Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-04
Preliminary Hearing Held Today
Before Justice Ballard.
ATTORNEYS WILL ARGUE FRIDAY
Bradshaw Claims He Struck Mus
grove in Self Observation-Disclosures
Testify to Good Character of Pris.
oner-Evidence All Taken.

tErom Tuesdays Daily.l
The preliminary hearing in the case
OF the state of Iowa VS. John Bradshaw
the colored man charged with killing
Court Musgroue on the night OF June
is at the Hendricks & Reese saloon on
South Market street, was held today
( in Justice Billiards. court. The morn.
witnesses for the prosecution, and af,
ter dinner the witnesses for the de-
Tense were examined. AT 2::30 o'clock
2 the defense rested it's case ad B. w.
Scott, attorney for Bradshaw, moved
that the court adjourn until s O'Clock
Friday morning of this week, when the
. arguments and decision will be made.
This agreement was reached by the
attorneys, County Attorney d. II. En-.
cry representing the prosecution.
Or. Williams Examined.
DIR. A, o. Williams, who attended
Musgrove, was called by the state and
testified that he was called to the
Musgrove home ON the South Side on
Monday night, June II. He said that
Musgrove was suffering from delirium
caused by injuries received the proceed
ing Saturday night and that his skull
was fractured. On examination he
found that the patient had been struck
with some blunt instrument on the left
side of his head just above the ear.
Musgrove's delirium increased as did
! his Inconsistencies, until Saturday
night, June %, when he died. DR.. Will
iiams said that he had made post
mortem examination of the remains
and found that the skull had been
fractured, having break in the bone
about six inches in length. Infamma-
tion of the brain, caused by the bleed
ing into the brain from the broken
skull, caused the boys death, accord
ing to the doctors testimony.
Extraordinarily Thin Skull.
Z On cross examination Dr. Williams
said that he could not tell whether or
not the fracturing of the skull was
4 done by the blow from the squeegee
with which Bradshaw says he struck
Musgrove or by Musgroves fall to the
sidewalk after being struck. He also
said that Musgrove's skull was the
thinnest one he had ever seen in his
experience as a surgeon. He said
that the temporal bone, where the
man was struck is the thinnest bone
in the skull, and that the blow, had il
lighted upon one of the other bones
of the head, might not have caused
death.
Witnesses Tell of Trouble.
Charles Young, who was helping
Bradshaw scrub the saloon at the
time of the trouble, told how the diff
Guilty started by Musgrove coming tt
the door of the saloon and attemptin;
to enter. He said that after the de
PENDANT had pushed Musgroye ava,
from the door Musgrove came bacl
and the last time, reaching into hi
right hip pocket as if for knife o
gun, came again toward the doc
and Bradshaw rose up and struck hin
on the head with the squeegee he wa
using. Albert Haverield and stack
Lee corroberated Young's story in tn
main points.
Mistook Musarove for Another.
G. A. Peterson and Lou Kendall toll
of talking with Bradshaw after tn
trouble, and of Bradshaws telling
them about some trouble he had ha,
early in the evening with some Eas
End boys, and thinking that Musgrov
was one of them who had come t
fight him.
Defendant Told His Story.
Constable A. w, Peck and Police OF
ficer G. A. Pitts told of hearing Brai
shaw telling how he struck Musgrov
and that he did it because he though
Musgrove was going out to cut Q
shoot him. John Gray, chief of polio,
testified that Bradshaw had told hi1
about the same story, saying that Mu,
grove called him black --- an
that he bradshaw hit him. Charlie
Mozena said that Bradshaw told hil
about having trouble in the evening {