Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-04-20
LORD TRIAL AEARS AN END


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into his pocket as If to get weapon.
i pulled my revolver and said no you
don't you s---- and fired. Hess didn't
frun Immediately. He seemed 10 hest
tate. / fired the second time and
then he turned and ran down the
mountain / followed and fired in
rapid succession. l fired six times
from one revolver and from the
other. He got to fence and jumped
over fell. think he fired at me-
/ got ND, jumped on the fence and as
was getting over my revolver aught
on the fence and | fell back I got
over and followed on. At that time
Hess was 80 yards ahead OF me. / ran
on about 20 yards, threw off my over
coat an asked my brother, who was
near me, for my revolver. My broth
er was calling for me to come back. /
4 finally turned and met my brother.
He handed me my empty revolver.
He told me to go on to town and give
myself uD. / told him l would, went
on back and picked up the other revolt
yer that / had dropped. We threw
out the empty cartridges, reloaded
and started for town.
when first drew my revolver l
| thought Hess was going to kill me.
That was the reason l opened fire. "
Lord then told how he had sometime
previous to that, seen Hess carrying
revolver and that he had been I'M
der the impression that he always
carried weapon and would use it.
He was then shown a letter writ
ten by Hess to his wife, which his
wife showed him when she received
it. He identified the letter. He said
the time he saw Hess on the noun
tain was the first time she had seen
him since he had caught him in the
stable. He continued had no
intention whatever of killing him.
After | shot him I came on down to
my fathers house, to get my father
and come on back to give myself up.
Near Mr.. Smiths new dwelling
house Officer Hardy drove up beside
my buggy and asked me if was GO
| ing to town told him / was going
| TO give myself up. He said he had
been looking for this for sometime,
but was sorry that it had occurred
| that he had been looking for it to oc-
cur in town, not over the mountain.
He stated that he had taken Hess out
| of town the night before to keep him
from coming down to my house; that
he was pretty drunk. Mr. Hardy
drove on ahead of me. He stopped at
the Aims House gate and asked me if
had any choice of magistrates. /
said | wanted to go before Mr.. Mar
tin. We arrived in town. put up
the buggy and as | was crossing Pub
lie Square met Mr.. Hardy.
II was married Aug2, 1899 in Hag-
erstown and IN March, 1900 she gave
birth to child / had been going
with her about year before marry
ing her.
After having been ON the stand
about four hours and after having I'M
dergone severe cross examination,
Lord was allowed to leave the stand
The defense here rested and the
State introduced rebutal evidence:
+ Chas. Minghini was put on the
stand again to give rebutal testimony.
Jane Helpon, colored. an employe
at Blake's livery stable, told of how
Lord hired the team on the day of the
shooting.
| Ben Nicodemus, a brother of Mrs.
Lord, was put on the stand to rebut
the testimony of Mr. Dick.
+. NJ Hardy was also brought back
on the stand to give rebutal testi-
mony.
the stand, but was not allowed to
testify,
John Hess, brother of the murder
| ed man, testified as to conversations
that occurred between the prisoner
and his dead brother He stated that
he had seen Lord on the street during
the latter part of November. (Lord
was sick in bed at that time) AT
3 80 o'clock court adjourned until
Friday morning at 8 80 O'Clock.
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