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Case Continues At Fort MacleotlDetails Of Drinking PartyUnfold During Murder TrialFORT MACLEOD (Staff) — Evidence of a drinking party and a fight previous to the shooting of Omar English highlighted the non-capital murder trial Tuesday of William David, a 55-year-ola Peigan Indian.English, 3?, also a Peigan, died June 1 at the David residence on the reserve.Vaughan Hartlgan, agent for the attorney - general, called a number of witnesses who were at the David home the night of the shooting.Charles Crow Eagle testified lie heard Omar English and William David quarreling. He and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Grier and Mr. and Mrs. English wer-j at the David home.“I was feeling sick so I started for home. When I 2eft the talk between the two was getting rough/' said Mr. Crow Eagle.Ernie Grier of Brocket said lie and his wife had a few drinks with the others and that English and his wife were pretty drunk.”HID IN SHACKfound a .30-.30 cartridge and rifle of the same calibre in the David home. They were summoned to the scene by a phone call from the John MacNell residence in Fort Macleod. Mr.MacNeil phoned the RCMP upon the request of Mr. David.David is being defended by lawyer Paul Matisz of Lethbridge.The trial was to continue Wednesday.Mrs. English's testimony, which was taken at her bedside in the Fort Macleod Municipal Hospital, was that she was drunk and did not remember much about the incidents surrounding the shooting. She said she hid in a shack all night long.Mrs. David testified that Mr. and Mrs. English were drunk, Sho said she and her husband had had a few drinks but were not drunk. Mrs. David said that when English had been drinking he becam mean.STRIKES WIFEWhen English began arguing and fighting with his wife about some money, Mrs. David said she tried to make them stop, after English struck his wife.English then struck Mrs. David, knocking her down. She said she then heard a shot and when she looked up English was lying on the floor,RCMP officers testified at the trial that under questioning David admitted that after his wife was knocked down, he went into his bedroom, picked up his rifle and told Omar to get out of here or I’ll shoot you.”English then said to David, you better mean what you say because this lime I’m going to kill you.Dr. A. R. Bainborough of Lethbridge performed an autopsy on the body and said death was caused by loss of blood caused by a projectile passing through the chest area of the body.English was pronounced dead by Dr. Thomas J. Walker of Fort Macleod. RCMP officers
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Wed, Oct 20, 1965
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