The morning times., 1896-02-23
DEPUTY CURTIss' FIND.

AT TINS juncture Deputy Curtiss discovered
a fresh bullet hole in the front room that
nobody had seen, and he communicated his
find to the crowd. In spite of the efforts
Of Mr.. Burch TO keep them together the
jury and everyone else stampeded andrushed
into the saloon, and crowded arOuD d the
hole.
An animated discussion arose between
Sheriff Palmer and the foreman of the
jury, Mr.. Brown, as to the direction the
ball had taken, and this occupied some little
time Finally Mr.. Pendheim became i'm
patient, and suggested 10 Commonwealth
Attorney Johnson that thin gs be expedited.
Mr.. Johnson was getting hun CRY. so he
furthered the suggestion to the coroner, and
that gentleman made wild effort to get
his jury together again.
Make them go back" said Mr.. Johnson.
Jury, go back" yelled. or rather piped
the coroner stretching his little frame TO
its full height
But the jury took its own time about
going back, and not until the bullet hole
had been carefully examined, and the fact
thai there were no more bullet holes demon
strated, did they return TO their seats by
the stove and settle down TO business.
L y y,
was the next witness. He was leaning
against the bar when the firing bet ween
Johnson and Nelson began. Jomson's
pistol, he said, was in his own hands when
1t went Off, accidentally or otherwise, and
ii was not until then that Nelson fired
Nelson first shot took effect ON Johnson
who fell against the wall.
"JES COME ALONG"
Were you deputized by Mr.. Deuternan
To come on this raid?" asked Mr.. Bendhein.
He jus tol' NE to come along with the
rest"
Did you know what you were coming
here for?"
No, sir
Twyman was shot through the wrist, and
did not wait To see much of the fight.
James j Gallagher, an enlploye of the
Mount Vernon and Washington Railway,
was sworn. The common wealth had ex-
| hausted alIsits witnesses with, I wymaR,
and lie was summoned by the defense. Al
| though he could not identity any OF the men
except by description, his was the most
important testimony offered.
He said that he entered the saloon about
6 O'Clock Thursday evening, and after tax
the gambling room. There were several
white and colored men lin there. Three
negroes were fixing sguns, and two white
men were in some sort of a scrap at he
crap table.
The description ne gave of the TWO men
answered To that of Deuterman and John
son. He left the place, returning about o
1 O'Clock. The same two men and a lot
| OF colored men were in the front room.
Johnson was standing at one end of the
bar. calling for drink. He took two
pistols out of his hip pockets and put
| them in his overcoat.
Suddenly hebrew both pistols, and Albert
| Lewis, the colored man, seized one OF them
and took it away from him. With the
other one he fired a shot at Nelson behind
! the bar, and the latter returned the fire.
| Then witness dropped 10 The floor and
| crawIed out OF the saloon. When he got
outside some men on the opposite side
of the road were firing, and he ran away
! from the place.
| SAYS THE DEPUTIES WERE DRUNK.
Edward Whalen, cabinet maker of this
city, was then sworn. he said that he
| was in Nelson's in the carly part of the
evening. About 6 O'Clock Deutcrman and
| johnson came in drunk. Both played at
the crap table, and. Johnson lost a couple
of dollars Deuterman then started back
of the table and tried TO get the money