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

~ boEd, recalled, repeated that he
had not regarded his conycrsotion
ABOUT the shooting as Il dying dcclor
;ltion ana so had told State Senator
Harry t. Byrd editor of the Winchcs
| Ter Star, that there was no diving
declaration
4 fp>.-~,.. Ezs'~'.@s.
CONVINCED HE WAS DYING
MISS BEL another nurse said Uud
son was apprchcnsivc he was going
10 dle. Some time after midnight
l asked him to make u statement
about the shooting" she said, "ond
nc SAID that he didn't feel like tol,,
ing. lie seemed too weak TO talk uc
made no statement as to this AFFAIR
TO me. | was in and out of the room
all night" WYNN
DID he consider himself in n seri
Gus condition?'
cS, when | took him word that
his mother and sister were on thoir
way TO Winchester he said no Womb
no, DC there that he would not 1.-Two
TO sec them. "
Judge Brcnt asked the ATTORNEYS
tne commonwealth to present M
,horll'es ON the admission OF s,cb
"HihS statements, saying. az will bo
very frank with you. That ISM nv
l"ea OF Il dying declaration and il
VIII require some authority to change
, my mind" W. >'''"sc
Judge TaVonncr, for the prosccu.
,lo'' argued that n dying statcmcn,
Wv: l'o' nave to be reduced to wri,
ms vi so iabcled if it was n stntr-
n'n. maze under the apprehension
~ inc patient that he was going IN
nr ne BOY stated that he did nor
,' 'iil' ne dld not sec Shackloford
| "'"o. ana ana not think he did
ditta maze when in II dying con
,, i"c'hs his Maker mt n time
~ h'''n tells the truth. lie did
49, o'eh expect to live until his moth
enncr. 5o INV
I -, Ai.er discussion of some legal a,-
'o, 'ieS' without waiting to hear
ra WI, Wendcnburg for the dc :,
nse 'uuge Brent ruled: Il decline
nv Nv "u'nil mat MS dying declaration
o,,o, - no use OF any further dis
oo"5 on. oaii the jury back and pro
coed with the next witness nv
| FOUND ON THE TWO BODIES 4
ernest Duff, Il policeman Of Win
chester told of the officers bringing
~ inc TWO men on the morning after
inc shooting. He piloted them to the
nospltal where Hudson was left and
.hen LOOK the body OF Shackleford
10 an undertaken. H. G. A. Funk an
uhaertaker Of Winchester told OF
nooy or Shacklcford being brought
IN about A. M. He searched the
pockets and mail contents, Including !
some letters to Shaclkleford's wife
III ltaieigh, N. c., and sent the bodv
10 North Carolina. He gave hand
lul OF cartridges from Shackleford,s
coat pocket TO Prohibition Officer
Sullivan. '0''
DR.. Boyd, again recalled, told of
taking from Hudson at tho Hospito,
his bank book q receipt, a pistol and
some cartridges. The pistol was III
small colt revolver with five bullets
-" 'lio magazine and one in the bari
IVA 1here We're fifteen bullets in all I
SIX Ill the gun and nine extra. He
also exhibited the receipt found oni
Hudson for d. L. Richards. and Co..
of Baltimore for twenty cases Or 240 ;
quarts or Old Forester whiskey at
$500 dated March 25, 1919.
Holmes Irwin justice Of the peace' ,
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 the
curtains as he saw them with bullet
holes 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 Hill ties
titled that he lived within 800 feet
, OF the scene Of the shooting. He and
MS family heard no shots or noise
that night but between daylight and
sunrise the next morning when the
two officers who took the Injured
mcn to Winchester had returned he
testified that he saw them standing
on tie ground about the bootlegger's
I car dr mixing out of bottle. He iden
| tlfleG Hall as one of~those he saw and
| ldentllled Sweet as the man who
| came to his house to inquire where
/. the sheriff lived.
| "'Wherc did they get this bottle?"
| ont of the liquor car. I saw them
turn the bottle up to their mouths.
Iney got it out of the Haynes car
me car had not been moved at 6:30
A. M. the following Sunday.
MT. Good said he found some emp
, ty cartridges and one loaded cartridge
IN ms garden about twenty feet from
Weerc the cars had been standing
re d'd not know Shackleford or IIud
s"oh ana there was no underbrush
, 10 orS'ruct the view from his house