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


one was as close to the scene as the
other. That officer Morgan was eighi
or ten feet from Gordon when he frs
saw him. That he did not hear any
remark at all made by either Morgan
or Gordon That he did not remember
when he first spoke of that last shot
but finally remembered that he had
spoken of the matter to the defendant
some days since. Said he heard the
defendant was looking for him and that
he saw him near Hoods restaurant
on the square and told the defendant
that he saw nothing of the difficulty
except the pistol flashes and heard
nothing of it except the sound of the
shots
Re-Examined.
! Witness said the shots and flashes
seemed to be in front of fowler
gate. That he did not go up to Cor
don and Morgan till they had reached
the square. That he did not know
whether Robert Guest went up to them
before then or not.
Tom FreI.
Witness testified that he was on the
police force at the time of the shoot
ing. That just at that time he was on
day duty and was not up town when
the shooting occurred, but for time
before the shooting he was on night
duty, and on two different nights some
weeks before the shooting he saw the
defendant standing on North Main
street near the Mitchell-Ashley cor
ner That the time of night on both oc-
casions was between 10 and II o'clock.
That one time defendant was stand
ing in the dark near a wagon down
between the corner and the fowler
residence and the other time he was a
little further down the street. That
he spoke to the defendant on one of
the occasions and joked him about
some girls, and that the defendant told
him he was waiting for some friends
to come into Baird's stable. That
the defendant was sober on both oc-
casiOns.
Crcse-Examincd.
The witness said that Baird's stable
was across the street one block fur
Their down than the Mitchell-Ashley
corner. That the defendant loafed
considerably at Hoods restaurant and
at CANDLES saloon, around the corner
on the square and not far from where
he was standing on the two nights
The State here closed it's evidence.
Defendant on the Witness Stand.
H. Mathers Gordon, the defendant,
was next called and took the witness
stand He testified that he was 20
years old; born in this county; married
in May 1897 and lived with his wife
seven years; during which time three
children were born to them, and he
and his wife lived happily together all
these years until their trouble began
in st. Louis. He has still living a lit
tie girl, five years old, who makes her
home, where he does, with his parents,
on West Sixth street He separated
himself from his wife and sent her
home to her father, in August 1904. |
The first trouble he had with his wife, |
or the first suspicion he had of her,
was in st. Louis the latter part of |
July. These suspicious were not con-
firmed until after he reached Colum- !,
Dia the first of August. He separated |
from her in about 80 minutes after |
ne read the letters which confirmed |
MS suspicious. In July, 1904, he was
for the st. Louis Transit Co.
t was during the Fair, and they were
working their men about fifteen hours
l day. Some nights he would be re-
ieved from work and get home early;
)ther nights it would be late. One
evening when he got in unusually
Early, he found that the prosecutor,
Mr.. fowler, and his wife, had gone out
o dinner, or supper together. They
,ame in about eight o'clock, and he
old his wife that he had rather that
would not occur again; that he sup
,osed she had done it unthoughtedly,