El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-14
ATTORNEYS ARGUE LEGAL
POINT IN LEIGH TRIAL
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world laughs with you; weep and you
weep alone and your memory is good
on that scorer"
Yes"
Leech again detailed the conversa-
tion between himself and wife, and
added that his wife told him, Two
weeks ago he (Kohlberg) met me and
asked. aren't you going to get rid OF
that old fellow. He's broke and no
good -
after the balance of the conversa-
ton with your wife you went to Pat
tersOn & Wallace's office and not find
ing them there, came down and met
Shorty Ingram" said attorney Howe.
Your memory is good on THAR"
Yes
NOW isn't it fact that Shorty Ball
himself gave you that gun, instead of
Ingram?'
No"
Where is Ingram now?"
Il don't know the last I heard OF
him he was down on the west coast
of Mexico. I've tried to find him, but
can't
Then you went down to Kohlberg's
to adjust the rent?'
II went down to see if he would adj
nit any doings with my wife"
WHAT would you have done if he had
admitted it?"
Now, that's hard for me to answer.
know what did do"
Describe Entry of Store.
Leech then again described his entry
of the Kohlberg store, but his CONVEX
sation with Kohlberg, as detailed on
the cross examination, was somewhat
different from his direct statements.
After entering the store, Leech says
he went to where Kohlberg was sitting
and said:
Il see you done it."
What did you refer TOP asked the
attorney.
What he had done to my wife,
what did Mr.. Kohlberg say?"
"Go talk to my lawyers and agents.
What next?" Leech was asked.
Il asked if we couldn't fix things up.
Why did you send me a dun for $1175
when 1 only owe s765?"
He said: You've got money for the
races but none for rent, and go and see
my lawyers"
Leech stated that Mr.. Kohlberg then
got up from his chair and started to-
ward the back of the store, and that Il
complained of the hard times and the
difficulty Of raising money
Il told him my wife needed to go
to a hospital and he answered: On
your wife and you, too
guage that I didn't understand to Wal
ter, and they both started at me.
Then 1 said, Yes, and d-n you, too.
1 see it all.
"Fired as Fast as L Could
Then 1 fired as fast as 1 coul0. L
didn't lose any time about it.
You didn't IRE to stop them?" asked !
the attorney.
NO, fired to kill him." was Leech's |
reply.
''Wno?"
Ernest Kohlberg"
Leech described his actions after the !
shooting, stating that he went to the !
old Eastern Grill cafe building because |
Il didn't want to get any innocent per- |
son into it,
'If any innocent person had come !
they would have got into it?''
Yes"
You didn't lose your head when the |
officer came?"
No, for 1 realized he would protect |
me to the best of his ability"
you understood all the time and |
realized the consequences"
Yes"
Redirect Examination.
On the redirect examination by at
torney Wharton. Leech stated that Mr..
Kohlberg was so mad he wouldn't talk
to me, and it was impossible for me
to restrain myself"
He also denied ever having made
any threats against Mr.. Kohlberg and
that he had thought the world Of
Horace and Charley Stevens"
Not even in a jest have I ever made
any threats against Kohlberg," Leech
stated.
On the recross examination con-
Quoted by attorney Howe, Leech was
asked if he had ever made a statement
to Mr.. Still, a bookkeeper for Mr..
Stevens, that "I ought to put a hole
through HIM"
NO" was the answer
The question asked by Mr. Howe
contained the statement that judge
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