Semi-weekly herald., 1908-04-30
The Mason
vanderweide Trial
(From Mondays Daily J

Walkers gun up from where it lay
beside the body. and put it in his pock
ct He took weed and examined 1t
10 see If the shell under the firing pin
was loaded or empty. He afterwards
put the gun back where he found it,
knowing by dent in the ground just
where ii had lain. When he came up
ont of the shaft he noticed splash of
blood on the rocks about four feet
from the pool of blood and about six
feet from the body. There were eight
or ten drops or spots OF blood between
the pool and the body. He saw Walk
Gers hat in the bottom of the gulch
about II feet from the body. He
showed on the map where two shot
gun shells were found by Harper Nov
.. and indicated marks on the map
showing the course of horses tracks
and the tracks Of a man. He and Har-
per had made an examination for
tracks about an hour after they came
out of the shaft, and found some and
trailed them. They came from the
bottom of the gulch to the shaft and
down the hill to the bottom of the
gulch. There were no nails on the
boots of the man making the tracks
lie saw Cunningham, Crawford and
Dennison on the hill near the upper
shaft; could tell one had a Winchester
and the other had what looked like
pistol al "A distance OF 1,100 feet. No
one got nearer than Is or % feet of
The body. He had gone across the
euich 30 or 60 feet and there stood
guard over the body, warning the
people as they arrived TO not go near
The body. Where the body was found
the dump is abrupt, but where the
blood spots were found 1t is more
fiat. He and Harper followed the
tracks until they joined the trail and
then quit. When he returned Walk
ers gun to where he had picked it up
from Mr.. Pulliam and others were
present.
David +. Camp of Greeley, who had
been marshal there, testified that he
had known Walker 16 years Knew
how Walker carried his gun. Walker
had shown him once in Greeley, once
in Denver and once in Boulder. Walk
er advised him TO carry his gun the
same way, and that was with the trig
ger on an empty shell or chamber.
Walker had shown him his gun once
,uff In hnv I, Ill
and once on an empty chamber.
DR. Lefurgey, coroner, testified as
to the blood pots substantially the
same as the other witnesses. The mys-
terry as to who removed the sweater
from Walkers face. which developed
in the cross examination of George
Goodman, was cleared up by DIR. Le-
furgey saying he had removed 1t. He
stated that he found one wound In the
left side of the neck. The bali had
come out on the right side. One wound
was about four inches further back
and going downward and coming out
on the opposite side. There was an
other three inches behind that; two
on the left forearm and three on the
back on the left side and shoulder one
inch from the spinal column. None
of the bullets entering the back or
shoulder came out.
Tom Harper's testimony was lis
tened to with interest, as he was the
man who climbed out of the shaft He
corroborated great deal of the tes-
timony already given by other wit
nesses. He said that as soon as he
got TO the collar of the shaft he saw
Walker and called to him. He ran
his hand under the vest to feel of the
heart, and saw the blood on the clothes
and face. Looked at his watch and 1t
was 1880 a. IN. Lowered the tape and
got the rope up and the others came
out Walkers glasses were thrown
back on his forehead. The feet to
about the knees were over the edge of
the dump: The body was about ten
feet from the shaft. He noticed the
hat in the gulch about 30 feet away.
q He saw about six feet south of the
Douy ON the SIDE OF the dump ana
about level with the body pool of
blood, and two feet further up an.
other pool, with blood spots all around
tChapson had laid the sweater over
Walkers face to keep the flies of
He and Chapson made an examination
between IL and | O'Clock for tracks
Decided to look up what evidence they
could before the coroner arrived
Found the tracks of man and horse
in the gulch. From this point he saw
three men near the top of the hill. One
seemed disinclined to come on. They
then came on a little further wher
this man seemed to balk. Then two
remained ON the ridge and one came
down near the shaft. The tracks
went TO the bottom of the guich
Could not trace them onto the dump
The horse which came down the hill
jumped. over the small break into the
brush; the other tracks came down In
10 The gulch to the trail. They late
traced the horses tracks over by thu