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Show THE COTTON HOMICIDE. l oiitliiiiiiliou of (lie l: i deuce in Hie JiiHliee'Ki'ourl. The report of the evidence hofbre tho court, published in Tuesday's IIkkai.d, broke oil" in the middle of Thomas Thompson's te-liinonv, the mail leaving for this city before he had finished. The balance of Monday Mon-day was taken up by this witness, but his evidenco wits the same as published publish-ed on the 27th, in the proceedings before be-fore the coroner's jury. Tuesday morning, at 8 o'clock, court again convened and Thomas Rock wood took the stand for the prosecution. pros-ecution. He testified to meeting old mini Cotton n nd Butcher and three other men near Butcher's house, and that Collon had a pistol, but Butcher was not armed. o110 of the three men "'i'1' Uuleher had a, pistol, and Cotton remarked to witness wit-ness to notice that those four men were following him. E. A. Manser I est i lied that he was with Hoekwixxl at the time of meeting meet-ing the four men and Cotton. He heard Cotton say all ho wanted was fair play. Dr. J. ji. iiici;nian men teliJied as to the nature of the wounds the Cottons received, after which the Court adjourned to 2 p. m. At 2 p. m. Martin Donovan took the stand. Me testified that he told the Cotton boys and Tasker that old man Cotton was in trouble, whereupon where-upon Tasker with a rille, one of the boys with a shot gun and the other with a pi-.tol, started lo Butcher's house. Court then ndjonrned to Wednesdav. At Ha. m. Wednesday, J. '. Tasker Tas-ker was placed on (he stand and testified tes-tified as rbl lows : Live in Bingham Canon; on the 21th Donovan came to ! Cotton's place and said Cotton and Butcher were in trouble; he said some man was drawing a bead on Cotton; that the man was down on his haunches haun-ches al the lime of drawing Ihe bead; another man was patting iiim on the head at the time; Donovan said. "Tut, tut;" Cotton was going down tho road and said he did not want anything to do with Butcher; Cotton also toki me and the boys not to go past Butcher's house; but to go around the hill; the younger boy was so far away that I do not think lie heard what his father said; the boys started ahead of me; they both got 011 horses bare back; I got on a horse with a rope around his neck; when I got to where we usually water Ihe horses, my horse would go no further; I then went down on foot, and met a man who worked Ibr Butcher, between be-tween the hitter's house and Cotton's; he asked me whal the trouble was; I told him I hoped it was nothing, bu(, was going to see; when 1 got in sight of Butcher's house 1 saw him and two other men standing there; I then started up the hill and passed aannul the house; when I got up on the side hill they shot two or three times at me; the shots were all fired close together; Taylor was one of the men with Butcher, but the other I did not know; I stated before the coroner's jury that it was the unknown un-known man who shot at me, but I am not positive who it was; 1 saw the three men very distinctly before the shots were fired at me, but at ihe time of the shooting I could not see anything but their heads; they were behind a dug-out; could see the guns or pistols they pointed at me; stood still till after two shots were fired, j when I went back to Cotton's house and saddled a horse; Caleb Cot 'on, i ten years old, told me that his father and Bert were out in the bills above Butcher's house; lie told me to hurrv and go to them, as Butcher was near them with a gun and was goint: lo shoot; he said his father was trying to come home, but Butcher was 'telling him to stop; took the boy with me to show where the old man was: before I got to the place I saw Cotton walking walk-ing towards Butcher's house, and Butcher was walking behind with a gun pointed at him; I then knew the youngest lioy was shot; started across to get down to Butcher's house as soon as I could, but before I got there old man Cotton was down in the middle of the road, nearly opposite the house; the old man waved his hands towards me; the inference I drew from his actions ac-tions was that he wanted me to go back, and not go to him; went back, hitched up the hordes and asked Mrs. Cotton to go down and get the dead boy; put a Danirihmnn, my wifu nni Mrs, Cotton In the wagon; 'when they had got alout half way to Butcher's the Danishman jumped out of the wagon and came back; when the wagon came back the three bodies were on it; two were dead, but one was not; Cotton had a pistol which came up in tho wagon with his body ; it was a cartridge pistol, and i had nlj of ihe cartridges , if; had not been fired during the day; tiic cartridges were all in just as I had put them; the first stage had just passed as I got tu the house the first time; the first bov was shot about fifteen minutes of 2 p.m.; when Cotton started lo go clown to Muni ford's to sec about putting down some railroad ties I called him back and told him he had better take my pistol, and to pass by the righj hand side of Butchery house; he iven pic course thaf I told him to go tintt he got- to an open space between his and Butcher's houses j ho remained there some little time, and then went across lo tho road; a he crossed to the road I called to him, as also did his two sons, Cube and Bert; we motioned mo-tioned to him to go the way which 1 had told him to follow; tbe" voain I had for motioning him was ihat on the morning of the 24 th a gentleman told me that some parties below were going to kill Cotton and mo; the gentleman gen-tleman did not say who was going to do the killing; the old man went down through his own field; when Cotton was looking at the railroad grade the man Kirk went down past Cotton's house towards Butcher's as fast as his horse could run; he had told mcsome time before jhnp he va going down io"M.'umfgrd;s, and my 'understanding was that there was some business affairs between Cotton, Mumlbrd and Kirk, which were going to be settled. set-tled. A(, .his puint in Tiisker's iesiimony the stage for this city left Bingham. The balance of his testimony we will endeavor to publish to-morrow. |