Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-06-14

not, Ell? l have got you right where |
want you, now" My hand was in my
overcoat pocket. I started stepping
back, and "lou leave me alone, Nor
gam" | says, 81 am armed and | will
defend myself He says 81 will fix
you right here" He rushed toward me,
struck me on the head and knocked me
down on the bridge, and l laid there on
the bridge on my back and my left leg
was partly through the ties; my hat was
over my eyes and my head was fiat on
the ties. My hand was in my overcoat
pocket when | went down and l pulled
the revolver and fired in the direction |
had been knocked down. l turned
| around to see where Romiser was and he
was running away, and l called Joe,
Joe, Romiser, watt" and he would not
stop and started to run after him and
throwed the gun into the river as
| started to run and | kept calling him,
"Joe,Joe, hold on, 'but he wouldn't stop.
There were two men coming up the
track on the run. They were down to
the East side. | waited and one OF
them spoke to me, and said, "ioung
fellow, you have killed that man, or hurt
him badly" or something of that kind.
l said, Il am afraid Ihave; he assaulted
me and | shot him in self defense" l
said, 81 want to give myself up to an
officer" He said, "All right, | will
take you to an officer" W. walked back
to where Morgan was lying. l spoke to
people there and asked them if they
would not pick him up and take him off
the bridge. | was afraid he would get
run over by the train. Somebody says,
says, 81 am the man that done it and l
want to give myself up" Morgan was
on his elbows: he raised himself up, and
says, sizes, that is the - that
shot me-" We started across the river,
| and the two men. and l think maybe
there was three men following, past the
switch engine coming up. l walked up
to the corner of the Milwaukee beer
hall and there met Officer Hamilton. |
spoke to him and said | had shot a man
and wanted to be arrested. He asked
me there. ''Wha did you shoot
him for?" | said, 81 shot him
in self defense, because he tried
to kill me-knocked me down" He
says, "All right, | will arrest you"
Going down to the Jail he asked me
something about the shooting | told
him before the man assaulted me and
knocked me down and [ shot him in
self defense. He did not say anything
more then. I went into the Jail. They
searched me and put me in the Jail.
Possibly an hour Or go afterward there
was several people come there, l don't
know who they was. They asked me
about this man Romiser and l told them
I never thought he would 60 back on
me that way. when | thought bis test
mony would clear me. I had consider
able talk with them. I asked them how
the man was at the hospital. They told
me he was alive. l asked them if they
we're not fooling. l thought they we're
saying that because they thought |
would break down. I did not touch
Morgan in any manner when [ came up
to him after he was shot and laying on
the bridge. l was not in the Stockholm
beer hall after Morgan and l were at
Casey's saloon and he knocked me down.
AS SOC as I got on my feet l walked
straight across the river to James Beal'e
house.
| heard the testimony of Thompson
| did not tell him that James Morgan
aud Thomas Grady had trouble in the
saloon the night before because 1 never
met Morgan the night before. When
Thompson told me that Morgan was no,
dead, | did not use the words that il
there was a BID in town that ought
to die it was Morgan. | said something
to the effect that if he was dead he
brought it on himself. | never told
Thompson or these other parties that
had it in for Morgan, because | had not,
estate to the jury whether you haC
the conversation there with Romisel
that Kinney says that you had. and thai
you said You know the reason why
let him do me up last night, that | an
going over now to fill the D.
full of holes?'" 81 never made such {
remark. l never had an angry wore
with the man the night before. | haC
no angry words with any one"
heard the statement of Thompson
that | stated when | and Romiser wert
coming across the bridge that | saw
Morgan, that | said to Romiscr, "Nov
there IN Morgan, o you back nj
up" and when ! got there Romiser ran
and | did not think he was such a COW
ard as to run off and leave me tina: way
| did not tell him any such statement
| said | did not think Romiser would g
back on me the way he did, in @runnin!
away and leaving me, when I ha,
to be taken to Jail, and | though
his testimony would clear me
Cartnell was a big man, l should judg
six feet one in his stockings, weighed 20
pounds, a big powerful man. | did no
in any way provoke the assault by MOI
gan or begin the attack. At the time
had the conve sation with Officer Ham
ilton, going from the beer hall to tn
Jail, he did not tell me, that anything
might say there would be taken as test
mony against me. Nobody told me, q
the Jail, that anything | might say t
the reporters, or others there would b
taken as testimony against me-.
James Collineon and James Beal CO
roborated Crowe's testimony concernin
the difficulty between himself and Car
nell and swore that late in the a~fternoo
of March II Cartnell went to Beal
house, seeking Grove and threatenin
him.
At the conclusion of Beal's testimon,
at 1l:35 q. M, the defense rested and n