Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-12-01

the MOughmer boys first rode up |
on the day Of the killing they pass
ed the time Of day. | did not use
any cpithets at The time, but told
Chas. Moighmer twice that l was !
no lnole u - - than he was. |
! was t cursing Bill did not
abuse me, nor do ! know that he
had Il gun. was not very excited.
Roberts was present during the en-
tire interview The gun was lean
ing against a pole pile and ] first
took i, up when Chas. Moughmer
told me that | was the = -
he had been wanting to see for
some time; the butt was resting on
my foot; ! never pointed the gun
at William Moughner. When |
shot Chas. Moughmer | aimed at
his chest. Here County Attorney
Scales involved the witness in Il
net of questions as to how Mough-
mer WAS sitting on his horse and
how witness could see his gun
when Mougbmer was facing him
and the gun was in his back pock-
ct. / saw the handle of the gun;
it was in his right hip pocket. He
did not draw the gun. ! first saw
the gun when he put his hand be-
hind him; the gun was covered by
his blouse and he covered the han
die with his hand. His hand was
in that position when | shot him.
When he was shot he did not at
tempt to pull it. l am perfectly
positive that Chas. Moughmer had
a pistol when | shot him. ! had
not, previous to this, covered Bill
Moughmer with my gun. l mean
to tell this Court that Gas. Mough-
mer, sitting on horseback, with his
blouse over his gun and gloves on,
attempted TO pull "a gun on me,
when | was standing in front Of
him with my riff and nothing to
prevent me from immediately u.s.
ing it. | shot as quick as could.
{ More lengthy explanations as to
relative positons.) Charley fell of
the horse on the right side, falling
on his hands and feet; the horse
jumped when | shot. He fell off
Immediately he was shot; / did not
hear him say anything. Then he
raised up, walked few feet in an
angling direction, and fell. The
reason l did not let William go 10
him was to avoid trouble; thought
: he might have IL gun; | refused a
second time and said there should
be an inquest. ! don't know
,, whether he was dead then or not, |
was not willing for his brother to
go to him; | wanted him to go Off.
!, When Bill went to him he got
down beside his brother, put his
arm across him and asked three
times if he were hurt. | was
watching him all the time; he put
his left arm about his brother
waist, between that and the shout
, der, then Bill took the gun with
his left hand, from under the
! blouse. | did not have two armed
men down in the brakes, but l af-
terward learned that j. Dernberg-
er and VIM. Irish came up there
after | had gone: ] did not have
them around in case of trouble.
!, Redirect: Repetition of former
! testimony.
Alex Roberts, an eye witness to
, the trouble, was the next witness
! for the defense: work for Riggs
Bros. On the day in question
: was repairing the fence. Clifford
Riggs and ! had been up there but
: a few minutes till the Moughmers
> came up and asked Clifford if h,
Q was Mr.. Riggs; he answered tina
: he was. Then Charley said: "Yo,
= are the we are after
= Witness repeated the story as re
. lated by the former witness whom
= he corroborated in every essentia
II detail. After | had been there ;
;, little while lady came up an,
= told me she was cousin of TIL
J Moughmers and she moved tn
:, body on it's back and put clotl
u under and over his head, staying
~ little while, and later Tom an,
70 George Moughmer, some stranger
9 and DIR. Blake who ordered tn
&c body taken to the house. Hi
~ pockets were examined, then tn
y body was put on wagon an
y taken to the house.
l. Cross-eXamination: Doh't kno,
why Riggs went up there tina
: morning, nor why he took tn
= Winchester; Riggs was helping m
'e that morning. Witness then re
~ peated his testimony in chic
lis Witness testimony differed in Ii
examination before the Cnron,
aud his present testimony and til
he County Attorney got him consider
n ably mixed in his evidence. Con
MT tinuing, he said: Riggs had nj
id drawn his gun on Bill Moughme
u. (Witness became more or less i,
re- volved, remembering some thin,
Nv distinctly and others not at all.
a He failed to corroborate Cliffor
Riggs about William taking tt
ID gun from Charley's pocket aftt
lp the killing. Clifford Riggs said