The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-02-05
eoodrich Refuses to Hold
Him on the Evidence.
a.. Presenting Witness Puts Up a Very
~ Rims, Story that is Easily Broken.

district court was N
o'clock this morning with a thrcng
;, noonle anxious to hear the trial
:, the habeas corpus case of }. w.
Harrison and to learn what evidence
.here was, if any, to connect him
18th the murder of Lippe Lipshitz.
The story of the prosecuting wit,
..ss william Fife, soon fell to the
arouud of its own inherent weak
ss.s and there we're few present but
rlo foresa early in the progress
If the trial that a discharge was
Inevitable
William Fife, the prosecuting
vituess, il an old man, who makes
Twin by driving public express.
He is very bard of hearing. lie
ssid he lived in the same house
Nth Harrison, a four room box
house, two rooms being occupied
BY each family, with plank parti'
lions between the rooms. On the
ujght of January 10Th he waa sick
with grippe, and lying on pallet
BY the stove and also by a window.
|About 10 o'clock he was lying there
.nd heard Harrison get up and pass
gu, Of his room. 1t was bright
moonlight, and he saw Harrison 90
ont at the gate; saw him no more
that night. lie left the pallet and
went to bed. About 2 o'clock he
lytness got up and weot out in
the yard; just az he returned he heard
Harrison come on the porch ana
call his wife 70 open the door. She
did so, and asked him what was the
matter. He said: ''We've kill d a
nan down on Ross avenue, and l
Ank some men are folio owing me.
lAey come to the door don't let
them IN" He spoke like q man
WHO vas out of breath. Witness
could hear very plainly what was
laid. lie DIDN'T go TO sleep any
more, and could hear the HarrisOns
talking all through the night ill
.hey get up. In the morning Hsr-
rson weut Of, down town some
where, ne supposed. About II
pollock witness got up and went to
the stable TO get his horse and
wagon and go down town to get
come feed. II .rrison was at the
stable, and they passed few words
In jest. Witness came down and
got some fee6 and a little wood in
his wagon, and went home. When
nc went to feed his horse in the
evening Harrison was at the stable.
lie asked Harrison if he had heard
o' the killing; he said he had, and
colored up and choked up and
turned away
When Capt. j. W, Taylor took
The witness in hand for cross ex-
animation he soop had his story
knocked all full Of holes.
"Aren't you very hard of hear
ing Mr.. FIfe?' he asked.
Sometimes | am, and other
times can hear as we'll as ever.
when | have cold l am hard OF
nearing
Didn't you have cold and the
grippe on the night of January 1872
u had the grippe"
DIDN'T your wife get up anc
sa0. the door after you came in our
OF the yard?'
"She did"
"how much money did you ge
Tor making this complaints"
Nary cent.
now much were you promis1 d 2
Mary cent"
mWlau was said to you?"
witness detailed how a deput,
s9efll had come to him on Monda,
a'ef the killing and said he under
ss ne knew something about i
wy, wanted him to 90 and make
tsa'elnent to the sheriff. He re
;s because it was cold and rain
AZ ana he was sick, Later tn
s,spo'y sheriff returned and said h
ho saiu oe given check for 800
s,;,, would make the statement. Ii
s.". iefTsed to 60 at that time. Tw
his s. ,aler' Cd Wednesday, he CAV
ressa 'a'ement to the officers. On
w sson ne held it back was that h