The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-17
MOORE IN THE
ROLE OF ACTOR
Outlaw Testifies in His
Own Behalf.
DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT
ILLUSTRATES HIS ENCOUNTER
WITH KILRoY.
Nearly Floors Attorney Tyrrell Whlle
Showing How the Policeman
Had Rushed Upon
i'm.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEVADA CITY, June 16.-EdWard
II. Moere's lips have at last been I'M
sealed. The outlaw went on the W.T.
ness stand to-day and attempted to
show the jury why he should not be
hanged for the murder Of Policeman
Kilroy. The lawyers shouted themselves
hoarse SO as to make him hear their
questions, although he used an ear
trumpet AT one point his lawyer,
John R. Tyrrell. said:
Show me just how kilroy came at
you and spoke when he grabbed you
by the shoulders the instant before II
is alleged you shot him.
The prisoner sprang from his chair.
He rushed like mad at the lawyer, who
was not braced to withstand such an
assault and went staggering backward.
You will not live to have me ar
rested" he yelled in the lawyers ear,
as his powerful hands crashed down
on that gentleman's shoulder and his
thumbs went up against the lawyers
windpipe. That" said Moore, is the
way kilroy came after me.
He claimed it is the last of the en-
counter he remembers, for just then he
felt a blow on the head. He could re-
member nothing of the firing Of three
bullets into kilroy and of fleeing from
the scene of the killing. He came TO his
senses when wandering in stream OF
water near his cabin He rushed into
the cabin, got his shotgun another pls
tol and his blankets and fled, fearing
if he stayed around he would be torn
to pieces by a mob. He added that he
first knew on being caught nearly
month later in Contra Costa County
@ ia
MoCre's story was homogeneous and in
many respects at variance with what
the prosecution had shown.
At the reopenlng Of court this morn
ing Sheriff Veale of Contra Costa
County detailed the story of his capture
OF Moore. He was On the train at Bay
Point. He saw an armed man coming
up the track. 1t was Ed Moore, the
crack shot of Nevada County, carrying
double barreied shotgun at full cock
and in position to quickly bring it TO
his shoulder. Veale had a Winchester,
and, jumping from the train, he got
the drop first Moore, seeing he was
cornered, threw down the gun and
raised his arms. The little Sheriff told
it all as quietly and modestly as he
would say he was going to dinner, but
even then il could not be otherwise than
dramatic in the extreme.
This afternoon, when the prosecution
had rested, Lawyer Tyrrell made his
opening statement for the defense He
said he would prove that Kilroy made
an unwarranted and violent assault
upon Moore, whom he had long logged
and sought to provoke into a display of
violence; that Moore, when he fired, be-
lieVed he was about to be killed He
said he would show that Moore's
fathers uncle had died in an asylum for
the insane that he had an uncle in the
asylum at Reno, where he had been for
twenty-five years; that one of his male
cousins was an inmate of the AgneWs
Asylum; that an aunt was crazy and
that his mother had died a raving
maniac. Moore would be shown to have
been crazy for twenty years on various
subjects, one Of which was that he was
being constantly pursued by enemies
who sought his life
When Moore was sworn his direct tes-
timony was clear and concise, and in
line with the double defense set up.
Then came long and rigorous cross
examination by District Attorney
Power
When Moore went off the stand
George d. Buckley. an attorney, was
called and the defense attempted to
show by him that Officer Kilroy was in
the habit of first clubbing people and
then arresting them, and that he had
so admitted when testifying in court a
few months before his death Judge
Nilon ruled this evidence out and court
adjourned until tomorrow.