The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-08-15


husband was killed; heard the second
shot when were standing in the house (;
Charley Meionigle cred il; he was
standing near the door; he said what
are you doing there; :" jumped aside;
saw gun in his hands; the shot hit
papa | said, Papa, where are you;" he
said, Here, Beulah !" asked him II he
was shot, and he said, eyes, .Beulah. I'm
shot" closed the door after the first
shot; heard another shot from the in
side the house; | was leaning against the
wall and covering my face nothing was
said we opened the door and went out
papa, ma and I Mrs. McGonigle was in
the yard at the time the second shot was
fired; Charles was on the left hand side
of the door; father and were standing
on the right hand side, back and little TO
the side OF the door Charles pointed the
gun at me. but jumped as soon as he
said "Whst--;" don't know what kind
of gun don't know the difference be-
tween rifle and a revolver; heard no.
body say anything after Mr.. McGonigle
was shot; there was so much noise
might not have heard it if anything had
been said.
/. Mr.. Eaves, when the coroner's jury
visited the house, was lying in his bed
in very weak condition. His physi-
clan, who was in attendance upon him at
the time, requested that as few questions
as possible be asked him. He testified
as follows am 40 years old; myself,
wife and daughter were at McGonigle's
yesterday evening about 8 o'clock; we
went over to see about this scandal !;
when we got to the gate we saw Charles
McGonigle back by the house, ..and told
him wanted to see him about things he
had said--that | wanted to have set
Element; when we went in the yard
Charles ran away; we went to the door !;
as we neared it Mrs. McGonigle opened
it and asked us to come in; my wife and
daughter entered; Mrs. McGonigle asked
me in and stood on the stoop and told
her wanted to see Charley-that l had
come down here to talk to him; she put
her hand on my shoulder and said to
come in--that they didn't want any
trouble; just then Mr.. McGonigle came
around the corner, and told him l
wanted to have talk with Charley about
my daughters l said Charles had run
around the house; while we were talking
had my hand on his shoulder; all at
once some one fired and the bullet passed
close to the back of my hand (Which
was hanging down by my side)
and the old man grunted and
fell; he said nothing; l knew that
was no place for me, SO l stepped in
the house and blew the light out, to
avoid being shot-for my own protection
don't seem to have been scared or
"rattled" and felt no inclination to run
Charley came up; did not see the gun
at first, when my wife and daughter
were in the house; be looked and saw
her, and saw his father lying down on
the ground, and then he said, "What are
you doing there'-and then up with his
gun and fired, and the bullet hit me in
my left side; just after that fred at him
myself; l shot out of the door; saw him
coming with the gun; Mr.. McGonlgle
was near me when he was shot; l do not
remember his saying anything-I started
to look for Charley. Mr.. Eaves was fur
ther Intercepted as to the revolver yield
ed by J. f. Minner to the jury. He said:
81 recognize that revolver as the gun l
had last night"
Frank Bradshaw live down here on
Tom Fears place; was at home yester-
day afternoon, and Charles McGonigle
came down there between 9 and 10
o'clock he came to the door and knock
ed he said they had had trouble at his
house that he was afraid he had killed
his father, and wanted to turn himself
over to the sheriff; we got ready to take
him to town; before going he wanted me
to go up first and see how his father was
that he was afraid he had shot him ; he
said, "please come down here and let Inc
know" l did not get back in time-they
had gone to town with him he said this
was the gun (handing Coroner Heg
Remington rifie) and he also turned over
an old.fashioned Spanish pistol, loaded.
This was also turned over to the coroner.
From the Eaves residence the jury
again went to the McGonigIe place, TAX
ing with them the revolver which Mr..
Eaves had used, in order to compare the
balls in that gun-a 38 Smith & Wesson
with the wound in the body of the
dead man. The hole made by the bullet
was almost one-third larger than the ball
of the revolver, from which but one shot
had been fired; while bullet from the
rife which McGonigle had yielded to
young Bradshaw exactly fitted the
wound. This served to demonstrate to
the jury that Eaves could not have fred
the fatal shot, Notwithstanding the testi-
mony of Mrs. McGonigle and Ida. The
following verdict was therefore returned:
We the undersigned jurors duly sum.
m oned, sworn and impanelled to make
an inquest of the death of Byron Nc
Gonigle do find first That the name of
the deceased is Byron McGonigle, aged
81 years, a native of Ohio, and that he
came to his death on the 18th day of
August, 1895, at his residence about six
miles southwest OF the city of North