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Show ;'! SAYS DEWEY GROWO yl; FIRED FROM AMBUSH i Damaging Testimony Givea Against 1 J Millionaire Ranchman and His Cowboys. I I Kansas Clly, Mo Feb. 13. A special )i to the Star from Norton, Kan., oftyo: j I 1 In the trial today of. Chaunccy Dewey, I ' the millionaire ranchman, and his , I ! cowboys, V. J. McBrlde and Clyde Wll-I Wll-I Eon, for the murder of Burchard J3erry j ! damaging testimony was brought out I i ' by tho State. i ' Beech Berry testified that on tho day '. ' of tho killing at the Berry farm ho Baw i i McBrlde. from behind the watertank i : rle up and rhoot Burchard Berry. IIo 4 also stated that it was Dewey who had shot Hoy Berry in tho jaw. Beech Berry told of going with Boy I and Burchard on tho fatal day to the I 1 homo of AlpheiiB Berry, whero the I ; ( ' Bhootlng took place. ' , , "My father and Alpheus," wild he, I , "wero near tho watertank when we or- ; rived, talking to three men. Wo rode i Into tho yard and tied our horses, then ' started toward my father and Alpheus. ! ' We had taken only a few stopo when , ' Chauncoy Dewey rooo from behind a ' ; rod wall and shot Boy, who was In , the lead. I was next and Burchard fol- , I lowed. Aa wo started toward the yard ! McBrldo Jumped behind the tank and shot Burchard Berry, whilo "Wilson nhot at me from behind the wall and i i missed. The three shots were not over J a second apart, I ran behind the barn, with all three shooting1 at the barn. I then ran into the house. One shot struck me in the leg." "Did any of you draw a revolver?" "No. After I got to tho barn I drew i my revolver, and a I ran toward the ) i houso I fired. I did not lire at any i one In particular, but lust in the direction di-rection of the three." t Tho witness continued: "Roy 6tarted ' ' . to crawl toward the house. They fired ; a couple of shots at him. Both went ( through the rim of his hat. He dropped as if dead." Berry declared that Dewey and his men had commenced firing on them without warning and without a word ' having been spoken between them. Upon cross-examination Berry denied de-nied that he had been in prison In , Colorado. He admitted that there had been ill-feeling between the Berrys and the Deweys. dating back to 1901, and , that all of the Berrys o"wned rifles and revolvers. Court adjourned till Monday morn- " ing, with Beech Berry still on the ' stand, being cross-examined. |