Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-08


went out. ] supposed he had cot up and gone
/ went 70 ths head oi The stairs aud saw him
lying on the sidewalk ! went down, TOOK him
nto the hall and Get him upon The stairs
found him lying on bic perhaps little 90
one side, with his hat and cane lying out IN
front Of him. his head was lying toward The
street, he was bleeding Of The time but / did
not notice much blood ] think tho blood came
from bis mouth aud nosei be did not speak
or move / eft him and went up 10 my loom
and got Mr. Beach, we took him and carried
him 90 staira; we laid him on tho sofa aud
washed the blood from his face; we were there
with him perhaps on hour we then raised him
on the sofa that he might breathe more easily
we then saw cut on his head, from which a
stream of blood ran out and spattered upon the
wall. We then thought IL best TO 60 for
pbvsician; went to DR.. Strongs ofiioe-then
| to Dr. Roeder's and found the oung man; he
advised me TO 90 for DR. Roeder; | did so and
before / got back Mr. Sterling was dead Mr..
Sterling wss owing me about Ss6, which he
| paid last night in playing cards, not IN money;
| / then won about $40 Of him; do not know
| how much more money be had; no one was in
the room but Mr.. Sterling and myself Mr..
| Beach was not in my room until ] went for
him to take Mr. Sterling up stairs he was in
| tie next room; first met Mr.. Sterling at the
| Angler about 10 o'clock and we went to my
room together when be had been drinking
some he was very exoitabe; we went from the
| Angler TO Stanwix Hall and from there to the
Weddell; went in there, but he stayed out.
side; when / came out, we went together to my
room; he told me he wanted to go up and tell
me of some plan of his with which he wished
me to Join; it was some plan for manufacturing
ice; he was not very much intoxicated when
we went to the room; there is a gas jet az the
head Of the upper flight Of stairs; the $50 Which
Mr. Sterling owed me was for Ilaying cards
some time ago. before we went up he said he
would arrange it in few days. twas week
or more since he was at my room beiore
since last fall we had played together but
once until last night; at the time when he
lost the Ss6 to me, which was | think
week ago yesterday, he lost and paid some
money to other parties who were playing
| think he lost some two or three huadred
dollars in all at that time / remember only one
who was there at the time-B. SMITH
knew the others. but do not recollect who they
were; there were in all four or five persons;
last night there was no one in the room at all
except We two; we talked perhaps half an hour
before we commenced playlng he won Of me
enough to balance what he had owed me before
and then l wanted to stop, but he insisted on
PLAYING more; After going into the room he
drank number of times of whisky; after bal
, ancing the old score l won of him some $50
$40 or $50; don't know exactly how much
we played "seven up" and each won and lost
portion of the time; he left tine room some ten
minutes after we stopped playing; before leay'
ING he was quite intoxicated could not walk
: very well; l stood in my door and l saw him &C
e to the stairs and start to go down; when he
had got down three or four steps went to tn,
y gas at the head of the stairs and turned off tht
gas and then went back to my room; 1t had be
gun to grow daylight so l could see some
when l went into my room l thought hear,
- him on the landing between the two flights; ai
i ter going to my room ! locked the door, turne
>, off one gas light, pulled off my coat and was Lo
l. ing into the bedroom, when heard the fall, a
b of some one falling down STAIRS | stopped an
q listened, but heard no further sound in two o
three minutes | went to the stairs and locke
down; l. saw something on the walk and wen
!, down before removed him inside the door, SAY
u blood on the walk but made no examination al
Il to where he was injured he was unconscious
o when | returned with Mr.. Beach, think Nj
y Sterling was in the SINE position in which
left him; it was about O'Clock when MI
Dickinson (the young man at DR.. Roeder's
went up to the Toomi Mr.. Sterling was the
living but was not when DR.. Roeder reache
d there; ! do not know when the blood go upo
nv clothes; those who were there at the tim
T.
At men, and not professional gamblers; think M
a Dunlap was one at that time, Mr. Sterling
son asked me last fall not to play with his tati
III er; did not drink much last night as Nj
c. Sterling did; when he left, he had drank t.
SIS much 70 know what he was about, and towa
,oI the last of our playing he was not in conc
ton to do any business or to know what
IL was doing about II o'clock last night '
r. heard some disturbance under our windows dt
r. -. L., khaRa ha M
bo nois,; don't know as any one knew of his 9
ing there with me; we were playing at pok
IL when he was there before; think George W
"a tiers was there at that time; / think that aft
10 taking one or two glasses, Mr.. Sterling "
oa- unable to restrain himself from going iarth
there was no alteration between Mr. > erli
ln- and myself last night: Mr. Walters, d. b. Sc
st, ton. B Smith, Nj Waters, Mr.. RobertsC
An MIR. Musseman. Mr. Dunlap, and others are
,. the habit of going to my room to play l I
l of Mr. Sterling's pulse after We had him up
u he sofa; it beat 81 times IN hali minute
lis never noticed Mr. Sterng's cane. and co,
ID nat tell whether the one found upon the WI
- was the same one that he took up to my roc
The inquest here took recess until t
h. o'clock
Tor A H. Beach, stgora-I have room in
er- third story of the building at the corner OF BG
tv. and Centre streets; my room Is next to Sh
-, mans; / heard some one in his room wher
'a' went home about l2 o'clock; thought | rec,
'u- nized Mr. Sterling's laugh; / slept until abb
~ half past three; MIR. Sherman then woke me
md saving that Mr Sterling had ialien down sta
al and hurt himself; about five minutes before {
heard noise as of sOme one stumbling On
the stairs; / followed Sherman down and found
hat sterling at the foot of the stains; he was sitt
odd leaning against the wall and the stars; he '
~ breathing heavily, but did not speak or mo
-, don't know whether the gas was nghted or L
uh' in the hall; He appeared to be inclined to Won
em and raised him up after We had placed him
the sofa in Sherman's room; when we raj
i, of him up the blood spirited against the wall; nc
ING happened while Sherman was gone for
Oh doctor the first time, but before he retur
the with Dr. Roder Mr.. Sterling died; no char
pen was apparent when he died-not struggle
~. groan; it was about an hour after we brOu
' him up before Sherman went for the Doc
'loe we did not think before that he was hurt baC
ght think | saw a black cane near Mr.. Sterling on
opd walk; did not notice any in Mr. Sherman's ro'
III when [ went to my room at IL o'clock l he
"'' some noise on the street below, and looked {
there appeared to be tive men, one trying
md. quiet the other who was drunk; there 10 bu
q IN Thin partition between my room and ShsTma
should have probably heard any altercato
"' that room; Sherman was somewhat agita
81 Of when he called me; the landing between
pom two flights of stairs is abOCt ten feet long; S
ave. man picked up Mr.. Serling's hat and put il
10 wear up stairs; about ten minutes after
Poi cling him upon the sofa, raised him up and
and blood spurted out; he seemed TO be perfectly