El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-06

no one on the inside Of the office
/ but that Jack ANDERSON, and mes
! senser boy named Fred Dreseher, were
/ on the outside He did not know now
/ many shots Jack ANDERSON had fired,
I he said, and added that he did not
1 know that Jack had fired any VIII
/ had had words with his brotherinlaw,
and said to him that his brotherinlaw
/ had drawn knife on him He did not
say any more" the witness said 7
| had not heard about any litigation
pending between them"
The witness declared that none of
I the messenger boys carried pistols, and
he did not know that Jack Anderson
had a pistol He stated that the pls-
tol that viii Anderson had was always
on hand, and that when VIII ANDERSON
worked the night shift he had the pis-
tOl there. He stated that he had made
a casual examination Of the place and
! thought there were four bullet holes
on the inside of the building, two, he
said, being in the partition, one in the
door, and one behind the door.
The impression made by the bullet
in the partition must have been fired
from the outside" the witness said TT
looked like a spent ball had made the
brUise. The bullet must have been
fired from the outside unless there
was some one in the office who did
it It could not have been made from
either by some one in the office or
some one in the street"
Significance Attached 10 Bullets
It was at this point that an indica-
ton was given as to what Importance
the holes made by the bullets in the
office OF the Bellevue messenger ser
vice may play when the case goes to
trial Mr.. Moore, who was conducting
the examination of the witness, rose
and went to the double windows which
lead from the 34th district court room
to the balcony in the rear. To Illus
trate the point that he was trying to
bring out by the witness relative to
whether the marks on the door had
been made by bullets shot from the out
side or from the inside. he opened and
closed the window several times. That
the defence viii introduce at the proper
time evidence to show that shots were
fired from the outside into the build
ing was patent in the close examination
of the witness on the point of the char
acter OF the marks made by the bullets
in the door and other places where the
witness had testified that he had seen
them
The witness testified that he did not
know how many shots were fired
That he was angry when he could not
get the police station over the phone.
He stated that four rifle shells were
found and that he had been told there
were two shells fired in the pistol. He
asserted that he had been in charge OF
the office, and acting in accordance
with the instruction OF the police, he
had left the office in the condition that
il was on Saturday night when VIII
ANDERSON was shot.
He made the statement that on &C
count OF the height of the bullet marks
in one of the doors that a man must
have been standing on something when
the shot was fired.
shooting Occurs In Back Room.
Just Anderson and Casey were in
the back room when the shooting oc-
Cured the witness testified
He said that he had seen the buggy
across the street, and there were three
people in ii. Casey, he said, came over
to the office alone. He was sure that
there was no shots fired from the di-
rection of the buggy. The witness said
that he had looked for some Of the
balls but had not found any. but he
understood that the detectives had one.
Jesse c. Stansel who was in the