The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-31


| man until after he heard the three shots
fired. He talked with his boy between the
time the shots were fired and he saw the
man between the houses and thought Il
was two or three minutes between the
shots and the appearance OF the man.
He saw Mrs. Smith run from the house
and then Green came out between th
houses and out TO the street. where he
stopped a mn in a buggy and then walk
ed back to the sidewalk and laid dow.
He walked up to the man and asked him
what was the matter AMI Green replied
THAT damned woman shot me-" Mr..
/, Windsor said that Green told him he had
fuss with his wife the night before.
Green said that he went into the room
and the woman drawed the gun on him,
said Mr. Windsor. land he struck her arm
and then ran out. She shot twice at him.
One shot struck him and the other went
over his head
a. NJ Sutton. police officer. was the
next witness. He went from the police
station TO the place of the shooting. When
he reached the scene the man was lying
on the ground on his face. He went
around to the back door and then looked
into the middle room and saw the woman
living on the floor with one foot under the
bed He did not go into the room until
the chief came. He picked up the gun
lying about six inches from the right
hand of the woman. He picked up bu-
let in the kitchen and one in the room
about six inches to the west of the wo-
mans head, on her right side He aX-
amined the bullet holes in the west doo-
and the one in the lower panel entered
the door from the west side into the room
where the woman lay. He measured the
hole in the door and thought this hole
was made by a 3z-calibre revolver. al
though this could have been made by IS
size as sometimes a bullet makes a small
er hole than the bullet itself If the wood
was damp. The hole in the top of the
door was made by a 3s-calibre revolver
in an upward direction There was 4
bullet hole in the east wall of the room
where the woman lay. The bullet had
gone into the wood and then dropped out
and rebounded and Mr.. Sutton believed
that unless the bullet had penetrated
something else it should have gone
through the wall at eight or ten feet
Chief Burt was called and stated that
when he reached the house he found a
man lying on the ground. He looked 1T
him and saw that the fellow was alive
and helped put him in the patrol wagon
He then went into the house and saw the
woman on the floor He did not make 6
thorough examination until yesterday
morning. He stated that the hole in the
lower panel Of the door looked as if it
was made by a smaller bullet than the
one in the upper panel.
The chief stated that his theory was
that the two scuffied in the room and one
shot was fired up through the door and
then he started to run and she fired at
him and then turned the gun to her own
head. If he shot the woman. the chief
stated. that in his opinion he must have
shot her then shot through the door at
the top and then shot himself through
the leg. but he could not do this In ohe
position of the bullet in the leg without
powder burning his clothes
W. J. Brewer was called and stated
that he was driving on South Market
street when a man came running ont
between the houses and said that he was
shot. Mr.. Brewer asked him who did it
and the fellow said: MY Wife" and
said further that they had hell of
row and she shot me-" Green told the
witness that the woman shot him and
then shot through the door and he ran
out. The witness stated that Green told
him the bullet that went through the top
of the door struck n rafter of the roof Of
the kitchen and dropped beside him as he
ran out of the rom.
w. g. Bentley, the father of the dead
woman. was called to the stand He lives
with his daughter at 1413 South Market
street. He was at the house from six
o'clock Saturday night until noon Sun
Gay. He did not hear any uuarreIing of
any kind all of the time he was at the
house. He got breakfast but neither his
daughter nor Green got up. Green got up
about IL O'Clock and got dinner and the
witness, myself and my son and the two
boys ate it. He took the BOYS I'D town
with him.
During the course of the inquest YES
terday afternoon Chief of Police Frank
Burt stated that Green may have been
shot by the woman through the leg and
then she killed herself. He was asked
II ii was possible for Green TO kill the
woman and then shoot himself. The chief
thought a moment and then said such
was possibility. He stated that the
first shot fired may have killed the wo-
man. There was an interval of a minute
or two between the first shot and the
otner two. Then Green could have taken
the revolver. shot himself through the
leg and hole in the door, threw the re-
NoIVer down and run out of the house
II this was true, the mans clothing
around the place where the bullet en-
tered must be powder burned
After all of the witnesses had been ex-
amined Coroner McCollister, Sheriff
Schad and Assistant County Attorney
Dill went to the hospital and got a state
ment from Green and also procured his
trousers worn when the shooting oc-
CURED. II was found that where the
bullet entered the leg and three inches
below the thigh was a large hole burned
with powder and the cloth was saturated
with blood. Where the bullet came out
was small hole. This apparent substan-
uation of the chiefs theory was the
binding link that caused the verdict as il
was. The man may not be guilty but the
jury found enough evidence that they had
a strong suspicion that the woman met
her death Chief Burt outlined and
they returned verdict cha rging murder