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

over the unexpected attack AMI the
shooting pretty much as he did in his
examination in chief: about the two
pistols, being left-handed and his left
hand and arm being paralized by the
second wound.
Q.-Mr. Garner then asked hiE..
how did you manage the two pistols
with one hand?
Witness answered that he hung one
pistol on the finger of his left hand,
which was hanging helpless by his
side, and shot the other with his right
hand. He explained that he had a
good deal of trouble getting his PTS
toll out of the left hip pocket with his
right hand.
Q.-But how did you manage to
throw the pistol, being left-handed,
with your right hand, and with two
pistols in your hand?
A.-Give me two and l will show
you
(Ir. Garner said he did not have his
two with him.
Witness then showed and explained
to the jury how he held the pistols
and how he threw the one and held
on to the other
Asked what was said and done at
the time of his arrest, witness repeated
what he had told the jury before, de-
nying Morgans and McLean's state
ments, and referred to them as man
ufactured testimony"
REORGANIZATION.
In his re-examination by Capt Fus-
sell, the defendant explained how he
happened to have a pistol that night.
He said he was going to Huntsville.
That his pistol had been for some time
at Boyd Andrews saloon; that he had
gone there and gotten it, intending to
put it in his grip; that he went into
the Office of the Bethel House, where
he had left his grip, for that purpose
but so many were standing around thai
he decided to wait to do it.
Conner Akin.
Conner Akin, civil engineer, was in
troduced to explain a map he haC
drawn, showing the location of bull
let hole. Messrs. Geo. P. Webster
Boone Whitaker and c. T. Looney
also testified to this bullet hole, ant
the probable location of the person
firing it, agreeing that he must hav'
been standing near the back door, o
the cellar door, of the Mitchell-Ashle,
Hardware Co. Mr. Whitaker, by re
quest, had stepped the distance fron
the gate of the fowler residence b.
he way of Sixth street, to Mr. fowler
Office. and found it to be 321 steps
he had also stepped it by the Seventh
street route, and found it to be 80
steps.
Sammy Sands.
Sammy Sands testified that Gordo
was sober that night; not drinking a
all that he noticed; and that when h
> left the Bethel House pool room h
told him he was going to Frierson
book store for a book, and that fo
him to tell Henry Benner that h
would be back there in few minutes
Wilson Frierson.
This was a defendants witness, an
his testimony was evidently a su
prise to them. He denied that he ha
told Gordon, the day of the difficult
! that the book had come; said he ha
\ not seen Gordon thatday, nor the da
: before: said he had not at that tim
or any time before the difficulty, to-
!, defendant, or defendants father,
any one else that. Said Gordon Wa
: not a subscriber to any book, but
b flashy magazine entitled the "Se
ret Service" Said Gordon frequent
/, called there at night for the magazin
- but never as late as II o'clock. Tn
10 at that season of the year he usual
q closed about o'clock.
= Ashby Wilkins.
- This witness said he saw Gordt
short while before the shootin,
the office of the Bethel House. TIL
as be left, Gordon walked out the do
with him, and he, the witness, lie
Gordon on the porch or steps of Il