The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 12, 1890, Page 1

{yoL. X11. BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY MARCH 12. 1890. | When he began to shoot I began to run. The entire run and scatter. We had no warn-| iMissourt State Ban OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, - - - + ~ 410,000. Receives Deposits subject ‘“ Check, Loans Money, Makes Collections and does a General Banking Business. In the Real Estate Loan Department. Make loans on Real Estate on long or short time at lowest rates without delay. fell. The next time I saw him after the shooting was at the inquest. Christoleer must have been not more than 10 ‘feet from Wright when he shot. He was the nearest one| of the crowd to him. Heard the gun fired and the shot passed over my head like a gang of bees. | Burnett ordered us to leave his premises. We left the premises in about a mm + : STOCKHOLDERS aes : ae "7 Jour Mfonroe Farmer Morrison. C H Farmer ‘Tucker, WE Dentist = PBESEREN of tue Jength of the testi-| ballet, JN eae mer era aA Bank Clerk Ae eae : mony of each witness which would Court JIMStock Dealer Pharis, John Grocery : oocaaa John Farmer Pharis, C F Grocery J Davis, J R Foreman Times officePatton, M Physician Dickeneheets.R C Con. & Res’t Powell, Booker Farmer Woods, F M Farmer { u 3.2 ae as a Seo Nae met at 8:30 this morning when the Wyatt, H.C Lumber dealer | remainder of the testi y was ta- Walton, Wm E Cashier me bes umony wae ta . S, rT oars > - rons. = : CH Prof Normal Sch Pigott, H H Bank Clerk Wolfe, ML Farmer \ken as follows: ‘reason we went back that night. " Datcreond, D A Circuit Judge Rosier, JM Farmer Wolo iu auerariesices: [Sonor eeeee : 3 ex t night. I s, John Farmer Rankin, J L Farmer Walls, Wm Farmer | Otis Peoples:—Was with the ithiuk the doctor took out about 60 y | fveringham, J Physician Radford, Chas R Farmer Walton, G W Farmer | s ie E 2 : 1 Griggs, Wm M Farmer Reisner, J W Insurance Wa T Physician’ | crowd of boys doing the charivaring | Shot. There are eight in my shoul- | J it inger. WN Farmer Sullens, J L PresJ udge Co.Ct Wh . NL Physician see = 2 der y = Hickman, GB Furniture dealer Smith, GT. Liveryman Williams, R V Farmer lat Mr. Burnett’s. Heard about the | “er yet. | JR Ass’t Cashier Smith, John uawyer i 2 A 7 eee ~ “ of Jenkins, JR : eee | same conversation as the above wit-| Frank Houtz.—I live in Bates 2 JOHN H. SULLENS. President WM. E. WALTON _ oa i { inregard to Burnett's conver- , county. Know the defendant and % K VELL vice-presideli Jd. R. JENKIN ASST. Cas oY . =. + ¢. BOOKER POWELL cee 2 5 polis bse ates | at ard subsequent | +45 son-in-law. Got there after 9 paren ce ETNA SUSE MS EERE NASESESAS - 1 | Shot 3 Hees . ————— ; = = aaa ght. I started to} Shot our guus off at first. l THE WRIGHT TRIAL. was sufficient to cause dee tru r the shooting began. Af- \Saw Barnett put his head out of the yeaa a ! E. Mitchell:—Was present! terwards C leer was found i Teould not hear all that Jesse Cl A Condenced Report of the State’s Tes: | aise 10 o'clock. : Tom Howe, Ed Russell and others timony. | were with me. Burnett up and after finding out who it was | said, “My God, it| : The wounded | d to he Ip to the h The erowd came | When we got in the, 2 | yard we fired off our guns near the | one of the party | | | corner of the house. Bells were rung | is Jesse Christole | Henry Co., Democrat, Saturday sth then . Johnson, who vat deal of hallowing was d look out the aid: “Who is the Y You had bett 1” About this | shed attached to f The case of the State against E. | M. Wright of Be county, on | te | change of venue to this county, in- | “O“ """ 9 dicted for murder in the first degree -# for killing Jesse Christolear,in April © : rol : \ time the door cfa 1888, at residence of his sou-in law. | ay SAE: » . | the house opened, whe saw 2 The deceased was 2 member of a} e house opened, when I saw Bs Ron with a gun in hi charivari party that had gone dur | okt) Burnett 1 he s artes lived he tain of this crowd where the shcoting oc-) }@et out in the ro g The wounded man did