The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-06
PRESCOTT
CASE AGAIN
On Trial as Principal In A.
legged Attempt 10
Murder
(From Thursdays Dally)

(rTom thursdays Daily)
The Prescott case for which one
Of the accomplices plead guilty and
is now serving a term in the peni-
Tertiary, is again before the district
n court and the trial will consume all
unSiteday and part Of tomorrow. The
Dese was called yesterday immedl-
ately after dinner, the choosing of
the jur took about half the after
noon. and taking OF testimony began
yesterday.
For Attempt 10 Murder.
Prescott is held charged with the
attempt to murder w. II. Reese on
a night In last August. The case
caused great excitement at the time
as Reese was well nigh fatally in
Jured and escaped death only by the
most careful treatment and nursing
Prescott was the principal in the
case and with him were Aisle Pres
cott' his son, boy OF IS years, Ed
Barnhill and W. T. Groves.
Reese was the husband of Pres
colts former wife and the difficulty
grew out OF the marital troubles of
Reese and his wife in connection with
her children who were also the chill
dren OF Prescott The children. AL
sic especially, who is a delinquent,
complained to Prescott, who was
working here last summer with
concrete gang that Reese abused
them. Bad blood had existed for
some time between the two men and
on the night when the difficulty oc-
Cured, the boy hunted up Prescott
and told him OF being mistreated by
the step father. Hereupon, accord
Ing to some OF the testimony, Pres
colt said he would kill the dog, and
later In company with the boy,
Groves and Barnhlll, the party left
the red light district where they had
been spending the evening and came
up town along Harrison street Near
Third street they met Reese who
was coming home from town.
Here the testimony varies as to
what took place, but people in the
adjoining house testified that Reese
yelled for help repeatedly and that
a few minutes later he staggered
into one of the houses, bleeding pro-
fusely, from seven or eight stabs and
slashes in his abdomen, wrists and
back
Reese himself says that Groves
caught and held him while Pres
colt cut him. Prescott denies that
Reese was held at all but says that
Reese drew a gun on him and that
he defended himself with his knife.
In the former trial, however, Groves
plead guilty to being an accomplice
and took the sentence of the court
He is now in the penitentiary for his
part OF the crime. A revolver which
Reese admits was his was found on
the scene of the cutting the next
morning. The weapon had not been
discharged and bore no blood stains
Reese says he did not have 1t with
him at the time of the cutting but
that other members of the family
knew where 1t was and that they
might have placed 1t on the ground
to throw suspicion upon him.
Another Conviction Yesterday.
A short shift was that given Fred
Fields yesterday morning, Fields is
a railroad laborer who forged a check
for a small amount, bearing the name
of Mr.. Brinkman who lives northwest
of Amarillo, to a check which he
passed at the First National bank.
He had no money with which to pro-
vide counsel for himself and the ev-
idence was plainly against him so he
threw himself upon the mercies OF
the court by pleading guilty. The
jury promptly found verdict in &C
cordance with his plea and fixed his
penalty at two years Imprisonment
the lowest penalty under the law for
the offense.
TSYEW
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