The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-07-10
ETlA WALKERS DEATH.
The Inquest to be Concluded This
Evening.
Eyewitness to the Shooting Relate
How 1t Was Lonesome
Absent Witnesses.

Coroner George II. Clark held a partial
inquest Saturday night on the body Of
Eta Walker, who was shot by Jewell
Flint on the Dist Of June. The evidence
given was most of il in accordance with
what has beer already published.
w. J. Hardy testified that as he was
going home from his work he saw a
young man talking to Eta, but paid no
attention to it. He went into his house
and almost Immediately heard the shots.
He went to the door and heard her sister
scream that Eta was shot. Running
over to the house he stepped over Flint,
who was lying in the yard. He asked
Eta who shot her, and she said it was
Jewell Flint. When he went out of the
house Flint was standing up. Mr..
Walker ran out with a pitchfork and
asked where the man was who shot his
daughter, and Flint walked away. When
he went by the couple they were talking
quietly, and he saw young man stand
ing just across the alley.
Captain of Police Simmons testified to
arresting Flint at his home. He
had been drinking. He would not
talk at all, except that in coming up
in the Quincy he told the officers that he
walked home, falling fifteen or twenty
| times on his way. When he arrested him
he asked for his pistol, and it was finally
brought by Joe Scott at Mrs. FIint's
order. The chambers were empty and
he put it in his pocket. Did not examine
1t particularly, and could not tell whether
1t had been recently fired or not
Dan Lynch saw Flint sitting down on a
stump at the entrance 10 the alley a short
time before the shooting and asked him
what no nDiI1n nd Flint
Taking it easy" and afterwards showed
him his pistol saying he would do up
some -- before morning. Lynch
walked away when Eta came and when
| he heard the shot, looked around. He
saw Eta fall to her knees at the second
shot and then Flint shot himself Flint
did not seem excited when talking to him,
talking in his ordinary tone, and seeming
to be sober. He did not stagger.
j. Moody was sitting in the Walker
house that evening when a young man
came to the door and asked for Eta, and
pulled her sister, who went to the door,
outdoors with him, and when she came
in she said it was Flint He went nome
shortly atteI and saw Flint and Eta con-
versing at the gate, she standing with her
back to it. He heard the shots and ran
back and young man also ran across the
road. saying, "he has done it after all"
When he passed them. Flint had his left
pistol pocket.
DR.. c. b. Nichols testified to being
called to attend to Eta and to her condi-
ton on his arrival, and that he had her
taken to Ridge Home. She was par
alyzed from the wound down.
be performed an autopsy on her body.
| The wound in her head had healed M
nicely. The bullet in the back entered
between the tenth and eleventh dorsal
vertebre, severing the spinal cord and
was necessarily fatal. The case was al
most unparalleled and there was nothing
like 1t in all the books. Nothing could
have been done for her and no surgical
operation could have been successful. and
she was too low for an operation, even
with ether; she had no chance Of life from
the beginning.
Mrs. Walkers testimony was simply
corrOboraIive of her daughter Hattie's,
who testified to Flint's coming to the
door and asking for Eta and when told
she had gone to the concert, asking if no
fellow had gone with her. She heard
voices on the stoop and opened the door,
and had just put one foot on the porch
when the first shot was fired, as Eta was
facing Flint. Eta turned to run in the
house when Flint fired the second
shot and she fell on the porch.
She saw both shots. John Crowell
had told her some time before
that Flint had threatened Etta's life. Two
nights before the shooting Flint wrote
Eta note, asking her to meet him at
Ninth and z, and to come alone. She
went out because she heard voices on the
porch. Had seen Flint under the influ-
ence of liquor but did not think he was
that night. He appeared sober
Mllly Bramley testified to going to the
concert with Eta and leaving her on the
street before she arrived home. Never
knew of any trouble between Eta and
Flint. but John Crowell told her Flint
had threatened to kill Eta Eta was
afraid of him.
Willie Kyne testified to Etta's calling
him across the street and talking with
him for some time. He saw a young
man standing near her gate. She told
him that night that Flint had written her
several letters and that she had written
to him not to write any more.
Joe Scott, who had been sent ND to
watch Flint, and who ran across the road
after the shooting, and John Crowell,
who had told Of Flint's threats, were
absent, so the inquest was adjourned till
tonight, to secure their presence.