Ruby Stanley Sworn
I live at the Star Spokane Falls Spokane County W.T. at the house of Ray Raymond have lived there 5 weeks the defdts house she is the proprietess was there on the night June 25th 1886 saw the dead man witness have talked of
I was sitting in the middle parlor
there was a noise in the hall
I went to the door there was a gentelman
standing in the hall when I went there
I said Miss Ray there is a Man in the
hall, she came to the door ordered
him out he refused to go out she
ordered him out again he said
he be D-D if he would she stepped
back in her bed room just out of
the hall but first he said he be d-d if
he would he struck at her
when she ordered him out they
wrestled a little bit she took him
by the shoulder and ordered him
out again he refused to go
said he be d-d if he
would then she went in her bed
room the bureau drawer
was right close there would only
take a second to go in there she[?]
came back holding a revolver
by her side and ordered him
out again he struck at her
again and refused to go out
he refused to go out and she tried
to get him to go out again she took
him by the shoulder again and
tried to get him out again and
he struck her some where about the
shoulder think it was on the right shoulder
she drew back pointed the pistol
and it went off then the man stood
there he was shot I guess, he fell
down in the hall it is a small
hall and he fell between the two
doors, Think she dropped the
Revolver and went to helping
the man and said O My God
have I shot you or hurt you
and he said lay me down then
she asked for water, a few minutes
after that She helped to lay him down
asked for water I did not get it
for her and then the crowd
gathered around I think she
got water herself crowd was
gathering in front dont know
who was first there when the crowd
first came she was ringing her
hands saying My God have
I hurt you she usually kept
her pistol on a empty chamber
She did not khow it know it would
go off and did not mean to shoot
the man, We lo He was then
there in Hall and had left the
door partly open when he came
in she tried to take him by the
shoulder and get him to go out
She tried to get past him to go
out and she could not as the hall
was small and he would not let
her pass when she could not get
by the man she stepped back as
I described before when she
first came out she asked him
what he wanted there this was before
she asked him to go out
Cross Ex
I live at Raymonds [?]
of the house I was living at the
Star up in the transome light is always
burning at night the house that
the prisoner keeps My Name is
Ruby Stanley do nt not wish to
answer my true name I told you
before my name is Ruby Stanley
I told y I am known in Spokane
Falls as Ruby Stanley I will be
known in this proceding as Ruby
Stanley I was rooming with
the prisoner I testified before the
Corners jury I swore to the whole
truth I dont know as I did
say she scuffled with him said
she took him by the shoulder though
I did, I cant say for sure
that I did I testified as near
as I could then I dont know I
am sure I told you just as I
remember it I dont remember what
I testified to everything was all afraid[?]
in the house an I was frightened
very much I went to the door
and told Miss Ray there was a
Man in the hall had seen me
came into the hall before this man I
appeared as if he was drunk
I lived with this prisoner that[?] rooms of her board out I stood in the door all the while this was going on I did not bring water dont know who did I got the water for Miss Ray when she fainted He was moving around a little bit when she was after her gun I saw sure that the man did not come farther, there is two halls most of his body fell in the small hall north hall lighted[?] doors unlocked there is nother hall and the other side of the parlor has the star[?] in of this door was locked the [?] the star is could have been unlocked Ray could have done so and gone out was two men in the middle parlor the minute this man come in the two men in the middle parlor steppped out the back door, dont know why they break
In the house at this time were two Gentlemen Miss Ray myself & Miss Pearl The gentlemen went out so she could not call them she called no one she could have gone out the other hall door have heard her say she had no police whistle never saw one there, While gentelman were there she called no one she went into the door and got her pistol he struck at her and the shooting took place
witness refused to answer the question if her business was not that of having sexual intercouse with men at that house
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I remained up the balance of the Night Mr Griffiths came there dont know what time I have no idea how long after the shooting should think about an hour afterwards cannot state positively
I did not talk about how I
should testify
Prisoner was speaking
something about it we all talked of
it we were talking all of us there
together I dont know as Miss Pearl
was there or not Mr. Griffiths
was out and in during the balance
of the night
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The Man Came in without his hat on looked as though any one might be frightened at him hair was not comed standing up not combed gentleman most always ring the bell when they came to the door
It was after she got her revolver,
when he struck her on the right
shoulder the shooting took place
a second or so after, I was not long
after she ordered him out that He struck
her when she staggered back It was
when the shooting took place when
the gun went off she held it in her
hands in front of her He was standing
near the door could not give his
exact position
Recross
was standing right in the little hall where he had been standing all the while about the middle of the little hall within about two or three steps of the door had not passed out of the little hall never went out of the little hall
He was not sitting down Inside door swings against partition wall I was standing in the door that leads in to the middle hall[?] Ray was standing right opposite her room door right in the Hall the man was in the small hall
they were there about as far as from her room door to the door in the Hall
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I did see this man strike the Prisoner
it is not a fact that the Prisoner
has not urged me to testify that
the man struck her
The street door was open a
little bit the outside door opens to the left
and the mines door open same way
the mines door was wide open both
doors mines door would come back
to the partition when open front
door was open not quite open the
mines door was open He the man was in
the small hall when he first came
he came in the long hall I was not taken[?] when I said but
before that he
was and out of the
little Hall
I did not mean
at any time to say
during my testimony
that the man was
went out of the little
Hall
Ruby Stanley
Sworn and subscribed beore me June 30 1886 JJL Peel JP
Ray pushed him back he was in the small Hall when the shooting took place when Ray went for the Revolver he was right in the inner hall door when she came out with the Revolver she ordered him out he did not see her revolver until after she pointed it at him after she came out with the Revolver she ordered him out and he struck[?] her and she stepped back and shot
Ruby Stanley
Subscribed and Sworn to before me on this June 30th 1886 before Me
JJL Peel
Justice of the Peace
