He didn’t show any great distress over the…
source date: 1891
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dn’t interfered in a family dispute. He replied that Scotty didn’t have anything to do with it; he was sorry, but it could not be helped. Barney was lying on the floor near the fire, covered with blood; his hands and clothes were bloody; he didn’t appear to be much hurt. He didn’t show any great distress over the matter. I examined deceased and found two wounds, one on face near temple bone and one on the right side. The wounds were evidently made with a crow bar. There was another wound behind the right ear. Witness here ex- amined the murderous weapons, which includ- ed a crow bar about five feet long and a seven pound hammer. There was hair on the bar. Both Barney and Scotty were outside near the fire. I asked Mungall who struck Kerr; he said he didn’t know, ‘That there was no one here but we three.” Asked if Barney and Jimmy had not been fighting. He said they had a bit of a drunken row but did not think Barney intended to hurt him. Asked why he did not separate them, he said, “I was too drunk; I know what these d d family rows are ; I don’t interfere.” I asked Mungall to show his hands; he was too drunk; he showed no blood either on his clothes or his person.