The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-11-05
THE sEMrwEEKLY MESSENGER: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1897.


steamer Kirkhill. of Glasgow. Captain
I. b. Watson. The examination show
ed that his death was caused by a gun
shot wound, the ball entering the lef,
breast, two inches above and anterior
to the left nipple. fracturing the third
rib and passing through the left yen-
tricle of the heart, lodged in the lower
position Of the lower portion Of the lef,
lung. Respectfully,
"WM. d. MCMILLAN,
superintendent of Health"
John Danhart was sworn and testi-
fed: / think that man (Eilersen) was
the man with the deceased n my place,
b am not certain. I couldn't swear
to 1t. l don't think the deceased was
there later than 10 o'clock Eilersen
was the last man to leave my place.
He is not the nan who bought drinks
and diu not pay for them.
Sergeant r. F. Gore, of the police
force, was sworn and testified as fol-
lows: Sunday morning about a quarter
to 2 o'clock there came a telephone
message to the city hall that a. man
was killed near Wilder & Morton's still
yard. Myself and Sergeant Hewlett
went down there. When we reached
the place, 1 saw the deceased laying
Town. Somebody called to know if
that was the officers. / told them yes.
He says, we'll come on here and get the
man who did the shooting; come on
and I'll show o The man who did the
shooting. He went with US to the cor
ner of Mutt and Brunswick streets. and
pointed out the man about middle
ways of the block. We pursued him
and overlook him near the corner of
Front and Brunswick streets. Ser
geant Hewlett was a few stepbs ahead
Of me and reached him first. We ar
rested him. Sergeant Hewlett took
him to the guard house and / remained
with the dead man. / te,ephoned to the
city hall to the captain to send the cor
Oner. When we reached the man I re-
cognized him as Giles Anderson. 1 told
him he had killed a man and he said
he shot him in self defence. Anderson
was drunk when we arrested him.
When we started after him he ran and
when we came up to him to arrest
him he was STOPPING down.
Sergeant l.. A. Hewlett Of the police
force was sworn, n testiTeu as fol-
lows: when we were chasing the man
he ran and I was ahead Of Sergeant
Gore. Sergeant Gore followed to Ine
to shoot the man. l ran a little dis
lance further and pulled my pistol but
didn't use it. The man while running
turned his head to look back at me-,
AMI he fell down the hill at Front and
Brunswick streets. He got up again.
l was so close on him he fell up
against the fence. He threw up enc a M
and one foot. 1 told him to consider
himself under arrest and 1 told Ser
geant Gore to come On which h i'm
mediately did. 1 left Sergeant Gore
with the dead man and I carried An
dersOn to the guard house.. I recog-
nized Anderson When I saw him on the
by the fence. On the way with
him to the city hall, I asked Anderson
what he shot the man for. He sail
the man knocked him down and when
he got up he shot him. I asked him
many times. He said rwica. He
was drunk. I got a half pint bottle Of
whiskey from him. He had a pistol
case but no pistol. I asked him where
his pistol was. He said three sailors
it away from him and ran. I went
back and searched for the pistol but did
find it.
hearing the testimony the jury
took a recess until 9 o'clock this morn
ing on account Of the absence Of a
Of important witnesses.
Pursuant to adjournment the jury in
the murder of Theophil
Won G~liszcyski, met yesterday at
a. M, at the court house.
Fred Neff being sworn testified as fol-
I am night Waterman at the
COoperage Company in the
Of Giles Anderson while he was
on leave. On last Sunday |
morning between the hours of / and |
o'clock, I was attending to the boiler
nd heard two pistol shots. About five |
after firing up I heard my
called several times. I took my |
aEtern and went into the mill and
Giles Anderson standing UP
gainst the truck. He old me to come
o the office with him so he could tele-
to the city hall as some Of them
m sailors had taken his pistol away
him. I went with him to the
flee and called up the city hall for an
fhcer. After that we went out on the
ldewalk n found Mr.. Spooner stand
at the gate Of the COoperage Com
any. Anderson took my lantern and
'ent to look for his hat. He found his
hat, also the cad mans hat. At
er this We went back towards Bruins
lex street. Anderson seemed to be
'oking for something else, but he
very disconnectedly and GOULD
OF understand what he said as he was
uarreling with Mr.. Spooner because
e (Anderson) had called him to come
ut and he had not come and tina he
as a fine Waterman. Anderson held
" lantern over the dead man, but I
id not see him as the electric light was
Ut at the time and I am near sighted.
Re turned up Brunswick street, about
alt way up the block, and I took my
intern away from him, intending to go
to the boiler room. Tlen he old
e to blow out h light at once. Fail
g to know why he wanted me to do
Ils, ne took the lantern away from me.
e tried to blow out the light but failed
do so. Then he started to run I'D ,
street. He dropped the AN s
rn and / caught it. On turning /,
ound, I beheld two officers coming up