The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-06

Stout had one hand at his breast and
was staggering as if he were drunk
and couldn't go one way or the other.
He called out there he goes now" and
pointed south. He called witness to him
but witness didn't go and the boy,
Ringwood, came up. Stout said he had
been shot, pointed south and again said
there he goes" Ringwood asked him
if he was hit and he said, of course. 1t
was a windy night. Witness heard one
pistol shot only.
Stout called to witness, come here,
my lad" Ringwood came up. Stout
said he was shot and Ringwood went
to call the police Witness and Ring
wood thought he wasn't badly shot be-
cause he could stand up and walk.
Stout was about forty or fifty feet
east of the east end of the bill board
when witness saw him first.
ss-eXamined by Mr.. Brown the
witness said he saw man just before
he saw Stout He was walking ahead
of witness about half a crossings
length on Main street. He was a dark
man, his name witness did not know,
but he thought he worked in a grocery
store near. When witness got up 10
Stout he was staggering. He called
witness to come to him and said, there
he goes" Ringwood then came up and
Stout told Ringwood he had been shot
and again he said there he goes, -
meaning the man who had shot him.
He said again there he goes now?''
asked Mr. Brown.
Il don't think he put the now on to
it." replied the witness.
You heard a shot?"
Yes
What did it sound like?"
ut was muffled, just like fire crack
er exploding under a can"
Witness said he had talked with
both Mr. Stout and Mr.. Brown once
each about the shooting.
Joseph Charles Ringwood remem-
bered the evening of Dec. 8. When wit
ness first saw Stout on that evening
he was standing about three feet east
of the bill board He told witness he
had been shot and pointing toward the
bill board said the man who shot him
had run that way. Witness looked but
did not see anybody.
NELLIE M'FALL.
Miss Nellie McFan, a girl of IA. testi-
fed that she was on the east side of
Main street near the corner of Fifth
South on the night of the shooting. A
man came running from by the vacant
lot at the corner of Fifth South and
Main street, crossed Main street and
turned down the west side of Main
street. he came out OIL the vacant lou
and ran very fast. At the same time
South in the direction where the man
who was running came from. Witness
was frightened and did not observe the
fleeing man sufficiently to be able to de-
scribe him or give any idea of what he
was like or how he was dressed. She
did not know who the staggering man
was until the next morning when she
wondered If the man she saw running
was the one who did the shooting.
Did you talk to any one about this?"
yes, l talked to Judge Pratt about
it in the presence of two detectives [
also talked to the people around the
house about it,
Rose Mocnch. aged Is, testified that
she lived at the northeast corner of
Sixth South and Main with her mother.
Witness was walking up the street with
Nellie McFall and Florence Donohue
about $50 o'clock on the evening of
Dec. g. When they got to about Fifth
South a man came from behind a tree
on the vacant lot and ran across and
down Main street as fast as he could.
At about the same time witness saw
Stout staggering on Fifth South street.
Witness could not describe the run
ming man at all. Had not observed
him closely enough. 1t was dark, and
he was running fast.
Florence Donohue. aged 13, lived at
81 South Main. Was with Nellie Nc
Fall and Rosie Moench. the two pre-
vious witnesses, on the night of the
shooting. She also, she testified. saw
the man come running out of the va
cant lot at rapid rate. He crossed
the street and turned down the west
side of the s.-recs, and was running
when witness S>sw him last Witness
also saw Stout. He was staggering,
and witness. thinking he was drunk,
was frightened and ran away.
William Kraut, 221 South First West