The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-01
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
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The CHEsNUT HILL TRAGEDY-CoN-
TINUATIoN OF THE lNQUEST.-in our fourth ed-
zion Yesterday we gave the testimony OF JACOB
Hersch, the first witness sworn in this Ca,e.
The remainder OF the evidence was as fOlioWs:-
william Becker, sworn-l live at the Wlssa
hiCkon tOll-gate; | was on duty on sunday
evening between aud 8; | remember two men
coming up in wagon and refusing to pay their
toll; l caught hold OF the back part of the
wagon, and they stopped and asked how much:
] said hvc cents; some women and children
came out, and the deceased said, You'd better
bring the whole family OUT" with that he hit
the horse, ana the jerk thereof threw me down;
a lot of men ran alter the wagon; caught hold
OF the coat-tail OF one OF them; Philip Stiles
was the one ! caught hold of; Fagan went down
after the men, and told me he was going for
police; Stiles said he was gong to whip the
men; he rolled up his shlrt-sleeyes; l told him
not TO go; held him by the coat tail; didn't
see Michael Teeven at all; didn't see knife
at all.
John Devine, sworn-I live about square
below the Wissahickon toll-gate; | went out on
the roadside after supper; heard q noise near
the toll-gate, and mentioned it 10 the man SIT
ting beside me; wagon drove up with two men
in IT. and they stopped right opposite to us; they
asked us to hold the horse till they went back;
we took hold of their horse; they both got out
and went up the road; one OF them said, "We'll
give them a show for it," and rolled up his
sleeves, as if there was going to be fight; |
couldn't tell which of them rolled up his sleeves:
They were both strangers to me; one of my
friends said, "We'll go up and see what goes on;"
| went down towards the tOli-gate; the two who
were IN the wagon met one man coming down;
the three got into a sCuifle; | didn't know who
the third man was ii was too dark to distin-
guish any one; ! know Teeven; don'C know
whether 1t was him or not; there was one man
struck and knocked down, and | heard the
blooo dropping; he walked after he gotup about
one hundred and fifty feet; didn't see any
knife; the scuffle lasted about three minutes;
q nod flan yl,fIn NlNpon
a light; think the two who were in the wagon
were in liquor, but they could walk very we'll;
/ didn't hear a word said; one went one way
and the other another; the third man walked
back towards the toll-gate; there was no fourta
man engaged; II was Just before the moon
came up.
Owen Golden, swon-l board AT the next
house to where the man died; saw the parties
get out of the carriage, and held the horse |
didn't see the scuitle: | know Teeven; | haven't
seen him for two months; the man who was
stabbed got out OF the wagon first.
Mrs. Eliza Moran, attirmed-I reside at Wissa-
hlckon, near the toll-gate; | was sitting at my
door wnen deceased came up to my door bleed
ing; he SAID ''hold me-" and fell
Thomas Fagen, sworn-l live in Springfield,
Montgomery county; last Sunday evening / was
at the tol,gate talking to Philip Stiles and
| Michael TeeVen; Stiles ana Teevep came together
, e6Qut dtteen minutes before the Disturbance
| two men drove through the to!tgate; Becker
| told them to halt; they stopped little and then
| one of them gave the horse a cut, and drove on
| agaln; Stiles and TeeVen started after them;
| went down, and met MIR. Hersch; he asked me
if was the toll gate keeper; | said mo, sir;" he
said There's no use making fuss about IL;
| want to pay the toll;n Hersch was alone; didn't
| hear any difficulty at the wagon; we both walked
towards the wagon; didn't see Stiles or rTeeVen;
| | don't know where they were; Teeven never
| showed me knife; the reason that Hersch and |
| turned round was because somebody came up
| and said that a man was bleeding to death;
| didn't hear any threats; / don't know who told
| us That man was bleeding to death.
Philip Stiles, German, sworn-I live no
where; got no work; Saturday night slept on
Mr.. Long, MONTGOMERY county, last Saturday
afternoon; know Michael TeeVen since last
harvest; | saw him last Sunday evening at the
toll-gate; II was night; l took supper with him
at his house; he showed me knife at his house