Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-06
CITY ITEMS.
COrone.'s Inquest.
Saturday Morning, Nj

Eram tnation Resumed.
Aluin Breper, saw Knight about IL past
4 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, at the U. S.
Hotel. He paid me % cts. for work. I saw
him have two ten dollar bills, and two or three
small bills He showed no indication of IN
toxication.
Artemas Ward, Jr., was at Peck's saloon
between and o'clock went up stairs to
the saloon with Peck. Knight and Fisher
were talking in the entry. About two min
utes after entering, heard crack went to
the stairs, and saw it was Major Knight.
Simon II. Perry, was called up by Mrs.
Ridell, between and O'Clock, Thursday
morning, and went for the doctor and Mr..
Knights son. Was present when the pockets
were examined. There were few cents in
change in one of the pockets, and about
$3.50 in an old brown bag in the other. There
was no shot bag in his pockets.
Charles Pond. Boards at Mrs. Ridells.
Was called up by her, about IL o'clock
Wednesday night-found Major Knight in
bad situation, and staid with him till his son
and the doctor came.
Judsoa Fisher, testified that he was at Peck's
Bar Room between and o'clock, Wednes-
day evening. He went to see man named
Taft, but did not find him there. There was
no one in the room but Maj. Knight and Geo.
N. Howe. Did not see Leonard Flagg there
When he went in, be bid Major Knight ''good
evening"" and had no other conversation witb
him while there. Staid but a moment, as
Taft was not there, but went directly out
again, and down stairs. Knight followed
When down, just as he put his hand upon the
door latch, to open the door, heard crash
and, looking round, saw Maj. Knight " all III
heap at the bottom of the stairs. Judging
from the noise, he could not have fallen fur
ther than from the third stair from the bottom.
The door opening into the store, from the side
of the entry, directly where the Major laid,
was open. Peck was in the store, and he and
John Angler came directly into the entry, and
assisted to move Knight into the back store.
did not see Leonard Flagg that evening.
Samuel Wesson, Jr. Lives in Worcester
had a conversation with G, Hitchcock,
Thursday morning, and he said a man was
struck last night at the square with slung-
shot. Mr.. Chant heard the conversation.
Studying from his looks and conversation
Hitchcock is in the habit of visiting the sa-
loon at the Square. Have not talked with
Hitchcock about this matter since Thursday
morning.
Charles r. Chant.-Liye in Worcester.
Had conversation with G. Hitchcock on
Thursday Morning last, and he said some
body was knocked over at the Square last
night with slung Judging from his
looks, some mornings he has been hard
used. Think he, Hitchcock, was in the habit
of visiting the saloon.
After the principal testimony was in, the
jury proceeded to view the premises, where
tt fatal wound was received. The store oc-
cupied by Earl Peck, is in the brick row on
the south side of Washington Square. On
the first floor, the front room is nearly filled
with casks, apparently for the wholesale liquor
trade. The room back of it, is where Major
K, was taken, after the wound was inflicted.
This is the room where persons who want L.
| quors in jugs, &c. to carry away with them, oe
tain it. Directly at the side of the front store,
on the west side, door opens from the street
into the entry leading to the saloon above
This entry is about four feet wide, and it is
about four feet from the front door to the
stairs. The stairs occupy the whole width of
the entry, without any railing, but with parti-
ton walls on each side. The stairs are pretty
steep. At the head of them is landing
and passage way running to the left to the
saloon, from three to four feet WIDE -
The bar room of the saloon IS directly over the
front room Of the store below. From the en-
try below, side door opens into the front
store, through which Maj. X. was taken,
when carried to the back room. The follow
ing diagram will give an idea of the
| premises.