The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-23
THE DONALDSON TRIAL.
Testimony in Ihe Case.

ST. LOUIS, June 22.-Captain Barr,
first clerk of the steamer Great Repub-
lie, testified in the Donaldson trial yes
terday that he was not present when
Anderson was shst; was asleep in his
room. Was in the baggage room, how
ever, with Donaldson between II and
half.past II o'clock; thought Anderson
and Glover were sitting or lying on the
trunks; didn't hear any conversation
between them. Donaldson had been
talking with him about business. Don
aldson was going up town. Knew
nothing about $500 note of his father
in-law's to Donaldson to pay for run
ming off Ray and Glover. Donaldson
never told how much it cost him to get
Ray and Glover out of the way.
DR.. Mckinley testified that while he
was in charge Of the dispensary at DR..
Pope's college, Glover applied for medi-
cal treatment and in q conversation
held with him, Mckinley said Donald
son did not do the shooting on the Re-
public, but was absent during the fuss;
next saw Glover on the 9th OF last
month in Jail, and he turned as pale as
q corpse when he saw me.
William Livingston, engineer of the
steamer, testified that he was on watch
from ID to 4 O'Clock. He and Jackson,
the Waterman, were sitting on the steps
whom the pistol was fired; had been
there about an hour when the shot was
heard. We could see the baggage
room. Nobody came out of the baggage
room. No one could GO into the room
without our seeing them. After hear
ing the pistol Sam Ray looked out and
Jackson asked him what was the mat
ter. He said ooh, nothing" AID shut
the door. Geo. Williams could not have
been there. i did not see him at all
that night. He was not standing at
the steps at the time tho report was
heard. The watchman and myself were
the only persons awake on the boat.
Ray did not go out but opened the door
and shut it again. There was no other
noise about the boat while was awake,
did not see Barr nor Donaldson; saw
nobody come out of the baggage room
William Thompson, cabin watchman,
swore that he was on duty all nighti
heard them running for somebody on
the levee. Don't know where Capt
Donaldson was then. 1t was between
one and two o'clock that the man ran
off. Capt. Donaldson left long before
that-about two hours. Heard no PTS
toll shot, and did not know the man was
killed until the Waterman came aboard
Did not see Geo. Williams that night
williams told me when he went off tn,
boat to tell Sam Ray that he would
be back about 4 o'clock next day. Viii
liams said to me, 81 am very glad wa:
not here, or / would have been in that
trouble" never told Williams that
followed Donaldson to the baggage room
about 2 o'clock. 1t was after Barr wen
to bed that / heard the pistol shot. Die
not tell anybody the negroes were rails
ing hell. Do not recollect telling any
one that Captain Donaldson was in the
baggage room raising hell. Did not
know anything aboat the fuss until the
policemen came on board; did not see
Barr after ne went to bed, about one
o'clock. l left Sam Ray down in the
office in the cabin.
Alfred B. Davelt, second clerk of the
boat, testified that he heard George
Williams, the second porter, say he was
glad he was not on the boat as he might
have been mixed up in the fuss.