The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-24
JACK HARRIS SLAYER DISCHARGED.
CaIIendine's Act Was Done Clearly
in SeIf-Defense.
City Attorney Brown and Justict
Davis Both Express Themselves
to That Effect.

The preliminary examination OF L..
L. Callendine, who shot Jack Harris on
the 9th of this month and from the eff
! fects of which Harris died two days
later, resulted in the defendants dis
charge in the Police Court yesterday.
County Physician G.. A. White teS-
titled to having performed the autopsy
on Harris body. He found that the lat
ter had been shot through the stomach
and liver.
| Mrs. II. Harris, widow of the de-
ceased, testified that on the night of the
shooting she met Callendine on p street,
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth.
She was walking along when the de-
PENDANT came up behind and suoke to
her. She and Callendine walked down
that street. She saw Harris approach
them with a revolver in his hand. Mrs.
Harris and Callendine then ran down
the alley between o and P streets, and
Harris after them. He called upon them
to stop and then commenced shooting.
Callendine, while running, asked Har-
riS to stop shooting. The latter kept it
up, and Callendine returned the fire.
Immediately after that Harris said to
Callendine, you've got me; let's drop
our guns and fight it out!" The de-
ceased and Callendine had always been
on friendly terms.
General Hart, Callendines attorney,
asked Mrs. Harris why she was afraid
of her husband when she saw him COM
ing toward her and Callendine. Mrs.
Harris replied that she was afraid be-
cause the deceased had told her that he
would kill her if he ever saw her with
any other man.
r. c. Irvine testified that on the
night of the shooting he saw Harris at
Eleventh and p streets. Harris had
revolver in his hand and said he had
been shot. Witness took Harris to DR..
Sutllff'S residence and then went to the
Capitol and telephoned for the police
Harris gave him his revolver.
Mrs. Belle DOckstadter testified that
| she heard somebody run past her house
on the corner of the alley of the west
! side of Twelfth street Immediately be-
fore the shooting, and the noise indi-
Gated that whoever it was was being
| pursued AS the parties turned into the
alley she could hear the rustic of a
woman's skirts. She heard the pursuing
party say, Stop, I've got you'll" The
shooting then followed.
Stewart Mccormick, a motorman
testified that on the night of the
| shooting he was waiting for a car at
i WelIlH ana L streets. he heard the
shooting and Immediately proceeded in
the direction of the sound of the shots
He went into the alley, where he found
| a pistol-holster and a ladys cape
| Officer Maley testified to having gone
to the scene of the shooting and inves-
tigating the affair. Harris told him
that Callendine commenced firing first
and that he returned the fire.
| George B. Katzenstein testified that
he was in the sitting-room of his house
when he heard the shooting. The first
shots fired appeared to be louder than
the succeeding shots. He then went
outside, where he met a party who said
he saw person running down the alley
and shooting at someone
The significance of Mr.. KatZenstein' S
testimony lies in the fact that Harris
used revolver of 45-caliber, while Cal
lendine's was of 3S-caliber, and that the
reports from deceased'S revolver were
louder than those from the defendants.
This concluded the prosecutions side
of the case.
General Hart then asked to have the
case dismissed, as it was clearly shown
that Callendine had shot Harris in
self defense.
City Attorney Brown agreed with Mr..
Hart, and said it was a clear case of
Self-defense on the part of the de-
fendant
Justice Davis said he was of the same
opinion as the attorneys. He said it ap-
peared from the testimony that Harris
not only ran after his wife and Callen-
dine, but that while doing so he kept
shooting at them. He ordered Callen-
dine discharged.