Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-14

| c. Cant you tell me what build ino or what store your office is in? A. Yes; it is pr. Cooks office. He has an office building of his own and have an office in there with him. Q. That is on the east side of the street, isn't it? A. Yes, on the east side. z. What did you hear HuddIeston say to him about collecting that priv ilege tax? A. I didn't hear him.
 2. What was the amount of that tax?
 A. Two dollars
 Q. You didn't hear any of the con- versation there at all?
 A. No, sir. Q. Then you don't know of your own knowledge that Wolschansky re- fused to pay it at all A. l know the marshal told me he did.
 c. You know what I am asking you. You don't know of your own knowledge whether Wolschansky ever refused to pay that tax or not, do you? A. know he did. C. How can you say he did when you say yourself you didn't hear any of the conversation between them? A. l can say because the marshal said he did and I know he did.
 O.. And yet you didn't hear him ask for it?
 A. No. know he did it, though.
 Q. Where were you when the pistol fired?
 A. I was standing just about four or five steps north of the hotel and four or five steps out in the road; about the middle of the road
 Q. What were you doing standing there at that time?
 A. saw them going together and naturally stopped to see the result.
 Q. Weren't you in the hotel when the gun fired?
 A. No, 1 was not.
 Q. Who was with you?
 A. There was no one with me.
 Q. Do you know when Mrs. Hud- dleston, his wife, came out of tie hotel? | A. Yes.
 Q. Didn't you come out right ahead of her?
 A. I did. l walked back and told MT. Ferguson that Mr. Huddleston was killed.
 Q. You were standing there look ing when the shot was fired?
 A. Yes.
 Q. You knew that he was going over there to raise row with Vol schansky?
 A. No, I didn't. l knew that he had gone over there to serve a war rant.
 Q. You say you saw him take his gun and hit him on the head with it? A. Yes.
 @. You say the powder burned his shirt right here (indicating)?
 A. Yes.
 Q. Did you make an examination of his body to see that?
 A. No. didn't.
 Q. Did you see that the same oul- let shot hole through his shirt col lar as it went up?
 O. Now you tell the jury that you saw him take the gun away from him and shove him back and hit him and shoot him and burn a hole here Gndi- cating). and the bullet struck him there (indicatingl and came out up here (indicating)
 A. Yes.
 c. While he was still standing?
 A. He was pushed back this way (illustrating).
 Q. He didn't have hold of him when he shot him, did he?
 A. No, sir, he didn't.
 Q. How far below the collar was the shirt burned?
 A. judge about here (indicating); pretty close to the collar.
 c. About how many inches?
 A. Possibly three or four inches below the collar.
 c. And then ranged up through the collar here and came out up here (indicating)?
 A. Yes
 Q. Now it was more than two hun dred feet from where you were to where this trouble occurred, wasn't it?
 A. We'll, hardly think so; possibly it might have been about that far
 Q. There were a good many people about where the trouble occurred, weren't there?
 A. No, sir, there was not. They were all good ways away from it.
 Vt. W dSD pOp ILIlClSOH III SV ICCI of it?
 A. No, Sir, he was not.
 Q. You know Mir. Cooper. the sta tion agent, don't you?
 A. Yes.
 Q. Isn't there little platform that extends out from the edge of the depot toward where the shooting occurred?
 A, Yes, sir.
 Q. Wasn't MT Cooper out on that platform at the time and didn't you see him standing out there at that time?
 A. No, sir, l didn't. I wasn't lock ing for him
 Q. Didn't the trouble occur be- tween the railroad track and that plat form that extends out therefrom the north end of the depot?
 A. It started in there; yes.
 O. If MT. Cooper was there he would have been as close as to the farthest man on the jury over there to the shooting, wouldn't he?
 A. That IS according to how far he was out on the platform 70. If he, was out near the end of Az Yes, he would be pretty close