The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-04-02
about like that desk there, writing
desk like that.

desk like that
@. What kind Of a looking mar
was Gus Johnson? A. He wash
hardly as tall as me, not as heavy as
me, and he had some gray hairs, moi
dark, a little sandy, not very mucn
and he had mustache and goatee on
his chin.
o. This shot was fired in the room
A. Right in the room where we sat
@. Did any of the pellets hit the
wall? A. couldn't say.
@. Didn't examine the wall? A
No.
@. How big room Is that? A.
guess it is as long as this one, a
little wider.
@. About y or IA? A. Something
like that.
@. Where was he sitting? A. Sit,
ting on the side of the table.
@. Against which wall? A. That
table was sitting against that wall.
@. Would that be the west wall
A. Yes, west end, one part Of the
table was sitting against the wall.
@. Where were you A. I was
on that end Of the table on the north
end
@. For instance you take those pill
lows as being the table against that
wall, where were you? A. About that
far Gndicating) while he sat where
this man is lying.
@. What was he doing? A. We
was talking there, we just got done
eating I guess and we was talking
about something.
@. Did you say anything to him
just before you shot? A. Never said
a word to him.
@. What was the last thing he said
to you? A. The last thing he says
to me, will stay at home today and
you take the load of wheat we have
loaded to town, just as near as | can
think now.
@. And this contract that you had
there, he never signed that? A.
wrote that thing myself.
G. And signed his name to it? A.
I signed his name to it.
@. When did you do that, after
wards or before A. I done that
when I went to town that day. l
wrote than on a tablet on my knee
when I went"to town. I wrote it on
the road going to town on my knee.
I have a fountain pen.
@. You were born in what place in
Texas? A. Hakew.
@. How long did you live there?
A. Something like a year, little
over year, then we went to Pine
vile, Kentucky.
@. How long did you live there?
A. I was five years old.
@. Where did you go from there?
A. Louisville, Kentucky.
@. How long did you live there?
A. Eighteen months and my father
er's sister. She was, my aunt and
stepmother both.
@. You didn't get along we'll? A.
Us children got along all right but
my father didn't seem that he could
get along with her all right and one
day my father came in the house and
i was the baby then and he said,
goodbye, l am going, and he says,
may never return. never seen my
father any more until '97 guess it
was and my brother D. Marion Noah,
he came to Louisville after me and
my other brother Willie and brought
us out here to Indian Territory and be-
fore he come after us had been out
through here but I hadn't been right
in this country. had been with Sells
& Forepaugh's Pony and Dog Show
and had been all over New York state
and all over Michigan and Indiana and
Wisconsin and Missouri and Texas
and Kansas and oh, just strolled all
over the world pretty near and then
Fthey busted up in 1904 down in Hell
sena, Missouri, thirty-fve miles from
Boonville. Then I went up where my
stepmother was in Kentucky and my
brother came out and I came up with
him. My father had been married to)
an Indian and mad had three children
by an Indian woman and I stayed
home and I enlisted in the army at
Coffeyville, Kansas, on the 26th day of
January
@. What year A. 1904, the same
year we came out in the first part and
/ enlisted in the Stat part in the fall