The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-21
THE JURY.

THE JURY.
The jury was as follows:
William Fleming, Gustave Laffltehu.
William 2. Hanlon, Henry Bartlett,
John W. Manning, Ernest j. Grady,
James NJ. Daniels, Deidrick Oetjen,
August &. Ham, Samuel K. Levin,
L. c. Downs, William Bessellieu.
Greek George was the states first witness.
II testified to seeing Harris and Broughton
walking down jefferson street Quarreling,
next a closing in Of the pair, followed
quickly by three shots from Harris pistol
George did not see a knife in Broughton's
hand.
Willie White Ccolored) said :he saw the
difficulty from the start. Harris, according
to Whites story. followed Broughton up
jefferson street striking him repeatedly.
Broughton seemed to be trying to get away.
As they came abreast of the pawn shop
Harris grabbed BroughtOn by the shoulder,
wheeled him around and fired. Broughton
dropped to his knees and Harris pct
his pistol close to the fallen mans
stomach and fired again. Then BrouRhton
tried TO grapple the pistol, when the third
shot was fired. White most emphatically
denied that Broughton had a knife.
Oster Bloom, a German, corroborated
Whites testimony in almost every particu-
lar
HARRIS TIRE AGGRESSION.
MT. "A. N. O'he6lIS was standing IN MS
drug store door and saw the trouble from
the start to the finish. Mr.. O'Keeffe saw
Harris attack Broughton and strike him
several times. Broughton tried to walk
away, but Harris followed him and re-
peated his attack at Congress street
lane. Mr.. O'Keeffe said he saw
Broughton turn around and almost
Immediately Harris pulled pistol and
shot him. As the wounded man dropped to
his knees Harris put his pistol close to
Brought0n's stomach and fired again. An
other shot followed almost Immediately and
then Policeman Pacetd arrived and ar
rested Harris.
Mr.. O'Aeeffe did not see Broughton with
knife, nor did he see him make any at
tempt to strike Harris.
A number of other witnesses were exam
ined for the state, but they only saw the
struggle on the sidewalk after the shots
were fired.
The defense put up several witnesses,
who swore to having heard Broughton
threaten to kill Harris. One named Lane
claimed to have seen Broughton making
lunges at Harris before any shooting oc-
CURED.
STEVENS STORY.
Willie Stevens, who was with Harris
when they met Broughton, proved a poor
witness for the defense. lie admitted Har-
ris was the aggressor, but denied having
seen the shooting. Stevens said when be
saw trouble was coming he got out of the
way and he did not see anything more until
he heard the shooting. Stevens did not
see Broughton with a knife, nor any at
tempt at cutting. He said that after be
tried to separate Broughton and Harris
somebody called his attention to a knife
lying GU the sidewalk and he picked it up
and handed it over to Policeman Pacetti.
Solicitor General Fraser asked Stevens il
he had loaned Harris the pistol which
killed Broughton and had used the knife on
Harris coat after Broughton was shot, but
although the question rather excited
Stevens ne entered denial.
THE PRISONERS TALE.
Harris made a lengthy and cool statement.
He related his trouble with Broughton
about the alleged policy prize, Broughton's
threat TO take his life and the justice court
proceedings against him. He admitted that
when be met Broughton on Jefferson
street be spoke to him angrily and that
BrolRhton turned on him and tried to stab
him. Then be fired in self-defense. Harris
said he armed himself because of Brough-
toms threats, but he was not looking for
him at the time they met.
In rebuttal the state put up Lineman
Gertie of the Electric Light Company, who
claimed that be saw the fatal row from a
telegraph pole. Gertie swore to having
seen Stevens follow Harris after he was
under arrest and cut his coat. The attOr-
neys for the defeuse made it lively for
Gertie with questions, but did not break
him down.
The defense set up justifable homicide
and Mr.. Osborne and Judge O'Byrne made
strong arguments on this line for Harris.
A CONSPIRACY CHARGED.
Solicitor General Fraser's summing NJ
was mastery. He charged Harris
with being a red-handed murderer
and asked for conviction
In the highest degree. The solicitor claimed
that the killing of Broughtoa was the result
OF conspiracy between Harris aud Ste,
vens to get Broughton out Of the way On ac
count Of the criminal prose, ution he hac
brought against the policy shop dealer.
AT 1890 o'clock Judge Falligant began
MS charge to tie jury. 1t was eloquent