Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-07-08
DUTUHY WEST.
His Examination on the Charge
of Eelouious Shooting.


"wil she testity?" vss The query
made eeysfal times since the arrest o.
"Dutchy" West, She WIS Jsnnie Gray,
or Jennie West or Jennie Black, which
ever YOU pleased, and the query was
whether she would appear aud TESTIFY
against Dutchy, in the case in which ne
is charged with feloniously attempting
10 shoot her. "She Is afraid as death OF
him." said an officer to the reporter,
"and che likes him, too. be was her
husband once, until he went to the
penitentiary, when she married Lige
Black. Dutchy is jealous, and has sew
eral times threatened to kill her"
But Jennie came to time yesterday al
ternoon, at the examination Oh Wes',
which came off at the Jail, before JUS,
tice Miller. She seemed nervous, ana
did not glance toward where West was
sitting, his dark eyes fixed keenly on
her. He has rather progressing lace,
i'm spite Of its swarthy complexion. His
dark hair is cut close to his head, and
his moustache neatly trimmed. tie
had. like Moses, clearly shaved himself
before appearing before Pharaoh.
Col. Arnett and William Coke Curtis
appeared in behalf OF the prisoner, and
the State was ably represented in theper
son of Harry Pendleton. The defense
thought il was about ready to proceed,
and Jennie Gray was sworn aud exam
ined.
She said she had seen West on June
Is, in the afternoon, sitting on the door
step of the colored church, and upon
seeing him had gone into her house,
He came to her door and knocked, re-
plyiny to her interrogatories by giving a
fictitious name. She osnized his
voice and refused to open, but when he
declared he would kick the door in, she
admitted him. He said he was going to
kill her and drew aud cooked revolt
Yer. She ''rastled" with him on the
porch, where he fired three times. The
balls grazing her person. Some friends
were with him on the outside and were
shooting also, the balls flying in every
direction. She had no desire to receive
"baptismal fire. and had run away.
Col. Arnett tried, by all the mea rs
known to the profession, to shake TINS
testimony and cause her to waver, but
she adhered to the above story. She
said no shot had hit her, but one had
prazed her shoe and burned it, hurting
her foot. Where that shoe was she
couldn't say. 1t WAS an old one and
she was not particular. West, she said,
had been "wrastline' for her pocket.
book and hal said: "lou 'wrastled'
p city well, but - yon, am going
40 kill you.' She denied vigorously ever
having told anybody that he did not try
to hit her.
This was all of the testimony. Col.
Arnett said he wanted a continuance
aud The um5ra echoed it; he didn't
know Jennie would testify rs she did
and now he wanted some witnesses.
This was objected to 10y Henry Pendle-
ton aud was taken under Amusement by
the court.
As Jennie Gray passed the window
on her way ont, West rushed to the
bars and whistled to attract her Hten-
ton. When she looked he made some
kind OF cahaistic sign on his hand and
sat down. The justice muttered some
thias about tsmpprins With witness -,
and Willie Curtis said that was done Ivy
the other side, meaning, a. he afterward
explained, that II WAS the police.
There WAS another charge against
Dutchy. Tie Was charged with robbing
the residence Of Mrs. Margaret Long,
corner Of Jacoh.and Seventeenth streets,
on MAY Is. lie WAS not ready for a
hearing. which was postponed until Sat
urlay.
ANY more cases to grind out" asked
Arnett.
That's all ior the present" and
putchy WAS demanded to Jail on two
charges.