The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-02-24
FAILS TO EXCLUDE DYING
STATEMENT OF WOMAN
SHOT BY OAVlCGE.
ATTACK ON DAUGHTER
To Discredt Her Statements Was
Substance of Testimony Of
fered by Defense-Ar-
gumerts Today.

Ter case Yesterday 1t was given by
VIM Boren, Arthur Mattingly and Or
g. z. Gordon. and related principally
to what they saw and heard ON the
scene of the tragedy and shortly
thereafter and wha. the murdered
woman told them. Over the almis-
.ien OF the testimony Of Messrs.
Boren AMI Mattingly tae,a had been
| 4 contest al the session uf the court
the day before. and there was an
other such contest yesterday morn
me over the admission of the testi
uony of Dr. Gordon Ia both eases
| the defense objected TO the admi--
,ion OF the testimony and I'm both
asses the court override the objae-
/ ions after hearing the testimony ana
| arguments by counsel on both stiles
Mr.. Boron was first placed on the
stand. He resided near the HI b
School; heard the shots and The
cream Of a woman got his pistol
| nd hurried i'm the direction whence
the sounds had come: found a woms
IN lying on the ground near TIE -
rance to the High School basement
In reply 10 his question What is the
matter?" the woman sail she was
| shot and asked him 10 summon
| Ioctor and a conveyance to take her
home. He went to F. A. Smiths
residence near by to telephone pc,
ice Headquarters and call necessary.
1elp: on bis return the woman was
still living in the same position. When
ne first got there no enc was near
the woman he and Arthur Mattingfv
got there about the same time; when
| be returned after having telephcnad
for help. Mrs McClamey said in re-
Iuly TO questions that Walter Daydge
| had shot her; that she went there
| looking for her baby girl that size
could have shot them both but did
not want to; that she only wanted
her baby girl. A young girl came
m to the woman and said to the
woman you are not hurt and the
latter replied that she was The
woman said she would die and drew
two rings from her fingers which
she handed TO one Of the bystauders
telling him what TO do with them
also told where she had some money /
10 pay funeral expenses ami said sh
wished her daughter sent to Tupelo. |
Miss, where she had relativ-s
Arthur Mattinsly who resided In
the neighborhood and was on his
way home heard the shots and thu
scream, and hurried toward the To- |
caIity whence they came. He cot
there about the same time that Mr.
Boren got there; saw some one run
ming away. but could not tel if t |
was a man or woman; found th-
woman lying on the ground; sha said |
Walter Davidge had shot Eer and1
that she was gazing to lie. Witness
testimony was confederation OF
what the previous witness had
stated.
DR. Gurdon's testimony was very
important in that IL gave the WON
ans diving statement very fully. lie
was called 10 attend her at the hos
pital, found the wound was I'm the
abdomen and ranged upward enter
ing about two inches from the uaya
and lodging IN the spine. cutting
through the iutestiues He knew the |
wound was fatal but tried 10 encCur
age the woman to believe she would |
get Well She said she LEFT home u !
meet her daughter on ear a Hcl- /
brook AM Twenu-hfth streets, the |
girl did not come and she started
back home when she beard voices on
the school house grounds going
there she came upon her daughter
and Dayidge i'm the inclined gang
way 10 the bIsem emit She told her
daughter to come with her when
Davidge interfered SAYINGS NO ylu
won't: Bonnie viii 20 with me-" she
insisted that Bonnie should come
with her and Dayidlg Ice shot her. Sic
had a pistol in her hand holding itI
down by her side, hidden under hrrI
shawl and she believed Dav.dee sass
It. as she was excited. she repeatedly |
declared her belief that she was
going to die. and he tried to eucour
age her to think otherwise
Although severely cross examfn j |
by Attorey Leek none OF these wit |
nesses were shaken in their testi- /
mony.
The Defenses's Testimony
The prosecution concluded its testi- |
mCny with the witnesses above |
named and court adjourned for the |
noon hour After noon the defelee |
began introducing testimony anil
took up nearly all afternoon I'm ell
forts to discredit the testimony rff
Bonnie McClarney the prcsecuti-n's I
chief witness Their first witnGss|
was Chief OF Police Eeau who It'd /
what Miss McClaney hal told him
Just after the tragedy. as to how if
occurred. which differed from wha.
she afterwards .olI mainly as 10
who fred the first shCt The rira
first statement was that her neither
fired the first shot and she explained +.
afterW ards that she thought tits be-