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

Companys yard Sergeant Hewlett
and myself went to the place designat-
ed and the first thing saw was a dead
man Some one inquired. / think II
was Mr.. Spooner. If We were officers, TO
which / said yes. He then took US to
the corner OF Mutt and Brunswick
streets and pointed to two men going
up brunswick street. and one Of the
men, Anderson, commenced TO run.
We ran after him, but Sergeant Hew-
lett outran me and overlook Anderson.
Hewlett carried Anderson 10 the city
hall and / stayed by the corpse. re-
naming there an hour or two. / didn't
see any weapons. but saw a bullet hole
in the breast of the deceased. / re-
marked to Anderson that he had killed
a man, and he replied that he did il in
self defense. / didn't say anything else
to him. He seemed to be excitd, very
much SO, and he had been drinking.
When Anderson saw Sergeant Hew-
lett and myself he ran, but not fast as
he was going up a sandy hill
Mr.. Jockey in cross examining Wit
ness Gore alluded to tine crowd that
Witness Hewlett saw, but Witness
Gore testified he was with Witness
Hewlett but saw no crowd. He also
stated that he watched the body of the
deceased, and saw a German sailor
VIC" Ilt Dous anu CONVERSE III MS ma
tive tongue with Watchman Neff.
The state called as the next witness
Policeman David Bryant, colored, who
simply testified seeing the defendant
with a pistol on the night Of the trag-
edy and seeing the deceased and
companion both under the influence of
liquor, in q dive On Mutt street, be-
tween Grace and Walnut, and later see
ing the men going in the direction of
the scene of the tragedy.
The state here rested at 1856 O'Clock,
and the defendant commenced intro
ducing his testimony
The following character witnesses all
testified to the defendants good char
acter viz:
DR.. J. B. Kennedy, Of Wayne county,
E. "A. Stevens, memeber of the board of
commissioners of Wayne county, H. 3.
Chestnut, mayor of Clinton, r. H. Hub
bard, late mayor of Clinton, J. R.
Kennedy of Wayne county, but now
of this city, and w. r. Slocum of this
city.
The defendant was next placed on the
stand and with his debut general
surprise was sprung, as it was thought
that he would admit the Staying and
was trying to establish self defense
His testimony was as follows:
I was at the saloon of Mr. Martin
O'Brien on that night Ctime shortly be-
fore the tragedy. l had been drink
ing. / left the saloon and started to
my house on Third street, between
Harnett and Bladen, walking UP Mutt
street by the barrel factory which
was the shortest route to my house
On the way I overlook a sailor and we
walked along together conversing and
both in jOvial mood When We had
progressed as far as the barrel factory
my companion placed his hand on my
shoulder and at the same time two
men came up and all three of the men
jumped on me, and I was knocked
down. I hollered for Mr.. Spooner, and
then the men placed their hands over
my mouth, beating me all the while. I
managed to get my pistol out and fired
once, to frighten the men. The pistol
was then grabbed by the men and
wrenched out Of my hand. I kept say
ing Don't rob me, don't take my pis-
toll" When the pistol was Wrneched
from my hand the second shot was
fired, without any action whatever on
my part. / can't explain why after
wards [ looked for my hat, or why [
put the hat of the deceased on. One of
my assailants ran up Mutt street,
while the third stopped still.
The defendant next had to face the
cross examining fire of Colonel Richard
son and Mr.. Sutton, WHO brought forth
from the defendant the puzzling state
ments that he Cthe dferldanD was rob-
bed OF a sum OF money by the men he
testified assaulted him, but just pre-
viOus to that he had left a dollar with
| Mr.. O'Brien fer safe keeping, and then
after the ertrusting of the money fbOr-
rowed a quarter from Mr.. OBrien.
Colonel RICHARDSON then inquired of the
| witness if he (witness) wasn't once
arrested for badly cutting a man with
| a knife, which the witness admitted
! but Mr.. Jockey quickly dispell6d an
| erroneous conception by inquiring of
| the witness if he wasn't tried and ac-
Quilted and the witness replied in the
affirmative. Mr.. Sutton, however, came
| to Colonel Richardson's rescue and
made the witness admit that he had
| submitted to a charge of carrying a
! concealed deadly weapon.
MeSsrS. J. f. Sellers and g. A. Bor-
| d6aux were next called and testified
| that they had visited the guard house
where Andersen was confined, on Mon
day after the tragedy and found the
| DEFENDANTS mouth, eyes and other
| portions of the face badly bruised.
| Witness Bordeaux was let off with
| a short cross examination, but Mr.. SUIT
| ton inquired of Witness Sellers If the
| bruises couldn't have been caused by
| the defendant being drunk having
| fallen down, to which the witness re-
| piled that if the defendant had have
| fallen his nose would have hit the
| ground and been bruised. Mr.. Sutton
then asked, Suppose the defendants
had have fallen against a fence, would
| his nose have been necessarily f1urt?'
| mo- replied the witness, for his
| nose might go through a crack" and
| the spectators laughed, but were
| speedily called back to a state of re.
| aliZatfon by Deputy Sheriff King:
| stentorian voice commanding s:lenct
| in court.
| Thos. Lessen (wnite) next testified
7 am a sergeant of police. Ander-
| sen called UP the city hail over tht
telephone On the morning Of the traged5
and told that ne had killed a sailor