The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-24
A VERDICT OF MURDER.
Result Of the Inquest Over the Body
Of Joe Davis.

Bristoe Hunter Who is Charged With
Being an Accomplish Gives Him
self Up to the Authorittes-He Says
That Quarterman Came Into the
City With Him With the Same In
tent, But others Say he Left Thun-
derbolt By Boat Yesterday Morn
ing-Hunter's Version Of the Diff
Guilty Which Led to the Crime.
Bristoe Hunter, one Of the men con
cerned in the killing of Joe Davis, who
was shot at Thunderbolt on Sunday night
in a drunken row, came in yesterday and
gave himself up TO Oficer Kaufman,
who carried him to Justice Naughtin's
court, where a warrant charging him
with murder was sworn ont. After the
coroner's jury rendered its verdict he
was taken to Jail.
Hunters version of the killing differs
very materially from that given by the
witnesses who testified before the coro-
ner's jury According TO him it was
Davis who had the pistol in the barroom,
and Davis who fired the first shot. He
says Davis attempted to shoot him and he
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discharged in the tussel which ensued.
He then ran out followed by Davis, who
was brandishing the pistol and threaten
ing to kill him.
SAID DAVIS TRIED TO SHOOT QUARTERMAN.
Hunter says that Quarterman then fol-
lowed them with the gun to prevent
Davis from shooting him, and that when he
did Davis turned and threatened to shoot
Quarterman. When he attempted to
raise his pistol to shoot, Hunter says,
it was that Quarterman fired the fatal
shot.
Hunter saws he went off and slept in
thewoods not 500 yards from the point
where the shooting took place, and that
hewas afraid to come in town at the time
as he didn't know what the enraged ne
groes might do to him, but he intended to
come in in the morning and give himself
up TO the authorities. Where Quarter
man is he said he did not know, but he
says he went to CHURCHMAN'S house at
daybreak and told him he had better
come into town and give himself to the
authorities.
CAME IN WITH QUARTERMAN.
This, he says, Quaterman agreed to do,
and he states that they came in together
and he left him at Charlton and Bull
streets with the understanding that
Quartermau was going to the barracks
shortly afterward and give himself up to
the authorities
Hunters story and those told at the in
quest differ very materially on this point,
and TO all appearances Hunter has made
some mistake, as Quarterman has not
shown up near the city, and the testi-
mony of some people living at Thunder
bolt is to the effect that Quarterman was
seen there yesterday morning, and that
he took boat and went down the Thun-
derbolt river. AS yet Quarterman has
not shown up, and to all appearances he
must have changed his mind since he last
saw Hunter
A VERDICT OF MURDER.
Coroner Dixon went out to Thunderbolt
yesterday morning, got a jury together and
held an inquest According to the tes-
timony of witnesses at the hearing Hunter
and Scipio Maxwell, who were arrested
shortly after the row, and who are now in
jail, had a row during the evening and
Davis took Maxwell part. The difficulty
arose over dispute about some woman.
The row began early in the evening and
about 9 o'clock Hunter and Quarterman
left the saloon and did not return for
three quarters Of an hour or an hour.
This was the testimony of all the wit
nesses who were in the place at the time
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then that Quarterman secured his gun
and secreted it, it is thought behind the
fence which he jumped, when he went to
fire the fatal shot
DREW HIS PISTOL IN THE BAR.
The testimony was also to the effect
that Hunter pulled his pistol in the bar
after he and Quarterman had returned.
and that Davis jumped at him in an effort
to get it away from him, when it was dis
charged. All the witnesses stated that
Hunter was the man who had the pistol
During this scrap the gang rushed from
the bar, when Quarterman followed, going
on the inside of the lot and getting his
gun, after which he jumped the fence and
shot his victim. 1t was also stated at
the inquest that Quarterman had been
seen in Thunderbolt yesterday morning.
and that he took a boat and went OF
down the ThunderbOlt river The question
IS, why was he not captured them
The cOroner's jury could reach only one
conclusion, and that was that Davis had
been murdered. There was no doubt
whatever from the testimony. that
Quarterman was the man who fired the
fatal shot, and he was charged with the
murder, and Hunter was charged with
being an accomplice. Maxwell will also
be held for further investigation into the
matter
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