The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-25

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INDIANAPOLIS WITNESSES.
Accordingly Melville Marshall. young
man who formerly kept a livery stable at
50 Oak street, Indianapolis was called. He
remembered the night of the Redmond MUIR
der and that Carl Harvey and Ed Phillips
called at the stable at about 5:45 o'clock
and left the feed delivery wagon. They
left on foot Witness noticed next morn
ing that Phillips's phaeton and road horse
were out of the stable
BY Sanders Trauber, a colored hostler it
was shown that Phiilips's phaeton was
washed the day of the murder that it was
clean when Harvey ana Phillips drove out
of the stable at $3.50 O'Clock that night; that
they drove a roam cOlOred horse; that the
buggy and horse were not returned until 10
O'Clock the next morning, when Phillips
Grove 1t in from Booths stable, on Market
street
William Brown, an employe of the Indian
apolis Chair Manufacturing Company, saw
Harvey, Phillips and strange man at the
Park Theater saloon about 7:30 o'clock on
the evening of the Redmond murder. Ear
vey came in first Phillips next and in few
moments the stranger. When the stranger
came in Phillips and Harvey went into the
water closet and were followed by the
the description was the same as that given
by other witnesses. The strange man left
the place first and shortly afterward Phil
lips and Harvey went out.
A. II. c. Page, a North West-street gro
Ger, testified to finding a revolver on the
twenty-five or thirty feet from Fort Wayne
avenue in the first alley south of ST. Joseph
street. He identified the revolver in court
and told how it had been found with
hammer down on the only empty shell in it.
DR.. ]. w. Sluss, a physician who made
the autopsy on the body OF Frank Red,
mOnd, described the wound which produced
death. He dazed the jury with medical
terms and nearly prostrated the court
stenoerapher: His testimony interpreted was
that the bullet penetrated the brain and
lodged in the back part of the skull, cutting
the optic nerve and the posterior communi
eating artery in its passage. During his
testimony Mrs Redmond and Miss Red
mond, who sat under the shadow of the
judges bench, wept bitterly during, the
physicians recital of his examination OF the
son and brothers death wound.
Helen Forbes, 922 Fort Wayne avenue, the
woman who found. the muller which the
state claims Burton wore, was next intro
duced. She related that she was employed
Jan. % at the Diamond laundry on Fort
Wayne avenue, block southwest or Busch-
mans store. At about 6:45 or $3.50 o clock on
the evening of Jan. 22 she stepped out or
the laundry office and noticed a man run
by and at the same time picked up a muller,
which she afterward turned over to the po-
lice. She identified the muller in court.
THE ASSAULT ON ELDRIDGE.
William F. Pruftt 1876 Yandes street, tes-
titled about the assault on Job Eldridge.
He was walking up Massachusetts avenue,
when he heard noise which sounded like
the whipping of a child. He heard man
screaming in the secondhand store, and
went into the place. Met a man coming
out and asked what was up. The man in
side told him it was ''just a scrap and
amounted to nothing. He then started out
and met an old man, a woman and col
ored man going in. Witness stopped at the
door and listened to what he thought was
family row. Presently a man came rum
ming out and stuck pistol into the VIII
ness's face and ran across tpe dNd anu anu
others. Witness slid around the corner
into the mouth of the alley next 10 JoD
Eldridge's store and watched the man run
The courtroom was crowded while Pruitt
was testifying. Just before that the
order, so that the stenographer could near
the questions and answers. When the urlIt
of his testimony became apparent MS every
word could have been heard all over the
room. There was absolute silence when the
climax was reached and when Mr.. Wlltsle
said, Take the witness, James ,,i bHrt0 nf
was already found guilty In the minus OF
many of thel auditors.
Prltts evidence was positive and IN sup
port of that given by Fireman kile yester-
day He said that the man who ran out
of the store fell almost at his feet as ne
stood in the alley. He was close TO large
gasoline lamp and within four steps OF the
of his face Witness saw him until ne nred
the shot which killed Redmond witness
was positive that the man VINO no, poheo ,' rne
and who ran across the avenue was the
man that fired the shot Witness Kept the
man in view all the time. lie was positINke
in his Identification of James Burton as the
is that the man who put the gun in your
face?" asked Prosecutor WlItsie AFTER
WitnesS-He is
Wiitsie4Is that the man who. fell in the
mouth of the alley within rev Ieet OF
you?
Wiitsie-Is that the man who killed Frank
Redmond? 8.
The cross-examination of Pruitt was
rigid Colonel Black tried to get MIN 70 au-
hut Pr,litt was the equal of the attorney
Pruitt was questioned on MS leslilhohy III
Police Court long before Burton was
known.
HE DID NOT WEAKEN.
ro1 Rlack-Did not you testify in Police
Court that the man who killed Redmond
was six feet tall?
Witness-Yes and he looked that big 10
me when he stuck that gun in my face.
Black-And what is your judgment now?
Witness-I know better now.
RIack-Rut divest your mind of the man
YOU have since seen in the Jail and think OF
the man you saw running from Job Ed
ridges store.
Witness-I cannot do that, for know
now that the man 1 saw that night ana
the man 1 saw at the jail are ldentlcal
Mr.. Pruitt was under the nre OF CT cao Sid
examination for about an hour, put ne uiu
not weaken in the slightest degree his
words were spoken in a manne" to inspire
confidence in their truth He made a goou
impression on this line with the jury lie
also made an impression on Burton. Inc
latter seemed nervous during the exaInlna-
ton, and for the first time his face ex-
pressed his feelings. oee..
After the midday recess Judge OHutt
called for the next witness before the
members of the jury had seated themselves
comfortably. w. G. Bird was called by the
defense and admitted that his memory was
not as good as formerly. He also admltted
that his hearing was impaired slightly, but
said his sight was good. He denied that he
had in the Police Court hearing of Philips
and Harvey, testified that the man who
was STRUGGLING with Job Eldridge at the
time of the attempted robbery was thin
visa ged dark-compleXioned man.
Fred G. Pressell, druggist at Bellefon-
tame and Eighth streets, was called by the
state on the night Frank Redmond was
killed he was clerking in the drug store at
the corner of st. Clair street ana MasSa-
chusetts avenue. Was there at the time
of the murder. Knew Harvey and Phlllps
by sight and knew their business. Saw
them both in the drug store ct about nve
minutes to I O'Clock They purchased Gig
arettes Witness, in their presence, men
toned the fact that a fireman had been
killed
Augustus Day a hotel keeper at Green
the railroad testified that stranger had
come TO his hotel at about O'Clock and