The St. Johns herald., 1899-06-10

| DOy III OSU aDO CIOSscO the room anO told Jimmie I would finish undressing
 the little girl and that he could go to bed
 helped him put the gown on our little
 one and he picked her up and laid her
 in the he'd by the west window. As he
 straighteded up there was crash.
 Jim sad 'Oh!' and fell forward, close
 by the bureau. At first I thought the
 shot had been fired in the road as boys
 riding up and down during the night do
 great deal of shooting. and that Him.
 mic had fallen fom an attack of heart
 failure, which he was subjected to. I
 ran accross to where his body was lying
 and saw the blood, then Iknew he had
 been shot. ran screaming from the
 room and down the road towards town {"
 Peter DeMier, the Frenchman, was
 sworn and testified in substance as fol- lows:
 "I was sleeping in the granary at the time of the shooting. There had been no trouble between MT. Lassator and anyone that know of. I've lived in the valley seven or eight months, and on the ranch of James Lasstor about three days. I came from Solomonville here and never saw MT. Lassator before until last Wednesday. was just fall- ing asleep when Mrs. Lassator called me and l heard footsteps running away to- wards the west. I hurried into the house and MT. Lassator lived about ten minutes after 1 came in. I held him in my arms and asked him who did this? He looked straight at me but never an swered. 1went to put some clothes on and when came in he was dead. He was laying on his left elbow and bleed ing at the mouth. 1 offered to go after the doctor but Mrs. Lassator said she would go. The shot was fired about g o'clock"
 Friends guarded the window thar night and carly next morning Hump Freeman, John Dowdle and Lioc Bird no struck the trail of the murderer, where he had tip-toed up 10 the window within six or eight feet, and fired the fatal shot.
 Hump Freeman testified before Justice Hunter, on Tuesday, as follows:
 "I was member of the coroner's jury. This morning three oi us went to the house where Lassator was shot and went to the window on the west side to take the trail. saw where party had been on tip-toe at the window, abouI ten feet distant. I could see where he bad knelt down. It looked io me, Fsp#. the way the bullets went in the window that it was where the party knelt t'. shoot. I followed the track southwest to where it reached the railroad track 1 and could lot follow It any farther. The track was large one and must have worn about No. 8 shoe"
 Several other witnesses testified to the same circumstance. Others testified l. running to the Lassator place and find ing the dead body.
 John Hayland, MT. Prahl and others testified to returning to the Groesbeck hotel about l o'clork that night from the scene of the killing. They went ul stairs and out on the front porch,. and there, Saw some one come up the walk with shot gun. It was Frank GroeS beck, brother-in law of the deceased de passed m the house and the maI came down stairs to see who it was, and iound Frank Groesbeck cleaning win chester repeating shot gun.
 While this circumstance was suspic ous in itself still when his story Wa, leard everyone believed he was entire Y innocent. Frank Groesbeck lett Saf- ord last Tuesday and tt above Dun an in company with Bob Roberts to prospect some opal claims. On Monday lis wife who was with him became sick md he started for home arriving at the 1roesbeck Hotel about 3 50 the night of murder, when he was informed of the leath of his brother-in law. He un- litched his team and hurried down the oad to the home of Lassator where he until about l o'clock. Re urning to the hote he took shot gun ut of the hack and took it in the house md was wiping the dust of of it when he man came down stairs and asked jim where he had been.
 Frank Groesbeck was not placed un- Ter arres'.
 Ben Clark, sheriff and Ed Allen, dep lty were both at Geronimo when the ,illing occurred. They arrived on the rain Tuesday afternoon. By that time uspicIon pointed tc Bill Eseler, who worked for Lassator short tune prev ous and was discharged. Eseler had eft Stafford that morniug to go to Joe ranch near Bowie in com ,any with c. D. Ely the race horse man.
 The officers went to Bowie Tuesday 'vening, where they were both arrested md brought back to Safford Wednesday 
 The examination was continued We'd lesday. but there was not sufficient ev- dence to hold either one of the men crested and they were dismissed Cn notion of District Attorney Jones.
 The prosecution has several clues hey are working on at present.
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