The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-03
MURPHY TRIAL.

Evans offered or gave this man Neney
4 pistol and told him to shoot the first
Snowman passing on the ground Now
then We have been talking about That
All morning-we come up and prove
without i doubt that Mr.. Evans did
say that he shot him BY my nuthori-
tyr
Judge: This man swore before the
Grand Jury that he saw this man
Evans take this pistol ont o. his peck
I'll and 60 TO yeuey-whether this was
done By the authority 81 some one
else.
Judge reads assignmentst
BY Mr.. Clifford If Mr.. Evans son
III his tender years obeys his mandate,
ii not he himself guilty more than the
boy
By the Judge Not under the as
signment Of PERJURY. There Is no
statement that he instructed anybody
else to do il but that be did il himself.
Cross examination by Mr.. z. s. Grant
Pitzer.
d. Where have you been residing
for the past three Or four weeks
a. Halifax county Va.
d. BY whose authority did yon get
E& ZtLM
here &, s.-s
d. | was summoned Us HE Court.
Edward Murphy, Defendant, called
sworn.
Direct examination BY Mr.F- Vernon
Aler.
q. Will you please state - the Jury
whether you were present III Martins
burg on the 10Th day u August
q. / was.
d. What was il that brought You
here I
q. came here with Harris Nickel
Plate Show the 10Th day Of August,
1892.
q. Do You know anything q the
shooting or the killing Of u James
Daileyi
OBJECTED to-.
d. Did yon at any time see Nh.
Geo. +. Evans on that day in the fore
noonf a. Yes. sit,
d. Where did you see him
q. ! saw him on the outside Of the
fence and | noticed him by the re-.
marks he made; | took particular no
tice TO him BY the hat, coat and mus
tache; | noticed lie was The same gem
tleman that made the remarks IN the
forenoon between ten and hall past ten.
d. You are the defendant in this
action, are You not 7 q. ] am, SIR.
q. The Indictment in which you are
charged as perjuring yourself charges
you with having stated before the
Grand Jury at the September term Of
Court that You saw Mr.. Evans in the
act Of taking a revolver from his peck
ct and handing It to a colored boy
a. That is my statement. ! saw
him in the aet;I cannot say saw any
revolver but only what / supposed 10
be a revolver.
@. Did you swear before that Jury
it vas q revolvers a. / did not;
said what ! supposed to be a gun;
these were the words | used in the
Grand Jury room.
q. What relation were you to
james Daley "a. ! was a half broth,
er.
cross-examination by Mr.. q.
Grant Pitzer.
q. Did you state that you dig moi
say in your testimony before the
Grand Jury that you saw Mr.. Evans
take a revolver ont Of his pocket and
give il to Yeney7 a. ! said / saw
what ! supposed to be a revolver. ]
did not mention revolver; ! used ths
word gun.
e. think these witnesses say yor
used a reyolyer' a. They must Ger
tainly be mistaken.
q. But whether q not in your ties
tlmony in this Court, did you Oh die
YOU not say that you made no ~allusior
whatever 70 a reyolvera a | sait
the very same words thatI say to-day
Itook il for what | supposed TO be
revolver9
4. You say You did NOT use til
word revolver2 a. VI did not use til
word revolver before the Grand Jury
Q. How close we're sou to Nj
Evans in the morning when this cor
yersation took place between him an
Veneyf 4. Somewhere in the neigl
borhood Of forty-fye feet away frol
him.
y. How far in your estimation
forty-fye fset relative to the situatio
and surroundings Of this rooms a. j
must be from one end to the other.
a. What were you doinga. a.
was unhitehing my horses,