The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-16
JAMES HART HELD
ON MURDER CHARGE
Given a Preliminary Exar1i-
nation Yesterday Be-
fore Commissioners.

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KILL SERGEANT CALLING
MANY WITNESSES HEARD IN
THE CASE.
James Hart, colored, the alleged
slayer Of Sergeant Oscar Calling OF
the Twentieth Company of Coast Ar
tfllery, who was killed at Fort Bar
rancas about midnight Saturday, was
given a preliminary hearing yesJef-
| day before United States Commits
sionier Marsh and ID on the charge
of murder to tn eXt grand jury
of the court. Ms witnesses were
examined in the Sc, a number of
them coming fl = Fort Barrancas.
The woman, wig as supposed TO be
the wife of thefregro. stated that
week prior to shooting Hart had
| told her that hS gould fix" Calling
the next time saw him There
| were no eye Wit ses 10 the shooting,
nor was it RI lied during the in
vestigation at actly what point on
the post gro the sergeant met
his death. JAS r. Landrum conduct
! ed the prosecution and c. NJ. Jones
represented the defendant.
Heard Cry for Help.
Willis Cross. a private of the Sew
enty Seventh Company, and who was
sentry at the post the night that Cat
ling was killed, was the first witness.
He said he was on duty Saturday
night and that between the hours OF
IL and Il o'clock he heard a noise,
apparently made by some one stumb-
ling over some wood in the rear OF
the quarters of DIR. Sanford A mo.
ment later four shots were fired in
rapid succession; then came tho
noise of some one running towards
him crying:
'>Oh, sentry. Oh, senfryI'
He started towards the point
when he heard a body strike the
ground. He immediately awoke the
sergeant of the guard, who with
other men left TO make an fnvesTiga,
ton,
Sergt. Edwards F. GIynn.
Sergeant Glynn was sergeant OF
the guard on the night in question.
sentry and told that some one had
been shot, and the point indicated
where the sentry had heard a body
fall. He took several OF the guards
and was hurTying to the scene when
he stumbled over the body OF Ser
geant Calling The body w8s taken
to the quarters at once, and the wit
ness continued the investigation, sur
rounding a building and making a
thorough search of the quarters OF
Annie Hart, the supposed wife of Jas.
Hart. He said under one of the doors
he found a cap, but was told by the
Hart woman and another woman
staying there that Hart had not been
about.
Lieut.. Wilson
told of orders having been issued for
bidding Hart on the reservation, of
learning a few days afterwards of his
presence and the negro's threat to kill
the Hart woman. He took several
guards and Pound Hart, who was
pointed out by Sergeant Calling.
The negro was taken before the
colonel and then marched from the
reservation and told never to return.
The witness said he had made an in
vestigation OF the room occupied by
the Hart woman and had found a bull
let hole in the jam of the door. This
he said could not have been made
except by some one standing on the
steps and firing the revolver. He
continued the investigation and found
the bullet, which was introduced as
evidence.
Sergeant Higgins the next witness,
stated that he had spoken to Calling
in the Office at IL p. m. Saturday,
and herad him state that he was
going to the house of the Hart wo-
man after some laundry.
Post-Mortem Examination.
Surgeon Snodey, L. S. A. stated
that he had made an examination of
the body of Sergeant Calling on Jan.
IL and found q bullet wound near
the right nipple. which had passed
through the pulmonary artery. The
revolver was evidently held close to-
powder burns The wound, said tho
witness, was one that would produce
instant death. He produced the bull.
let which had been extracted from
the body of the dead man.
Or. J. I. Stanford
stated that he was. awakened about
12:15 a. m. by the Woman. Annie
Hart, who was in his employ and who
slept in the rear of his quarters,
calling % him and asking that be
come out and drive Jim" away as
he was in front of her door again
her. He made an inves-
but could find no one. About
ten minutes later he heard a noise
a. though some one had closed a
window or slammed door, but
thought IT was nothing until he was
called out to see Calling. who had
been shot, and who was dead when
he reached the body.
Sergeant Nielsen was in Pensacola
when the murder occurred and &C.
companied some OF the police 10 tsA
bayou bridge, where Hart was a.-
rested. He saw the revolver taken