The Falls City tribune., 1909-07-23
through the fleshy portion of the

Ills ieSllllulA is iHUtfttHt do
showing that Meek had been shot in
the hip before he went TO the hotel,
and that whoever shot him was stand
ing at right angles to the direction
he vas facing,at the time, making
Meek, the target for at least TWO as
~sailants. Holbrook was thought to
be the man who shoot Meek in the
hip, while the street fight was OF be-
tween Davis and him, but this is
mere conjecture.
The report is in the hand writing
of Mr.. Aug. Schoenheit, long Il resi-
dent of this city, but who only the
day before had arrived at Falls City,
had been asked to supervise the post
mortem examination as he was a law
yer and was willing to accommodate
the sheriff. | was in the state of ILL.,
nois on the day of the trouble and
therefore had no personal knowledge
of the facts, but as | came to know
tiitii uilti Waiuo, L was IN oi"ts -
have been, of opinion that Davis was
not the man who killed Meek. The
circumstances, and the location of tn
parties, made it impossible for Davis
to have killed Meek. Meek went up
a stairway leading from the north.
That brought his right side to the
west. When he got to the top of the
stairs he had to turn his face to the
west to see into the room where
Davis was; that would bring his
right side to the north. If Davis had
shot Meek at all, the ball, instead of
hitting him in the right side, would
have struck him in the breast, but
That was not where he was shot.
There vas a narrow passage or hall
upstairs OH the east side of the stair
way, withsa door opening into a bed
room In the northeast corner of the
hotel. about the size of the room in
which I3aYis was on the other side
of the stairway. This latter door
was located at the north end of the
passage or hall, while the door on
the other side, opening into the west
room where Davis a was at the
extreme south end of hat passage, so
that when Meek turned at the top
of the stairway to attack Davis, his
right side would have been exposed
to any one desiring to shoot him
FROM the door at the north end of the
passage, and whoever shot him was
at that door or near it in the passage.
The circumstances all contradict
what Mcfarland said about who
killed Meek, and besides have an
other and convincing reason for know,
ing, but | shall not give it here-that
Ills whole story was a fabrication.
Davis had emptied his revolver in
the street fight, or he would not have
used it as a CLUB when Meek at
tackled him in the hotel. Every cir
cumstance points u%nerringly to the
fact that some one other than Davis
killed Meek. DIR. Dunn was upstairs
in the hotel when the murder was
done, but he was not in the room
with Davis. That he was suspected
of completely in the killing of Meek,
is shown by the verdict of the jury
sitting in the inquest: to-wit:
And we the jury do further
find that one DR.. T. J. Dunn was
concerned in the preparation of
said violence and death as an ae-
cessory.'
From what premise hat conclu-
sion was drawn, does not appear in
the evidence returned with the re-
port of the coroner The general con-
census of opinion of those who knew
most about the facts was that Dunn.
and not Davis, killed Meek. Certain
it is,that Dunn was never in Falls
City afterwards, and in a very short
time left the country and has never
lived here since. So ended the
bloody chapter, but not its prenici-
Gus effects. Meek was killed instant
ly, but Davis died of the wounds re-
ceived in the fight the day after.
They were both brave but reckless
men, and both were looking for
trouble that day, and found it in
abundance.
The report OF that days awful
doings is before me by grace of our
accomplished and accommodating clerk
of the district court, Mr.. Charles Lo-
rec, who kindly placed it at my dis
posal FOR the purpose of this sketch,
and for which l am greatly obliged.
1t is worn and old; it's inkfaded, and
the wasting finger marks of time are
apparent on every sheet of the paper
it is written upon. The witnesses,
the jurors, the physician who per-