The Globe-republican., 1893-08-25

gave the%, to him. Ee then proceeded
to open the gun to load it, (Which is I
very common occurrence when l sell /;
gun and throw in round of cartridges,
but Mr.. Wells not understanding how tt
open the gun. passed it over the case tC
me, saying: ''How do you open the
thing" opened it, and as / did so he
handed me the cartridges with the re-
mark, Put them in,' which did. gave
him the gun and he went out.
This is all the conversation that tool
place between US, and am satisfied the
entire time consumed did not exceed
five minutes. During this time saw
nothing unusual about Mr.. Wells. He
appeared very cool and methodical in
all that he did and said, saying nothing
only that which was actually necessary.
which l thought nothing of. knowing ii
now am satisfied that he made great
effort to control himself, to avoid any
suspicion. How well he succeeded has
been fully set forth. was entirely ig-
norant of the existing trouble, Did not
know that there had been word of
trouble between anyone. Had l known
of it. or known that Mr.. Wells was
drinking before he had bought and paid
for the gun and had it in his possession
most assuredly would not have let him
had it. The first suspicion l had that
he was drinking was as he went out of
the door he made slight stagger. Then
thought he was drinking. l put the
money received for gun in the drawer,
got my hat and started out, thinking it
best if he was drinking to have him
looked after, as he had the gun. But
too late. How much regret the part l
20 innocently acted in the sad tragedy
that followed so quickly, and how bad 1
EEL possibly can be imagined but not
described. 4. P. COONS.
Ed Shinn. brother of the editor of this
paper, who came to Dodge last May,
las for some years complained of pain
It his heart, which was at times so Sc
Iere as to prevent sleep and cause a ner-
'Ous restlcssness, very annoying to him.
elf and disturbed Others more or less.
t was caused by over exertiOn in har-
resting and other farm labor. Every
ime he got little better he would go to
work again, and the eXertiOn would ag-
.ravate the disorder and make it worse
han ever. His physician advised change
f climate and lighter occupation. So
e came to Dodge City with view of
DING into the store or printing Office.
;efOre doing so, he took drive one day
lone. to look at the water flowing down
n irrigation lateral on his brothers land
eeing a break, he took shovel and
Xed it. The eXertiOn was too much |
nd he suffered violent relapse, suffer. |
,g pain in the side, so severe as to make |
eep at night impossible. In his wake
illness, he felt the need of company to
ivert his mind. and resOrted to the all
light restaurants and railway offices. In
lie restaurants he found temporary re-
ef in eating pie, pop corn, watermelon,
tc., which he INDUCED in at the expense
injury to digestive organs, and the dis
rder grew worse, making him impa-
ent and somewhat petulant. Some
oodlums who did not realize that he
as sick, were attracted by his nervous
Ovements and would put up jobs to
lcite apprehensions in his mind, and
AXE him believe some one was "layIng"
n him. and he expected some one to
tack him. as he should go to supper
st Sunday evening, at the baseball
rounds. He took rock in one hand
Id brick in the other, which he after
ards explained by saying his intention
as to carry these missiles till he should
It past the crowd. so they would leave
m alone. Nervousness from pain and
eeplessness caused an unsteadiness of
lit which had the appearance of drunk
mess, though he never drank drop of
'ything intoxicating. But people have
ZEN more than ordinarily apprehensious +,
anything like queer conduct since the
ooting of Barlow, and it certainly did +,
Ok queer to see man thus equipped,
alking in an unsteady, nervous manner
the street. Therefore, there was {
amor for officers to interfere, and the i
lung man was taken in custody, on the I
arge of insanity, sworn out by city {
arshal Ingram. The restraint seemed I
make him worse. and he declined to I
Ike medicine. W. c. Shinn tried to 7
'rsuade the officers to let him take his {
OnO brother m hiS n,nthor.s Axr,o1D;,r, | ,