The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-06
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Il don't know the exact point
What did the boy say?"
Il says TO him, Come here, my lad.
l was stumbling about, and then the
bigger fellow came along and l said no
more to the boy | hailed the bigger
boy and told him that | had been shot,
and asked him to help me home and
look around for the man who had done
it. He said he would go to the drug
store and call the police, and he went
off in that direction. He stopped and
called back, asking where he should
send the police to; the smaller boy an
swered and said that is Mr.. Stout;
he lives on the corner The bigger
boy was Rihgwood.'
up to that time you had been back
ing east?"
yes. 1 couldn't go west"
But after the boys come you were
able to walk west2"
I finally got to going west and
reached home"
Have you talked with both the boys
since that night?"
Yes"
What did you do when you got
home?"
"Sent one of my sons for DR.. Pinker
ton, who lives across the street He
was there almost Immediately, and the
chief of police came. The chief asked
me if I knew who shot me- and 1 told
him l did, but l didn't want to give
his name. / told the doctor who it was
before the chief came"
The witness said the doctor told him
that he was going to put him under
the influence of chloroform, and that he
might not recover from it for several
days. The witness told the doctor that
if the wound was likely to be fatal he
would make a statement as to who shot
him. The doctor told him it was inn
possible then to tell how he might come
out, and that he had better make a
statement then, as a statement made
under the influence of chloroform
counted for little. Stout then told
Chief Pratt that it was A. B. Jones who
shot him, and that he need not look
for anyone else. The chief said he
would arrest him, but Stout asked him
not to arrest Jones. Pratt said it was
his duty to do so.
You talked with the Ringwood boy
afterwards
Yes, he said that when he saw me
first he thought [ was drunk, and that
l had better get out Of the scrape
myself"
do you carry your cane in your left
hand?'
when I have my gun in the right
l do
'.Don't you usually carry it in the left
hand?"
I carry it in either hand-mostly in
the right. I think
Don't you deal cards with your left
hand?"
mo; I am strictly right-handed, I
think.
You shot after the man when he
was running away?"
Yes
How often?''
Didn't you tell the chief you shot
twice."
Il think not
why didn't you want Jones ar
rested?"
SOLICITIOUS FOR THE BANK.
81 was afraid that if it came out in
the morning papers that Jones, the
cashier of the bank, had shot me, it
would cause a-run on the bank, and l
didn't want that / was pretty heavy
stockholder in the bank"
Witness said that on the day before
the shooting, in the afternoon, he
walked to the warm springs, took a
bath there, and walked back. He de-
scribed the route he had taken.
You were busy in court with law
suit a little before the shooting?"
Yes; was there to see you as much
as anything else"
There was a case on trial at that
time to recover $4,000 insurance on the
life of a person who had suicided. Were
you not particularly interested in that
case?"
mo, not particularly; not more than
in any other case which 1 might have
heard about
rs your bank stock mostly put up
as collateral security"
Yes. most of it; 175 shares are put
up to the bank, and the remaining 125
to other parties
THE HEDGES NOTE.
Senator Brown asked the witness
about Jones having refused to search
for the Hedges note. Mr.. Gunter OBJ
jected to it as not proper crOss-eXam-
ination, and said it was an attempt to
lay the foundation for prosecuting an
other case, that of forgery, against