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1)1111, me uociur lesuueu.Dr, Brumbaugh ami Dr. Doebele were recalled to the stand, in turn, (o express their opinion concerning brush burns on Thompson and the manner in which they most likely occurred.William A. Foster, cliief deputy sheriff, testified that he visited the scene on Monday, August 12,' In company with sheriff Steele, tin; district attorney and the photographer. The officer testified he. found a tweive-guage shotgun shell on the hill about the point designated as where the man wns standing when the shot was fired. The distance from the point where {lie shell was found to a point in the highway where there was a spot of dry blood was 80 feet, the officer testified, and in the line between these two points, seventeen feet from the spot of blood on the road, was a cornstalk punctured with shot. Shot had struck a post in tire same range on the opposite side of the highway lt;4 foot from the spot of blood on the. highway. The blood spot on the highway was 14Vs feet in the rear of the point designated as the spot where the car was stopped.At this .juncture, court recessed for the Wednesday session.This Thursday morning at fto'clock additional testimony wasoil'orod by the Commonwealth upon reconvening of court.Deputy sheriff Foster was recalled io the stand for cross-esnmination. He testified that the spot of blood on the highway wns not on the line of fire, possibly :! feet off the line in the direction of the point designated us position of the automobile.Sheriff A. Wayne Steele, called to the stand, testified that on the night of the shooting he went to the home, of John Widner in beim township, and found a single-barreled 12-guage shotgun in a small shed 25 feet from the ground. The sheriff identified the gun. also a 12-guage empty shell found in the cornfield. The sheriff witnessed Ids deputy picking up the shell in the field. The court received the shell as evidence in the case. The sheriff saw the shot-riddled stuck of corn in the field. The corn-stock was about 7 \» feet high, the sheriff testified. Widner turned the gun over to the sheriff, and made no 1 e.n minis at the time. The shcr- ' ‘ill fesiiiicd further that he, i
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The Daily News
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 05, 1935
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