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Show COURT I'UOCKUIGl'"" ' i;t:0i)T;: t:rr;r, ka'.tj.aki; ntv, i:i-l S .-M! Ill, ll.L-M'iNu. . O'Uit mcl nt 'J i.'ek cl; a. m. 'Tiie l'oi -do - !..:i.an ftce. Martin Jt.inuvan eniioliidod hisU-liiui'iiy hisU-liiui'iiy liirihe iiro.-roulii-n. Xu now i.wU fj.'in til. .a-.; huj'l-il- dV( -toiJ .1. F. Ta.-kor .wcm Tor (he prcferll-li.ui. prcferll-li.ui. JEo lotiiiid that on the Jllh nl July, si inn time a Itor i mo o'clock, 1. m., Puiiiivan caihd at Out ion's hmiHo and tdd itne.-.s tliat limr men Wort k'iiWMlg ('Id lli:m (.'-tIy)H. "t-clnw Utnehor' Iinno, nrrl that Tiie of thrill had "drawn a head" on him. Donovan Dono-van luld witness that In', had better go down, but nut tn vn rinse to iiut-ejitr's iiut-ejitr's huiue-, as all d the men wore :nnicti. Witne-s mid the two cWton Nivs wliat had inijitoiiLl. and- Lliuy hi till liiulintiil !;or.-os and ,-J-irlod in: the direotiniinf the tnniiiio. Viiness al-u I'ulloWi d I'll horseback, but snr.ni dismounted and walked twails But-1 ehcr'rf hutise. When he nt within. aWiOtonc hundred yaitls r.t tho house he turned up next tho hilli, nn he did not think it would be " policy" to go to Jhitolua"'.-). He saw tie; Taylor ni:d lnto)ifT standing uenrlhe hitter's "'dugout," and iuiuther man standing stand-ing ity the diUdi. AH ftt' the men wire armed with guns, lvhii they discharged at wiiniss. Witness then ret u fin il to tot inn' altera. Vfiddlo horse. Witne.-s saw lJuiclier point liis; gun at Tijompson's hoy, and saw the iivrtc tho)W tiuo la.tU;r. When witness; went hack towards JJuteher's he saw Uuteher walking behind Cotton, towards to-wards the former's huuse. Uuteher had a gun, bud Cotton was swinging his hands by his side with nothing in them. When witness got to within a .--hort di-tauee ol Llulciicr's house, he saw Cutton standing in front ol the ,sui:c, and motioning to the latter to 'go . hiv k. Witness then retunud to Colt i;i's, and- was shojtly followed by ; a nine-year. old of Cotton's, who toldliim what had hapened. Witness lIioji hiichetl up the horses, 'and sunt his wile and a Dauishnian alter tho bodies. The waguii was gone .a'HJUt an hour,-and when it lvturnrc the dead licdies ol' Cotton and Bert -were. ;uu it, and o, aLfi, was C'abricl, who was wounded. A pUtol, Wiiieh wUuess 'i:jjJ given Cotton, was in tin wagon. It had ii.'L l)een discharged. ilncs.s had pivviou;!;,' told Cutton to go'-soulli ol' litni'her's iiuie-:e( lis dcorgo M.e iuwau had toid witness Unit he and othei were tn ho killed. Wiliie-x uiider- .stooeL J Suit Iruiible had exiled" between be-tween Colwjj. and Uuteher .for two years. Altor (lie shouting- witness iie.d a eunversatiou with Cee, atul the latter ha id tliat Ifb was pro-cut at the killing, butflid nu shu"thig hmisoll'. Mrs. Mary Jane Cotun,. widow ol Cahriel L. Coltun, sworn lor the prosecution, pros-ecution, .he teaiUied that on the -iiU ol' July, she saw ihiuhur. aliout her husband with a shot gun, and Tuylor shot him with two pishjsi Her little sou --was with- heir. :4 jjie time, fhe also saw Cee at tiie time of liie killing. Ho and another man went front Butcher's house to the stable. Shortly alter seeing her husband hus-band shot she heard firing at Uuteher' Uuteh-er' house; Witness asked Cite -to put her husband's body in the wagon, but he did not do so. At that Lime Thompson came out of Butcher's house and assisted witness to put the wounded son in the wagon. Thompson Thomp-son then went away, and witness had to coax lbr some tunc to get anyone to assist, in putting her husband's Ijody in the wagon. Witness and heir daughter them went to the door 01 Butcher's house, and asked lbr her other son. B. told her that the boy was iu tho house; that he had killed him. Uec and a young man carried the body- out of tho Jiuuse., anel put him in the wagon. Witness and her daughter asked Cee to go with them. He started to go, but Butcher "called him, and he went back. After getting through with this witness, the prosecution rested, and Court adjourned till Monday morning morn-ing at 0 o'clock. |