He says that he was sitting peaceable with Armstrong when all at once without no warning they was a shot from the window--the east window, I remember he was particular to say--and Armstrong dropped forward on the table, shot through the heart.
"Reeve says that he didn't wait to ask no questions.

He blew the candle out, and having got the darkness on his side, he made a jump through the door and got onto his hoss.

He says that he wanted to break away to the trees and try to get a shot at the murderer from cover, but the minute he got onto his hoss, he had his hoss shot from under him." "Was they any shots fired then ?" "Yep.

Reeve says that he fired a couple of times when he fell.

But the sheriff says that Reeve only fired once, as his hoss was falling, and that the other shot that was found fired out of Reeve's gun was fired into the heart of Armstrong.