The daily gazette., 1879-04-07

knew there was a colored man there by
his talk they went up the road and then
came back and stood in front of our
house heard them say, "let us kill him
further up"
Violet Hall, COL, sworn Il saw four
men at 1l;45 o'clock last night, in shirt
sleeves, standing in front of our door;
they were qaarreling; one asked another
"did you hear anything from hlm7" did
not hear any answer; did not see any
quarreling; this was after the men had
gone up the road; knew that they were
dragging the man up because he could
hardly speak; did not see any colored
man. The witness recognized Edward
Mem anus as one of the four men she
saw in front of the house,
The Jury took recess until three
o'clock in the afternoon.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
The jury. pursuant to adjournment,
met promptly at 3 O'Clock. The exami-
nation Of witness was resumed:
Jacob Schafner, sworn Il do not re-
member what time 1t was, but it was
either ten minutes before IL or o'clock,
that / was awakened by big noise in
front of the house; WITNESS lives on the
Cause way;) went to the front window and
saw some men fighting; could not say
whether they were white or black men;
when l got up saw one of the party
knocking another down; then three or
four ran out causeway toward New Cas-
tie; saw one man knocked down; could
not tell whether he was a white or black
man; h0isted the window, and told them
not to beat him auy more that he was
pretty near dead now, and one said, ego
TO hell for a.; they all had their
coats on; could not recognize any one
young McManus was not with the party
then; saw McManus and brother come
out and lift the man up, and take him up
the road; how far | do not know; the
party that beat him had run away; the
black man said, "the Lord wi rewa rd
you," McManus said eve will all be re-
they lifted him up; could not recognize
any one that was there; at the time l
called to them one of them said "where
Is all the damned niggers."
On motion of w. II. Quinn, a post
mortem examination of the body was
ordered to be made.
Frank McManus sworn:-I was sitting
in the house last night about II o'clock,
and heard some one fussipg outside;when
we got outside my brother Edward and
Thomas Garrighey, and his brother-in-
.'pick the man up," and that he was lying
in the road; the lady was Mrs. Schafuer
1 got hold of one arm and Thomas CARR.
ghy the other, and helped him up and
stood him on his feet; and started him up
the road; we took him up as far as Mrs
Schafner's;I think 1t was about IL o'clock,
l could tell the man was black when
picked him up; he was groaning; l saw
no one but the man lying in the road;
when we put the four men out of the
house it was after the fuss occurred; they
were "full" when theycame in our house;
it was about quarter of q o'clock when
the party came into our place; when
leading the man up the road he did
not say that anybody had struck
him; it seemed that he was drunk;
l could not see any one around
when l went out to pick him up.
when picked him up, he was lying in
front of Mr.. Guthrie's carriage shop; did
not not notice whether he had hat or
not; asked him what was the matter,
and he gave no answer, as he was too
drunk; when separated from hun, he
said nothing; supposed that there were
several IN the "fuss" as they made pretty
big noise. From the time l heard the
noise, until l went to the door was about
half a minute; the combataHts might run
up the road by Guthrie's carriage factory.
Sallie Taylor, sworn; Live at Mr..
Walters; heard no fuss during the night;
bar; heard no noise anywhere last night.
Alice Miller Il was IN Mr.. Walther's
house last evening; laid down about 11.30
O'Clock; heard noise outside, but don't
know at what time; L supposed some
parties were quarrshng; l did not go out
side to see what it was; sometime this
morning Mr. Walther's came and said a
man had been killed up the road: l was
In tho bar room last night between 9 and
IL O'clock, Kopp and Smith were there;
they were in the room before the disturb
ance took place; 1t was before ii o'clock,
and they left shortly after eleven; Kopp
was very tight when he went out.
Rebecca Dering Live with Mr..
McManus; l was in his house last night,
between 8 and IL o'clock; l heard dis
tur bance in the road about fifteen minut-
es to II o'clock; went out to the door and
saw couple of men quarreling; they
were directly across from Mr.. Nc
Manus's house; Mr.. McManus, his BROTH
or and brother-in-law were in the bar
room; did not see Thomas McGaraghy;
the two McMauuses went outside when
they heard the noise; there was no one
on the street when they went out except
man lying in the road; the three men
went towards the bridge; Kopp, Smith
and Riley were in the house last night,
about 1915 o'clock, after the quarreling
on the street; l went to the door first;
NJ C Manus did not go to the door for ten
minutes; when was standing in the door
the parties were knocking one another
down; saw three colored men 60 Oft
to ward New Castle; the men quarreling
all had coats on; did not see McManus
pick the man up; ! heard Mrs. Shafner
say, "for Gods sake pick the man up" L
stood there fe ew mi nutes after McManus
went out from the time he went out
until he returned was about ten minutes;
Mr.. McManus put party out of the
house; they wanted to quarrel among
among themselves; this was about an
hour after the fuss outside occurred; did
not hear them say anything about having
troub with party outside.
Alonxo DemDy, son of the murdered
Demby, crossed Market street bridge
last night about 11.30 o'clock In company
with my father, Samuel Clark and
Charles Washington; hen the difficulty
occurred father was some distance ahead
of US and he called back "cOme on boys"
when the fellows attacked him he was
in front of the first beer saloon; it was
moonlight ond could see very plainly,
the men were quarrelling with my father;
when got up to him, one of the fello VS.
said "why that is old man Demby,"
father says, "boys these fellows are not
going to hurt me-" they kept pulling and
hauling my father; l cannot tell how
many there were; one fellow twisted my
father down; 1 went to his assistance,