Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-09-13
HE WAS DYING

CONVINCED HE WAS DYING
J Miss Boil another nurse said IIud
son was apprchcnsivc he was going
10 ole' some time after midnight
'Shcu nm TO make Il statement
i'oo"' inc shooting" she said, "and
nc Saia that he didn't feel like talk
'hS: lie seemed too weak to talk. He
made no statement as to This affair
I" me. was Ill and out of the room
all night" '''''
Did he consider himself in a scri
Gus condition."
Yes, when I took him word that
"'S 'ho'ner ana sister were on their
way TO winchester he said he would
not NC tlcrc that he would not live
to see them" ''''
Judge Brent asked tho oitornovs
the commonwealth TO present an
wv i'''S on the admission of such
~ ms STATEMENTS, saying. 81 will he
very frank with You. That isn't nv
'ue' OF dying declaration and il
! my mind" w ~'''"6c
Judge Tavcmcr, for the prosocu.
.'o'' argued that Il dying statement
H ; h"' nave to be reduced to writ
n5 vi SO Iabcled il ii was a stotc-
-, -, niue under the apprehension
" " 'he patient that he was going IN
w. lhe boy stated that he did M,
""'o'' 'i';il ne aid not soc Shacklcrord
| ,,,n' ana ana not think he did n
at".'ii'ent made when in Il dying con
" ,'', i"clhg his Maker mt a time
"neh Il man tells the truth. Jc did
even expect to live until his moth,
enner. '"'a' l"'
After discussion of some lero, an
cn"i ''ies' without waiting to h,or
! t co Mr. Wendonburg for the do
! .eise judge Brent ruled: II decline
~ ~ aamit that rs a dying declaration
noie IS no use OF any further dis
o''S ION. Call the jury back and nro
'eeo with the next witness
FOUND ON THE TWO BODIES 4
ernest Duff, policeman OF Win
chester told of the officers brinpinp
III the TWO men on the morning arinr
thc shooting. He piloted them 70 tho
hospital where Hudson was left ana
'hen TOOK the body Of Shackleford
10 an undertaken. II. G. A. Funk IN
"haeftaker of Winchester told NJ
nooy OF Shacklcford being brought
III about A. M. He searched tho
poche's ana mail contents, including
aolIie letters to Shackleford's wife
III ataleigh, N. c., and sent the body
~ 'NoT'h carolina. He gave a hand
lul or cartridges from Shackleford's
eo"t pocket to Prohibition Officer
Sullivan
Dr. Boyd, again recalled, told of
taxing from Hudson at the Hospita,
his bnnk book q receipt q pistol and
some cartridges. The pistol was IL
small cot revolver with five bullets
al inc magazine and one in the bari
Ae1' 4here We're fifteen bullets in all !
SIX IN the gun and nine extra. He
also exhibited the receipt found on |
Hudson for ID. l.. Richards and Co. |
of Baltimore for twenty cases or 24o :
quarts of Old Forester whiskey MT
$500 dated March 25, 1919.
Holmes Irwin a Justice 81 Tho nooco
at Woodstock told Of going to the
garage in Woodstock and telling the
manager to allow no one to disar-. ,
range the curtains, as they would be
used as evidence. He described tho
curtains as he saw them with bullet
nolcs IN the mica, with rough edges
broken inwards and black marks on
the OUTSIDE The rough edges of all
four holes were on the inside, he tes-
titled.
DRANK DEAD MANS LIQUOR.
Herman Coca of Fishers fill tes
titled that he lived within 800 feet
OF the scene Of the shooting He and
his family heard no shots or noise
that night but between daylight and
sunrise the next morning when the
two officers who took the injureo
men to Winchester had returned he
testified that he saw them standing
on the ground about the bootlcgger's
car drinking out of bottle. He iden
Tired Hall as one of~those he saw and
identified Sweet as the man who
came to his house to inquire where
the sheriff lived.
'Whcrc did they get this bottlc?"
! Out of the liquor car. | saw them
TURN the bottle up to their mouths.
Ihcy got it out Of the Haynes car.
The car had not been moved at $50
a. M. the following Sunday.
MT. GOOD said he found some emp
~ cartridges and one loaded cartridge
IN ms garden about twenty feet from
where the cars had been standing.
! tie did not know Shacklcford or Hud
'@on ana there was no underbrush
10 ohS'ruct the view from his house
lie said.
! AS to these gentlemen taking a.
| drink. haven't you changed your evi
oehce since the preliminary hear
ing? asked Mr.. Wendenbure,