The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-03-22
AFTER THEY SHOT HIM.
sharratt Then Made VIII Giving all
His Property to Those Now Held
for his Murder.

Extraordinary facts appear in the
murder case, in which the Greens
are charged with killing 'Sharratt.
It was not until after he had re-
ceived his death wound from those
whom Lincoln county authorities
charge with his murder, that Shar-
raft made his will giving the al
legged murdere-s all his property.
F. w. Green, one of the defend
ants, arrived today at the Benton
county jail. Jointly with his wife,
he will be tried at Toledo next
July for the murder of Sharratt at
Waldport on the 2Ist day of jan
uary last. Mrs. Green passed
through Corvallis the other day,
enroute to Waldpoft for her pre-
1iminary examination as one of the
principals in the crime. At that
time some of the details of the al
legged murder appeared in the Times
Judge McFadden and J. F. Yates
of this city, with Mr.. Hawkins of
Toledo. are counsel for the de-
PENDANTS. They arrived Saturday
from Waldport, where the prelim-
mary of Mrs. Green was held Fri
day afternoon. Mrs. Green was
held for murder, without bond,
and is to be confined in the Linn
county Jail, at Albany. It is the
requirement Of the Lincoln county
authorities that Mr.. and Mrs. Green
shall not occupy the same Jail.
The story told by witnesses at
the preliminary seems to indicate
that the case for the State is not
very strong. Five years ago Shar-
ratt went to Wa1dport, as he ex-
pressed it, to die. He had been
In bad health for a long time, and
did not expect a recovery. He
found home with the Greens,
until the day of his DEATH he re-
sided with them. Green is fish
erman and the day of the alleged
murder, arose at six and went to
his crab net in Alsea Bay. Mrs.
Green arose at the same time to
get breakfast. When the meal was
ready, she called to Sharratt. Shar-
raft occupied room adjoining that
occupied by the Greens. He did
not answer, and she called again,
without response. At length she
went to the room and there found
Sharratt unconscious, with a small
bullet wound in the neck, above
the Adams Apple, non the bed lay
the 22-calibre target rifle with
which the wound had been made.
Mrs. Green was terribly frightened
and hurried to alarm the neighbors.
She notified Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Stanton, Henry Nice, Jake Holgate
and called her husband. Witness
es for the prosecution say she told
them that Sharratt had shot him
self while fooling with the target
rifle out on the front porch.
After arrival OF the neighbors,
whiskey was administered. and at
ter time, Sharratt revived. He
| grew better and better. and at
last was able to talk. The course,
however, of the bullet was some
what upward, and the wound had
made him suddenly deaf. By means
of writing, he was piled with ques-
tions as to how and by whom he
was shot, and if he had shot him
self, to all of which he refused an
answer.
| During the forenoon. Sharratt
| made his will. He called for writ
ing materials and requested Mrs.
Green to take down what he had
to say. He started to dictate, and
it soon developed that he was max
ing his will. The dictation at first
was taken in pencil, but when he
discovered it, he declared that 1t
1 would not be legal, and required
a pen to be brought. All this time,
i other persons besides the Greens
were in the room, and witnesses
to the proceedings. When pen
and ink were brought. the dictation
of the will began over again, Mr..
Green writing it down. When tine
task was finished, it appeared that
all of the property had been willed
to the Greens. One of the items
was $74e on deposit in bank In
Portland. An order was prepared
in the same way, directing Henry
Nice to pay to the Greens GER
tain sum due from Nice to Shar.
ratt. Sharratt called for his spec.
tacles, and after properly adjusting
them, proceeded to read the will
: and other papers. When he had
finished, he called for pen and
with the aid of notebook for the
papers to rest on, he signed them.
: Sharratt was of a moody dispos
ition and at times was morose. The