The daily gazette., 1875-11-24
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cour, opened at 10a IN. Judges
4 Gipin, Wooteh anu iiou''oi on 'nc
n bench. .,,,,;e uu. ,,
.i.nse in the Whitlock case had pro-
"e.SrJ ".SsJ as far as the examination of
rbSodore Whitlock. who testified sub
s,outially as follows: Am brotherand
s,S, s"n In the prisoners at the bar. Had
s1n snard a threats to burn my fathers place
Id went to his saloon on the night
ANY, az the 18th Of August heard crowd Of
W non coming down the street, appar-
ortv o, very drunk; they went into my
ta,bers place and ] went over and
o',ted in at the window; saw three or
ionr men standing up and some lying
dawn. some of the men were dancing;
noord nv father tell them TO stop two
ny ~ three times; they would not and he
allied to my brother John to come
and try to stop these fellows from
ispcing;" John came in and told them
n stop their dancing or go out; Fur
cbss said "piteh in" alluding to the |
noys,O dance or to John; Furchess
nm hsr right hand IN his left pocket of
his coat and pulled revolver half
vay out; then heard report from
Johns pistol; after this they all ran
ort as the men ran out of the saloon
4 after the pistol was fired saw some one
4 crab the pistol from Furchess; father
/ dd not saw 10 John "come out and
4 shoot the sons of b-s," or threaten to
+ blow them down"
Harry Vasey testified that he was
oar tender at Maxwell's Hotel and that
this same party of six negroes had got
over two half pints of whiskey at his
bar before going to Whitlock' the sec
Ond time.
Here the defense took recess until
P. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
On the reassembling of court at
o'clock, Charles L. Dill was called who
.estifed that the morning after the
shooting he met Theodore Whitlock
md William b. King at Armstrong's
. corner, they said they had just come
4 rom Chesapeake City, and had not
aeard of the shooting; King said
E that is the case then "Dorie turn
sound aud III be damned it we don't
s. ill another "
Fl Vim. W. Williams who was present
Fl Al The conversation corroborated Dill
& q every point.
At $50 O'clock the case was submit
. led to the jury without argument.
Patrick Ahren and George Weibold
we're then placed on trial for the murder
1 Of the unknown tramp at Townsend.
The following gentlemen were en-
pannelled as the jury:
David Mccoy, foreman; Jacob Way,
John Beai; VIM. p. Forrest, Philip q.
Plunkett, james Il. Hoffecker, John
Wsyne John II. Reybold, Jas. Ward,
James Ridgeway, George w. Ely.
Attorney General Pennington for
The State, VIM. c. Spruance and B. F..
Nields, Esqs., for the defense.
Deputy Attorney General Robinson
opened the case on behalf of the State.
The first witness called was VIM. T.
Bedwell who testified substantially as
tONOws:-Am 90 years of age and live
near Backbird station; know Ahern
4 hut never saw Weibel before night of
the occurrence; August 10Th young
man named Barlow and were going
upto Townsend that evening about
Org o'clock to hunt trunk; Barlow
!olned me at his house about Is yards
ABOVE Barlow's Bridge; wetwo started
tnpthe X. r. track; Ahern overlook Ut
between Conways house, and Barlows
crossln; Weibel joined us a quarter OF
amlle further on: when Ahern first
came up he asked me if was going tc
townsend; replied yes when he said
ne was going up there to hunt mar
VINO had been cursing his father ant
ahe found him he would hit him
Anern had no coat on and had nothing
n MS hands; were joined then BY
melbel; saw Weibel once before a
SHUTDOWN by the freight train and re
cognized him; don't know how h
was dressed; Weibel said nothing t,
W.; we kept on towards Townsen,
Ahern and on the lead part of tn
Mne; met man about 200 yards fron
townsend sitting on the left han
,Sll on the side track; Ahern an
Neioel did not 60 on to Townsen
m' went up towards the man, Aher
AKed II he was the man who had jus
%me up the road; the tramp rising hi
icy answered something | did nj
Understand; l was a little benin
1aern AL when he accosted the tramp
"eibel was on the side line whe
anern spoke; as l passed by Aher
zane out on main ack and picked u
SCMething and flung at the tram
shen flung three times | saw hi
sSoop twice; two of the shots struc
ue grass and one struck somethir
pretty hard; did not see Weibel q
anytmng; left Weibel and Ahel
anhng there and went on TO Tow
oenu where We staid from an hour
aa nour and half; returning saw Il
lamp lying where Ahern had bet
Miowing at him; told Mr.. Barlo,
mi' barlow, Mr.. Jester and l we
;Sagk 10 Townsend; the manwas lyil
NJ NJ 'he same place; / told at Tow nser
om t' Reed, James G.. Townsend al
Sersi we then went back in q bod
Uunu won the body in the same place;
Sn "as examined but not by me; dol
INV TnGw II the man was dead when b.
nn NJ" ana l repassed him first time
"o'; there had been n shower Of ra