The Alaska daily empire., 1913-07-24

first saw it?
 Alt was up about this high, about like that. (Holding his hand near the chest.)
 Q.-Now, when he was talking to you, how close to your face did he get the gun?
 Ale had it right up against me, he had it once against me.
 Q.-So he was right close to you?
 A.-Yes, sir; he was walking up.
 Q.-As you were backing off?
 A.-Yes, sir.
 Q-After you saw the gun what did you next do?
 Al grabbed it.
 Q.-How did you grab it, with what hand?
 A.-With my left hand
 Q.-After you had grabbed the gun, what did you next do?
 Al got my gun as quick as I could.
 Q.-Where did you have your gun?
 Al had it in this front pocket.
 Q.-In you pants pocket? A.-Yes, sir.
 Q.-In front?
 A.-Yes, sir.
 Q.-You never carried gun in your hip pocket?
 A.-No, sir.
 Q.-When you got your gun what did you do?
 Al shot him through this wrist.
 Q.-Then what happened?
 A.-Then he grabbed me and swung me around and I shot him there, thought it was about here, but the tes- timony shows it was up here.
 Q.-Did he let go of the gun after you shot him through the arm?
 A.-No, he didn't; he was pulling the gun out of my hand.
 Al fired another shot, I thought it was one-I found out afterwards that I fired two.
 Q.-Then what happened?
 Ale let go of the gun.
 Q.-Did you fire any more shots after he let go?
 A.-No. sir; did not.
 Q.-What did you do with his gun after he let go?
 Al dropped it in my pocket.
 More lmpeaching Testimony.
 The testimony of Mrs. Marks, who said she had witnessed the shooting of Jones. was further impeached yes terday by Fred Heber, clerk in the Treadwell store, who said that when he was running down to Douglas to get physician for Jones, he passed Mrs Marks we'll on her way toward that place. He said that he had waited on her at the store, and that she had left the store in time to get nearly to her destination before the shooting.
 MT. Heber also corroborated the evil dence of R. A. Kinzie and others that have testified to Jones' confession that it was all his fault. He said that Jones asked God to help him because ''it was all my fault"
 Willis Testified to Confession.
 J. R. Willis, now of Goldendale, Wn., who was store keeper at Treadwell at the time of the. Jones shooting, said that he heard Jones, after he had been brought into the store, say: God help me, it was all my fault" He also said that he had seen the gun in Mac Donalds hand that the latter said he had taken from Jones. He said that he met Macdonald at the door of the store, and he said to him 'it was a case of him or me-"
 Lord Told Him He Was Wrong.
 J. B. Ledbetter, who was at the Treadwell store on the morning of the shooting, but who is now merchant of Goldendale, Wash, testified that he helped take mattress out to Jones upon which they brought him into the store. He testified that Jones talked rationally when in the store after the shooting, and he said: "the Lord had shown him that he was wrong, and that he wished he had shown him last night, or shown him sooner, or some thing to that effect"
 Daniel Webster, manager of the Treadwell store, an employee of the store at the time of the shooting, said that Mrs. Marks had left the store four or five minutes before the shoot ing.
 Jones Attacked Macdonald.
 J. H. Mcdonald, who is in charge of the bridge and building department of the White Pass railroad, at Skagway testified that he had passed MacDon- aid only few feet on his way to the boarding house on the morning of the shooting. He heard the men talking and heard Macdonald say stand back" or "stay back" He turned around just in time "to see Jones grab Macdonald" The latter was "back, ing toward tl,t fence and they were in clinch. I heard four pistol shots. Then the witness saw Jones back of, he went sidewavs and hackward, f,,r