The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-06-22

/ tenlng to the niose down the street,
and was not thinking just where 1 was
going, and did not realize just where
was until l was shot. fowler was
q little to nv left, and partly behind
/ tic Bis pole on that corner. The
first thing 1 did was to catch
! hold c. TIE barrel os his pfs-
tol, and we began TO struggle for the
possession of it. I got possession of
the pistol, but he pulled another one
and shot me in the left side of my
breast, the ball striking my lung and
paralyZing my left arm, and am left
handed. During the scuff1e fowler
dragged me down the street toward
his residence. When l got possession
of the pistol, he hollered and ran, but
turned and fired at me twice with his
other pistol
Defendants Examination in Chief,
Continued.
Mr. Gordon, the defendant in this
case, was on the stand at our press
hour Wednesday Part of his testi-
mony was reported in Wednesdays
paper; the balance of it follows. We'd
nesdays report closed where witness
was giving his version of the shoot
ing. Asked if he fired at fowler be-
fore he got Towler's postol away from
him, he replied that he did not; that
he had nothing in his hand to fire
with, and was too busy trying to keep
fowler from killing him, to draw his
own pistol fowler shot three times,
he thought before he got the pistol
from him; and the first shot he (Gor-
dom fired, was from the pistol he had
taken from fowler. fowler, he said,
ran as soon as he (Gordon) got pos
session of his pistol, but turned and
fired two or three times at him as he
ran. Witness was of the opinion that
the first shot fired by fowler struck
he thought went wild; the third shot
burned his hand; the fourth shot
struck him in the left side of his
breast, going through his lung and
paralyzing his left arm and hand so
that he could not use either of them.
He began to bleed profusely then, he
and from his mouth and nose, and he
thought he was MORALLY wounded:
but he followed his antagonist up,
shooting at him as best he could,
though he was greatly handicapped by
his left arm being paralized, as he was
While they were scuf1ing
for the pistol, fowler dragged him
some ten or twelve feet from the cor
ner down toward the fowler resi-
dence. fowler, he said fred two or
three shots from his first pistol, and
as many or perhaps moro from his
second pistol. He Gordon fred one
Or more shots from the pistol he took
from fowler, then threw it at him as
he went over the gate; and the last
shot he fired was from his own pistol,
at fowler as he ran along the porch,
Or just as he was trying to omen the
loor. Defendant made exhibit Of the
shirt he wore that night showing the
loles made by the bullets, ami the
powder burns He showed the coat
also, and showed that it had no holes
n it. He described the pistol he
brew at fowler, as a long, pearly
handled pistol, with large bore.
In reply to a question from Mr. Fus-
iell, he said he did not go there seek
ng or looking for fowler; did not
lnow he was in Columbia; was not
any difficulty.
Q.-Where were you when the last
hot was fired?
Al was at the gate, with my arm
esting on the gate, and fired from my
wn pistol, with my right hand;
hough being left-handed and weak
rom the loss of blood, was barely
BILE to do so.
Q.-After you left the gate and start
d up the street, did you turn and fire
mother shot?
Al did not.
Q.-What occurred when the police
anne to you?
Al was so weak from loss of
lood that l was pulling myself along
y the side of the WALL when Charlie
Iorgan rushed up and said, Drop
lat pistol and throw up your hands,
r I'll kill you" Tom Mclean came
p about that time, and l pitched my
lstol to him and said, you may have
(; will not give it to him"
Odd you tell them, or either of
lem that it was Towler's pistol?
A.-No, told them it was my pis-
Il; and told them had thrown Tow
RS pistol after him as he leaped the