PEACE CONDUCTED BY THE OFFICERS TO THE PRISON VAN.
A warrant was taken out against him for this, but he still continued to annoy them; so they removed on the 25th of October to Bannercross, where they hoped to be freed from his disagreeable visits.
But the very night they removed the prisoner appeared at Bannercross, and said to her “You see I am here to annoy you wherever you go.”
On the 29th of November, about ten minutes past eight in the evening, she went to the closet behind the house, and when she opened the door to come out she was confronted by the prisoner, who stood near the closet doorway with a revolver in his hand. He said, “Speak, or I’ll fire.”
She screamed, and stepped back into the closet and shut herself in; but, hearing her husband’s footsteps in the yard she came out. Prisoner was then in the passage leading to the road; but, being followed by her husband, he turned round and fired.
That bullet struck the wall, and on getting to the bottom of the passage the prisoner fired again. The second shot struck her husband in the temple, and he fell.
She screamed and the neighbours came, but in the meantime the prisoner had scaled the wall on the opposite side of the road and fled.
Her husband did not speak after he was shot, and died the same night about eleven o’clock.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lockwood: Before going to the closet I put my little boy to bed. The bedroom is in the front. There was a light in the room.