The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-25

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In MS saloon where be Aai Hughes held
SacA meetings
ny counsel for Eaei-I; was gilison MO
told me that the officers we're sAAaowias
Elders place
ny the Si.te-CAn't say ina. Yael ,ola
re THAI Mrs Hughes bad snyihiss 70 dc
viii .he matter.
Frank Dam was the next witness-l So,
married ard haye daughter years cid,
l live covaes Beii and Faa1ir. I've known
Sol Eael aso1, two years Never had sny
business with hlua Knew Walter Hughes
about sixteen years. First became Aoeualnt-
81 with him when vas working for
Sweeney & Coomhs Hughes had sicEct
scalp!ns office there. had always bccn
on good terms with him and had on sew
eral occasions advanced him small amounts
q moaey. Had given him no money re-
Gently. Last November NY doors worked
heavily aud got Hughes 10 Sc w and tx
! them and pui the locks in repair and oil
them up. The KEYS Of the house we're in
the docrs- The front door aui side par
lor door had Yale locks and there were
several keys 10 each Of these doors one
Q OF THESE Keys 10 tht lfclt door WAS missing
after Hughes had Fixed the locks. The key
in possession Of the court was shown w.t.
ness and identified as the key 10 his front
door. ! never gave hughes that key. The
! frst heard q ihe plo; 20 klinap my child
was three weeks ago last sunday. Ellison
came 10 my house and told ne there was
! q dangerous plot TO steal my child and that
! Heim wanted 10 see nie about H. ( went
| Immediately 20 See Helm He told me
what be knew 81 the matter. That ne had
| been OUT and had seen where the money
WAS 20 be deposited and rsieposited. Helm
/ feli sure that there Was something 10 the
I plot. Holm told me that Hughes and Edel
were in the plot. Did not mention Mrs.
hughes. helm said the thing had been
working for three or four months. Said
he dld not believe It az first. bu, was now
| thourouShiy convinced az il. He said he
had then been guarding my house for some
time. then consulted my attorney. Cap
tain = =. Turner. VINO doubted the truth
fitness Of the plot. Never had any talk
with Edel. He never came TO ne. Helm
told me he got all his information from
EdeI. relied on the police explicitly.
was Al home on night OF shooting March
y. / heard latch OF the front gate click
was up stairs awake in the dark. My
wife, Annie Lee and my servant and sid
Prooter and Cliff Ellison We're in the house.
Proctor ami Ellison were down stairs They
heard gate click | don't know what |
did. What transpired that night is a BLANK
10 me. Know | went down stairs. but
don't know how got there or to whom
| first spoke. was in had shane that
night. | think II was sometime after the
gate clicked that heard the shots ired. 1t
was during this interval that / lost my
mind temporarily. / went cut on the gal
lery and saw some one running away |
fired TWO shots at HIM. Can't say who II
was shot al. Did not recognize the man.
There is light at my corner. The man
was runging down Bell avenue when shot
at him and h. disappeared all Of a sud
den. don't know exactly when did
shoot I did not hear anybody say, that's
all right Mr.. Dunn" when shot. Is far
as ! know IL might have been Proctor or
Ellison who was running. ! thought It
was Edel
The question as to why he thought it
was Edel was objected to. Overruled
The reason ! thought il was Edel wa.
that | knew Gdel was In the scheme.
saw Hughes come through the gate The
other man was near the middle OF the in
tersection Of Travis and Bell about fifty
feet form the gate Hughes entered Don't
know how many shots were fired After
fired from the upper balcony found my
self down stairs. Don't know how | got
there. Saw a man lying on the gallery.
Dont't remember who was around him.
saw Ellison there. There were no shot.
fired after ! got down stairs. Think l fired
the last shot | did not examine Hughes.
Ellison told mo he was dead, Ellison said
he shot Hughes. ! saw no weapons on the
deceased or ahou, him. / did not go with
In Ten fee, Of him. Did not see Proctor
there. They told me Proctor had gone
after the woman. did not hear my froat
door open. Did not hear anyone make an
cutlery. First | heard was the discharge
Of a gun The pistol in court and the knife
were shown witness. He did not recog-
nizc tho pistol but said tho first no saw
( ~ the knife was when Stulenbaugh brought
i, in and showed II 10 him after the killing
/ The doors could he opened noislessly as
I they had hut recently been oiled up. Ny
/ clerk told me that Edel had come 10 my
place for field glass sometime prior 10
! the killing. Can't swear positively that
! the man | shot at was Ede. but that was
my IMPRESSION.
By counsel for Edel-My reason for
thinking i; was Edel was from what had
/ heard.
| by counsel for Mrs. Hughes--I was not
advised that Hughes was coming to the
house armed
| Here the court took a recess TIL p. m.
|
| AFTERNOON SESSION.
| Alex II. Suess was the first witness
placed on the stand in the afternoon. He
| did not know Walter Hughes. He was en-
ployed In Campman's hardware store. lie
was shown the knife In court. No other
, firm handled this make OF knife. The knife
| in court OF this make, but the blade
| was not OF the same length When sold
and the poini was differently shaped. We
| sold such knife about March TO MI.
] Edei No one was with him at The time.
! Edel said he would Ike 10 see butcher
knife. l showed him some. He selected
| two and brought back the smaller one and
| paid 81 for the larger one.
| by counsel tor Edel--l know no other
hardware firm keeps this make OF knife.
| Can't say this is the same knife Edel
bought OF me because the blade aas been
ground and the form OF the blade charged.
being made shorter.
Detective Cliff Ellison was then placed
on the stand. ! know Edel, Chief Helm
Was the first TO tell me OF the plot. We had
conference with Edel At the Hutchins
| house He tcd us that Hughes had come