The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-29

~.rstion vhetneg II IL ever justin
- shoot 1T small boys for the purpose
1rplnr them eas OF mischief 10 up for
sSS~flsn in Judge Jacobs court. In the
-. n DE state against Louis EGkerL
S9srt Is q rss5cea. Of InEarDay. and II
- win The crime Of assault with In
49, q eounnit bodily injury upon one
- p Holman. James II. Holman. 9TH
- s.Ifmmier Holman, ~ q small boy.
- s;aims "a have Just passed his fiftesnfh
.oui 81 the race 10 eternity. The stats
.ssrs -Y,xkert Of having deliberately at
~6ed q stop that race with . shotgun
s@5z vith saos on the fourth day Of Feb
- AID 1855" 60 quote the language
~ incarnation.
! f5Ihosten the information does not state
~ fecf. the states evidence DEVELOPED
1917 that young Holman WAS sho.
~ three fingers OF the left hand by
Nm fr6en an old saarps rifle wiel4ea by
- fnfens1ant, Eckert- The latter claims
= 80 for the purpose Of making a noise
= aaytug Holman and two companions
6hdrf his own age or the Eekert dairy
81 steck sanch at INTERPLAY, where. 1. -
S1tned, tie stafee boys were hunting.
r. the egrouDd that there was IA fatal
raancs befwsen the Indictment and the
- Eckert's attorneys. J. Henry Dem
~ aaa E.C kriste. YESTERDAY moved
~ ssais's case Was closed. claiming that
r. Indictment alleging assault with a
1ofeun c0uld not f,e sustained W proof OF
r assault with rifle. The court took
~ modem under advtsemens and will rule
- il lster. In tina meantime, Eckari's
Elkase b bsing heard.
~ evidence OF the prosecuting witness
- his companions was THAI Ecker took
4 1Aos 1t them In cold blood and without
a0Afent prosoeation, Eckert's. defense,
1pe1ed to desperation by the continued
1iDmdstsons OF small boys. and bought
~ ia gun for the purpose OF soaring
thsn away. Young Holman and the othar
~ young Btmrods happened To be the
- small boys strayir,g into Eckert's
y brought OUT and used. Eekert viii
dn1n on the witness stand that IL was
~ his intention that young Holman
Ihfuld stop the bullet.
~ Attorney Defining told the story to
~ tury, Farmer Eckert has been the
~ Qkeging victim Ut small hays with
90 Il SCENE from the lawyers story
0n Dckert'e troubles began when he
QnBnced 10 breed rabbits on his little
~ ranch. The small boys fran Bal
~ and Queen Anne hin soon became
u(rf Of the fact and negan poaohinx on
q preserves. At first they were wary
VI only shot the rabbits when they yen-
- without the limits Of tho ranch.
Mater they became boider and poured
~ lead into the Dummies even while
ppE3n8 in faneisd security on their own
~ dumainS.
"a from rabbits. Attorney DenHng de-
DID, the predatory small boys rapidly
61led to chickens, then IN hogs and final
~ such large game as COWS and horses.
4 Pas after 40 OF his rahlats two of his
ADes and fourteen Of bis hogs had been
aahiessly shot down In their owners door
yafd Attorney Denning dramatically de-
ckrsd, that Eckert resolved Tn buy a
llendefbuss and frighfcn the next young
tno1passer nut OF dozen years Of growth
according Ia the testimony ~ Mrs. Eek
n. the defendants wife. the boy hunter.
,sed 10 keep her In terror or her lie by
heptiBg about her house. They sven fred
her and her children she ssId.