not | were four guns in Thad only a| toleer had a double- | Had the gun in | liv 2an | th Just then te. “Tm the, cro 1 gut. ha: i cowbé 1 Ch £ barreled sho ne % gun. Db oo ing several nights to the residence HORNE OREN of these newly married people and |‘ uin of t “rowd, you G— d—|his hand when at the house. When : . . [s—= of bs If you don't get out! I found him in the road, I saw the| ci ae eee | TI! shoot the hearts out of every one | gun lying in the road near the fence. | it was on one of these occasions that 3 S ying i a Itook it to Mr. Johnson's lf. | he Some shooting of you,” s man in the shed. 8/8 the killing was donc. J The final selection of the jury was | made at Lp. m. to-day. Sheriff Cal- | was begun at The crowd all went from the to f hool nee = i : | and somebody was seen house, approached the west side of | away summoned 65, from whom 40 the road. The person was the house and began shooting our} were selected and from these the fine | the boys who were in the cha and ringing bells. Burnett | al 12, as follows: R. H. Piper, L | party. Six shots were fired alto appeared at the window and | at er at the party. Don’t know who ask ad, “Who is your captain? W. Ashby, Wm. Munson, J eremiah Blevins, S. D. Garth, R. O. Ragan | fired these shots. The two first I answered, “I don't know Geo. Spangler, Jno. 8. Kelley, Jas. ‘shots were gun shots, the : others have any captain to-night.” We H. Bass, Thos. Collins, J. A. Bush- | Were pistol shots. Jesse Christole.r } looked up the road and saw some They at once lwas the one who was shot. Saw one coming and we said, “I guess nell R. A. Douglass. took their seats in fhe jury box and | the trial proceeded. The attorneys in the case are, for the prosecution, Judge C.F. Boxley him at the home of Mr. Jehnson be- there comes the captain.” The tween 11 and 12 o'clock. He lived | crowd cried, “Oh captain,” to a man about half an hour after he was shot! named Ginrich, coming down the I never saw the man before. Think | Chrstoleer was reloading {his roa . ty assisted by Tom Silvers of Bates, and Prosecuting Attorney Gracy. Counsel for the defense are Judge Gantt, C. C. Dickinson, P. H. Hol- eomb and W. W. Graves, the two | latter of Bates county. The first witnesses called were Dr. Mr. Wright. (A visible stir in the) court room.) Several of us went to| to the kitchen. The boys were all Johnson's house and waited awhile | around the house. I was sitting just for the rest of the boys to come up, | inside the kitchen and was beating then went on to the school house./on akettle. There were some ap- Then went to Ginrich’s house. We ples in there. I ate some of them. When we all got there we walked in- jand some west. Wright was going | . crowd began to jnorth. _ He was shooting his revol-| ver — they were running. Wright | ing to leave previous to the tiring. j was in a out 10 feet of me. He had; ‘a revolve , a 1 Jesse Christoleer was the one who ashe came around the) \house he made use of the above! | — Seo ‘near the win king | pe ow looking up at Bur-| Wright and myself. peered of the crowd to him. | | Most o! Cr i ee began running jhand. When he fired the gun I be- gan to run. | down. up and ran west through the orchard While I was laying on the ground Wright passed by me. I don't know as he saw me, but I laid there and looked at him for I expected to get | another load. that Burnett said he would have the | | treats ready for us if we woald come | | back Monday night. 25 steps from) % ic] it we |repeated the language given before prosecuting attorney for Bates coun-| that — the defendant is the man/gun behind me before Wright came | i ‘ I saw that night, pointing to,around the corner of the house. i I was standing | was between | We were the | Christoleer He had a gun in his _I was shot and fell Tlaidthere awhile and got We had understood That was the Then began to rel ad my ight then appeared and the same tl stated by in substance, wheu he fired one shot. Then Ira Iw under the } the gun. eats a mac the previous witnc fence and on out field cor 1 up to : ute, then Did