The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-09-29
Undertaken Testifies.

chueTtdker eStificS.
I. d. Hanson, the undertaken, testi-
fled as to services rendered in han
ding the body after death. Witness
stated that he was in his store across
the street when he heard the shooting.
He rushed out in time to see Downey
falling. He saw Ed Cornett, brother
OF the defendant, go into the store and
noticed that he had a pistol in his
hand. He did not see Henry Cornett.
Rushing across the street, he was pres
ent when Downey was laid on a bench
and stayed with him till he breathed
his last. He then took possession OF
the body and embalmed it.
Eyewitness on Stand.
Walter Pack, clerk in the grocery es-
tablishment of H. X. Ellis, in front OF
which place the tragedy occurred, told
the story of the shooting as he saw it.
He stated that he was standing near
the front of the store on the south
side of the building when the sho-s
were fired, He saw the tragedy
through the open door and through
plate glass window. Henry Cornett
was standing in the double door lean
ing against the right side, wne was
leaning against the left ~ Downey
walked around Henr TAd he heard
/ Downey say that = "a It know there
was . mortga Ast tho place
A Later snry pull a pistol
land n strike at Cornett ap-
pssf 1 him II. the chest. Cor
nett was knocked back some, he
thought, by the force OF the blow.
Witness stated that 1t seemed to him
a long time from the instant Cornett
pulled the gun until the first shot was
fired. He said that Cornett threw
down. on Downey three times before
the first shot came. At the first shot,
Downey knocked the gun up. He
was then some three to five feet from
Cornett. At the second shot Downey
stepped back some going toward the
southwest toward the edge of the side
walk and at the third shot he was near
the edge, where he stumbled and fell
into the gutter.
The important points in his testi
mony was that Downey was further
away when the second shot was fired
than when the first shot and still fur
ther away from Cornett when the third
shot came than at the second shot.
He stated that the three, Ed Cornett,
Henry Cornett and Faunt Downey
were in the store previously and Ed
wanted some groceries. Pack stated
that he was busy waiting on lady at
, time and told Cornett he would take
! his order as soon as possible. He
! heard the three engaged in some sort
of conversation. but paid no attention
, to what was said.
e Groceryman Up.
H. K Ellis, proprietor of the store,
was lHC lliSI WithCSS NdliCu W tA1
D stand this morning. He related the
\ story as he saw it, the extent of his
a testimony covering the last two shots
and subsequent happenings.
r Mr.. Ellis stated that when the first
shot came he was in the meat box
It near the rear of his store. Hearing
IS the shot, he rushed to the front of the
IS store. The first scene that met his
o vision was that Of Downey staggering
s in a southwest direction. Cornett ant
e Downey were then, he estimated, abou
j four to five feet apart. AT the seconl
II shot, when he changed his course AM
stepped, or staggered, little north A
the third shot the men were some eigh
e. to ten feet apart. He heard no word
4. uttered by any of the three. After tn
n third shot, Henry and Ed Cornett cam
is into the store. Both had pistols i
v. their hands, but he did not remembe
ID that either said anything
Mt Witness had known the Cornett boy
lg ten years aud had been acquainte
he with Downey five years. Downey wa
ed a brother in law of the Cornetts, h
nd having married their sister.