The herald., 1893-05-20
BUG HOLIDAYS TRIAL.
SOME INTERESTING TESTIMONY
GIVEN YESTERDAY.
Mrs. Green Was an Eye witness OF
the Shooting scrspe-The Defend
ant Takes the stand and
Tells His Story.

The trial Of ,Bug" Holiday was very
nearly completed before Judge Smith
yesterday, and the defense made quite a
good showing in their testimony.
They introduced several eye witnesses
TO the shooting affray between Holiday
and e. P. Burton last November, who
saw differently from the witnesses for
the prosecution.
Their testimony was to the effect that
when Burton and Holiday came out OF
the cigar stand and poker room on Sec
ond street, where the row occurred,
Burton pulled his revolver frst, and
Holiday backed off, saying Don't
shoot" Also that he did not pull his
own revolver until after this and then
shot at Burton, who returned the fire.
One of these witnesses was pretty
young woman named Mrs. Green, now
OF Santa Barbara, who saw the street
fight from the window of her room
across the streat, in the Newell block.
She corrOborated the statements of
other witnesses that Holiday was not
the aggrsHsor on the street. and that
Burton pulled his revolver frat. When
llQilluAy AE6u a6 lICQ 1N6 b4OtH Ill AdRtu
succession and seemed to be jumping
about 80 avoid the shots, almost as II he
was trying to avoid his own shots. She
also said that the shots seemed to her to
be towards the ground.
On cross examination Mrs. Green said
her home is in Oakland, and that her
husband lives there. She is not living
with him. The reason she was not was
IN, frnk zslmno hn~ haCl tb
poor and ehe came south for that, and
secondly he had not treated her with
justice end she would not live with him
After several witnesses had given Bur
ton pretty bad reputation for truth
and veracisy, honesty and integrity, the
defendant took the stand.
Holiday is tall young man with a
very prominent Roman nose, and arapid
utterance, his words sometimes trying
to come forth more rapidly than he can
articulate.
Taking up the trouble at the time he
entered the poker room and requested
the occupants to 90 out, that he had
bueinesa with Burton, he ssid:
''As coon 81 they had gone out Burton
put bis hand to his hip pocket, knew
that he always carried pistol. pulled
mine and laid 1t on the table and said
L don't want sny gun fght, | want to
have nice settlement of our matters.
Rasty Wright had remained and they
seemed to think I was there for the
purpose Of having trouble. l was
not. | wanted psacsable settle-
ment OF our matters. | did not hit
Burton in the poker rooms. He went
out first into the cigar stand, Wrigh
next and last. I thought the trouble
was all over, but he stopped and / saw
his hand again going for his pistol. /
jumped for him and got him in the cor
ner and did hit him four or five times
with my fists. He cried out that he
had enough and started out of the door.
But when | got to the door he seemed to
try to got at shooting distance, and
pulled his revolver. | cried out, Don't
shoot Don't shoot = and backed away.
Then pulled out my revolver, ham
merless Smith & Wesson, 33 caiiber. I
was nervous and excited and it seemed
TO 20 of all at once. OF course pulled
the trigger. But the shots all went
along the sidewalk. Then took walk
up Mott alley.
Mr.. Dupuy tried to confuse Holiday
on cross-examination, but he stuck to
the msin points of his story with
tenacious grip. He admitted that after
the shooting he left the city and did not
come back until arrested in another city !;
but in regard to the shooting, insisted
that he did not pull his pistol on the
street until Burton had pulled his; also,
that when he took out his revolver in
the poker room it was to lay 1t on the
table and show that he did not want to
use it.
At this point in the trial an adjourn
ment was taken until this morning.