El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-05

~HARLES QUALEY was shoI and
killed by a soft nosed, or 'nI1sh-
~ room" bullet, fired from a IS
csliber single action Colts; but a
course was taken by the bullet hat
is d puzzle 70 sheriff Seth B. ON
dorff, one o. the witnesses a. ne
preliminary hearing Of william 8.
Russell, held on = charge Of killing
Qualey. saturday morning in the 33th
district courtroom before justice A. j.
Hall According 70 Or. L. q. WitEe--
spoon. the bullet entered near the EFT
riuple emerging q the right sl1e,
-oinE theme into Lhe right arm, from
when u was extracted
The bullet then turned over 10 the
Sheriff, was found NOT tp have muSa-
foomed." and its nose was flallcaed
5ust a trifle, emerging with Al I'M
Dress Of the fabric Of QualeyS coat
such little change had the bullet IN
,,erEone 5hat the sheriff demonstrated
10 a reporter that IL could stint IL IN
the blank shell
JudEinE from the points OF en-
trance and exit, Dr.. Witherspoon said,
1T must have passed through the left
lung. the heart, the right lung and
The upper part OF the liver
Capt. Veuter Testifies.
po1fre captain 8 Il. Veater tssti-
fled 10 having been called TO Hotel
sheldon the night OF the shooting.
Il went 70 the house manager, ne
said. and asked what had happened
1 had heard a man was killed there
and the one who had done the shoot
ing had taken refuge in the hotel
placed men around the hotel and with
Two witnesses, I went upstairs, COM
r1encine 10 examine one room after
another. I had also placed men 70
I knocked and a man answered i'm
mediately. I stepped back a minute
and one OF the witnesses I had with
me whispered, That's the man you
want (Witness here identified Rus
sell in the court room as the person
r went into the room and talked d
objects to saConversation."
Hehe r. z. Thomson one o.
the attorneys for the defence
entered q vigorous ooJectlon I.
The conversation saying tnaJ
Russell was then under arrest ana
nothing said TO the officer was al
Missile. In connection with the oD-
lection, witness was asked II he ar
rested Russell as soon as he enleIeu
the room. He relied IN the negative
but said in response TO another ques-
lion that he would not have let MIN
Russell. get away Judge T A tal-
1-ev. one of the special prosecution al
torneys. suggested that the CONVERSE
rfon he heard and that the court then
decide II II become part OF the
record. After further argument
county attorney ". H Fryer and dis
trict attorney Leigh Clark taking
part, the court overruled the ob1ec-
tioH, the defence reserying an eIcep-
Gives Location Of Gun.
Capt. Veater then resumed his tes-
Jimony, as follows; I commenced
10 search the room and he (Russel)
spoke I'd and said, II the gun is
what you are looking for, you viii
find il in that little drawer N that
table"
At this point the gun was intro
fuced into evidence and identified by
witness as that he found in the
driver. II was q IS caliber Colts
single action, No. 15z,254 J. l. F
Witness said there were four loads
in the weapon, one discharged shell
and one empty cylinder when he
took II in Russell's room
On cross examination, conducted by
attorney Thomson, witness said Rus-
sell had made no efforts to get away
the officer.
Sheriff Finds QuaIey's Body.
Sheriff Seth 3 Orndorff testified
10 having been called to the scene OF
the shooting just after IL took plac,
and he found Qualey's body covered
with q sheet A. P. Coles. r. II. Dud'
ley and others were present eaid tn,
sheriff. i searched the body anC
found some money, a small penknife
q steel rule and a few other LITTLE
things. I also examined the wound