Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-14

saw q couple OF volleys fired from IN
aide the garrison. He heard the men
walking on the barracks porchcs ana
heard some one say: Where is tho
damned stuff? Get 1t going"
cARETAKER MARTINEZ.
Theodore Martinez, the caretaker Of
the Yturria house. on the corner of
Washington street ana the garrison
road, was awakened by the shooting.
could not say whether the shooting came
from the inside of the garrison or from
the cage OF the wall He found bullc.
holes in tie Yturria house the next day.
having an alignment from the bar
racks.
Tamayo, scavenger OF b company,
testified that he was near the garrison
gate. He heard q shot toward the gar.
rlson wall, but thinks 1t was outside
the wall.
Al THE CowAN HOUSE.
Proceeding north now TO Fourteenth
and the Cowan house on the southwes.
corner of the alley aud Fourteenth
street, 1t appears that there had been
children's party at the Cowan house.
AT the time Of the shooting there were
In the house only Mrs c'owan, the six
children and the maid, Amada Martin
ez. Mrs. Cowan and her daughter wers
In the dining room. There were lights
in the house. As the firing approached
Mrs. Cowan called all her children and
rushed to her room and put them under
the bed. while the maid rushed TO the
windows OF the boys bedroom, near the
alley, to close the windows AS the
maid got to the window she saw the
men come opposite to the house in the
alley. and by the light from the kitch-
en- recognized them AS negro soldiers.
The Cowan house was shot full OF bull
let's. The dining room lamp was shat
tered by a bullet and another bullet
broke plate glass in a wardrobe and
was found behind the glass. Mrs.
Cowan and Louis and Gertrude Cowan.
describe the working. of the guns and
the crashing of the bullets.
SHOOTING INTO GARZAs HOUSE.
CARA lived in the CARA house Just
across the alley. He testified to the
shooting into his house but was not
able to say who did 1t.
JUDGE PARKS LETTER.
On the northwest corner of the alley
and Fourteenth street was the back of
the Leahy hotel There were three
rooms in all that looked out into
Thirteenth street toward the Cowan
house. One room was on the corner
of the alley and was occupied by Her
bert Elktns. The next room was occu-
pied by Judge Parks. The third room
Leahy, the proprietress, went when she
heard the firing. Judge Parks is dead,
ana the only evidence from him is
letter which he wrote to his wife the
day after the shooting. Mrs. Leahy
testtfies that she heard the firing from
the garrison and that from her window
she was able TO look across the block
a nd ha ,at.
racks of company B and from there
saw the flashes OF shots fired from that
porch. The three witnesses with 9TH
ers who saw them at other places, de-
scribe the movements of the men who
did the shooting as being under order
and having the march of soldiers-tbat
is, in f1les-wl,h q leader who gave the
word of command. These three wit
nesses say they were able without the
slightest doubt To recognize the men
who did the shooting as negro soldiers
In khaki uniforms The witnesses de-
scribed the proceedings OF the men, the
shooting and the number OF bullets
that were nred in the middle of the
street, some of the bullets striking the
rear of the Leahy hotel,
LIEUT.. DoMINGuEZ.
While the men who did the shooting
were at the Cowan house, Lieut.. Do1
minguez a policeman OF 20 years serl
vice, and one of his men, Padron. had
come down from Washington 70 Four
teenth street, and stood at the corner
of those two streets and saw the shoot
ing and recognized those who did the
shooting as uniformed men. AS the
men went up the alley. Dominguez and
Padron proceeded in parallel line up
Washington street to Thirteenth and
turned into Thirteenth street. Domin-
guez met another one of his policemen.
Ramirez, and these three proceeded
toward the intersection of the alley and
Thirteenth street, Meanwhile the squad
proceeded up the alley passing the
house of DR.. Thorne, q physician.
WHAT DIR. THoRNE HEARD.
Or. Thorne was aroused by the shoot
ing and heard the men go by his house
in the alley as he lay in bed not more
than 10 or is feet from where the men
were. He heard their conversation
and heard them utter words indicating
their desire to shoot somebody who was
going by. He testified with great GER
tainty that the voices were the voices
of negroes.
A short distance beyond the Thorne
house the men who did the shooting
came to the Miller hotel, on the south
west corner of the alley and Thirteenth
OF the police department passing along
Thirteenth street, and two volleys We're
fired by them at him and his horse.
Dominguez testified that he passed
within 20 feet OF the men as they came
out OF the alley. He was able to iden-
tify them as colored men In uniform.
His horse was shot twice. and he was
shot In the arm and his arm shattered
so that II had TO be amputated.
WHAT THE MooRES HEARD.
Mrs. Moore and her husband were in
a room IN the second story of Millers
hotel on the side looking toward the
barracks; could see the flashes of the
guns. They heard the second volley
as they started down the alley toward
the Miller hotel. H. heard the ex-
pressions OF the men as they saw Do
minguez and called for a volley at him.
They testified 10 eight bullet holes IN
tho hotel inside and out. Moore rec
ogni2ed the negro voices.
THE oDINS EVIDENCE.
The next room on the second floor OF
Miller's hotel was occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. Hale Odin, with five OF their
Mr.. and Mrs. odin we're looking out
OF the window as the men came up
They heard the remark which other
witnesses report calling for a volley at
Dominguez and the expression OF sat.
lsfaction AT having hit him. one OF the
men iired OF point blank range at them.
The bullet struck the screen, through
which they were looking and went into
tho ceiling and through into the room