The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-08-13
he was shot in the back.

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an Interpreter. and win Davis serve,
the court in this respect Once tn,
witness answered for himself in Eng.
FISH. The witness said that he LIVED
at Augusta, Ga, and that he had beer
about the Greek stand where tn,
tragedy was enacted about an hour
and half Dr. Smith had been there
| most of the time. lie saw the doctor
go down the street several times
and come back again He also saw
Dr. Smith go over to a car that had
stopped at the Arlington, and where
a young man in a light suit had got
ten on the car. DR.. Smith had look
| ed in the car. The witness did not
| know about what was said when
Shannon and the doctor met on the
walk. He saw all the shots. The
| men he thought were about 12 feet
apart when DR.. Smith fired first. He
| saw a pistol in DIR. Smiths coat
pocket, the handle down, and the
barrel sticking out. The barrel was
a blue one. He said the doctor drew
his pistol from his hip pocket. He
did not know what went with the
other pistol He was sure he had
seen pistol in Cr Smiths coat
pocket, and was equally sure the
doctor pulled the one he used from
his hip pocket
On cross examination he told Of
where the car stopped, and the young
man got on The reason he watched
DR. Smith was that the man who
owned the stand there asked him to
do so. That was about half an hour
before the shooting. Shannon was
going north on Central avenue. Wit
ness saw DR.. Smith take the pistol
from his hip pocket and start shoot
ing. Witness knew that was not the
pistol that was in the coat pocket.
Witness did not know what became
of the pistol Dr. Smith had in his
coat pocket. lie had seen the pistol
in the pocket just little while be-
fore the shooting,
IF you saw the pistol why didn't
you call attention to it?" Mr. Muir
ply asked, the question of course to
be interpreted to the witness.
81 was scared the witness answer
ed promptly and without interpreta-
ton either way
The witness said he did moi see
DR., Smith put any pistol near the
| dead man, and that il DR.. Smith had
done that he would have seen it.
On redirect examination the wit
ness said he did not know what was
done after he had gone in the restau-
rant, Immediately following the
shooting.
| Recalled, the witness said that il
vas white barrel pistol that DR.
Smith had in his hand, and that il
was blue barrelcd pistol that hc
had seen in his coat pocket
Dust Demos, another Greek. sale
that he had no permanent home. He
was there about or s minutes be.
fore the shooting. The men wer,
five or six feet apart. AS Prescott.
ing Attorney Randolph continued Il
ask questions the witness attemptet
to answer all by himself others, ant
finally was excused as it was appar
ent nothing would be obtained from
him
w. r. Wolfe, lives at Tedfield
Jefferson county Arkansas. an,
stops at the Beldin house. lie wa
at his door looking out when h,
heard the first shot, saw the seconC
shot fired and the young man had hi:
hands up. At the third shot he salt
the young man was falling to The
pavement. He heard nothing tina
was said.
| G. w Dodd lives at Mariana
Arkansas. and was sitting on tn,
porch of the Bedding house and saw
a man coming up the street. and saw
another man rise from the bench anC
start shooting. The one on Tho
ibench put his hands up.
| Police Officer Wheeler told of ar
resting DR.. Smith. He said DR.. Smith
| gave him the pistol and three shells
were empty in it. Gap, Pm the mar
that did it," he said DIR. Smith told
him. He said that when he got back
he and others were picking up the
| body of shannon when officer Evans
| picked up a pistol that had dropped
out and handed it to Doc Wall and
| that Wall handed II to hir
Doc Wall testified that he was
helping pick up the body when tht
pistol slipped from the clothing as
the body was picked up and fell into
the basket that had been brought tc
remove the body. He was certain
the pistol fell over into the basket
He said there was lot of grease ant
oil on the pistol, and that It would
| not work.
| Harry Leach, young boy. testi-
| fled that he was there when the body
was picked up and that the pisto
| was on the ground as they started tC
pick up the body and that it did not
| fall into the basket