Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-09-08
EXAMINATION or LONG.
His Preliminary Hearing Before Justice
Hartman Begun Today.


morning the preliminary hearir
in the case of the State of Idah
against Jas. Long, charged wit
the murder Of Chas. NJ. Larrab,
at Buffalo Hump, on August 22n,
was commenced. The court ROOF
was crowded to suffocation by til
usual throng of interested spects
tors, witnesses and court official.
Sheriff Mclean brought the az
cused down from Mt. Idaho earl
this morning. Long is in appear
ance man of medium height, wit
light blue eyes, light curly hal
and blonde mustache. County AT
torney Scales appeared for tn
State and j. +. Ailshie for the de
Tense. After reading the complain
to the defendant, which was sworl
to by w. w. Fairburn, the frs
witness was called by the State, il
the person of w. Il. Nickel, who
in answer to questions by Mr.
Scales, testified as follows: II an
by profession physician and sur.
geon; am ~ years DID, At this
time Mr.. Ailshie asked that the
provisions Of 1874 and 1875 be en-
forced as to the exclusion of wit
nesses, and the judge ordered that
all witnesses but the one being ex-
amined leave the court room, until
it became necessary for them to be
called. Witness then continued:
81 am officially coroner of Idaho
county. l held an inquisition over
the body of one Chas. NJ. Larrabee
in Buffalo Hump on the 9th day
OF August, 1899, in the Robbins
Mining district, in the Office of
jim Turner. / found as a result
OF the inquest Collected to by Mr..
Ailshie ON the ground that the law
requires that the result of the in
vestigation be in writing, and that
the presumption is matter of rec
ord). Objection overruled by the
Court SO far as the record goes to
show what the result was. 81
held post norton examination
on the body of deceased. The con-
dition of the body was, on exami-
nation, as follows: | found three
wounds had been inflicted, the APP
pearance of which was: one wound
in the upper part of the abdomen,
between the navel and the
strernum extremity, penetrating
the abdominal cavity in diagonal
from left to right, just to
the left of the median line. There
was slight wound under the left
breast, as though the point OF a
knife or Il sharp instrument had
,ricked the skin. The wound ON
he left side penetrated the abdo-
men about midway between the
lium and the posterior portion of
he same, and the rib, and about
wo and half inches from the
pinal column-this wound was
bout one and one half inches in
ength, having penetrated the alb
lominal cavity and cut the small
ntestines. The general appear
nee of the body was good. The
lrst wound described was about
ne and one half inches deep. The
bird wound mentioned and de-
cribed was about two or two and
ne halfinches deep. After wounds
I this nature have penetrated the
bdominal wall into the cavity it
hard only to determine
ne actual depth by the in
lotion of wounds on some of the
bdominal organs such as the in
sstlnes or such other organs. The
enetration of the instrument caus-
lg the wounds must have been
lore than two and one half inches ;
l length"
Objected to by defendants coun-
j as incompetent, immaterial, etc.
fter considerable argument by I
9TH sides the Court over-ruled the |
otion on the ground that the ,
lestion was competent.
"From the point of entrance to
lie wound in the intestines it |
'uld not have been more than &
70 and one-half inches, although
4 instrument could have pene- 5
ated deeper into the abdominal S
witty. In the way that the in
stines We're cut it would be a {
ard matter to determine the '
epth from the fact that the in Il
'stines would give more or less l
nder pressure. The intestines
ere cut lengthwise about one
larter OF an inch. From the ap-
of all of the wounds be- a
ave that they were produced from a
10 same kind of an instrument !
I'd from their appearance they a
ere incised wounds and We're 6
AIDE by some sharp instrument, | /
knife. The effect of e
ese two wounds, penetrating the l
Nominal cavity would have the a
feet to produce death, the other s;
ound would produce no material W
feet, it would not necessarily Sc
quire both of the serious wounds l.
produce death. The two wounds o,
tering the abdominal cavity ii
Their of which and more particu- 4