The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-15

| MI .tfkGf H0ftA " S&t lCofntI Oi lnt dl4t5 and 14th street, was the back of the Ieahy Hotel There were three rooms Tn an ell that looked out onto 18th street toward the Cowen house. One { and was occupied by Herbert Elkins The next room was occupied by Judge Parka The third room was empty. in ! to which Mrs. Leahy, the proprietress l firing. Judge Parks Is dead and the only evidence from him fs a letter | which he wrote to his wife the day sf-
 Mrs. Leahy testined that she heard ! the firing from the garrison, and that | from her window she was able to look | across the block to the garrison and and from there saw the fiashes of shots | hred from that porch. These three 1 witnesses were all aroused and ur when the men appeared before the out of the slightest doubt to recognize l the men who did the shooting as negro | soldiers in khaki uniform. Part of the squad started toward Elizabeth Street. but were called back by their leader. 1 While the men who did the shoctins were at the Cowen house. and crossing Fourteenth Street to proceed up the al , ley. Lieutenant Domingues, a policeman | his men, Padron, attracted by the shooting, had come down Washington Street to Fourteenth Street, stood at recognized those who did the shooting as. uniformed men. As the men went up the alley Dominguez and Pardon proceeded up Washington Street appa~ rently to head the men of at the al and as he went up Washington Street. he met another one of his policemen, Rarnierez, and these three proceeded toward the intsrsection of the alley Meanwhile the squad of men pro- ceeded up the afleyA passing the house of Dr. Thorn. physician. who had whosa room in, the house running back from Elizabeth Street was immediately on the alley. Dr. Thorn was aroused by the shooting and heard the men go in bed. He heard their conversation. and heard them utter words indicat- ing their desireto shoot somebody who was going by.
 voices of Negroes.
 He heard the working of the guns and testified with great certainty that the voices not ten feet from him were the voices of negroes. A short dis tance beyond the Thorn house, the Miller Hotel, which stood at the corner of the alley and Thirteenth Street. and there. as they came to the mouth of the alley. they saw Dominguez of the poilc9 passing dlOn8 Tnlrteentn street on a white horse. and two volleys were firsd by them at him, and his horse
 Domfnguez testified that he passed within twenty feet of the men as they came out of the alley, and that in the light that was shining he was able to identify the men whom he had seen on Fourteenth Street as the colored men in uniform. His horse was shot twice and he was shot and his arm shattered so 1t had to be amputated.
 Mrs. Moore. the wife of the proprie- tor of the botei, was in room in the second story of Miller's Hotel, on the window looking on the alley She and her husband sat in the window looking toward the barracks. They could see the flashes of the guns They heard them at Cowens house, heard the volloys; heard the relocating; heard the second volley as they started down the alley toward the Miller Hotel. They dropped down behind the window wall near enough to the alley to heard the expressions of the men as they saw Dominguez and called for voIley at him They testified to eight bullet
 Moore recognized the negro voices. Mrs. Moore cannot be certain. Mir. and Mrs. Odin heard the shooting at the. barracks coming north and they took position at window on an alley near a bed in which was sleeping boy II years of age He stood up in the bed so that the three of them with their heads together were looking out
 Called for volIey. i
 They heard tue remark which other witnesses report. calling for a voiley at Dominguez and the expression of satisfaction at having hit him. One of the men below then took his gun and fired at point blank range at them. The bullet struck the screen through which they were looking. struck the lower sash of the window which was raised and went into the ceiling and own room Mrs Odin said that the bullet went through her hair; that her face was snarted wit what she thought was powder from the gun; that the have been much more than Twelve feet from where they were standing. Mir. Odin testified that in the light of
 ace of tSe wHo rsS ssS tss the was that of a freokled or speckled face negro. squad of seven and then a squad of five, one man led each squad, and that in the light of the street lamps and the flashes of the guns they were able to count twelve and that they were all negroes in uniforms, three or four without hats, three or four in shirts. odin testified that he saw them return. ,4Ll uouDi0 Q0ACk QOWn the alley toward the barracks some minutes af- tsrward after he had heard the firing in the neighborhood of the Tiilman sa- loon.
 Other guests of the hotel, a locomo- tive engineer and a locomotive fireman, one from the second and the other from the third floor on Thirteenth Street, testified to seeking negro soldiers cross the street. The clerk of the hotel and guest of the hotel who were on the ground floor and who secreted them selves in the same room. heard the the cartridges and the guest who was very near to where the men were heard the voices in the direction of Domgin- ueS and recognized the voices as those of negroes. Two other guests swear
 Fired on policemen.
 As the squad crossed Thirteenth Street after having fired the volley at Domlnguex and shot into the Odin room they fired a volley to the eastward on Thirteenth Street toward the. two po- policemen who had accompanied Dom Einuez from Washington along Thir- teenth Street toward the alley. but had stopped before reaching the alley and retreated. These men testify that they saw the armed men at the alley and Street 6Gfond Washington and hiding behind a wall in the next alley and the other going up washington Street from the Thirteenth. They both testify that they saw the squad go around the cor ner of Thirteenth and washington where there was a street light and where they both again recognized them
 The squad apparently had divided into two, one going up the alley to Tillman's saloon and the other going east on Thirteenth street to Washing