Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-09-13
HENRY HINTON HELD.
lie Is Required to Give $4,000 Rond
Tor His Appearance Before the
Grand Jury for Killing
ii0ughland.

| "PfS"A o0AoIe tue STdnC
Jury. No new evidence in addition
TO what was published in theLEDGEF
last week was developed except that
OF DIR. HALEY, which throws con.
siderable light on the matter and is
found in brief below. The theory oI
the state is that Henry Hinton
knew of the relations existing be,
tween his sister and Mr.. Houghland
and that he deliberately and in cold
blood laid for1and killed him on
entering his yard. The theory OF
the defense is that Mr.. Hinton knew
nothing of the relations existing be-
tween his sister and Mr.. Houghland
and that he thought burglars had
been around the house and that
when he fired he thought he was
shooting a burglar who was en-
deayorlng to enter his home.
HINTON BoNDsMES.
Those who went on Hinton's S bond
were B. Waddington, G. w.
stautfer, j. E. Stauffer, T. NJ. Hof-
sess, J. w. Hofsess, j. F. John
son, Adolph Raith, w. Il. Long, f.
Z. Hicks, VIM. Johnson, J. w.
Douglass, Otto Raith, John l..
Stauffer, W. ]. Baker, d. B. Doug
lass, John F. Frinth and Fl. F.
Hinton.
DIR. J. ]. HALLEY'S EVIDENCE.
DIR. J.. ]. HALEY, of Benton City, be-
ing duly sworn testified in brief as
follows:
81 reside in Benton City and prac-
tiee medicine. Have lived there IS
years. Was well acquainted and knew
Mr.. Houghland very well. | have
known him four or five years. lie was
Il druggist. He and were both sin
gle men and we roomed together in
my office. On the Friday night be-
fore he was killed l was at home. Mr..
IIoughland was away Thursday night
On Friday night | was at home until
or half past IL. About half past 0
Mr.. Houghland left Benton City on
my horse. lie returned at half past
10 or IL O'Clock. On Saturday night
he left about Q O'clock. / have known
Miss Violet Hinton for two or two and
one-half years. She lived in Benton
City during most of last summer. She
lived at Mr.. Richardson's. I have
seen Miss Hinton in Mr.. Houghland's
drug store very often. During last
November / heard her invite him
down to see her at half past nine or
ten o'clock. Mr.. Houghland went
there that night. He went into the
yard and went to the west window.
/ saw him go. I didn't know what
time of the night it was, but the rest
of the family had gone to bed. On
the Saturday night ne went to Hin
toms he rode my horse by my per-
mission. He also code it the night be-
fore. The house that saw him go to
to see Miss Hinton was Mr.. Richard-
sons house in Benton City. 1t is about
800 feet from my office. Mr.. Hough-
land generally closedfhis store at about
0 o'clock and sometimes later. | did
not see Mr.. Houghland go into the
window. As soon as saw him go to
the window l turned and walked
away. am acquainted with Henry
Hinton. He has the reputation of be-
ing an honest, ,peaceable and law-abid-
ing citizen. l told Mr.. Houghland
during his lifetime that if he didn't
quit running around at night with
women he would get killed. 1 told
Houghland that Miss Hinton would
get him into trouble. 1 think he told
me that he had been going to see her
from three to five nights out of a
week during the fall and winter.
ssFriday evening when I came to my
office at o'clock Houghland was sit
ting in the yard in chair asleep. l
woke him up and he asked me for
horse and told him to ride the gray
horse and he told me everybody would
know the gray horse; that he would
rather ride the sorrel; that he was go
ing to call Oh Miss Hinton; that he
had promised to cali on her between
8 and 10 o'clock that night He rode
the sorreI horse and wore q black
slouch hat of mine that | had not
worn for six months and he wore a
light weight overcoat that was hang
ing in the office, and of a dark color.
He came back at or 10 O'Clock and
went to bed without saying a word to
me. Saturday night he told me that
he was going to ride one of my horses
to Miss Hinton's again; that he could
| not wake her up the night before;that
he tapped on the window but she did
not wake up; that he could hear her
breathing and that some one in the
next room stirred and he left. That
was the last conversation | had with
him. AS far as | know Henry Hinton
did not know anything about the re-
lations existing between his sister and
Mr.. Houghland."
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