The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-24


night of the shooting. He left his
place Of business at 8 O'Clock and a
few minutes afterward when at the
corner of Twenty-seventh street and
First avenue, south, he heard a shot.
He looked in the direction of the
sound and saw a man cross Twenty
seventh street from the west side.
He hurried in that direction and met
Kyle and Hayden carrying a nan
He said he asked Hayden it he should
go for a doctor and vas told to do SO.
He then went to the city hall where
he found Captain Bond to whom he
told about the shooting.
Asked as to what McBridge said, the
witness answered that he asked it
anybody knew Mr. Morse or Will
| Mccormick.
On cross-examination it was sought
| to make the witness state the exact
time when he heard the shot. He
could not do this, saying it was short
ly after 8 o'clock, as he closed the
| shop at that hour and had walked
only around the block when he heard
the report.
w. j. Stoddard lives in South Twen-
ty-seventh, Billings. He heard the re-
port of a revolver on the night OF
November IL. He was at home, back
of the wagon shop at the corner OF
| Twenty-seventh street and First ave-
nue., south. The sound of the shot
caused him to go out and he saw a
couple OF men on the east side OF
Twenty-seventh street, about 100 feet
from where he stood. He walked to
them and saw no one there except
Hayden and the wounded man. He
heard Hayden say he had shot a man
and also heard the wounded man ask
him, if he, Hayden, was a policeman.
Hayden said to a mar who by this
time had come up that he had chased
the boy several blocks and he had
refused to stop when ordered to do
so. Witness could not recall all that
Mcbride said; all he could remember
was that he had asked for Will McCor.
mick and gave him as reference to
prove his identity.
The witness was not cross examin'
ed, except to the extent OF being ask
ed whether he remembered all that
was said at the time.
Stephen Johnson was living in
South Twenty-eighth street, Novem'
Der IS, 1902. He was going home
about the time the shooting occurred
and walked to where he saw Hayden
and Mcbride. When he got to them
he heard Hayden say that he had shot
Mcbride for not stopping when order
ed to do so. Upon this Mcbride sale
Hayden should have told him he was
a policeman.
On cross-examination witness sale
he did not heal the shot and knew
nothing of the shooting until he got
to his door, when his wife told him
about it and he went to where Hay
den and the wounded man were. He
said he could not recall the exact
words of the conversation in which
the defendant and the deceased took
part; the best he could do was to give
the substance OF it.
l. D. O'Donnell followed Johnson
He saw John P. Mcbride when he
was being taken upstairs into Doctor
Rinehart's office and at the request
of the defendant assisted in taking
him into the doctors Office. The doc
tor was out and Hayden left, while
: the witness remained. In a converse
ton with the defendant the latter told
, him that the boy had been sneakine
| around and he had run him and gol
him in the leg as he was getting ovel
a fence.
: Cross-examined the witness said the
: conversation between him and Hay
den took place at the head OF the
stairs. Hayden's information was civ
en- in reply to questions asked by tbs
witness.
F. S. Dulin, chief of police
was called. The defense objected to