The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-26

gun; it sounded dull, as though it was
Inside of a house. L then got to the
house. Davis said: "My God, amt
this awful?' 1 said: What are you
going to do?" Davis said: Il think
this is enough; L am going home" Da-
| Wis picked up the gun Muller had and
stood it against the wall. We then
started home. On the way we met
Brock, who was on a horse. He had
lpair of chain hobbies. He had hold of
| the bride reins with his left hand; in
his right he heI1 the rope attached to
| the chain, used for hobbies. Davis
said to Brock: ''Are you heeled?"
Brock said: II am always heeled for
such s. of BIS as you" Davis said:
l"Get down off the horse; l want to
| talk with YOU" Brock would not do
SO, and tried to ride over Davis. Davis
grabbed the bride reins and held the
horse. Brock struck Davis with the
chain hobbies The horse them jerked
loose from Davis and Brock
iwhirled and came toward Davis,
| who told him to stop. Brock
kept coming and then Davis
pulled his pistol and shot Brock. The
| latter fell forward onto the horses
| neck The horse was then nearly on top
| of Davis and he shot again. Brock
| fell to the ground, shot in two places.
second hit him in the top of the head
a little to the front. Brock was not
hit in the back of the head; Brock told
| Davis he would go to the house and
get a gun and kill Davis. Muller got
| his gun fast in the bars of the window;
I did not testify before the coroner's
| jury, I merely corroborated what Davis
testified to; Davis first spoke to me
about going up to the house on Tues
| day about 8 o'clock a. M; went up to
| see if they, Brock, Ducel and Muller,
were getting ready to leave. 1 thought
| from their conversation they were go
| ing away that night. We afterwards
changed our minds and concluded we
would not go that night / went with
Davis the next morning (the day of the
shooting). Davis said to me, If those
fellows see that gun they will think
we are hunting fuss and he Davis
| told me to leave it. l hid the gun under
a railroad bridge and went with Davis
because he asked me TO co. 1t was a
| little after daylight, about o'clock [
| think. l did not start up to the house
Immediately after Davis fired the first
shot; I guess was little ratified.
| The cross-examination was reached
and the court here took recess until
IL o'clock.
On reconvening, the reading of
Grants testimony was resumed. Moth
| ing of material interest was brought
| out on reading the cross-eXamination.
| The defendant was then put upon the
| witness stand and testified: My full
name is Wilson Ellis Davis; I first met
Brock in Grand Junction; he was in
the county jail; l had business with
| him in reference to his ranch; I took
possession of his ranch, as per agree
ment. About two weeks after Brock
came and l delivered the ranch back
1 to him as I agreed to, do, providing he
/ did come back. / then went below and
| bought out another man; I lived on
| this ranch when the killing took place;
/ I am engaged in ranching and stock
raising; Brock worked for me on differ
| emit occasions; | met Muller in Grand
Junction, and was introduced to him by
| Brock; Ducel worked for me the July
previous to the homicide; he worked
| for me till Saturday, the 18th of August,
prior to the homicide; discharged him
| then After they left | missed several
articles; a swarm Of bees, some ropes,
| hobbies, etc: i traced them by tracking
! l got their shoes and compared them
with the track l also found where
| they had burned the bee hive and set
| fire to the fence.
+! A map of the Westwater country
Twas made on the blackboard and the
different places pointed out to the jury.
| The witness continued: There
was a window on the east side
| md one on the south of
Brooks dugout. There are iron bars