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

~. MfFfitNN NiNNfN -nm a mNNNNM uI the !
dcceased--Ehaha n stoflingi he was born In
Salisbury. Conn thlnk bo was AZ years Of
age last saw him Friday morning; saw him
this morning about Q o'clock in Sheman's
room; know Of no circumstances leading 10
suspicion Of foul play; the cane in Shemans
room was one carried at times by the deceased;
don't know Of anything missing which belong
ed to the deceased; don't think a man could
fall down stairs and produce such an injury /
without more bruises upon the face; in my /
judgment such fracture could not have been |
caused by falling from fight Of stairai shoud |
say the fracture was caused by direct blow OF |
fall from height in all cases have seen OF |
falls, there has been more or less Of confusion
Of other parts Of the body; Think the injury |
was received where he was found, and not up |
stairs, as there was no trace Of blood on the |
way down; person giving such blow as was
struck, might have been behind, and probably |
above the one struck.
HenrV Boh, stDOrn-When going home last |
night with David Boyd and Robert Kauken, at |
half past one o'clock, left them at the corner
Of Bank and Frankfort street by the Weddo |
House; / crossed the street to Halls grocery;
heard some loud talking in the third story Of |
the building (the one where the body was found) !
saw a light in one window; | could not dis |
tinguish any words, but heard loud talking and |
knocking; the window was open but the inside |
blind shut; Boyd and Kauken came over to
hear il, and the latter said "they are nothing
but gamblers, let's 90 home' then went home;
there seemed to DO several voices in angry
tones.
Robert Kauken, sVOrR-His testimony was
merely corroborative of Bohrs He thought
there we're a dozen or more all talking in the
room.
| Dr. r. Mathiuet, st0orR--About a quarter
past 6 O'Clock this morning | heard of the
! death of Mt. Sterling and went over to the
room of Mr.. SheImon; saw the corpse lying on
the floor; found the flesh cut upon the skull;
| formed the opinion that the wound was pro-
duced by heavy, blunt instrument; stick
for instance; cannot think that il could be
produced by fall; If he had fallen from the
stairs il would have bruised his face or body; if
from window it would have crushed tho SKULL
at any rate he would hardly 90 so far toward
the street; if he had fallen against any sharp
edge it would have eorsped up the skim if It
was blow, as / consider, the one inacting it
was robahy facing him; the wound could not
have been made otherwise than by blow, in
my opinion
Dr. Garlick s,porr-I cannot conceive it pos
sible that the fracture of the skull could be
produced by falling from the stairs near which
Mr. Sterling was found; the wound might have
been caused by blow from club or cane;
Il 90 not GOnkAQHT budh u ulhll Guhlu ldll uuutI
any circumstance from the top TO the bottom
of the stairs without striking, and it he struck
the blow would not be enough TO cause such
a fracture, aud bruises would have been found
upon the body.
Patrick Murphy, stoorn--Lve at No. 20,
Frankfort street | passed this building at
half past 8 o'clock this morning; l hear a
nolse nearly every morning from the window in
the third story spoken of by the other witness.
es, but heard none this morning; ! passed
8 down Bank street, with n foot OF where the
1 blood is now upon the tagging, and had there
been any there then l should have seen il; al
/ 5 or 10 minutes before 5 o'clock, passed by
again going home l saw the blood then in Z
' fluid state, not yet congealed; there appeared
to be a quart or more; both there and inside
at the foot of the stairs, there wss the bloody
print of mans hand or fingers; there were
| many marks on the wall inside as of man will
bloody hand fallen upon the flags or against
} the wall; saw a man about 20 yards off OF
1 Frankfort street; called him twice and he came
4 over to where / was; said "Do you see this 9
q Yes" he said, said "Where are the Watch
e men Z" Gan at the Station house," said he
i then stopped to look down under the iron graf
T. ling, and when rose yup he was gonei he wa
3 about five feet eleven inches in hight, and
l. think not Cleveland man; this blood was sti
r. warm and steaming.
% Geo Mau, StDorn--Board at the Wedde
d haye known Mr.. Sterling for twenty years. wa
i in the office of the Weddell about half past eeve
,e last night when Mr.. Sterling came and wer
re out; he pasfed from the front door to the Ia
r. room door and directly OUT he was bett,
dressed than usual at that time; saw nothin
o. more of him; Sherman came in just before an
er passed into the bar room; saw nothing MOI
II. of either of them and heard nothing during th
or night; Sherman passed out ten or twelve fo
as in front of Mr.. Sterling
n. G.. w. Clark, stoorn,-Live in Monroe %
~ o.; this morning about o'clock, was aw
4 kened (at the Weddel) by noise as of mt
n quarrelling, in Bank street; the men appear,
in to be in hot dispute; got up and looked ou
,lt and saw some men standing on the corner
ON the next street; should judge there were five
| six men there; after the noise stopped thr
i'd men crossed the street TO the Weddell Hou
TX side and passed the House toward Superb
m. street; they stopped about at the barber she
,,o door, and one said "let us go back and sett
w this natter" this he said several times the OF
er two were few feet in advance of this on
the other two refused and all passed up SUP
nc ror street; l thought some Of the rest went I
hk wards the lake; l went to bed and heard
er- more noise five or ten minutes after, the clio
struck three.
", This was tho extent of the testimony up
up halfpast six o'clock last night.
FS EVENING SESSION.
ii Frank Parker stoorn Am an employee
4. Geer's Livery Stable about 20 minutes befo
49, this morning ] passed by the building
's the corner of Bank and Frankfort streets; 81
' blood both on the pavement aud in the ha
,9t' it appeared fresh and in fluid state. Last Mo
~ day, Tuesday or Wednesday evening hea
Nv loud voices in the building; thou ht heard N
DI Sterling's voice. that was about IL or o'c'
~ that was in the third story three or four win
VI ows east Of the corner; am familiar with N
,n1 Sterling's voice, and am confident ] heard it
'pD that Tuesday or Wednesday evening; heard /
~ words, (not m Mr.. Stering'S voioe,) "l'll go
~. hundred better" voice seemed TO claim th
,uU he owed two hundred and something, and
w., heard Sterling's voice reply that he owed Or
n, one hundred and fifty.
w w Mrs Catherine Johnston, StoOTB.--LiVe
'iH Bank st. next door to the building on the CO
~. ner Of Frankfort; towards o'clock heard
w. crash in the next Xtbuilding, which first thOuR
was in the Express office then heard screI
~ or veil, and several voices; l also heard fo
- steps approaching the buildings The screami
~ ~ lasted two or three minutes, and seemed TO
~ Joined in by two or three men, some tootHtt
Tue seemed to 90 up stairs very quickly, while O
ler- ers walked off; did not look out; little
on On fore 5 saw a coored mau standing out up
pa the pavement he was doing nothing particul
VIC VIC everything was quiet before the crash I
un scream Immediately followed the screa
"'I seemed to be those Of pain; they diminished
strength one after another.
EeI John =. Ross, sioOrR.--I went to bed /
-"f night about ! o'clock and was awakened sol
time in the night by a noise across the sire
non one man was calling for another who was o.