Daily Republican., 1879-04-07


they wsnt out, Is they thought l was
i jekfDg with them. r s&~three colorsd
men going towards New Castle: the
men who were quarrsling had coats on;
did not see Mr.. McManus pick the man
up In the road. Heard Mrs. Schafner
say "For Gods sake, pick him up"
1t was about five or ten minutes before
they returned. Edward and his broth
er in their shirt sleeves, the rest had
coats on. Mrs. McManus put Koppy
and his crowd out Of tie house, because
they were quarreling, and he said he
did not want any quarreling in his
house. This was after the disturbance
outside, about half an hour after.
Alonsa DENLY, sworn: There were
two others with father and last night,
Charlie Washington and Samuel Clark;
it was about IL or l1.30 o'clock when
we crossed Market street bridge; father
was shsrt distance ahead Of us when
he holiered to us "come On boys"
SO We walked little faster; this was
in front Of the house where the beer sa-
loon is. The party attacked my faith
Or nrst; it was moonlight; could sec
vary plainly. When l got the par
ty one Of the fellows says: "That's
old man Denby;" was kind Of scar
ed. Father says: "Boys, these fel-
lows amt going to hurt me-" they
kept pulling and hauling at father;
there we're five or six OF them: ono fel
low had hold Of father and twisted him
down, went to fathers assistance;
tried to help him when l was
struck in tho eve and knocked down;
did not know them; l think they were
ali dressed in black; when they Arst
commenced fighting they had their
coats on there was man standing in
the or-way at Walther's house, am
positive OF this; couldn't toll what he
had on; there was another man on the
other side of the road; he hollered to
me- "to STOP" but kept On running.
Father had been drinking little Ia
coat was shown, the witness recognized
the coat and said it was his; he dropped
1t on the road where the fight was Ia
hat was also shown, it was found in the
ditch-the hat did not belong to his
father l dropped a pair of brown over
alls; bought them Of Bernard Wolfson
The witness was asked by one of the
jurymer if he thought he could recog
nize any of the prisoners. He replied
that he couldn't tell whether he could
or not. Just as the prisoners were
about to come up he was told to brace
up, when he said hs was not afraid Of
them, he was thinking Of his father.
At this word he burst out crying, and
it was certainly pitiabe sight to see
the son with his face battered up and
scarcely able to see out of his eyes. As
the prisoners entered the room he re
cognized young Smith first, and he
thought Monahan was one also. He
said he wanted to be right, as he did
not wish to do anything wrong.
The two colored witnesses, Charles
Washington and Samuel Clark were
brought into the room to see if they
could recog nize any of the prisoners.
As soon as they entered the room, they
looked at the prisoners when one of
them said, "Flinn looks like the one
who struck me,' and says the other
81 think Kopp is the one who had
hold of the old mans neck" One of
the colored men said 81 also recognize
Smith; and Monahan looks like the one
who kicked me in the side. The pris-
oners were conducted back to their
cells
Samuel Clark, colored, sworn: Charles
Washington, myself, Perry DENNY and
Alonza DENNY were walking across the
bridge last night; Perry Demby was
ahead of US, when party got to fight
ing; we said "let him alone, that's Per-
ry Demby." (The witness was cut back
of the ear with black. jack or stone.)
They struck me with weapon and
knocked my hat Off; the old man was
down at the time; there were six or
seven of them; there was man stand
ing on the steps in his shirt sleeves on
the right hand side of the road; some
were in their shirt sleeves that were
fighting Perry.
ran about quarter of mile; the
drst knew of Demby being killed was
this morning; live with Mr.. Peters; We
all started to go back but were afraid;
never thought about telling Mr.. Pc
ters' as | did not think Mr.. Dsmby was
dead.
Bernard Wolfson sworn: Demby and
his son and two others were in my store
onISaturday night; sold Demby coat
and pair of blue overalls. The coat
was for his boy.
Charles Washington sworn: We were
going out home, Perry Demby, Alonzo
Demby, Sam Clark and myself; had
just cleared the bridge, and got by the
house, Perry being little ahead of us,
when the smallest one of the young
men, Kopp, had the old man by the
neck | ran up to them and asked
hem "What was they gwine to do with =
limY" One Of the men says "don't
lurt him, that's Perry Delnby.' After
ran up pushed one of the men away
rom him. Finn was standing on the
;ide of Perry and he struck me in the
,ye: as soon as pushed him back
James Monaghan kicked me in the
'ide. jumped upwhen Smith knocked
ne down. Istruck at him though he
knocked the lick of every time. AT
Ter that ran. saw a man standing
IN house on the steps part of the
,rowd were in their shirt sleeves, about
half of them when left they bad '
Perry Demby down; don't know {
whether they were beating him or not.
Emile Walther sworu:-Live over I
Market street bridge; seen no fuss; I
heard the fuss after shut up: could 4
not tell who they were; this crowd that t
as arrested were in my house. These +