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doctor in front of the hotel, and after a few words the doctor sprang towards him, when he pulled his pistol and fired. The doctor fell, and he shot him again. He admitted that there was an agreement that Mrs. Hiler should have a divorce, and stated that he urged ( 45 ) her to marry again. He was badly tangled up in the cross examination, and admitted many things which were strongly against him. While he was being examined, word was passed around the court room that William Hubbard, the principal witness for the prosecution, had been found dead in a room back of the Union Hotel, with a bullet hole through his head. Court almost immediately adjourned. A coro- ner’s jury was empanneled, and it was decided that Hubbard had met death at his own hands. It was then remembered that on Friday evening between 8 and 9 o’clock, five shots had been heard in that direction. Those in the court room who heard the shots supposed that it was a horse kicking in the rear of the jail. It was supposed that the first four shots were fired to attract attention.