The San Francisco call., 1896-11-13
CHASTITY Details of the Aw ul
Crime Are Told and
Retold.
UNLUCKY WATCH AND PI: ToL.
Moore and Schmidt Seen Together
Near Greenw ood's Place the Day
of the Murder.

NAPA, CAL, Nov. 12.-The Moore trial
was continued to-day bef ore the Superior
Court.
Hugh Kelly as a witness for the prosecu-
ton told how, while driving toward Napa
in the early morning of February 10, 1891,
he saw Captain Greenwood, bound and
bleeding, standing before the latter's gate.
Cutting the bonds ne entered the house
with the captain and found Mrs. Green
wood lying upon the bed, cold and dead.
He drove to town for the Sheriff and
doctor and when he returned other people
ia gathered al the house.
Sheriff Mckenzie described the appear
ance OF the house. the position of Mrs.
Greenwood, the location of the blood
stains on the floor, bed and wall, and the
condition of the horse. buggy and harness
that had been used by the murders, and
other matter in detail. He identified the
cords with which Mr.. and Mrs. Green
wood were tied. the gag that was used on
Mr.. Greenwood. the broken pieces of haI-
ness found bv Howard Franklin and him.
self near Hathaways, where the horse
driven by Roe and Schmidt had fallen,
the shoes OF the murderer which were dis
covered by Mr.. Kelly, and other exhibits
of the prosecution.
Peter Lynch testified that he knew the
| defendant; first saw him in September,
1889, when be hired him to work on the
Tormey & Pagan ranch. Defendant
| worked for him at different periods from
! that time until January q, 1S91-some-
| times at the Tormey & Pagan place and
| sometimes at the Sheehv place. He also
| testified that he took Roe's watch to Napa
| ha s-a1 llxr
! II. l.. Amstutz.
DIR. Haun was called again this morn
| ing. His testimony was to the effect that
| at the autopsy on the body OF Mrs. J. @.
| Greenwood it was discovered that gun
shot-wound had been inflicted, but that
it had not cansed death. as death had pre-
1 viously occurred. If the bullet had IN
fllcted death hemor-hage would have
occurred and ciots would have been
| formed This would tend to prove that
Mrs. Greenwood's death was caused by the
| poison administered.
| DR.. Pond corroborated the statement of
| DR.. Haun, and in addition said that be-
! fore death had occurred Mrs. Greenwood
had been severely strangled, as finger
marks were discovered about the throat
George Knox was then placed on the
stand. He worked with Moore for several
| months for Mr.. Lynch and was well ac-
quainted with defendant He said de-
l
| overcoat and also of certain iewelry. The
most i'm portant part of his testimony was
that In reference to bottle of chloroiorm,
which bottle was in Moores possession.
Mrs. Greenwood was poisoned with chlo-
roform, and the bottle used by the mur-
derer was similar to that used by Moore.
Witness also identified a pistol which
previous to the murder was owned by
Moore, but which was found under a
bridge after the crime had been commit
ted. On the evening of the 9th Moore
came 10 the German House looking for
Knox.
H. Meyer, citizen of Cordelia, testified
to the finding of pistol under a railroad
bridge some months after the murder.
This was the pistol identified by Knox as
beloncing to Moore.
K. Hyatt, consta BILE of Cordelia. said
that Meyer had turned the pistol over to
him and that he in turn had given it into
the keeping of Sheriff Mckenzie.
Fred Stemle testified 10 seeing Moore
and Carl Schmidt together on February
in front of saloon. Moore was walking
up and down on the platform and Stemle
passed into the saloon. He had a conyer-
sation with Schmidt, the result of which
was that he purcha ased a watch OF Schmidt
for 81. As stemle passed out Moore asked
him if he bought watch of Schmidt. Re-
ceiving an affirmative answer. Moore said.
well, that will do u.s." The watch was