Weekly journal-miner., 1918-04-10
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EYE-WITNESSES DESCRIBE. KILLING OF ROBT. MIL LER BY BUD STEPHENS IN BRUCHMAN'S STORE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
CFrom Thursdays Daily)

nt NOlollti ghi NiiNi iAlNb eN' ! tcrday afternoon to inquire into the killing of Robert Miller by Bud | Stephens on Tuesday, listened to the testimony submitted by eight wit ncsSes. and then adjourned until two o'clock this afternoon. at which time, in all probability. after the testimony i of two more witnesses is heard, the | jury will reach conclusions upon | which report can be based. Dr. R. N. Looney
 1 The first witness to be examined was Dr. K. \. Looney. the physician who performed the autopsy on the. body oi the victim. Dr. Looney said 1 that there were four wounds in the mans chest, one of them apparently ! being an entrance wound and the 1 other three exit wounds. An entrance wound, said the physician, was us uallv round and made a clean cut 1 into the flesh Exit wounds were us- ually distinguishable by the fact that the flesh was badly torn and the holes were ragged and irregular in shape. | There were seven wounds in the back. according to the testimony o! i Dr. I.ooncv. Two of them were on
 the left side of the spine and high | up in the back. Five of them were
 on the right side of the spine. One
 bullet had penetrated the flesh ncaT the left arm pit and another had gone f in about six inches below the arm pit T Another ball entered just above the
 right arm pit An exit wound was
 found slightly above this location.
 One wound was located about 3II
 inches above the right arm pit and
 two others were very close together,
 several inches below this spot.
 Undersheriff Robinson
 | Undershcriff ]. II. Robinson was
 next called. The officer told of the
 manner in which young Stephens had
 surrendered at the shcriff's office a few minutes after the shooting
 Stephens. who was accompanied by his father. hurried into the office and
 exclaimed. I've killed Miller and l
 want n surrender Here's my gun.
 The boy handed the officer his Colt
 and a handful of cartridges. Robin
 son sad that he had directed one of
 the iail attendants to lock the boy
 up. and had then hurried to the scene
 of the staying Arriving there he
 picked up five empty shells. There
 had been one empty shell in the gun when the prisoner surrendered it to
 him. he said. }lr. Robinson searched
 Nillcr's body to ascertain whether the
 man was armed, and told the coroner
 that he had found no weapons of any
 sort.
 Lester Ruffner
 Lester Ruffncr. who had prepared
 the body for burial. was next called,
 and told of how three bullets had been found on the floor of the store : in which the killing occurred, and of how one bullet had been found in the dead mans clothing.
 F. J. Heil, Jr.
 F. I. Heil, IT., one of the princi- pal witnesses on account of the fact that he was present when the final chapter of the tragedy took place, | followed Mir. Ruffner to the stand. ! Mir. Hcirs testimony was substantially
 as follows:
 At about 3:30 o'clock I was going north on Cortcz street on my way to
 the postofiice l was in front of Tim erhoff's drug store when a heard scv- eral shots fired in rapid succession. 5 Believing that they came from Bruch- mans clothing store, l hurried toward that place, which is next door to Timcrhoff's, and as I reached the en- trance 1 saw Bud Stephens standing s over the prostrate body of Miller, tn: lad being in the. act of cjecting som shells from his revolver. l asked Bud
 what he was doing and he rcpli:d,
 'You get ont of here Just at that
 moment. Joe Stephens, the boy $ : father. whom had first seen in front
 of the Penny store, just to the north,
 came into the clothing store. Stephens
 ST. yelled in loud voice to his son. . Did you get the s- -" Appar-
 cntly encouraged by his fathers pres
 ence, Bud, who had in the meantime slipped two more shells into his gun, fired two shots into the prostratc
 form on the floor. Stephens ST. then stopped over Miller's dead body, and said, That --- got just what was coming to him alright. Come on, Bud. let's go over to the sheriff's of- 1 flee Bud did not make any reply 10 the old man, and the two left the |. store at once. am sure that the lad fired twice after he had reloaded his gun, the shots hitting Nliller's
 body between the neck and shoulder
 on the right side. Bud attempted to
 shoot three times. but the third time
 the hammer merely snapped, there |, apparently being no cartridge in that chamber. When l first reached the