Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-09-06

@oiieu. nhu not Deen keeping
company with Mr.. Houghland to
any extent. Took me to the read
ing circle last winter. / never took
any buggy rides with Mr.. Hough-
land while at Mr.. Hildebrand's.
| never met him while at Mr.. Hide
brands. | did not hear any noise
or tapping on my window Saturday
night. | heard some noise Friday
morning at nearly daylight. The
door between my room and the
room of the family is never closed
at night and never was"
Mrs. Sadie Hinton, wife of Henry
Hinton, testified in brief:
mo one lives with us except my
husbands sister. She is about 81
years of age. She has not received
very much company while at our
house; she had one caller. | went
to bed about 10 o'clock. Sister did
not go to bed when she went into
her room; none of the children went
with her. My husband did not go
to bed in his regular room; he went
into the room from which the shoot
ing was done about 8 o'clock. The
reason he went there was some one
had been at the window in the room
where his sister slept the night be =
fore. He had heard and seer some
one around the house. 1t was On
Friday night, Aug. 81, when he
heard them. | heard them there at
the window also; it sounded like
someone tapping. On Friday night
| got up end asked Hinton if he
heard the noise. He got up and wellt
through the house and came back
and asked me if | had seen anyone.
| had been looking out but had not
seen anything myself. The next
day my husband said he didn't UNI
derstand the noise. His sister was
asleep Friday night. Mr.. Hinton
said he was going to find out who it
vas that made the noise. | don't
know that he had any talk with his
sister about it. | knew he was 60
ing to take a gun into the kitchen
Saturday night. | never had any
idea who the party was. Mr..
Houghland was at our house Mon
day evening and stayed half an
hour; he didn't see MIR. Hinton's
sister at that time. He was there
Thursday evening at about s O'Clock
and he saw my husbands sister, my
husband and myself and children.
He had no private talk with my
husband at that time nor with me.
My husbands sister and he were in
the room a few minutes alone. |
vas out in the yard walking about.
When asked about the tapping on
the window the morning before the
killing, she said she didn't hear it.
She didn't hear the noise on the
window the night of the killing. l
did not hear it. | had not been in
bed long when | heard the shot
fired. | heard no noise before the
shot. The light had been out only
about five minutes when the shot
was fired. After the shot was fired
we lit lights and went out in our
night clothing. | think Mr.. Hough-
land vas about forty feet from the
house when we found him. He
was alive when we came to him. |
did not hear him speak. There
was only n gentleman who called
to see my husbands sister at our
house, that was Mr.. Houghland.
He called on Thursday evening""
THE VERDICT.
We, the jury, do find that the dead
body before us is that of w. II.
Houghland and that from the evil
dence he came to his death by a
gun shot wound in the hands of
Henry Hinton. Witness our hands
before the Coroner of Audrain coun-
ty, Missouri, Sept. 3, 1894.
E. L. CoHooN. B. WADDINGToN.
FRANK PIERCE. Nv. MARSHALL.
VIM. NIvIoN. r. H.. Brown.
The funeral of w. H. Houghland
was conducted from the Baptist
Church in this city by Rev. A. E.
Rogers and Rev. W. B. Taylor
Monday afternoon, Sept. 3, at 4 p.
M. The funeral was largely attended.
The services at the grave were con.
Quoted by Master Masons Houston
and Treloar. The pallbearers were
Joseph Potts, C. c.. Davis, Joseph
Weimer, Jas. Wilkins, Fred Pan
horst and Leb Crigler.
Th0s. w. staples Dead.
He was born in Clark County,