not see Christoleer. Some testimony was introduced afterthe above which would not prove of any interest to the public. The clothes of the deceased, Jesse on home. ritoleer, were then introduced by sfor the uttorney State as evi- nud were shown to the jury. Allie Cook:—I am 12 y old. A resident of Bates county. Was at the charivari on the night that Chris- t illed. We boys met at Mr. Joliifson’s and then went to the house. All said they wanted to make cer Was all the noise they could. Wright 1 came out of the house and (the boy Saw Burnett that day as I was going from school. The State rested at this juncture. Elmer Mitchell, recalled by the defense on cross examination:—I was sitting on the door step of the kitchen. Saw no one in the room, nor anyone in the house. Daniel Ginrich:—Recognize the letter, presented to him by the de- fense. ‘at this time) began to shoot. The defense then retired to ar- The Butler Weekly Times. NO.1 6 OF BATES COUNTY, Southeast Corner of Square, (In room formerly occupied by Grange Store.) Cash Capital. $50,000.00 : -. President +... 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BUTLER, MO- McElree’s Wine of Cardui and THEDFORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT are for sale by the following merchants in The eto} capture all the offices in Oklahoma | including the governor. This does! not suit the republicans and they are | negroes are orga Rates County. $. L. Blady and Dr. Walls, the cor- all went to Burnett's house between | oner of the county, who officiated at | 11 and 12 o'clock. When we all got the inquest. , to the house the boys began to fire Hiram Johnson, who had assisted | their guns. Had only paper and to handle the body of the dead man | powder to load our guns, but no } was the next witness. During the | shot. This charivari occurred on .delivery of bis testimony Judge | Monday night, April 15th. They | Boxley opened a sack, and handing | had been to charivari the couple on) it to the witness, asked him if he | Friday night previous. The object | could identify the clothing taken | of the crowd in going back Monday from the body of the dead man. He {night was to have them treat them. picked out the articles seperately, | Christoleer asked me to go back | torn, dirty and bloody and held each | With him Monday. Christoleer told } piece up before the jury. | me to go over to Mr. Fryes and get) The following is a condensed re-| a gun. : ; port of the states evidence. | Thos. J. Howe:—Live a mile and f The Wright case was continued | half from Mr. Burnetts. Christoleer this morning at 8:30 o'clock, when | and I worked at the same place. the taking of testimony was resumed | Was in the crowd who went to Mr. That given yesterday afternoon and | Burnetts. Went there between 10) ~ today appears in condensed from | and ll o'clock. This was 00 Mon-| as told by the principal witnesses: | day night. The first thing on en- 2 Dr. L. Bates:—Was called to see | tering the yard was to shoot our | T was on top of the house and was going to cover up the chimney, but \there was no fire so I changed my mind. Was up there a few minutes. There had been talk on Saturday ‘and Sunday about returning to Bur-|ing-cough and all other throat and nett’s house on Monday. Heard he would treat the crowd. After Chris- toleer was shot Monday night, I saw ‘blood on the block at the gate. On the night of the shooting I heard Wright cursing at the house of Bur- nett, but could not tell what he said, in fact did not stop to hear what was said. Ed Russell:—I live in Bates coun- ty. in-law, Burnett. vari Monday night. about 10 o'clock. The boys their guns and rattled bells. Went , to the sduthwest corner of the house. Burmmett came to the window and} Christoleer about midnight and | guns and blow our horns. Burnett | found him dead. Examined him and | came to the window and said, | | “That's a h—I of | the captain of this crowd?” ithen a man came around the corner | found a gun shot wound in the back which was sufficient to cause death. 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