The herald., 1895-10-11

timony very closely. Hon. Frank l..
Combs OF Napa, who is one of the wit
nesses for the defense, was also in attend
ance.
After dis posing of the usual ex parte
business, Judge Smith called the Erring-
ton case, and Robert S. Sharp. the I'M
dertaker, who witnessed the shooting,
took the stand and detailed the tragedy
as he saw it. He was standing IN front
OF his place of business and his attention
was attracted by the first shot, which he
did not see. He saw Errington fire two
more shots, saw Jones fall to the side
walk and Errington walk around his
PROSTATE form and walk away. The wit.
ness did not see the events that led up to
the shooting. He thought Jones' hands
were up after the first shot in protect
ing manner. While leaning over Jones
as he lay On the street, Mr.. Sharp found
that the wounded man $ coat sleeve was
on fire. The coat was put in evidence.
Mr.. Sharp was subjected to a rigid
cross-examination at the hands of Sem
ator Dennis Spsncer, who tried 20 break
the force of his testimony to the effect
that Jones threw his hands up, and which
looks bad for the self-defense theory.
Mr.. Sharp, however, was positive as to
what he saw and declined to modify his
statements, leaving the stand with testi-
mony un shaken.
A. J. Springer, driver OF the park hose
wagon, was the next witness. He, too,
saw the shooting. after tho first shot was
fired, at a distance of $50 feet. he could
not see the shooting very plainly, as it
was dark, but after the tragedy he took
Errington into custody, and the latter
turned the pistol with which the shoot
ing was done over to him. He knew
nothing about anything connected with
the parties PRIOR to the shooting.
Immediately alter the noon recess Mrs.
Cora Jones, the widow of Errington's
victim, took the stand. The young wo-
man was perfectly calm and self.pos-
sessed and gave her testimony in clear.
wellmodulated voice, answering the
questions with but little hesitation, and
altogether creating very favorable i'm
preston. In answer to questions. she
detailed the occurrences on the night of
place OF employment until the shooting
took place. She said Errington had fire.
quently called on her. but said there was
nothing in the relations between them,
ana he had always treated her as lady.
She could not remem Der whether or not
she had asked Erringtun to accompany
her on the night of the shooting or
whether he had asked her. Her husband
had never shown any displeasure at Err
rington's attentions to her until the day
before the shooting. She admitted that
she and her husband had had some g.
Guilty and he had written her note say
ing that he intended to leave. Her hus-
band had then concealed himself under
her bed, and when the landlady had told
her about it, she called him out. She
denied that she had ever told Errington
that her husband would shoot him on
sight, or that he had threatened to do so.
The cross-examination of Mis-. Jones
was very close. but she kept her temper,
and Senator Spencer was unable to break
her down. She would not admit under
any circumstances that she had ever used
her husbands name in connection with
shooting Errington, and no matter in
which way the question was presented
her answer was always the same. Alto
Gether, she was anything but satisfac-
tory witness so far as the defense was
concerned, and finally Mr.. Spencer asked
her the direct question as to whether or
not she had been interviewed by officers
and others for the prosecution since the
shooting, but in each case she answ cred
in the negative, with the exception OF
McComas had spoken to her briefly on
the subject, ana that the police detectives
had spoken to her about the shooting the
night it occurred. She was finally al
lowed to go without having contradicted
herself in any important particular.
J. w. Sebastian, A. P. Grimes, Fred
Schulter, Joseph Boylson, l. A. La Veen
and Z. II. Parker were next called in
rapid succession, but their testimony was
unimportant, and they were disposed of
Ia short order.
Mr.. McComas then announced that he
had two witnesses at the city prison that
he wanted to examine, aud while waiting