The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08
With eSSeS Describe the Fight With Tom
 Flannelly.
Details of the Desperate Com bat on the Dairy
 Ranch.
voueys of Bullets Exchanged by the Sherifrs Force snd tho
 Parricide.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN JOSE, March 7.-The details of the fight with the officers at the dairy ranch where the shooting of Sheriff McEvoy occurred and of the arrest of the parricide were given in the Elan nelly murder trial to-day.
 Undertaken James Grove of Redwood City was recalled this morning. He said he was at the Flannelly house af- ter the killing. but did not hear Mrs. TlannelIy say, "I don't blame Tom. :" F. H. Reinkeimer and Claude Fox were the next witnesses, but their testimony was unimportant.
 Constable Charles B. Barton of Red wood City served the notices on Tom FlauneIly and Doyle to vacate the premises and was present at the de- fendant's arrest. He served two mo- tices on Tom Flannelly and D. H. Doyle. The first notice was served on october 13 and the next on October 26. The first was a demand for rent. The second was a demand upon them to va cate the premises. When he served the papers on Flannelly on the night of Oc- tober 26 the young man said:
 Take those papers back to my father and tell him to keep them"
 Flannery at first seemed angry at the serving of the paper. AfterWard when his partner spoke to him he be- came more calm, but he said that 1T ne took the papers he would burn them. Constable Barton said he visited the ranch later in the evening with SherlH McEvoy to arrest Flannelly.
 When we arrived at the place, salo he Sheriff McEvoy halloed for Tom to come out. The Sheriff then knocked and the defendant responded, Leave nriff a 1C that door alone. me oheIiL n'9G calieG four different times. After the seconC demand the Sheriff procured key anc tried to open the door, Failing in thi: he obtained a hatchet and tried to pry the door open. MCEvoy did not sue ceed in opening the door. Under Sher if Mansfield was there, having arrived two or three minutes after the Sher1f had asked the defendant for the las time to open the door. The door wa forced open by Mansfield. l heard shot as the door went in, followed D. six others from Mansfield. About seV enteen shots were fired in all. The de fendant was afterward arrested. Whel I entered, following Mansfield, Elan nelly was in bed. l saw no weapon a that time, but when 1 pulled the bed clothes off I saw a Winchester rifle " ing in the bed on his left side. Mans field took the defendant into custody
 Sheriff J. H. Mansfield of San Mate
 
 the bloody fight at the dairy ranch II arrived at the ranch house occu pied by Thomas Flannelly at abou 9:30 o'clock. Sheriff McEvoy was in thu yard and we went into the dining room and then opened the door of tn bedroom, where Flannelly was sup posed to be. Before opening 1t . knocked loudly and called out severa q times. but received no response. l the m there came shot from the inside. saw who fired it; 1t was Thomas Elan nelly He was sitting on the bed wit the rifle in his hands. He fired fror three to five shots in all hred aoou fourteen shots myself. I stood in tn doorway about eight feet from Elan nelly. I ceased firing when Flannell said he had enough and that he wa dead I used three revolvers. l di not enter the room as soon as tn shooting stopped. I again asked Elan nelly if he had enough. He answered eyes. I'm dead He was wounded i six or seven places.
 After I had secured the rife raised up his pillow and found re volver He said the revolver was tn one he killed his father with. Ther were three empty shells in 1t when found it. There was one loaded cart ridge and 1t was next to the hammer When Sheriff McEvoy was shot n nanded ule HIS pIoCOi' %AtS, =. ioe /. ing was over Deputy Sheriff But handed me a shotgun and then en tered the room and covered Flannelly.
 Sheriff Mansfield said that all tn shots were fired within ten or twelv seconds. Ii was in the nature of fusillade When the rife was picke up it had four loaded cartridges in i There were number of empty shell on the bed.
 Simon Winner testified that abou three weeks before Flannelly killed hi father he said that If the old ma troubled him any more he would sho' him what kind of boy he had" Tn witness admitted on cross -examinatfo he was weak minded and had attempt ed suicide on two occasions.
 It is expected the prosecution wi close it's case tomorrow afternoon.