Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-09
EYENING STAR.
local INTELLIGENCE.

UsRRERr AND HEATING CAsE.-Long
tI.o the hour assigned for the opening of
es criminal Court I'll a. ny the court room
Wo .,oWded, in anticipation of the opening
VS. - trial of p 7 Herbert, charged with the
arSsr of Thomas Heating. At twenty min
~. mast eleven a.. m, Herbert was brought
y! W. from the Jail and placed in the prisoners
hoI. He was speedily surrounded by his
ee:.nJs and counsel. Mr.. VIM Carey Jones
Gov. McDougal, of California. stepped
SUI tbs railing and seated themselves in the
Soy by the prisoner
Tbs court room was found so oppressive in
-sonuepce Of the heat and crowd, that it was
80 necessary to bring in carpenters to take
I'm I'm the blinds and throw open the great
.Or,b.ru window, and an officer was stationed
:, the window to prevent the crowd from oc-
runying the position.
''NessPs. Bradley, Radcliffe, and Hon. Percy
wsIEer appeared for the defence, and the
district Attorney for the United States.
The names of the following witnesses were
allied for the United States Thos. Broduck,
Iobu Edbright, Charles Quinn, Jerry Rior-
Ian Michael Dougherty, G. De Venois, Mi
Cbasl Carroll, Patrick Heating, John Redig,
Francis Maynard, James Quinn, DIR Thos
Miller, DR. Frederic Warren Of Mass, Henry
A willard, John RELY.
The Indictment being read to the prisoner,
he AQsWoIoN III q INV, DUl uTu
tone.
The calling q jury was then entered upon,
and the regular panel having been exhausted,
II was found that but five Jurors had been
sworn, viz Edward M. Edelin,, John T. Brad
lev, John Scribner, Enoch Moreland, John
Sessford, jr., the balance not being qualified,
either through having formed or expressed an
opinion, or lacking the property qualification
or were challenged peremptorily by counsel.
Sal 81 Ill
ular panel were Benedict Miburn, Rezin Beck,
Archibald r. Quantrill, Thomas Sylvester,
Thomas Lundy, Samuel 7. Drury, Samuel
Phillips, John S. Devlin, Thomas j. Davis,
William Clsry, Samuel Mcknight, Henry e.
Murray, Thomas +. Baden, James b Hol-
mead. LeOnidas Bowen, Joseph s. Worthing-
ton, William A. Kennedy, Geo D. Spencer,
Jacob Harshman, Geo. Harvey, John W. OFT,
David W. Oyster, Alexander NJ. Smith, Aaron
Devine.
Up to the time of going to press no acces-
sions have been made to those already sworn
upon the jury, and it is probable that consid-
able time will be occupied in the attempt to
empannel jury.
The EXAMINATION of VIM. Sullivan and
John Bggleston, for killing C. w. Bell alias
Casper Kohrnan, was commenced this morn
ing, at about noon, before Justice Dan'l Smith
and John Ii. Goddard. Mr.. Martin, attorney
at law, appeared for Sullivan. There was
large crowd around the prison windows. ap-
parently interested in the proceedings in pro-
gress there.
At 20 minutes to IL, Eggleston and Sulliv an
were brought into the room. The witnesses
fer the United States were removed to the
passage, away from the trial room.
George Beckert sworn In the evening
about 3 clock, four or five men came to the
window and asked for something to drink ;
afterwards heard swearing and slapping with
hands; l went out and saw one with knife :;
outside the house; saw some one have some
thing thought il was a knife; don't know
who had it some one Of the party said to me
you are the one that struck that follow after
/ went in the house, looked out the window
and some one threw a tumbler at me after
this Reese said the Captain is cut {; saw him
lying on the floor bleeding; don't know who
done it; thought Sullivan was in the bar
room there was no fight in there previously !;
did not see Bell till he was cut.
Germans to be examined, Mr.. b Shadd was
sworn as interpreter.
Conrad Cost sworn.-The first be saw was
those men (Eggleston and Sullivan) with
others coming in; one kicked up fuss out
side the house; one man Myers was knocked
down, and then jumped upon by the whole
party and beat; they then went to the window
and threw glasses at Beckett on the inside;
Sullivan was the last Of the party who left !;
he had light in his hand, and was about to
throw ii into Beckert's house he did not,
however, but set it down; after he set the
candle down he left the window and went
toward Captain Bell, who was standing with
his back To the window, at about ten feet off;
be came to Bell and struck him in the back;
Sullivan did it; he had something in his hand
Ii looked like a knife is sure it was Sullivan:
S..1l. n
feet from Bell; Bell turned and went into the
passage; saw Bell after he was struck; did mt
hear Bell speak after; didn't speak when be
was struck; saw no one standing near Sulli-
van or Bell; Sullivan had all his clothes
On; none of Sullivan party were near at the
time; two Germans, beside himself, near by.
The person who struck Bell came back to
the house, asked for ms hat; couldn't iden-
tify any of theothers of tho party; can partic-
ularize Sullivan, because he was at the win
dow before the act; Sullivan went and talked
with others went to Bell and put my hand
on him the party wao came in were fighting
with Myers and ThOma learned their names
afterward
E. l.. Reese swOrn.-Was employed on
the 4th inst, by Beckert, to preserve order;
when got there Capt. Bell was standing al
the door receiving tickets; stayed there until
near eight o'clock; everything was quiet ex-
,
saw Isaiah Stewart, Daniel Stewart, Rggle
stOn, Sullivan, Ranggy Jones, and Eslin, sit
ting behind the music stand; Jones was very
drunk, and some one put him on the table
behind the stand to sleep; asked the Captain
how they got in, and if they paid told the
Germans to keep away from them, that they
were in liquor and likely to raise a fuss; about
half-past eight o'clock Egglsston asked me
what time it was; L looked at my watch and
told him; noticed VIM. Thoma there with q
little stick in his hand Sullivan jerked it out
OF his hand; that created difficulty, and Sui
Ivan was about to strike Thoma. Here we
were forced TO close our report, Nr Reese
still being on the witness stand
At one O'Clock large number of witnesses
were TO be examined, and the hearing likely
10 occupy the entire afternoon.
The GAS LIGHT CoNPANY-This company
Is now organized, as follows President and
Treasurer, George w. Riggs; Secretary in
charge of Office, &c, JOS. F. Brown Mansg-
ing Foreman, or Superintendent, VIM. BOND.
of Mr.. Riggs high character, energy, and