Daily Colonist (1897-08-22) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1897-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Prize Modal, World's Taiv Ghicasro^ 1893,

WOODS LAST HOPE GONE.

C'onliuuctljrom i>aij( Five.

BO-I refer ta the cage stated by him as iaSi aia regarda the facts.

"On the 30th of June, 1807, Jamca "Woods was tried at Nelson, at a speuial aSBiae, on a charge of having on tiie 2nd of October, 1896, murdered one Samuel WoodB, a blackBrnlth, by shootinB hiin through the body in his smithy, lie was convicted of the charge, and sentenced to be executed. The evidence at the trial tended to eliow that the acuuaed was a stranger in Nelson, without money, and without any lised place of abode. The shootinc took place about midnight on Friday, the 2ud of October, and from the description civon of the acuuaed to the police by the wounded man, the accused ^^■ll8 £^rreated the nest evening at Kobaoii, a C. P. II. station, about thirty miles from Nelaon, He had been eeeii in the morning by a driver of a train when sixteen miles out of Nelson, sleeping alongside of the track, and this fact was at onco communicated to the police at Nelson.

When arrested a -"S calibre Smith ^'c Weason pistol, with three barrels loaded and two empty, together with a weapon called a "billy," such as "cracksmen" use, was foand on hia person. He luul no monef.

The wounded man died fifty hours after he was shot. The ballet, which was extracted from the body, was of the weight and calibre required and used for pietolB such as that taken from the prisoner. It, moreover, corresponds in Its markings with a bullet fired, for pnr-poses of comparison, from the prisoner's weapon, and in the hands of the police, by an experienced nun-maker.

The evidence as to what occurred_ im-mcdiaioly preceding the ahootini;', ia to the ell'ect that the deceased was hoard asking some person outside of hia sliop, what tie tif.d been doing in tlie shop. The person ao addressed denied that he had been in it. The deceased tlieu said, "I saw you turn down the light." The deceaactl tlioreuiion turned the light on. The altercation was beard by the blacksmith's "helper" who lived overhead, and by a Madame Malette, who had just closed her hotel, which is a abort distance from the smithy in question. The latter witneas, moreover, saw the deceased turn on the light while holding a man "much smaller" than liiinself, whom She could not more fully deseribtf, as she was about fifty leet from him at the time. She heard the deceased ask the man what business he had there, and saw the man immediately afterwards raise a pistol and lire it at the deceased and then run away in the direction of the C.P.K. station. Other witnesses saw the man running in the same direction, but none of them could identify him owing to the night being very dark.

The deceased was visited by Dr. La Bau within a few minutes of his being wounded, and attended to him until he died. Ileatli, according to

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