| Show PALMERS SHOOTING he is before justice brown STORY OF THE AFFAIR AS TOLD BY WITNESSES eyewitnesses EYE tile defendant taets the stand and j rehearses his side john palmer alie man who attempted to kill dan obrien at mill fork ani brought before justice bro last night on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon he plead not lo 10 rge the arct witness called was juhn bousi iles iid I 1 live at mill fork have lived thre th re alcons MC I 1 know john bill know little about this case lie shooting I 1 saw t lie partia parti a a very short time after the man wl 0 wax rushed to my dour abid cried oil div god I 1 m through the kidneys I 1 palmer and lie intimated that lie was the man who biad done the shooting 1 do not know of any between them the birst intimation I 1 biad of any trouble was Pal mcra throwing a knife down on the table 1 lold him it was my knife and asked him fur it my wife and alie wife of mr palmer were in alie room tills way about a half leour before the shooting took place I 1 did not see any blow s fc truck 31 rs patience scarborough was the next witness called she said I 1 saw palmer throw a knife upon alie table I 1 did not know there was any trouble between the men I 1 did not see the shooting I 1 do not know of any quarrel between the two men I 1 saw U brien after lie was shot lie was section boss palmer was section boss before him I 1 always thought they were the best of friends mr mcdonald my name is james me donald ve were having a little jollification at Scarborough 3 aliouse I 1 was conversing with scarborough I 1 did not hear any conversation between obrien and pd almer I 1 obrien have a small pen knife which he atuck in tho table palmer look a knife and it on the table obrien asked libin what lie meant said to palmer leta hae no trouble here I 1 had a little scuffle with him 1 l went over to the bunk house resolving not to go back finally I 1 came back intending however not to go inside I 1 mot palmer lie told me to go back or ho would shoot me ao 1 went away a few minutes after I 1 heard a shot daniel corbett next destined tes tined I 1 did not see this shooting I 1 think from ap that on the dy of alie shooting both men had been drinking considerable I 1 went to bed in the bunkhouse li fi antly Palmer came and shoved agun in ut the window and asked where is that terrier meaning mcdonald I 1 boid him he was over at the other after the shooting 1 saw the wounded man I 1 cot a listern liu tern and went to flag alic train palmer came up and asked me where I 1 was going I 1 told him I 1 was going to flag tho train and get a doctor lie told me to stop or he would shoot me I 1 said shoot and be d d he did but did not lait me I 1 put the lantern by till lie had gone and then I 1 flagged alie train I 1 conversed with him afterward 3 I 1 was by the track lie said lie felt sorry for what lie had done but said he dan can you blame me I 1 have got a wife and three children and do you think obrien to come and take the section eliat was the first intimation of any jealousy I 1 had heard of between the nie n thomaa murray was the next witness he said I 1 saw some drinking going on at alie section house I 1 heard the shoot ins but did not s ce it I 1 he then testified in his own behalf lie saidon the day of the hooting I 1 went to the section house to get some w hisky after that scarborough invited me to have supper at his house obrn n scotty and others there we lud a banjo and were all drinking somewhat obrien took a knife lying on the window and drew it across each of my ansti I 1 thought tins wis a very queer movement I 1 went into alie other room and got 1 drink I 1 came back ind baw a butcher knife ling on ih table I 1 picked it up and threw it on the anble scotty and obrien jumped ou me they got me down and beat me after I 1 got up my wife kept them baak went home but my wife not coming I 1 pot my gun and nent back I 1 met scotty he was coming at me I 1 told him to keep off or I 1 would kill him he went the house I 1 w arned him in the same language but he came on and I 1 shot lam 1 I did not intend to kill him lie is a much larger man than I 1 am and I 1 did not wish him to at at me and scotty had already beaten mo up considerable onside rable judge brow n requested Sheriff Fowler to abter tam alie condition of obien toy to morrow w lien lie krould fix the bonds of the defendant awaiting the action of alie grand jur |
