The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-22

1eI1s|is 4 tlr Preliminary ItisI Of
JAss FlsAerty.
/ 'ssIe loI Of EVIDENCE IS TAKEN
Bst IL Fails 70 SHOW How or bs
Whom John Conrcy Met
His Death.

the preliminary thui u Nv
herty. charged with the murder OF John
Conroy in this city on Tuesday night. jan
nary IL. was resumed and concluded IN
Justice MaIsch's court yesterday, consum-
inx the entire day from 10 a. m. TO p m.
Tho defense was closely looked after by
Attorney J. b. Brockman. while MT
UvaIde Burns probed the case indnstriously
In ifhe interest of the State.
The following is full synopsis 81 the
testimony:
The frat witness was Mr.. McAllister.
Who testified to having seen the dead body
OF Conroy at Huddleson's saloon, Witness
was in tho switch shanty of the interna-
tional aud Great Northern, about seventy
dyo yards from the saloon. when John
Clark brought the news that ccnroy was
dead. Clark told witness that the body was
in the rear OF the saloon Witness went
over 10 the saloon in company with several
others, Hennesscy, Hayes James Clark.
John Clark and Flaherty II was about
1926 o'clock when they found the body
witness first saw Flahcrty that night
when he came Walking over to where Wit
ness and Clark we're standing. 1t was dark
where the body was found. Witness did
not hear lslaSerty make any remark Clark
was drinking that night.
Cross-Witness did not know how many
men had passed the body going in aud out
the saloon before he saw it. Any one
might have passed there and picked up a
weapon.
Phiilis Matthews, a colored woman. liv-
ing in the rear Of the saloon, testified that
% the night OF tho killing she heard some
,nc in Huddleson's back yard say You
made ME mad. This was Immediately fol-
lowed by The report OF a pistol
Counsel asked that this evidence be ex-
Guided unless the witness could identify
The voice making the remark, you made
me mad, as that of the defendant,
Witness said she did not know the voice
of the defendant.
Cross She went 10 bed thnt night about
$40 o'clock and Ii WAS about an hour
later when she heard the shot. She dill
not hear any other remark except You
made me mad. II was mans voice and
seemed TO be made IN anger. She did not
attach much Importance to the ciTcum-
stance. as Huddleson's saloon was always
fun OF people. She did not even tell her
husband about it when he came IN.
Maria Tolhcrt colored. a sister OF Phillis
Matthews. said she heard the report OF
the pistol Tuesday night about 0 o'clock.
She heard voice say You made me
mad" and the reply, That's nothing to
get mad about" The voices were those OF
men. II was about twenty or thirty min
utcs after the words were spoken before
the shot was fired.
The Testimony OF DR., Larendon. taken al
bn 30 NJ 40 IN nh {y,r f,t,
there WIS n powder burniaround the wounc
Z that caused Conroy's death.
The testimony Of the defendant as taker
at the inquest was also introduced as fol-
lows: s5s
Tom FIaherty, under oath. said: II went
Into the back yard Of Huddlesons saloon
and fell over body. ! examined IL and
found 1t TO be that of John Conroy. He
told me about two hours previous that he
was going to kill himSelf and begged
him not to do it. Immediately after finding
the body i went to the switch shanty,
called ]. H. Clark out and told him that
Conroy was dead. ]. NJ. Clark John Clark,
J. j. Hays, Thomas Hennessey and Me-
Allister accompanied me over to where the
dead man was. In II few minutes John
Clark and ! went to my, room and went to
bed, Jim Clark came in a few minutes
later and laid on the sofa; tho officers
came a little later
Mrs. conroy. widow of the deceased, was
then placed upon the stand. She first
heard OF her husbands death on thu
Wednesday morning after the killing. Wit
ness wnR not Mt hcr home on Tuesday
night when Conroy was Allied. She was
at Mr. Rupert's on Washington street. She
last saw her husband alive on Tuesday
evening about $50 o'clock. He was mol
sober. He had money with him, about
e15. that she had given him. Flnhert,
hhd been boarding with her almost twS