The semi-weekly messenger., 1898-01-14

lounu TWO mats, MS own and the dead
| mans, but threw his hat away and put
on the one belonging to the deceased
| Anderson then started in the direction
| or Brunswick street carrying the Ian
| tern in his hand, but stopped and look
| ed at the dead man, and then saving
nothing continued on bis way up Mutt
| street. About this time / saw the police
| coming and hollered informing them
! OF Anderson's whereabouts, and Ander-
! son tnen threw the lantern down and
| started to run. Only one time did he
| say that he called for a watchman.
he VI as drunk, drunk as could be. In
| fact he was so drunk that 1 don't be-
| AeVed he realized What he was doing
| He was also in a bad hunor. was
| near enough to the scene of the killing
to have heard any fuss that may have
| taken place just previous to the killing
| L did hear fuss about l o'clock but
upon investigating 1 ascertained that it
! was caused by some colored folks about
| a block off. Anderson was a night
! Watchman in the employ of the Coop
| erage company, but was not on duty
that night as he had just returned
! from leave of absence. I saw him
| early in the night, previous to the kill
| ing, and he told me he had just re
| turned from Clinton where he had been
| to see his daughter and that as Mr.
| 'NimOckS WOuldn'S let him go on duty
he 1nteded to telephone Chief of Police
| Melton and try and be placed on sub
stitute police duty. The witness was
| then turned over to the tender mercy
of {. P. Jockey, Esq, who succeeded
| in getting him somewhat ratified by
showing him that his testimony Just
| taken, in regard to the calculation of
| distance, and that given in before the
| coroner's jury did not exactly corre-
| spond.
The next witness was L. A Hewlett,
who testified:
I am a sergeant of the police force. /
was at the city hall on the morning of
| October 31st, when a telephone message
was received Counsel for the defense
objected to the nature of message being
disclosed, which objection was sustain
ed), and in consequence I started down
to the Carolina Cooperage Company.
and upon arriving in sight of my in
tended destination 1 saw a crowd had
gathered but before I reached the
crowd a man,who I couldn't tell at the
time was white or black, came out of
the crowd and ran off and I pursued
Shoot the man. 1 pulled my pistol but
didn't shoot. The man turned and
looked back and as he went to turn
around he fell and by the timehe re-
gained his feet I had caught up with
him and arrested him, and it was then
that | recognized the man a Giles An
derson. L took him to the guard house
and left Sergeant Gore in charge of the
body of the deceased. On the way to
the station I asked Anderson why he
shot the man and he answered. He
knocked me down and I shot him.
Upon searching Anderson 1 found an
| empty pistol case. [ asked him about
the whereabouts of his pistol and he
told me that the sailors took it and
ran off with it. Anderson was under
| the influence of liquor.
| Upon cross examination Mr.. Jockey
dwelt upon the fact that the witness
had failed to testify before the coro-
ner's jury about the crowd he saw at
the scene of the tragedy but this the
witness explained by saying that his
evidence given in before the coroner's
jury was taken from the time he reach
ed the scene and that he was not ques-
toned about anything that happened
previous to that time.
| Here the court took recess until 8
| o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
DR.. w. D. Mcmillan was the first wit
ness called and testified:
am a practcing physician and coun-
ty physician of New Hanover county
and superintendent of health of the city
of Wilmington. I think it was some
time during October last that I held a
| post mortem over the deceased at
Evans undertaker's shop the day after
he was killed. l found that bali had
entered the left breast, fracturing the
third rib and passing through the left
, Verticle of the heart and lodging IN the
lower lobe of the left lung. Death was
caused by a gun shot wound, and the
bullet extracted l turned over to CorO-
ner Jacobs
DR.. Mcmillan was dismissed without
being subject to "a cross examinatio
and the next witness Thos. A. Price
(White) called, who testified:
I live in the southern portion of the
city. Between the hours of l and 2
o'clock on the morning of October 31st
last, being a Watchman at the lower
| freight yard of the Atlantic Coast Line,
| was standing near the warehouse of
| Messrs. VOllers & Hashagen, when two
, seafaring men came walking by, COM
, | ing from the south. I walked around
the warehouse and saw them again,
this time about the corner of the barrel
! factory. l turned around and walked
| back into the yard and had taken 80
| or 40 steps when I heard the report of
| a pistol, and then another report. Not
over a minute interviewed between the
| last sight 1 had of the two men and
: the reports of the pistol. After the re-
ports I heard Mr.. Spooner saying in a
! loud voice, Anderson you have played
| the devil" and some one responded, 4
) don't give a -. / meant to shoot
him. I never heard sounds of any
difficulty until after the reports of the
1 | pistol when I heard loud cursing. The
| two seafaring men when they passed
| by me were arm in arm. One had on
| light pants and a cap and the other had
| on dark clothes and plug hat.
Witness Price went through only a
: | mild cross examination, and then r. F.
Gore took the stand and testified:
( 1 am a sergeant Of the police force
/ <x1p~s> MOTHERS