The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-27
AFTERNOON.


CHRISTIAN METsCH Sworn: Am AZ
years old; reside in Rock Island; have
| lived here since the fall of 1858; Am u
| policeman; before that I was teamlng; and
before that was running a bakers shop;
was policeman on the morning o.! March
18th and evening of the 18th Of March
last. Witness here gave the names of all
the policeman / saw Rosenield the
night Of the 18th of March, about 90 min
utes before Il o'clock, reporting time that
| is the time we meet together to report
| We left the Marshal's Office about 20 min
utes after y. We went mean Rosen-
field, German and myself down on Sec
oud avenue; crossed 18th street; Rosen-
field went to 18th street and went south
on 10Th street This was about 1920
o'clock, | went towards the government
bridge, and German went down second
avenue. Rosenfeld lived on 5th avenue
and 9th streets. | afterwards came up
"a tn street uHtl ] struck 4 avenue, and
then went back on 4th avenue again to
10th street. l first saw the four defend
ants on 9th avenue, coming from the
west; they were near the corner. One
out Of the four men said I'VE give it
this time to the son of a b-h"
| kept on down the street and when about
ten feet from the corner, there they ran. |
met then on 7th avenue, and, when on the
middle of the block near 18Th street, |
caught up to and took the hindmost man;
| was about three steps from him, and the
front man was looking around at me and
the front man said stop. l reached with
my cane and give the hind man a clip with
my cane, and then / told the other one to
stop. Witness here recognized Pat
| Heeney as one of the parties The place
where captured the man was near Judge
Guyer's place. Witness here gave an &C
count Of taking the prisoner to Jail. hear
ing two shots fred and other points recited
by him when before the coroner's jury. |
met a man coming from the west, and |
headed the man off and then | met Cor
man, and the man | had said, man was
covered with blood, that there had been a
fuss; told German to go Tor the bridge
and head him off; came down 9th avenue
to 18th street, and when in the middle of
the street / saw man lying on the ground
it was the south west corner, about to S
feet from the west side. went up to the
place and found the man TO be Joe Rosen-
field; he was lying on his back Witness
then went on to describe the condition in
which Joe was found, and what he, the
witness, had said and done at the time.
Mr.. Foster objected, The Court over
ruled the objection, and Mr.. French filed
an exception.
Witness then continued-I said Joe,
what is the matter? and he only groaned
Gmitating the sound) | asked him again
Joe, what is the matter? and be only
groaned. | then went over to DR.. Trues-
dale's and got the doctor; then blew the
whistle for help. WITNESS here told the
story Of taking Heeney to Jail and other
facts as told by him at the coroner's In
quest.) This was on the morning of March
18th, about o'clock. The cane of the
deceased officer was here produced and
identified by witness as the cane carried
by Rosenfeld. Witness also gave des-
cription of the weapons used by the police
force and the manner Of carrying then, and