The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-15
TESTIMONY At INQUEST
TELLS TALE OF CRIME
CROSS QUESTIONING THROWS
MUCH LIGHT ON INCIDENTS
LEADING UP TO TRAGEDY.

a
comins ALL witnesses were excluded
from tbe room Harry Waller was
the first nerson called To the stand.
n was waller who had accomnanied
T. Gilbert Luchesi and lack Turner
;. and Constable Harrington to the
ed-1ipht district when the officers
= were making their regular round.
WalIer's testimony In substance was
as follows.
"T had gone with Gilbert toward
. the dance hall. saw the woman was
= greatly excited and moment after
Gilbert had left heard several shots
in the room. rushed to the door
. and inst as iumned into the door 7
!. saw Sanders falling straight hack
+. over the trunk.
:. Waller did Not shoot.
"J Immediately ran to disarm him
+. and saw that he had NO gun. 7 saw
= blood on his face and then ran back
. to Ci,bert and knelt down beside
= him Gilbert told me the man did IT,
sI had nv gun and had head ON
y Sanders hr+ did not fro a shot -"
waller said that T,uchesi then
= rushed IN and had a pun In his hand
!. His pun was nointed over the wit
+. ness, shou,der bnt he told I,uchesi
. NOT tn Are because Sanders was dead
. roth rooms were lighted and the
witnass not;cad that the trunk an
!. neared az though II h1H inst been
= rummaped Waller did not know
. whether Gilbert had fred a shot Int
= asserted that the shot that killed
. Sanders was fred in the room where
Sanders stood waller did NOT see
: Sanders gun at all. Waller was the
: first man in the house. following Gill
. hort
eT d,d NOT shoot at all" he testi-
. ,ed "hut T would have felt justified
. In cheating 7 was called in to
holm CiIhert and 7 would not have
hesitatad a moment IN shoot him had
: he resisted. I certainly would have
shot him /"
"Somahodv aid a nrettv eood iob
. Land we, wonld like to f,nd ont who
. did r. (" said Allen G. Bragg. mem
. hor ~ the iurv
. f,ontinuinp bis Testimony Waller
. sa,1 that n was his oninion that San
i. dars had shot himself
Gilbert SufYered Agony.
"Did Gilbert tell YOU to take his
. eunq" asked Judge Cartwright.
at will toll Won what he did saw
70 and still # doesn't seem right to men
q. tinn If right here. don't know
u what he Thought. He asked me to
D. law INV pnn down beside him. That
lie was when T nicked his gun ND. |
E. thoueht at that time he was suffering
>. greatlv and nrobably wanted to fin
I. ish himself and thought perhaps his
eun was empty.
~ 1T didn't know that he had fired
to ,, a,,n 7 nioi,aa n nm and handed
OF ~ 70 Mr. Harr;npfbn !"
n;d Not ReIoad Gun.
II Judpe Cartwright then said that
IN iust;ce tn waller he wanted to ask
s ono moro onestion. and that as to
IL whathar waller had changed any of
r. tha shol,c in his pun after the shoot
TT inv occnrred
+ e.No cir =" wa,,er renlied. but I
,u ndarstnod that somebody had made
ss .Lo uo,,,orL thot i bod shot this man !.
his mas aftar had heen around
"a snnoo time had run several errands.
s. .mant For water and the like and after
tsn, hoa hanied the hodv away and
~ .m~y o,a ex;rg to shanl Mr. Gilbert-I
ne va waiLad ~ the dance hall and
ee .hora haard tbis remark
"T nm1Iad INV gun ont from the
u t,hard onened II nm before Mr..
a. a. R;esbv and Mr.. MeCarty for them tu
ne io,s i, Tha harraI was clean and no
1I 4tc hod Hrnd
Sh41o n"u o than asLad if he had
n ,aI,oa thro"oh the barrel tn which
at hn ron,;nd that the gun was per
~ fac+lv clean as II had been cleaned
's' aenyo, neu.S 'iH aovs hefore ~ did NOT want
oa,n;n,, fnrmed that had shot
the om" :" he aaid
III" ,.th,,r Imcbes; var;f,ed Waller's
,r 60 'n IN dotail and said that he heard
s'oIS ~ enod ;ust as he stenned
u snot hreu ~ 'usI d He cold that
yMaI,ar was inst ahead of him and
WaiieI wal, u,o,,er ~He jun had bic omn in his hand
nj wnoie y,ahas; " an wes % nanvinced that Sanders
LuSnS. M 60 tbo iast shot The shot
hau no .a;d 1u came from the hack room
ne ' Ma,,or could not have fired that
anu wao .:.,o,,t ,,obns; know;ne If He
Snot ",nou. roisa of the hack of thf
to heasa ~ ;ndicate that anyone had
M MOUSE W o., tta hocL door :
III left the place by the DacK aoor.