, 1897-11-04
pasture fence; did not see q black COW
bawling hat night or next morning. al
though he saw such a cow.

testified that she was 40 years old; was
wife OF NJ. J. Coughlin; defendant came
in the house and asked her il she would
like to see the calves in the corral as
he vas going to kill one; there were
three, about a year old; the black one
with white points was one that was
brought from town to. the ranch; they
were fed in the shed when brought to
the ranch; could not give minute de-
scription of the black one; asked him
Coughlin said he wanted to keep the
steers as he would get more for them
than for the heifer.( Motion to strike
out vas o%verruled). This was on the
18th day of August; Mr.. Coughlin was
home all the night before.
Cross-examined by Corthell-The
conversation was at the corral; stop.
ped there five or six minutes; don't
know how much white was on the
black yearling: only saw the
the calves at the corral that day; the
butchering was lone about four or five
minutes after she left the corral; she
heard the gun shot: don't know who
was there when the killing was done
Defendant offered in evidence a let
ter from John Reid to Mr.. Coughlin.
1t was permitted to be introduced after
objections from the prosecution.
Tho letter was read and was quite
spicy.
Defendant then offered the search
warrant issued by Justice Fitch. It is
claimed that Special Deputy Sheriff
SHREDDER did not sign the return but that
his name was forged thereon and mis-
spelled. objection by prosecution,
defended by defense). Objection sus-
tained and the instrument was not al
lowed to go to jury.
Adjourned till 9 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
MORNING SESSION.
When court opened this morning the
attorneys for the defense called Mr..
NJ. j. Coughlin to testify in his own
defense. Resided on the Little Lara
ME: had lived there eight years and
three weeks; had lived here % years
in all; owned the ranch formerly owny
ed by John McCreary of Omaha, Neb.
Was handed a sketch of his ranch and
identified it as being correct. The
ranch comprises a fraction less than
LOO acres. Witness pointed out on
the ranch, the residence so or 60 yards
from the road and the corral in which
The animal was driven, adjoining the
lane; the slaughter house where the
animal was killed was close to the cor,
raj; the bunk house, where his hired
men slept was IS or 20 yards from the
residence; the barn was about 20 or Is
yards distant; from the end of the lane
to gate leading to residence was about
200 yards; from this gate to the one
in the lane through which the three
warnings were driven on August 18th
was between a mile and a quarter and
4 mile and a half; the two bulls (sold
to Brown were kept in a corral used
for keeping the milk cows in; a stack
OF old bones were in a depression near.
ly west of the house; Mr.. Reid's land
at h nearest point was about 600 yards
from his land; the Douglas-Willan
ranch was not quite a mile north of his
ranch; pointed out three gates leadina
out OF the field in which the yearlings
were: they were not locked.
Much testimony was had here de,
scriptive OF fences, roads, etc, unim-
portant to the reader.
On the 18th day Of August witness
took Louis, his son-wereo out of fresh
meat for the hay hands-to give a hand
to drive up some animals to kill; in
lake pasture noticed three cattle; look,
ed at them to see II they would do;
drove them to the corral; could not
kill Just at that time on account of be-
ing busy: bought the animal in con-
troversy at the stock yards; was uncer-
tain which one to kill 80 went to the
house at quarter to 4 o'clock; told Mr..
Armour to go and get Joe" the horse
as he was going to kill an animal and
wanted to snake 1t to the slaughte,
house; tool his gun, shot the critter
drew its blood and had it snaked in
front of the slaughter house; the AMI,
NAL shot was his; he bought IL head:
three of them were kept handy to
butcher in haying; killed one previous
to this one; the one killed was a black
with some white on it; purchased the
animal he killed from John Woods, al
the stock yards, with 10 more; witness
produced a bill Of sale for the II head,
The introduction Of the bill of sale
caused the prosecution to ask Mr..
Coughlin a number of questions.
Didn't know when the bill of sale was
drawn up; learned of 1t about three
weeks ago; had one in lead pencilings
previous to this one: 1t was SEM to
him after his arrest. The document
was objected to by Attorney Corthell,
who claimed 1t to be drawn up spe>
cially for the purpose of influencing
the jurors in this case. It had an am
davit from Mr.. Wood on its back and
was dated October 80. 1897. The am.
davit was in the nature of a deposi.
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