The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-02
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eyes, sir: got a gun at the hardware
that night"
WAS 1t loaded?''
mo, SIR"
Ibid you shoot It at air.
mo, SIR
ibid anyone else beside Hatfield have q
gun?"
mot TO my knowledge"
'Was John Gorath IN the wagon when
you started homer
mo. sir. He got in after we had start
ed home. He got in the back seat with
me-
''Wyhen were the first shots fred?''
"Just as we crossed the railroad track"
''Tell what happened after that
Hatfield fired four shots Just after we
crossed the railroad. / then got out OF
the wagon and walked with him. He was
quarreling with Deegan and Gilbert.
Prstty soon somebody's hat blew off and
jumped out to get 1t for them but could
not find It, / saw Hatfield get out OF
the wagon and reload his gun. went up
to him then and tried to get him to shoot
his gun of az post in order to empty
II, but he said he would not do It. He
then shot twice. Leslie Miller found the
hat and they get in the wagon again.
They were quarreling In a drunken man.
ner and pulling each others necks. I was
then walking on one side of the wagon,
and 1 saw Hatfield get out on the other
side and reach again for his gun. I
rushed I'D to him and said. Don't shoot
but he did not pay any attention to me.
He shot twice in the direction of the
wagon, and then tod me to get out Of
his way and leave him. He then stag
gered of into the corrfield and I never
saw him any more until next morning"
did those two men Oeegan and Gil
BERT go back to Hatfield after he had
shot the last timer"
Yves, sir; they went back 70 Hatfield
and Leslie Miller and I unhitched the
horses"
Where did you sleep that night7"
'sMe and Leslie Miller slept in the hay
NOW"
"why DID you get up so early next
morning."
Because I had to cook"
Cross-examtned by Stanley. Belt said
that there had been no quarrel with Co
rath, as he was very drunk. Mr.. Stanley
Drought out a theory for the heel prints
in lGorath's breast by getting young Belt
to say that Gorath had lain down in the
wagon on the way out from town, while
the other drunken men were standing up
in the wagon. In that case they might
have stepped on Gorath's breast uninten-
tionally.
Mr.. ]. s. Knoblauch, city marshal Of
Colwich, testified to having seen the
crowd in Cofw1ch when they were rather
boistrous and not very sober. He said
Gorath and Gilbert seemed to be the worse
intoxicated Of the gang. The gang said
they had been working hard all week and
simply wanted TO have a good time, and
he told them It was all right. When noti-
fed of the killing next morning he went
out to the scene to make the arrest. He
said Hatfield came up to where he was
without any reservation whatever. One
of the gang then took him out TO the
wagon where Gorath's body was and said,
Now. see what you've DONE" Hatfield
climbed upon the wagon and gazed upon
the dead form for a few moments and
said, Ibid do that?"
The witnesses for the defense were not
used ait all and neither of the defendants
testified. Neither was the bullet which
Undertaked Dunbar took from the brain
of the dead man produced IN court. Spec
tators wonder what is going to be done
about that bullet, as 1t is said to be not
Of THE same caliber as that of Hatfield's
pistol.