The Dallas Daily Herald

Several Witnesses Testified Yesterday
In the Hawpe-Miller Tragedy—The
Clothes of the Murdered Man Exhib-
ited in the Court Room

The evidence in the Hawpe case
commenced yesterday morning. There
is the utmost interest felt in the result
of the trial by the public, and when
the doors were opened, the court room
was soon filled by a crowd of eager
spectators anxious to hear every word
of the testimony. During the day, the
mother of the deceased was placed
upon the witness stand. She is in very
feeble health, and it was with some
difficulty that her voice could be heard
even by the jury. She said the last
time she saw her son alive was the
Sunday morning he left home for
church. The defendant's counsel asked
her if her son was not in the habit of
carrying arms, and if he did not on
that morning wish to carry a revolver
with him to church, from which she
persuaded him. She said no; that she
never knew of him carrying concealed
weapons, and that the only firearm in
her house, was a revolver belonging to
her son-in-law, Ed Daniels, which she
kept in her bureau drawer, and that
her son did not know that it was in
her possession. She was told that her
son had been shot and killed; she went
to where he was, and found him dead;
his body was lying about a quarter of a
mile from her house; there was no
weapons on him of any kind. His
clothing, a coat, shirt and vest, was
shown to her, and identified by her as
those her son had on the day he was
killed, and which were taken from his
dead body. The holes in his clothing
showed that the bullet passed entirely
through his body.

By E. G. Bower—Did not your hus-
band own a revolver at the time of his
death, and if so, will you please state
to the jury in whose possession it
now is?
"No, he did not own any weapon at
the time of his death. There never
was, to my knowledge, any weapon in
my house, except the one above
stated."

J. W. Daniels was also on the wit-
ness stand, and although it was a very
solemn occasion, the spectators were
occasionally amused beyond decorum
by his peculiar use of words. He said
he was not present when A. G. Miller
was shot, but arrived immediately
afterward. He had fallen from his
horse, and was lying by the road, near
the fence, dead. He went in a gallop
to inform his mother and his brother,
Ed. Daniels, of his death. He returned
in a quarter of an hour, and, assisted
by his brother and the Tanner boys,
placed the body in a wagon and went
with it to his mother's house.

Judge Barksdale asked the witness
"if Ab. Miller was not in the habit of
carrying concealed weapons."
The witness said he could not recol-
lect of ever having seen him with any,
though he might have carried them
without his knowledge. He had seen
a navy six at Mrs. Miller's house,
which belonged to Abe's father, and
he believed it was now the property of
James Miller, the deceased's brother.
He was on intimate terms with the
deceased during his life, as also with
the prisoner.

Several other witnesses were exam-
ined on behalf of the state. The rest
of the case will be resumed to-mor-
row.