The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-02-26
THUGS
Il What Sherry and Connolly Are

Who Murdered McConviile in Chi
cago.
C.icago, iii February 2I.-The Grim
inal Court room WA crowded to-day ~ il
has ever been since the celebrated Sullivan
HanfOrd case WA ON trial. Hundreds Of
curiosity seekers failed to gain a5mist.nce,
and the court building was surrounded by
these people from early in the morning
until late in the evening.
THE PRISONER,
Connolly and Sherry, sat in the Court room,
the former stOl,d and self-posse~ed: the
latter, nervous and cowed down. Mr..
McClannaghan, for Sherry, read lengthy
list Of witnesses, and of the whole batch. but
one solitary witness responded. and he the
young man accused Of being intoxicated
when called yesterday afternoon. His
name was Bartholomew COoney, and his
testimony, sifted, was as to the general
reputation Of Sherry. He inclined to the
belief that it was good. A buzz Of ezpecta-
ton aRd n general straining Of necks ensued
as Mr.. McClanns CHAN called Geo. Sherry
to the stand. Mr.. Coffey announced that
he had some documentary evidence 10 offer.
and had sent for it. Sherry evinced that
logged, reckless disposition which he vainly
tried to conceal BY one Of ease ar he told
his story, which was that he lived at 2l7
Blue Island avenue. and was q ham sewer.
lie had worked in the stock-yards for two
years; his home MAS in Cincinnati his
mother died in an insane asylum fur years
ago two married sisters lived in Cincin-
natl; he had known Connolly about four
weeks. and had met him first with Thomas
Boyce IN COoney's saloon.
THEY WORKED TOGETHER
afterwards. and were frequently together.
They stopped working at Huichinsons on
the 10Th Of January, were paid, went down
to Nugent's saloon, took several drinks, and,
after visiting another saloon. went home.
After supper they vent to pawnbroker's
ON Clark street, to buy . pair Of pants.
Connolly bought pair which Was in the
bundle under his arm; they drank con-
siderable.
According to this deiendants story
they drank enough to float . ship. The
exaggerated testimony Of drinks taken was
not checked BY his counsel. while the pris-
oner appeared to remember every detail of
that night.
The prisoner continued: After leaving
saloon, where they had been playing pool
and disposing Of eight drinks Of hot whisky,
they started down State street. He re-
counted the meeting Of Donsgan near the
butcher shop. Hello, boy" said Doneean.
They talked together, and Sherry asked
Donegan for . pipe. Donegan stuck Lis
pipe in Sherry's face, which riled him, and
he struck Donegan, Who ran into the
butcher shop. Sherry told how they
cheered, and related the scene in the
butcher shop. and denied handling clea-
yer. The witness tried, he said, to quiet
Connolly, who was
ARMED WITH A KNIFE.
They had scufile outside the door, and
in the melee, trying to get possession Of the
knife, he cut Connolly on the hand. The
next person they encountered was q Ger
man, who advised him to take Connolly
home. Mr.. and Miss McConville were met.
Sherry stepped out into the mud 70 let them
pass. The lady crowded him, and he
placed his ha.,d on her face and pushed
her. "What did you do that for p demanded
the gentleman. The lady ran away. and
Connolly, placing himself in front Of Mr..
McConville, Aourished his knife. Neon
Vile backed away, and tried to push Con-
nelly away, when Connolly stabbed him.
As he fell he cried. ~Oh, oh! Pm cut"
Connolly, you've killed that man." said
Sherry, to which he replied, "Yes, guessI
settled that" They then ran away, and
went to Hicker's saloon.
In the cross-examination By Mr.. Mill,
Sherry admitted that he picked up piece
Of iron in the butcher shop and would have
struck DOnegan had he MT escaped. He
could not tell what he would have done
with Slater, another of the persons encoun-
tered, until he caught him, bat his manner
left the impression on the minds of his
auditors that il
WOULD HAVE PARED BADLY WITH SLATER.
The prisoner denied everything that would
possibly, to his own thinking, ,mplicats
him in the murder.
Mr.. Bernard McC onville paid the I'd West
attention to Sherrys evidence, and = Ter
y related the part be enacted when AeelinR
deceased and his niece his face became
ivid he moved uneasily in his seat, and
or moment il Wa evident that the scene
4 yesterday would Be repeated, but with.
lrawing. his gaze from the prisoner he
aimed himself Sherry's manner showed
. depraved disposition, and during his
evidence he displayed ~ abundant
Of slang and gag, and his utter
eer that was in entire keeping with
he cross examination Of Sherry w. r.
mod the ~nnpH nrnsn hosm4 ~o1nn1>H~1o
lacked. sherry coasinued biz curt and
urly answers. He reiterated that Connel-
y had stabbed McConville, and denied
hat he had kicked him. A piecs Of torn
roWn paper was shown the witness, and he
/ He replied that he did not. Msso,
enator BuchleTs asailant, his cell-mats,
'rote all his letters for HIM.
wHYLAND, THE MURDRREn,
Tas the man who had written the note on
b brown paper and sent 10 70 Connolly.
he brown paper Wa not offered in the ev-
aence. Il stated that his (Shefry's) only
egret VS. that he had not outraged Mias
lcCoavills. Connelly's cell mats. Crsw-
ord, reluctantly testi6ed that Sherry threw
i'm the note and be read il 70 Connolly.
he note vas then read By Mr.. Co0ee.
mother leaf, torn from the sane book, was
6ered in evidence. One side Of il was
overed With pictures Of this murder scene
a court and the final hanging. The note
- supposed 70 have been sent By Sherry
D Connelly. The case will probably b
iven the Jury on Saturday. There i bat
ne opinion regarding the result, and that
, that both the thug will b ioand guilty
n hsu~~1