The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-03

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aThey published the officers story that
you shot 81 him. and also your denial.
81 swear before God the officer shot FIRST
and returned the ire when feltE the
BAL strike me-"
.sYou admit, then, that II was you and
not your partner who shot the officer 2"
Yes, IL was /.
"How did you come to say last night
that ft was your partner!"
swell, that was lie"
tHow did you come to be out In that
part OF the city7"
I'VE we're going out TO the camp"
"What camp7"
"a camp about sir miles out. where
fourteen fellows are stopping. They took
out q lot OF pork and beans yesterday, and
We we're going out TO eat with them"
who are they2 Unemployed men7"
"Yes."
"Do you know exactly where the camp
IL located 20
II cannot tell you, but I could 60 right
10 II. Yon 20 two blocks further mp than
we were, and then right straight out"
How did you come to have that bur-
glars jimmyf,"
THAT was chlsel | bought and paid
loHf uttE lot to open BOXES.
''Could you not find something cheaper
with which 70 open boxes in your present
financial condition ?"
my partner told me TO buy that"
How did the officer como 70 shoot
your"
when he went through my partner
and found that jimmy he seemed to get
scared. He pulled out his gun and
said he would kill both oil Us If We made
crooked move. said: You will not kill
me7' He repeated that he would If made
. move. When We got near the patrol
box and he went 10 put the handouts on
AS / told him | did not want him to put
them on me. At tho same time stepped
back and he leveled his gun on me. |
reached for my gun, and just as got Il
out felt the ball strike me. l raised my
gun. fired at random aud then turned and
ran about three blocks, when fell down.
He fred two moro shots at me-one after
] dropped. He seemed to be afraid to 20
20 where | was. erawled four blocks on
my hands and knees before was picked
mp"
"what did you do with your gunf"
II threw IL away. II was q thirty eight
caliber."
'srhe officer searched your partner. but
did not search you. did he notf''
Yes, but my partner had gun Just the
same and be did not find IL"
(Which revolver made the loudest re-
port, yours or tho officers3''
1.-THE officers did. There was one loud
report, then . fainter one and after that
two more loud ones"
Those who heard the shooting say the
faint report came first. How do you ex-
plain that 20
well. of course II they say so. have
nothing more to say, but | know did not
shoot first"
Kannard spoke without much effort, oc-
easionaiiy stopping to take breath with
out excfting himself lie said he was not
suffering great pain and thought he was
going 70 get we'll. He gives his age as 81
years and says that John Dickens is his
partners right name; that he Is an elec-
frlclan and Dickens ishorer, ana that
they came from Sioux City together q lew
days ago.
Kannard has a hardened appearance for
90 young man. lis forehead Is low and
his hair grows down we'll toward his eyes.
DR.. Willis said last night that he found
none OF the !ntestines cut, but the ball cut
the liver. which made recovery very
doubtful.
fatrolmsn Faucet said yesterday that
he thought the two shots were tired to-
eether. bus kannaFd positively had the
the drop on him when he reached for his
gun. Dickens was standing close TO him.
but the other man kept backing away. and
when about ten feet OF he suddenly pulled
tne gun and. holding il leveled as the
"A fsE
q man IS you are" Faucet acted
eoolly bnt quickly. He then threw the
handouts into his Left hand. in which no
held the large carpenters ehisel. whipped
his gun out with his right and tired.
When the fesios ran around the corner he
stenped 70 the corner and bred again, the
two shots not being more than ave sec
onds apArt. lie says that II Dickens had
gun IL must have been concealed about
his nreaSs. His only regret is ihs; he did
not keep the drop on them until be hand.
eutled them.
The wounded man ran down Into
Water street. where = Young fellow
who works at the Brighton boat
house saw him holding hanaker.
chief TO his stomach. When asked What
the shooting meant. he replied tina, h.
Adam lrioh, who keeps a saloon on The
corner directly across the street lsou
where the shooting occurred. SAYS lie
thinks the frat two shots must have been
fred together from the loud r~port ha
heard. bat he heard two shots Afterw ard.
WllliSm Wirgh. who resides 3 block
away. heard the three shots from his bed.
room. lie says they we're probably four
OF i've seconds apart
Fred Eainden. who keeps = saloon in The
same hlock. was only about Too feet AWAY
when the shooting took i1Aes He saw
the officer cross tie street With the two
men and walked down 20 see whAs The
trouble Was He could not hear what was
ssid. sus is sure the prisoner cred FIRST
W. II. r. barnes. the druggist. passed
ths two Eaen On Mest street when he wss
going home. few minutes before They
were standing IL the shade 81 a tree talk
ing, and evidently did not see him, as he
dtd net see them gnal he came rtgat Gp 70
shem. They stoppea salkiag. and Mr..
Barnes says that the thought struck him
then taas sasy we're suspicious characters.
he thought at FIRST they might attempt TO
hei4 him ap. but sAey did not,
sn4 shsn he r~sehed kts hnase
he sssoa watching them. TAey
ssike6 o. Wall strsss. then
back 10 Battery and turned up toward