie. She. the witness,
hsd attempted 10 interfere, but received q
Nap In the face and was knocked heels
ossr head into a lot of cooking utensils for
ksr pains. Then some young bucks.
among them her son, went to the old
mans help. Slads ran away and came to
Seattle. - she heard afterward. The old
nan was laid up now. and was not likely
. ever again be able to do any work. a
fAcs which she seemed TO regret more
deeply than If he had died. She and her
son had taken him TO Seattle frat and then
70 Pors Madison to his home.
This son. Henry Peter, next took the
stand 20 corroboraie his mothers story of
the assault upon his father. This he did
without the aid of an interpreter and in
t4sf English. Neither did he manifest SO
much enmity toward the defendant a. the
III woman had. The next witness was
10 young Indian. john George. and his
btimony vas only practical repetition
THAT OF the first two witnesses Several
6her witnesses. both white and red. were
usmined with reference to old Peters
nndition. past and present With this
violence the state closed It's case.
The defense called a. witnesses three
soang Indians, who ali swore with great
poeistveness that tho witnesses for the
Prosecution were perjurers and that none
II them except the old woman had been
o. the scene at all, and that the old sauaw
hsd told only what would tend 20 convict
Pat. Their stories OF the affair were re-
raskabiy entertaining As giving an idea of
TIE life of the modern redskins on Puget
sound when at home. They all declared
that In the melee which followed the
throwing of the bottle by Siade. no one
could tell who jumped on the old man.
Ssade's story agreed with theirs, he assert.
has that he had no enmity whatever toward
old Peter and that he was too drunk to re-
member what did happen. The jury we're
evidently impressed with the fact that II
had not been clearly proven that slade was
TIE right man aud acquitted him after only
siss minutes in the jury room.