El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-23

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Yes. Burchfield said Hill had hit
Pitt with a rope and knocked him out
of the door; then jumped on him"
Isn't it fact that you and Pitt
were warm friends?"
Il met him about twelve years ago;
and did not see him again until two
and a half years ago"
The prosecution was plainly discon-
certed by this evidence and the states
attorneys consulted frequently. Judge
Hammer was unable to shake the di-
rect evidence of the witness
On redirect examination witness said
he did not consider Burchfield's state
ments as confidential between a pa
tient and his physician.
The Deputy Sheriff.
Jack Coker, deputy sheriff at Mid
land, had a conversation with Burch-
field in which the latter described the
shooting and said he had sent Pitt
word that he intended to kill him.
Il remarked said the witness,
that if l had sent a man word l was
going to kill him l would have been
ready for him. Burchfield said he
didn't know Pitt was coming"
Cross examined. Ever been indict-
ed?''
Yes sir"
How many tines"
Twice"
What for?'
killing niggers.''
Stand aside"
Andrew Allen
Andrew Allen knew A III. Burch-
field and had heard him talk about
the killing when he was in Midland.
Heard Burchfield say if he'd had his
gun he'd have got the first shot. He
said he did not have anything and
Pitt took him by surprise. He would
have been armed. but he wasn't ex-
pecting to meet Pitt that day. Burch-
field said he intended to sped 500 900
to break Pitts neck. Judge Cunning
ham made an attempt to get witness
to tell of having heard Burchfield
talk of threats. but failed.
Pitt on the Stand.
After an interval Judge Cunning
ham announced that the defendant
Pitt took the stand. In response to
questions of Judge Cunningham he
said:
In February. 1898. there was a
controversy between myself. Hill and
Burchfield over a strip of land. L
bought the land and went over to
Hills house to get the number of the
lease. They employed Judge Gage and
said we had all better send in our
papers and money to Austin together.
II didn't hear anything more of il
for several weeks. In September 1899,
l made application for a strip of land
that ran through Hills pasture and
up next to Burchfield's homestead.
af, hnf xx-ha hai
out they would take up my land and
l wanted a stand OFF. Three years be-
fore Burchfield and | had agreed on
a fence and built il together. / got
an award on the strip of land and a
short time later Burchfield said he
wanted me to meet him in town.
He asked me what | was looking so
scared about and pulled out a paper
and took me off for a privte CONVEX
sation. He got out his knife and show
ed me the paper. Ii was a plot of our
land from the land Office and it show
ed the strip that l had preempted He
SAID | had deviled him long enough
and he would cut my throat from ear
to ear. The old man is a very disagree
able man to deal with when he is mad
and / got away from him as soon as
could.
In October or November, 1899 Jeff
Cowden told me that Hill and Brrch-
field were very mad. and that | had
better look out or / would get killed.
In March / moved the fence back,
in accordance with an agreement with
Hill, and that left two sections of my
land on Hills pasture and about two
sections of the land that was under
conflict in mine. AS it was four
miles to water 1 concluded to sink a
well on the land about 200 yards from
the fence, for my cattle. There was
no other place for two miles suitable
to put a well. | decided to put in the
well and engaged Quarles to do it,
On July 3 | set stake on the spot
where the well was to be sunk and
went away. About o'clock l went
back and saw that there was a dis
turbance and that Hill didn't like it
| went to Hills house and had con-
versation with him. He was mad but
l soon got him in a good humor He
said if | put well in to put it out