The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-07

The REVERSED ROBBER--Fi6thtf EIuB'-
indfion Of he .ARe9ti preacher. Justice
W. H. Caldwell last evening resumed the
examination Of Edward S. Carey, the tndi-
Yidual arrested in Chicago last week as the
craftsman professionally known as the
preacher, who was connected by Condrey
and Long with the robbery Of Alex. Rogers
residence in this city last April. The ex:
animation was conducted in the office OF
the Jail, in the presence OF Sheriff I1ngie,
Jaiior Daily, the counsel and witnesses,
several reporters and threeor four officers.
B. Sheekey was the first witness exnm-
iued. Sheekey said that in April last he
was employed as q cook at Clator restAur-
ant, corner Market and 18th streets. While
he was at Gators three parties, strangers
to him, but whom he afterwards observed
answered the description given OF the per
sons who robbed Mr.. Rogers residence,
took their meals there. They eat at Ga
tors two or three days. Two OF the party
came to the restaurant on Saturday aud
got 4 valise that had been left there,
and went away. Witness then described
the three men alluded to. and upon being
asked if the prisoner, Carey, bore any
resemblance 10 either OF the three, said
none whatever" The person he took to
be the preacher was tall, slim fellow,
with hooked nose and smooth face, while
Carey wore q mustache. Witness never
saw the prisoner that he knew OF until
Thursday night OF this week, when he
called at the jail to identify him
and failed to do so. Sheekey further
deposed that he had no acquaintance
whatever with any OF the men who COM
mitted the robbery. He had no particular
reason for remembering the three men he
had described any more than any Other
transient boarders, except that they were
strangers. His idea of the personal ap.
pearance OF sthe preacher" was based
upon the description he had heard given
OF that person during the trial OF Condrey
and Long. Immediately after the robbery
he had thought that the parties who com
mitted the robbery were the same person:
who had stopped at Gators restaurant,
description Of whomhe had already given.
'.SpoOney" Butler and Punch" Ions
were brought in, and Sheekey was asked il
he knew them. He replied that he knew
them only BY having heard them called
By name, they having previously been
pointed out to him at the Jail, but he
could not swear positively that they were
the parties who had stopped at the reStan'
rant.
Charles Daily, son Of the iailor, was
called to the stand. Witness was asked
BY Captain Dovenor, OF the counsel fol
the defense, il he was present when 9
couple OF Pittsburgh men came to the Jail
to identify ''the preacher" and replied
lin the affirmative. He knew one OF the
men as a Pittsburgh detective named
Harrison, and had overheard Harrison re.
mark, as he left the Jail, that he had
never seen the prisoner before.
James Merton, being duly sworn, said
that sporting man" known as "the
preacher" had been pointed out to him al
the fair at Youngstown, Ohio, in October
"The preacher" was running a fortune
wheel, and was in company with crowd
OF gamblers. Witness described the per
son pointed out to him, and declared that
he looked nothing at all like the prisoner
Witness had never seen the prisoner be
fore. Witness had been in the city 9
month. He formerly kept the Eagle Hotel
at Youngstown. Noticing in newspaper
an account OF the capture OF ''the preach
er" in Chicago, he thought he might be
the same fellow he had seen at YoungS-
town, and called at the Jail to see him
Upon going to his cell and looking at hin
he found that he was not the man.
There being no other witnesses, the case
was argued BY Prosecuting Attorney Jor
dan for the State and Messrs. Davenport
and Dovenor for the prisoner. His Hon
or, at the conclusion Of the argument, an
nounced that he would take the case un
der advisement and render his decision
this morning.