Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-11-17

cerity. Rough garbed though they were,
they possessed shrewd minds and good
common sense and therefore would
make admirable jurors.
The preliminaries over, the examina-
tion was begun. Mr.. Barnes was asked
to take the stand, and he testified to the
discovery of the crime, and the position
and condition of the corpse as first seen
by himself, when he accompanied the
squire to the house OIL Monday morning,
and to other facts which have been al
ready told.
The next witness was Dr. Snow. The
squire irterrogated him.
CDR. Snow" he asked, "have you
prepared report Of the autopsy made
by you yesterday upon the body Of the
deceased?''
II made thorough examination and
have notes of all that I discovered
which could, in my opinion, be of the
least assistance.
Every we'll. What then do you find
to have been the cause of death?"
1.-THE man was shot. The ball is of
large size. am not expert enough to
give the exact caliber, but think it is a
No. 3d."
"Did you succeed in finding the ball?"
"Yes, here it is. He passed it to the
squire, who in turn handed it to Mr..
Upper.
"Dr. Snow,' said the latter, "can
you tell how long the deceased lived
after the shooting?"
II found the bullet lodged in the
heart; therefore death must have been
instantaneous.
"Did you find any other marks of
violence?"
"In addition to the wound which
proved fatal l found another, which
was only superficial"
"Did you find that ball also?''
mo; it only passed short distance
through the body and emerged again."
"Can you describe the direction
which it took?"
"From the front toward the back"
"How was the body dressed?"
"In nightdress, and it is a notice
able fact that though there are two
wounds there is but one hole through
the garment"
Ibid the fatal bullet pass through
that hole?"
cit would seem that it did, but as
the nightdress is loosely fitting gar
ment it is impossible to say, as the two
wounds ire so close together.
Mr.. Barnes whispered to MIR. Tupper,
who then continued:
"Was this last wound above or below
the other? What wish to know is, was
it high enough for the bullet to have
come from a pistol fred from the lawn
and through the Window"
"Yes. I thought Of that point, and
therefore measured the height Of the
! window sill from the ground and from
the floor inside. found by these meas
urements that the sill is about five
feet from the lawn outside and only two
feet above the floor within. The wound
which we are now considering is above
the fatal one, though only slightly go,
and is so located that if the deceased
had been standing it would have been
about four feet above the floor, and so
two feet higher than the window sill"
"Then, in your opinion, that wound
may have been made by some one on the
lawn?'
81 am sure that it would have been
possible. Of course it might depend on
how near Nj. Lewis stood to the win
dow"
As the doctor was about to withdraw
Mr.. Upper stopped him by asking:
"Will you please tell us if you found
any marks, scars, you know, or birth
marks, by which the identity of the
corpse might be established?"
Nothing whatever. The face and
head have been burned beyond all pos
sibility of recognition.
"Were these burns of such a nature
that they may have been the cause OF
death?"
81 should say not, but of course If a
man were burned as badly as that he
might subsequently die, though not so
quickly"
Mr.. Upper, addressing the squire,
said:
81 suppose there is no doubt as to the
identity of the body, but in the face of
the fact that the features are so much
disfgured it would perhaps be as well
to seek some evidence in this direction.
81 have no doubt" said the squire,
THAT Miss Lewis may be able to help
us better than any one, though 1 will
say this much myself: When first saw
the body lying by the chimney and
leaned over it, / noticed that there was
name Oh the nightdress i'll large let
ters" :"
II saw that also," said DR.. Snow.
"It is in indelible ink and done with a
stencil plate. AS might be expected,
the name is John Lewis.
"That in itself seems almost conclu-
sive," observed the squire, "but we can
ask Mis- Lewis about the matter when
she is called.
DR.. Snow was then allowed to leave
the stand.
! "Now," said Mr.. Upper, IF we