The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-19
ger when he walked; hadn't iseen him

ser when hswasiked; hadn't iseen him
drunk muchssfE q NJ
Mra< Martha Dixon (hy the proseou-
aOnf-Has known accused about II
years; visited him; didn't know OF any
threAts he made against hts Wtfps hasn't
sean schmidt drunk for q Year., he AZ
ways behaved Ike q sane man. lISy
The detendent. l-Didnt SEQ the accused
3bo1t z years ago when he had the de-
Sl1'tetlls tIegle9lsS NFhan accused was sober
he was kind 20 his wife.
Mr.. Hodman-(by the prOsecntion.l
Don't know accused nor hfs wife; Knew
OF thqmi - . WRtchmRn;f was sleeping
in the day time on the day OF thGifnur.
der; his wife came and said Schmidt had
killed his wife; he went over to ac-
cuSed'S houses accused Wns In the Rleop-
ing room and ordered witness out; he
went out and said to accused to keen
quiet; accused said he sttold her he
would shoot her, and he had done it;''
witness said II was all over now, and TO
sit down; accused did 50; accused was
evidently drunk; Mr.. Price came and
arrested accused; Schmidt didn't want
TO go; held on to the porchi witness
helped to take Mrs. Sehmidtss body In
70 the houses witness also helped to take
accused 70 jail. (By the defendant,H
When witness came 70 the house the
accused looked wild at him; witness fol-
lowed him mp, aud accused ordered him
out; accused1s' face was reds there was
cider ON the floor and ON the chair; 40
cl1sed's eyes looked wild; don't think
accused was sObers he said he wanted
to go to bed; lost one ofhis Ahoes ON the
way TO Jail, at the corner, and the other
near the market houses accused spoke
ike very drunken or crazy man. (By
the proSecution.l Schmidt looked Ike
man who had been on spree; ovi-
IDENTIFY out OF his mind.
Godfrey Price, city policemnn-(By
the ution. l-AFrested the accused;
was at Squire Mil RS ONCE boy came
and said man had shot his vile: went
down and saw Holman talking To ac-
cuSed; witness arrested Schmidt and
wanted to start away with him; accused
wanted to go TO he'd: took him by force
until he met officer Fender; accused was
drunk; he walked after the. police took
him out; he made some kind Of a noise;
the gun was given to witness when he
went back to Schmidt's house; It was a
mIlttla gun. (By the defendant. 40
cuscd looked like q man either drunk
or crazy; his talking was q mumblinV.
indistinct German. 800 r.
L. Fetzer by interpreter, Cby the pros
ccutiOn. HAS known accused and wiz,
for about 6 years; lives near Scllmidt's;
didn't see Mrs. Schmidt killed; saw
heR afterwards; she was then lying on
tue grounds got his milk from Schmidt
Tor about years; wns there generally
on Sundays; don't know of any threats
OF Schmidt against his wife; when ac-
cused was drunk they would quarrel;
never saw him hit her; when accused
was drunk Mrs. Schmidt was out 9th
house several times; don't know II he
drove her outs when schmidt was sober
he WINS very kind. (By the defendant.
l-Couldnt tell II Schmidt Ind the
ttettEIHi1 tTeHselSS when no was drunk
one couldn't get anything sensible out
OF him; when sober he sometimes spoke
wildly; when witness saw him on Snn-
day mornings he was generally RIGHT 81
his head; accused would sometimes say
silly things; knows when he lost an eve
from taking cold out In the air: didn't
notice any difference in his mind since;
accused wasn't drunk all the week OF
Mrs Schmtdes death; saw Schmidt
aIbet the murder standing on the porch;
ne asked accused Hwhat was the mat
ter :" the answer was, stnone OF your
business witness went mp and looked
at Mrs. Schmidt; took her by the
shoulder; said to Schmidt, ''you've kill.
ed your Wife;" accused again replied.
'slts none OF yOur business; accused
went into the house and was asked by
witness II he had gun, and was told
again that eit was none of his busi-
ness" saw gun in the next room; ac-
euSed looked wild; witness couldn't
look the way accused did-hs looked
crazy. lBy the prosecution -accuseti
behaved we'll when sober. Thy the de-
PENDANT. Accused looked like a crazy
man.
With this the evidence in the case
closed for yesterday, and viii be re-
sumed again this mornIng,we presume.
The following is the civil docket for
to-day, but We suppose most Of the
cases will be continued ON account OF
the Schmidt case: Sherman q Colo o..
l. g. Frost & Co; Samuel Haziett 70.
same; Samuel Trimble rs. same; Ham
tlton q Roger, use, DC, Us. &c. Dewey;
- Elliott rs. John Anderson; PETIT &
White rs. s. S. Bovar q CO.; Samuel
Fields ~. B. F. Evans & Co; Thomas
cruddes ts. A. II. Britt; Simon Hork-
himer rs. Thomas Hughes; same rs. A.
ii. Chnpline; John r, Wolf rs, s. B.
Bushfield, JE.; Joseph Bell & Co., "a.
VIM. Stewart; William "a. Oxtoby rs.
John S. Carlisle; ]. n. Smith q Co. M.
Jason Pool; David Rnll rs. Samuel
Voltz; Thomas n. Reed %. George e.
Caldwell; John Darrah rs. Daniel
zane's executors; same ps. same, ct al,
two suits Thomas Hughes %. Andrew
AIarselliott; Warden q Edwards Is. ].
G. Campbell; Thomas Dunning Us. II.
Harris; Morgan Hibbs q Co., %. Peter
Phillips Daniel Stewards adniinistra-
tors Is. A. Bedillion; Andrew E. Myers
%. R. F. Hedges; Logan & Gregg Us.
John Ladertyi Hunt, Holbrook & Co.,
Go. John Knox; Boyden & Co., rs.
same.
The court meets this morning at nine
a large crowd was in attendance YES
teEdny afternoon, as We suppose also
will be the case to-day.
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