The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-05

was keeping q grocery may have kept
rum Pat McCue kept a shop Of his own !;
don't know what he was there for heard
them say nothing about Patton that morn
ing had heard them say If Patton pitched
into them he would get the worst of 1t ;
told Patton he had better not get drunk
| down around the depot, as there were par
ties there would make it worse for him !;
| while Howe was reading the warrant
Patton went off north didn't take much
notice what way he went; Howe had not
| got through reading when Patton started !;
| McCue started after Howe got through
not certain about the time didn't see any
| one go after Barney; didn't see his BROTH
ers till after Barney was shot; they came
to the place from the same direction as
Barney didn't see Pat McCue strip off a
coat or collar; Hanley stripped off his
coat IT was at the time the warrant was
read don't know where he went; he was
excited / saw something about eighteen
inches long thrown by Barney a short time
before he was shot didn't see Pat Hanley
or Pat McCue there; saw stones flying
| toward where John was wouldn't care to
be hit on .the head by one of them they
| came from the direction of Barney
| McCue Patton was twenty feet from the
brink of the quarry when he fired he was
a little southwest of the derrick the
| quarry lie over a hundred feet deep; mostly
| open from where Patton stood to the quarry;
the railing was iron pipe; Patton was in
side the circle where the blocks were piled
around the derrick; Barney was standing
on the railroad when he threw the iron I;
| didn't hear word said.
Re-direct.-Only one McCue worked in
that quarry; Patton has several sons; three
| over fourteen the one who fred the pistol
was a man grown; don't know the age !;
| Hanley took of his coat before the shots
were fired.
| Here the court took a recess till two
o'clock, when
| PETER LIE CLAIR
was called. am a moulder by trade;
worked for Sherman and Williams August
21st; worked on the dump cart, on the car
that run from McCues derrick. Early in
the morning, between six and seven, |
was letting the box into the quarry; Barney
| McCue went into the blacksmith shop;
heard noise in the shop; didn't go in; l
was west of the railroad track when Patton
/ passed me; saw Barney running away
after that and Patton following him; McCue
had been at work that morning; saw
Patton when he came back the second time;
he was at the blacksmith shop; McCue
was at the derrick and they sent for him to
go to the shop; saw Patton come up to the
derrick; was eighteen feet away; Patton
was there three minutes before McCue
came up; when he, (Paton), came up, two
men motioned him to go home; Barney
came up from the blacksmith shop; did not
hear Patton say anything: Barney came up
and stopped Patton drew something from
his pocket; Barney picked up something;
Patton fired; McCue threw; Pat McCue
threw stone at Paton Patton turned and
| fired on him then he fired at Barney again
and hit him; he put up his hands and stag
gered backito the dump car; that was the
last saw of him; Patton was back about
fifteen feet from McCue; cant tell exactly;
the firing wus about five minutes after they
left the shop; didn't get to whore Barney
was until after he died.
| Cross-examined-I stood near the brink
OF the quarry by the hosting power when
| Patton came up; saw Patton at the shop
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| their hands at Patton before the time spoke
| Of didn't see Barney leave the shop; l
saw Barney throw stuff at Patton can't
tell what (; should think it was stone or
stick; can't say how many times, but
should think two or three; Patton had his
| pistol raised when Barney threw at him (;
Pat was ten or fifteen feet from Barney at
the time Barney came up first and Pat sf-
h as5 me e5 ;"i didn't see HanIey throw any
stones don't recollect Pat Hanley doing
| anything or saying anything except shout
| ing, "Barney's shot y l could see Patton all
the time, but got out of the way little ;
know nothing of the trouble between Patton
| and the McCues hadn't been in West Rut-
land over three months Patton had been
| at the derrick about three minutes, should
think, before Barney came up they might
| have all been together minute before Bar
| ney was shot, couldn't tell exactly; did mt
see either Pat McCue or Pat Hanley have q
| revolver worked in Burlington before
came here told you Ito Judge Dunton,
| and Mr.. Lawrence that l didn't see this,
but wasn't sworn to tell you the truth
| then.
Re-direct-Paton drew the pistol before
Barney threw anything at him.
JAMES GRIFFIN.
Live in West Rutland have been there
26 years worked in the blacksmith shop
on the 21st of August last (his account
Of the meeting at the shop in the morning
corfoborated Dooley's j when Barney be-
gan to swing the sledge Patton began to
work his hand in his pocket and Barney
ran Patrick Madden stopped Patton an in
slant in the door and Barney got quite a
distance toward his house Carmody
caught Patton and held him minute :;
Paton's boy held onto him long while
and worked him back into the alley near
where the shooting was while the boy
was holding him the stones began to come
at them pretty quick and the boy let him
| go and snapped the pistol twice in the air /;
Patton went off up toward his own house.
His account of the meeting at the shop at
| ten o'clock agreed in the main with Doc
ley's. He said Pat McCue came to the
shop and picked up piece of iron eighteen
| inches long. told him to leave it and he
| did could see Patton where he fired from
the windows of the shop his account of
the shooting was very graphic and agreed
| in the main with the others, except that he
said Patton fired at Pat McCue first, who
lodged behind block of marble and
that Barney was STOPPING to pick up q
stone when he was shot, staggered and fell
back; Pat Hanley picked him up and car
ried him off.
On the cross-examination being asked by
Judge Dunton If he knew anything of any
trouble between Patton and the McCues, he
said that Saturday night before the murder
he saw Mike Shannon and one Clarity
around his shop saying there was some
one they wanted to fight, but they gave no
names. The testimony was objected to by
the prosecution, but was admitted by the
court on the assurance of the counsel for
the defense that they intended to show the
| connection Of the McCues with these peo-
pie. If they failed to show that the testi-
mony would have no weight. The witness
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