Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-08-28

the abdominal cavity was also of a
serious nature.
He did not probe the wounds. The
bullets which were extracted were
turned over to Judge Philip p. Bar
bour. DR.. Rentfro stated that there
were seventeen wounds all told. All
of the wounds were above the waist
line, except those that we're in the
back.
DR.. Spohn, the text witness, tes-
titled that he was in the Lafayette
Cafe at the time Of the shooting. He
said he heard six or seven shots,
four in succession and two or three
after a pause. He said he found the
body lying next to the curbing, with
the head resting upon the curb.
While in the restaurant, and just
before the shooting, DR.. Spohn stated
that he heard someone calling, Joe,
oh, joe" but did not know who was
calling, nor who was being called.
Within a few seconds after the call
he heard the shots ring out, and ran
to the outside. He made a hurried
examination of a few of the wounds,
and assisted in getting the body off
to the undertaken.
On being cross-examined by the
defense, DR.. Spohn stated that he
had examined Crixell's pistol, and
found that no shots had been fired
from it. No other witnesses were
examined before noon, at which
hour the hearing was adjourned
until half past one.
Capt. ]. NJ. Fox, who arrested
McAllister, was the first witness in
the afternoon. He testified that he
had been talking to some friends
about thirty minutes before the
shooting, at which time he saw erik
ell ride by on horseback, and spoke
to him. When the shots were fired
he rushed across the street, and
found Crixell on the street paving
with his head some six or eight
inches from the curb. McAllister,
he said, was standing about the mid
die of the sidewalk, three or four
feet from Crixell's body. He immed-
lately arrested McAllister and took
him to Jail.
Captain Fox testified that Meal
lister had two pistols. One was a
Colts automatic, with which he did
the shooting, and the other was a
Lugar automatic. He took the
Colts from the prisoner on arrest
ing him. The Lugar was taken off
McAllister at the Jail. Capt. Fox
said that the pistol used by Meal
lister was n that the prisoner had
used when he was in the ranger
service under Capt. Fox. He testi-
fed that seven shots were fired, and
that there was one bullet left in the
barrel of the Colts when he exam
ined it. The witness said he heard
no words between the two men
prior to the shooting.
Mr.. Fox was not examined by the
defense, which at this point asked
that the rule be invoked covering
the exclusion of witnesses from the
court room while others were tes-
tifying. Only two witnesses were
sen out, the others being officers.
j. NJ. Dwyer, acting chief of po-
lice, was the next witness called.
He stated that when he heard the
shots he was in a moving picture
theatre nearby, in company with
his wife. On hearing the first one
be started out, but his wife held him
back. He told her he was an officer
and must go. Within a few seconds
he reached the scene of the shoot
ing, and recognized the man lying
on the pavement as City Marshal
Crixell. He said that DR.. Spohn aud
Judge Barbour were there already,
so far as he could remember. erik
ell, he said, was alive and he no
ticed the wounds in the hand and
breast. He took Crixell's u from
the scabbard, and kept it in his pos
session until at the hearing yester-
day, when he turned it in as evil
dence. The pistol was fully loaded.
J. H. Krafts, the next witness,
testified as follows:
MY names is j. H. Kraft, and my
home is in Chicago, Ill. For the
past four years | have been in Texas
with headquarters at San Antonio.
representing and travelling for the
compiling department of the Scien-
tiic American. / was in Browns
Vile on the night Of August 8, 1912
| vas stopping at the Hoyt hotel.