The times., 1898-05-27

the shot ran into the street toward
Willard's corner; the man who was doing
the shooting was on the pavement; the
man shot at was in the carriageway; they
were about three feet apart; the man in
the street had a bright piece of metal in
his hand; Rye staggered back about nine
or ten feet afaer the fourth shot; what
ever the man had in his hand 1t fell as
he fell TO the ground; I then went to
Canty and put my hand on him and said:
Don't run, sir at that time a colored
man went to Rye's body; others came to
his aid: they had not taken the body into
the drug store at the time / put my
hand on Canty; Canty replied TO my re-
mark: TN not run" / asked him aues-
tion and he said TO me: "Where is the
officer?' and / replied he will be here III
a minute; / saw gentleman there at
that time with whom l exchanged cards;
it was a retired Army officer Capt. ]. P.
Walker; / made a statement to what
l saw 10 District Attorney Davis; 1 never
went to within thirty-five or forty feet
of the fallen man.
On cross examination by Mr.. Shilling
ton the witness said he went to the
Treasury Building to get a book;
saw a Mr.. Chance there that day; 1
don't remember the number of the room.
The book which the witness got was
exhibited and was a copy of the Con-
gressional Directory The witness then
said: when i saw Canty after the first
shot he was standing somewhere near
the sewer plate at the Wyatt Building
corner; the man who was shot was stand
ing in the street on the concrete; l did
not see the second shot fred Rye did not
start to retreat until at the firing of the
third shot; there was no apreciable differ
ence of time between the first and second
shots; the interval was between the
second and third shots; l heard some one
cry murder" after the shooting Rye
staggered back about fifteen feet and fell;
just after the shooting i drew diagram
of the place; / did not see Canty put his
pistol in his pocket, but he told me he
had: l saw something in Rye's hand
when the second shot was fired; whatever
he had in his hand fell before he did;
saw il leave his hand; l was at Canty's
side when the officer came up 1t was
eight or nine minutes before Riley came;
/ went with Riley and Canty over TO the
Ebbitt House corner; l think Mr.. Walker
spoke to me first; he was an entire
stranger to me; ] never saw him before;
we exchanged cards. Two cards were in
troduced, both the witness, but the
name of Captain Walker was written on
one of them. On the other was some data
relative to the shooting, which the wit
ness said was made at the time of the
shooting and marked 12:1S o'clock The
first person TO reach Rye, the witness
said was a colored man. The witness
said he made the data TO protect himself
because he knew he would be called to
testify.
Capt. Waiser's Testimony.
Capt John P Walker, retired Army
officer, said: l do not know Canty per
sonally; never saw Rye; at the time of
the shooting was on north side of t, east
side of Fourteenth. waiting for car;
while there ! heard pistol shot over by
the Wyatt Building; looked and saw Canty
there with a pistol in his hand; saw the
crowd rushing all ways; heard loud
laughter; then saw a man coming from
the corner staggering toward Ebbitt
House; l ran TO him: saw he was dead;
1 then looked for the man who did the
shooting; saw him walking away and
said arrest him. some time after l
had some conversation with a man 1 did
not know; / did not see the man who was
shot till after the shooting was over;
he was about five or six feet
from the curb when I saw him; he
was rather facing me. Nothing new was
ELECTED on the cross-examination.
Jas. J. Sweeney, a telegrapher, was
called and said: 1 do not know either
Canty or Rye; ! was in the Wyatt Build
ing, going to the elevator; ! heard a shot
and looked around; when the firing was
over Mr.. Canty walked away; when
Canty was arrested / went TO where Rye
fell but did not get there before his body
was removed; on my way l saw a young
man with a knife in his hand; II was
open; l saw Rye when the last shot was
fired: he was nearly in the middle of the
street; when he fell he was TO the left
of Canty who was near the lamppost on
the northwest corner of F and Fourteenth;
the man who was walking with the boy
who had the knife, said: Don't close it,"