The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-13
NO VERDICT YET ~
IN HAYDEN CASE

CFrom Tuesdays DallyJ,
No verdict had been reached this
afternoon IN the case against officer
Harry Hayden for the killing Of II,
w, Scott IN the Mitchell saloon on
the Bowery last March. The argu-
mont In the case closed this morn,
ing and the court charged the jury
about 10 o'clock,
Had Weakness for Drink.
l.. j. Scott a well known con-
tractor Of Canyon City and. Plainyiew
is the prosecuting witness In the case
although his testimony merely has
to do with minor details OF the dead
mans life According to hs testimo-
ny yesterday his brothdf II. W..
Scott, the man who died as q result
of the pistol wound inflicted by the
officer was fifty-five years old and
had wife and family atiVernon.
The two brothers had had very little
TO do with each other for nineteen
years, and l.. ]. Scott testified that
his brother had been involved in Sc
rlous difficulties before, On one oc-
caslon he was shot five times by an
other man. The dead man had been
victim TO weakness for drink
for many years. At the time OF his
death, II. W. Scott had told his
brother that he was soliciting bust
ness for some hotel dn Amarillo.
An Unfortunate Bluff.
A man named Mayfeld from Clay
county New Mexico, told the story of
the shooting on the witness stand
yesterday.
Il had just stopped over in Anna
rillo and went to the saloon that
evening with Santa Fe brakeman
they call windy" We got couple
OF bottles of beer in the Mitchell
saloon and went to the back room to
drink them. We stood near the back
door and didn't notice the two men
up near the partition much. One OF
them, the officer here who Is the de-
PENDANT was talking in a low voice
to the other man and wasitrglnglto
make him lie down. ~'Ifyou don'tlIie
down he said, 'andr STAY OFF the
streets, I'll throw y0u limHnth take
you down TO the 1aii. 5dt'Nosl sou
won't, the other mani yeileds7out,
There amt none Of youqa9ae-- onf-
Ulcers can throw me iff aud lwhllelhe
said It he jumped up and wasrgach-
ing into his hip pockets stnom nc
Bluff Made Spectator Jump.
"He was lookin almost right at
me, and when he reached that way
| Jumped behind the door. Just as
turned there was a shot and the
next thing / saw the officer was cas-
ing the other man down on the floor
and trying to put out fire which
the shot had made In the, mans
clothes, He told me 10 get some, wa
ter and got It. I was there 9Th the
doctors came, didn't really see the
officer draw his gun. 3 de. mHst have
drawn It as l turned}t9r =, rs'
From the effects of the shot which
NayfIeld described, Drs Shirley and
Lumpkin told how the man had died
the next morning at the sanitarium
The bullet had ranged down and
torn a hole through the mans body.
Officer Harry Hayden, the de-
PENDANT, when put on the stand told
how he had attempted to make the
man behave himself and keep off the
street. lie drew his weapon to pro-
tect himself when the man made the
threatening motion, In the flash of
the moment and the apparent need
for the weapons use the hammer
slipped from his finger and instead
Of simply being held in readiness to
stop dangerous move on the part
OF the prisoner, the gun was dis
charged with the result described by
the other witness. s..