The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-11-07
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broke up his family. After some fur
Their conversation about sending for
the sheriff, l left the place with my
wife and child and did not return there
again until about midnight
The witness stated that after he
returned to the kirkland house that
night there were several persons there,
and he heard Kirkland make some
statements to the effect that Hunter
killed his friend Flanagan and l
killed him; that Kirkland told him
some time after the shooting that
Hunter went for his pocket and he
shot him; that Kirkland also made the
statement that sometime after the
deputy sheriffs arrived there he no.
ticed a knife similar in appearance to
the one introduced in evidence, lying
on the dressing table in the northwest
bedroom where Hunter was killed. On
cross examination the witness Turpin
testified that he was drunk on the
night of the 4th and had been drink
ing with Mac Hunter that day; that
Hunter had been carrying out Bill
Kirkland's whiskey and caching it;
that after the killing of Hunter he pro-
ceeded to induce Kirkland to get drunk
and got him to take all the whiskey he
could and kept him drunk there just
as long as he could.
Mrs. Turpin on Stand.
Mrs. Andrew Turpin testified as fol-
lows: That she was at the kirkland
home on the 4th of June and had been
there since sometime in the middle of
May; that Mrs. Kirkland had left
there about a week before the 4th of
June and gone to Rochester, Mime
sofa for treatment. She stated that
Malcolm Hunter arrived there about
$3.50 or 10 o'clock on the morning OF
June 4th and asked where Bill was.
and she told him he was upstairs; that
she heard conversation upstairs and
that at noon Mr.. Hunter came down
. and ate dinner with them, but Mr.
5 Kirkland did not come down to din
ner; that while at dinner Mr.. Hunter
l spoke we'll of Mr.. Kirkland. Aftel
dinner Hunter went upstairs, but soor
and hid a cask of whiskey in an ole
: trunk; that he also carried some whis
Z key upstairs during the afternoon. Sh'
stated that along in the afternoon sh'
went out for an armful Of wood ant
her husband called her to the barn
and while she was in the barn sh'
I heard a shot fired; that soon there
: after Mr.. Kirkland came to the doc
1 of the house and called to her hus
band to come, that he had shot Hunt
S er. She followed her husband to tn
. house and soon after she left the plac
n and went to Mr.. Taylor's, about tw
Z miles away.
e Expert Testimony.
q DR.. Alfred N. Smith was called an
y testified as to the nature and descrip
ton of the wound and that death wa
: due to the severing of the principa
a part of the spinal cord.
10 Testimony of Clifford Hunter
Clifford Hunter testified he was l
years old and at the present time live
" in Glasgow with his mother and broth
70 ers and sisters; that on the 3rd G
June he and Ray Brockway went
the Kirkland home for the purpose c
!, getting a horse; that they went j
r. the Kirkland house and had a Wis
~ with Kirkland and he showed Ra
" Brockway through the new house an
w talked with him about his war expe1
fences in France. He stated thu
Kirkland said he had sold his place
Dave Cooper for fifty thousand dollar
and that he wanted the boys father
\ come down as he wanted to give hi
:, the first chance on the school sectio
because he had always wanted it; tn;
T. Brockway said he could tell him
come over that afternoon if he wantt
him to, and that kirkland replied, te
him to come tomorrow. Shortly aft
young Hunter and Brockway We
Y home and Brockway said to Mr.. Hun
er: "Bill wants you to come down t
~ morrow; he sold out for fifty tho
sand and he wants to give you Il
v first chance on the school sections
,, That Hunter said he would, and tn
on the morning of the 4th of Jul
" Mr.. Hunter left his ranch and we
~ in the direction of the Kirkland hon
;" and he did not see his father ali
after that.
Ray Brockway testified, corrobors
~ ing testimony of Clifford Hunter a
~ in, addition stated that on the mig
of the 4th of June he went to t
Kirkland ranch with Mrs. Hunt
Clifford and Lawrence Hunter, a
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Trubel; that Xii
-, land was alone in the house and tt
after they went in Kirkland said:
~ killed Mac; l killed him the first sho
-, That Mrs. Hunter asked Kirkland
she could see Hunter and he repli,
"No, you can't see him." Mrs. HUI
or. sold HkirklapI 7 won't IN coo hi