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I asked Barney how it happened: he said he didn’t remember anything; tried to separate them once.” Juan Ferguson’s testimony was corrobora- tive of the preceding witness, with the exception that Barney told him that Scotty and Jimmy had a racket. He was positive on this point. R. S. Allen testified. On the evening of Friday the 24th, I was notified that I was one of six jurors to attend an inquest on the remains of Jimmy Kerr. We got a team and proceeded to the ranch, arrived there about 10:30. Dodd, Ferguson, Brown, myself, Paul Mitchell and Ben Hopson stepped into the room. I didn’t measure the distance, and don’t know the size of the room. The bed upon which deceased was lying was on the left side of the room. Probed the wound in cheek and back of the head with a match. Examined Mungall. Conclusion of the jury was that deceased’s death was occa- sionad by some sharp instrument in the hand of his brother; probed wound on head with match. Barney didn’t appear to be hurt, and was indifferent. In front of the house was a pile of cordwood, also a fire. Barney was lay- ing near the fire and remarked, “I am cold! Go in the house and get me something, I’m cold!” I was not admitted to the post-mortem exami- nation. I was informed that special orders had been issued not to admit me. The shirt that Barney wore near the fire was bespattered with blood. Had no conversation with Mungall prior to the testimony before the coroner. He showed no blood upon his clothes or person. His hands were dirty. The skull was crushed, and my