Bisbee daily review., 1903-07-08
GRAHAM JUSTIFIED
 BY THE EVIDENCE
SEEMS TO BE NO DOUBT THAT
 DEAD MAN KILLED VAUGHN.
Full Account of the Killing of Schmidt by Date Graham, as Told by the Witnesses Before cOroner's Jury.
Special to ReviewO


 citement over the killing of the man Schmidt by Date Graham has in- creased here today The appearance of the Dispatch this morning de- nouncing the killing of Schmidt as cold-blooded murder created quite a sensation. It was reported on the streets today that Editor Dorr had disavowed the article. or certain DOT tions of it, stating that it had been written by some one and inserted in the paper after he left the office Mon. day night.
 Foster, lieutenant of the Ranger com. pany. on warrant issued from the office of Justice Johnson. His exam nation will occur Friday.
 I send you transcript of the evi. dence which was taken by Coroner Johnson, when the inquest was held over Schmidt's body
 Mir. Phillips. proprietor of the Me chanics saloon, where the shooting took place. was the first witness called and testified as followse
 Date Graham and Night Watchman Hart came into my place at about 5 o'clock on Sunday aftefu11n with their guns in their hands, and ap- preached Schmidt, who was in the cen ter of the room leaning oyeT a table and watching the monte game that was going on, and without saying 9 word to him Graham commenced to shoot. firing two shots. Schntt iil not attempt to pull gun or make any motion to. but said. For Gods sake don't murder me, man" Phillips said that he had known the man for seven or eight years. and that he had always been a peaeeable. hard working man; he had known him at Globe where he was a freighter for time and also drove stage for a man by the name of Palmer. He stated that the deceased had been in Douglas since the second of July. and had made the witness sa- loon his headquarters up to the time of his death. and had made no attempt to conceal himself from the officers or anybody else. Phillips further stat ed that he was positive that the de- ceased did not kill Vaughn or that he had ever known him.
 The next witness was the physician who attended the man before he died and who stated the course taken by the bullets and that death was caused by one of the bullets.
 Labe Garnet was the next witness
 
 keeper at the Mechanics saloon and was an eyewitness to the shooting. His testimony was the same as that of Phillips except that Graham said, q came here to kill you.'
 A. LeRoy, a merchant, testi- lied that he had viewed the remains of the deceased, and fully recognized him as the man whom he had seen on the night of May 18th sit ting in front of Mrs. Wentworth's mill nery parlors, and acting in such a sus- picious manner that he had notified Officers Vaughn and Graham of the fact, and when they attempted to ar rest him he had shot and killed Vaughn and wounded Dayton Graham. He testified that on the night Vaughn was shot he had peered into the face Of the man, and 1t was a mental pic ture in his mind ever since. He pos itively identified the man killed by Graham as the man he had seen on the night Vaughn was killed
 On being asked whether he could re- member a face he had seen but once, and then in the dark for two months, the witness stated that he could, and could identiy the man a year after ward
 Dayton Graham was the next and last witness called. lie testified that on May 18th, three days before Vaughn was killed, he was riding on the out skirts of town when he met a man riding toward him. The man turned out of the road and turned his heal away. as if to avoid recognition. Graham rode past him and got a good look at him, in order that he might rec ognize him in future, as his suspicious actions did not look good to him.
 Graham then testified that on the night Vaughn was killed ard he was shot, he got a good look al Vaughn murderer. and he was the same man that he encountered while out rj6ing three days before. and whose suspi- cious actions had attracted his atten- ton. He further stated that ou Sun day afternoon a man came up . him and asked him if he couiG iGcnLly Yaughn's murderer if he saw him, and he told him .h.; ne could The man tLen took hInl to the Dew Drop sal,ta aad cinted hun out. and be ree.ssDi td him at aEce as the man he had seen on May 18th, and as the man who had killed Vaughn three days later. As soon as the man saw Graham he walked hurriedly out of a. side door and down to the Mechanics saloon. corner of Ninth street and Railroad av- enue.
 At this juncture Night watchman