The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-01-04

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company aud were distributed among the |
men on the car other than the repair men.
Of these men, Briggs was one, so that the car
leaving Girardvlle had ON it six or seven |
reparmen, the motor man, Richard Amour, |
John Briggs, the defendant, and man by |
the name Of Weavill, and another by the
name Of Brown. At somewhere about IL |
o'clock at night they arrived at the place |
where the tracks had been torn up. When |
they got there large crowd Of
course, had cOngregated not only |
to observe and watch the tearing up of the !
track, but by reason Of having received |
that the company was going to
relay them When the dinkey arrived at
MI Amour got out of the car and
was met by the president Of the Town
Council, John f Reynolds, and Mr.. Amour
informed him that they had come there to
relay the tracks. Mr.. Reynolds made some
reply and Mr.. Amour returned to the car and
brought out rifle, cooked the rifle and
pointed it in the direction Of Mr.. Reynolds
and another member Of the Town Council
stood side by side with Mr.. Reynolds ,this
was Mr.. Stone) and beside Amour stood
Briggs the defendant also with a
rifle Briggs had his rifle pointed towards
Stone. After considerable talk between Mr..
Amour and Mr. Reynolds concerning the
advisability Of not attempting to relay the
tracks that night, Mr. Reynolds said, if any
rights had been infracted that that hour of
night was not the proper one to settle the
matter, that they should return to their homes
and come back the next day, and if they had
a right tn relay the tracks the next day was
the proper time. Mr.. Amour remarked,
"Yes, that is good advice, and we will do it,
and returned to the car to go away; but the
motor man, named Benny, was missing and
that delayed the return of the car for few
minutes We will show, Mr.. Breckons added,
beyond any doubt, that up to this time not
one hostile demonstration was made by any
one in that crowd, except by what had been
made by Amour and Briggs, and that was
amicably settled, but there were boys who
made some remarks. Briggs, after the con
troversy was settled returned into the car.
the Girardville militia? The Homesteads?"
John Briggs came out to the front of the car
rested the barrel Of his rifle on the window.sill
remarked, Here, you ---" and fred
his rifle James Parft, young man "a years
of age, with one cry, fell to the ground,
crawled away the best he could, and in IA
very short time was dead.
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Breckons'
address to the jury DR., J. II. Enterline was
called aud upon direct examination by
District Attorney Ryan said he was prac-
ticing physician at Mahauoy Plane and a
deputy coroner. He was summoned after
the riot to attend James Parft and found
him about dying. He was in a state Of
collapse. He died shortly after Dr. Enter
lines arrival. When first seen Parft was
suffering from shock and was almost pulseless
apparently dead. The doctor found the
mark Of the bullet and made an examination
of the wound. The bullet entered along
side of the hip and passed out about Al inches
from the lower portion Of the spine. DR.
| Enterlno made post mortem examination
the following day with Drs. Forester
Marshal and Gillers. Where the bullet passed
out there was a wound 1t by inches anC
! where 10 entered the wound was an inch il
diameter. 10 took downward course anC
| made its exit about two inches to the right o
the lower part of the spine. At the entranct
the wound was clean cut, but at the exit i
was more ragged. The bullet did not ente
the intestinal cavity, The intestines wer
apparently uniniured. There was no alb
dominal injury.
Dr.. Enterline described the course Of tn
bullet upon his body before the jury and thei
Mr.. Brumm took up the cross examination
After considerable examination regardin
the entrance and exit of the bullet and tn,
course it took through the body, as disclosed
by the post mortum examination, Mr.. Brumr
asked.
80 far as the examination showed ther
was no es sential vital point struckY
"No, sir"
"Then the wound was not necessaril
fatal?"
"Yes sir; it was necessarily fatalY'
"Do you mean to swear that cutting throug
any part of the body would make that woun
fatal2"
"No, sir
How was this then p
"Well, the man looked to me as though b
had lost considerable blood.
81 am asking whether the wound in itse
was necessarily fatal ?"
81 would say to the best Of my knowledg
it was certainly fatal"
"Why "
1--WE consider that if a part Of bone
shattered as that was it is too much for
man."
Gould that be necessarily so with all pc
sonsW
"Well, l don't know"
After considerable cross examination NJ
Brumm said, 81 ask as to the wound itse
regardless of any other circumstance, vi
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