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Ray Raymond v. Territory of Washington. W. D. Gillespie Rebuttal

 

Rebuttal

W.D. Gillespie Called

I was present at the Inquest of the body of Jas Finch on the morning of the 26th June 1886 and heard the testimony of Ruby Stanley She I have read the testimony which was reduced to writing by the Corner, and is in substance all she testified to on that occasion

Cross I have taken no interest in this case I have not been eaves dropping when counsel have been consulting with the Prisoner I am willing to swear to this I did not eaves drop when Counsel & Prisoner was consulting on the Morning of the 26th have been in jail lots of times I was not discharged from those charges for taking wine without permission

I think I can give most of the substance of Ruby Stanley's testimony on that occasion I think I could give the substans in that the aid of this paper

I am willing to swear I can give the sustance of the testimony

I understand supposed to be everything of what bearing on the case of intent to parties concered I think it was include the details of her evidence

This is a statement of the details   of that testimony in full

I think no detail of her testimony is left out of this written Statement

Redirect

As I stated I before the shot was fired about 20 minutes to one OClock he died near two O'Clock

W.D. Gillespie

Subscribed and Sworn to before me on this July 1st 1886

JJL Peel

Justice of the Peace

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Ray Raymond v. Territory of Washington. W. D. Gillespie Rebuttal.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 27, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0162.017

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