The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-09-06
HARRIS LIFE IS
NOW IN HANDS
OF MASON JURY
Jury Agreed as TO Guilt But Unable to
Agree So Far on Degree Of Pun
ishment-Report ut 1910 But
Returned to Room.


attorneys on both sides were very
careful as to their questioning they
were less than two hours in securing
twelve men to try the case Only two
by-standers had to be summoned af-
ter the panel had been exhausted be-
fore the jury was complete. The men
who were chosen follow:
o. l.. Bartlett, auto merchant.
Rose Campbell, farmer.
Charles Fleming, retired farmer.
Thomas E. Downing, farmer.
c. L. Bramel, farmer.
Nate Drake, farmer.
George Grant, farmer.
Amul Huber, farmer.
H. r. Childs, tobacco man.
Charles Talley, farmer.
G. W. Royce, insurance agent.
s. A. Shanklin, farmer
The prosecution opened the case by
he introduction of Mamie Hawkins,
who was probably the chief prosecut-
ing witness. This colored woman lives
very near where the shooting took
place near the rear of Mr.. Sam Halls
home in the Fifth Ward. She said
that she was first attracted to the al
ley where the killing took place by
the sounds of screams. She looked
through her window and saw Harris
firing into the body of his wife who
dropped to the ground. She said she
then went to her front door and saw
Harris go UP the alley toward Forest
avenue. In a short time he returned
hands in front of him and holding a
revolver in them. She said he went
to where his wife was laying and
lifting up her hand fired three more
times into her body but she did not
know how many times he fired the
first time.
Sudio Donaldson was attracted by
the screams of Mamie Hawkins and
came into the alley. Later she went
into Mamie Hawkins home and look
ing through the window with Mamie
saw Harris when he came back the
second time and lifted up his wife's
arm and fired three shots into her
body
Watt LTlatnhar cold hn wac ctanIiDp
in his home near by and heard the
first shots. He went up into the alley
and found the girl laying there. He
said she was shot and could not talk
but was not dead He returned to his
home to send the alarm in to the
police and did not see the second
shooting.
Jim Hawkins testified to having
seen the girl lying in the alley after
the shooting and to having helped car
ry her to her roeming house nearby.
Undertaken r. G. Knox said he pre-
pared the body for burial and testified
that there were five shots in the body.
One in the right eye, one behind the
right ear, one in the right jaw, one
near the heart and one in the abdo-
men.
Former Chief of Police Mackey tes-
titled to the arrest of Harris at his
home on Fifth street in which every
member of the police department took
part and to a conversation with Har-
ris in the Jail on the next day in
which Harris said he met his wife
near the L. & ~ depot on the night
of the killing and walked home with
her.
John T. Maokey, salesman at Mike
Browns store said he sold Harris
twenty-five cents worth of cartridges
carly in the evening and that the
negro cane back to the store about
eight o'clook at Night and purchased
more.
Officer Martin brennan, who ar
rested Harris, said that the negro told
him that he had accomplished what he
wanted to do-kill his wife.
When the court adjourned at noon
Sheriff Calbraith was sworn to keep
the jury together and took them in a
body for their dinner.
The first witness after dinner was
Moreland Walker, the man who Har-
,is shot when Walker attempted to
put him under arrest Walker has
been confined to his bed since the
shooting and was brought to court in
an automobile under a special order,
He was carried into the court room
in chair by two colored men. Walk
err testified that Harris shot him but
the prosecution was unable to connect
Walkers testimony with the case on
trial
At the conclusion of Walkers testl-
mony the prosecution rested and the
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