El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-02

At any rate it is alleged that Hunter
called on Matthewsyesterdey and called
him to account for saying things re-
flecting on the woman. Later Matthews
resented the language used toward him
by visiting Hunters residence prepar-
ed for an emergency. He Is said to
have repeated his former remarks
about Hunters wife in the presence of
Hunter and when the husband resent
ed them he was shot.
EXAMINING TRIAL.
Long before ten o'clock. the time
set for the examining trial before Just
ice Spencer, the court room was crowd
ed with interested spectators, and
friends of the dead man and the &C.
cused.
After long delay the prisoner was
brought into the court room in charge
of a constable and the case was opened.
case for the prisoner and Assistant
District Attorney Eylar for the state.
The prisoner when brought to the
bar pleaded not guilty and by his law
yer waived voluntary statement.
The first witness called for the state
was Mrs. Carroll Dawson.
She made the following statement in
regard to the murder.
"About fifteen minutes before the
Morrow, my brother. From there 1
went to Mexican store and when 1
passed in front of the house 1 saw Mr..
Matthews talking to Mr.. Hunter in
front of the latter's house. Mr.. Hunter
was standing in front of the door and
Mr.. Matthews was facing him. heard
Mr.. Hunter say: Matthews, you
~ Wifs .b not wst talk Mr.. about Matthew my
cd h,,f T uuh he
said. After Mr.. Matthe WIS had finished
his remarks, Mr.. Hunter said, If you
talk about my wife that way you have
me to whip and you must not scandal
ize my wife's name My sister called
me in the house about this time and
stepped inside of the door. Just as I
was going in the door 1 heard a sound
struck but did not see it, 1 turned
about and saw the two men scuffiing
toward our door.
"Just as they got in front OF our
door l saw Mr.. Matthews striking Mr..
Hunter over the head with pistol.
When they broke loose and Matthews
got about an arms length away he shot
Mr.. Hunter through the body. Mr..
Hunter put his hand to the spot where
the bullet had entered the body and
said, oh! Lord, and turned and run,
Mr.. Matthews firing second time. He
then run after Hunter down the street.
AS Hunter turned to go into his house
my sisters mOther-in-law closed the
door and 1 did not see any more of it,
On cross examination of the witness
by the defendants attorney, the wit
ness said that the shooting occurred
about eight O'Clock and that she had
good view of it as the light from her
house shOne on the two men. ''The
only person with me at the time was
Tommy Grigsby, who stood on my
left.''
Mrs. Sarah E. Wright was the next |
witness called for the state.
81 was in the back yard when Ma
tthews came up to Hunters house, "said |
she, land 1 did not see him. They
talked unusually loud and when l went
20 the front door 1 recognized Mr.. |
Matthews's voice. l asked Mrs. Hunter /
who it was and she never answered me. |
heard Matthews used some curse word |
which L do not remember. Not care |
ng to hear it 1 stepped back into the |
'oom and heard blow struck.
81 then heard them scuffiing, and two /
hots of a revolver were fired and Mr.. |
Hunter came running in the side pas
age ard fell right on his face. Mat
news came down to the entrance with
ais gun in his hand cursing and saying
What he would do, but do not remem-
,er what he said. step
,ed in the door and said, Don't
ou shoot in here and 1 turned
ny attention to Mr.. Hunter, until some
# the men came in and then went out
o look for Mrs. Hunter. She was