Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1912-10-16

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1 I'VE further find that said 4.
!. Sarah Ann Moses fired said 4.
:. sbo, under the impression that 4.
). her life was in danger; there 4.
J. fore we. the jury. find that 4.
J. Sarah Ann Moses was justified 1.
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Joseph Mackin died yesterday
morning from the effect OF gunshot
wounds received last Saturday and
a, six o'clock last evening the cor
oners jury rendered its verdict, as
given in substance above. exoncrat-
ing the woman, who, in fear of her
Me. turned loose a charge OF buck
,bc, with deadly effect.
The inquest commenced yesterday
afternoon at three o'clock before
Coroner McLane in the court room
Of the Superior Court. The occas-
ron was a solemn one, the presence
Of death seeming to hover over the
formal carrying out Of the require
men, Of the law in such cases made
and provided. Mrs. Moses was in
attendance with her husband and al
though from her testimony it was
iden, she felt justified in her act,
he patiently realized that the ques-
non oi whether she would be ex-
oneraicd or be forced to face trial
before the courts, hung in the bal
ancc. The brother of the dead man
va, there through all the proceed
ings and it was a dramatic moment
when the widow of Mackin, bowed
with grief, was brought in the room,
accompanied by a woman friend
carrying the baby who is not old
enough to know of the tragic end
OF its father.
After cmpanelling the jury the
hrs, act was to take the members
to the Ruffner undertaking parlors
where the body of the dead man
rested. A view was taken of the
remains and the jury was shown
the wounds in the right shoulder,
some seventeen in number, caused
by the load Of buckshot.
The first witness sworn was DR..
4! B. McNally. Mackin's attending
physician. His evidence was to the
effect that he reached the side OF
the wounded man last Saturday be-
tween II and IL o'clock. some eight
or nine hours according to the tes-
tmony, after the tragic happening.
Mackin was bleeding profusely from
some seventeen wounds in the right
shoulder and had sustained the loss
Of great amount OF blood. He
removed pieces of clothing from the
wounds. probed them. and staunchcd
the flow of blood. In his opinion
death was caused from shock. fol
lowering the loss of blood The
wounds were infected trifle, bu,
no, sufficiently so. to cause fatal
ending He testified also to CONVEX
saiions had with Mackin both al
the house and at the Mercy Hospital
in this city in which the wounded
man claimed he was shot from a
window of the Moses house as he
was driving by. and it was his i'm
preston that il was woman that
did the shooting, although he could
not be sure.
DR., McNally was positive the
buckshot entered the front and
ranging downward came out OF the
back OF the right shoulder, which
would indicate that Mackin was fac
ing Mrs. Moses at the time the sho
was fired. However Deputy Sheriff
JOS Young. the next witness, wh'
protested to have had some expert
ence with gunshot wounds, claimed
Mackin's back must have been Il
Mrs Moses, his contention beinI
that the wounds are smaller at tn
point OF entrance of the missile ant
larger at the point Of exit IL
was present at the time DIR. Nc
NaIly examined the wounds o
Maekin and held the head OF tn
injured man while the physician
was probing the wounds.
Mrs. Moses was naturally the wit
ness around whom the most interes
conferred. She took the stand an
Told her story in q calm and collect
cd manner under the guidance @
her attorney, Richard Talbot. Onl
once did she threaten to give wa
10 emotion and that was when sh
was telling of the beating adminis'