The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-02
Preliminary Hearing of HI. G..
Hogan Held Today.
He Is Charged With killing
Man at Grove.
MUCH TESTIMONY INTRODUCED
X-Ray Picture of Dead Mans
Brain Shown.
Shooting Said To Have Grown
Out of Old Keud.

Just the lame, the halt and the
blind are in the town of Grove today,
the remainder of the population hav-
ing eaten an early breakfast and left
for Topeka where the preliminary
hearing of II. G. Hogan is being heard
before Judge Rad Lee in the court of
Topeka. Hogan is charged with
shooting William Smith. so years old,
and wounding George Uhls of Grove,
on the night of April 5.
Hugh Fisher. county attorney, is
taking no chances on any of his wit
nesses disappearing between now and
the trial in the district court should
Hogan he bound over and he has
testimony to introduce that will take
all of today and the greater part of
Monday to complete. Hogan. who was
section foreman on the Marysville
branch of the Union Pacific, sat be-
hind his attorneys, Otis Hungate and
Ed Rooney, and part of the time
played with his little boy who alter
mated between sitting on the laps of
his father and mother.
Picture of Dead Mans Brain.
r Photographs of the scene of the
shooting, X-ray pictures of the brain
course of the bullet and the shotgun
used by Hogan played a part in evil
dence presented by the state.
John Jolley, Conductor on the Union
Pacific, testified that he talked to
Hogan the night of the shooting when
the latter boarded the train to come
to Topeka to give himself up. He told
the court that Hogan expressed sor-
row at having shot Uhls but declared
he would dc it over again if the cir
cumstances were the same.
p. H. Bell, Union Pacific agent at
Grove, testified that Hogan called on
him that night and asked to borkow
his shotgun ito shoot ducks with"
Mrs. Bell testified to giving the gun to
Hogan.
George Uhls. the wounded man, tesu
fled that while he was aiding Smith
in loading hogs Hogan approached
with shotgun and fired, hitting him,
and later firing two shots at Smith.
The shooting, officers stated at the
time, was the result, in part. of an old
grudge. Two of Smiths boys, it was
said, worked on the section; one of
them owed a grocery bill which Ho-
gan made him pay, and for revenge
Smith attempted to get the section
foreman fired. Hogan says he had
heard many threats since that Smith
would get even"
Hogan's Side of 1t.
S Hogan stated at the time of his ar
rest that just before the shooting he
saw Smith and his son, together with
Uhls, driving up to his yard, where
they stopped and started to lift the
wire between his yard and the road.
Hogan declared that Smith carried an
axe. He told them to keep out, he
says, but they replied with oaths, that
they would go where they pleased.
Hogan says he went to the Union Pa
cific station where he obtained the
gun and three shells. Returning, he
says, he saw the three men loading a
hog belonging to Mexicans there. He
fired one shot, which wounded Uhls.
he told officers. The elder Smith
started toward him, he says, and he
fired a second time. causing Smith to
hide behind a small house. When he
came out Hogan fired again, hitting
Smith and the latter died late that
night at St Francis hospital.