Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-11

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Ry French: Riley had on cap; he had
on q coat: can't tell the color; it looked
dark.
| GEORGE NORRIS TESTIFIED.
Reside at Austin at present; have been
there one week; came there from Rose
Greek, Mower county, Minnesota; knew
John A. Riley; knew him at Wau-
pun prison in Wisconsin;
was a guard there: 1 went there in 1874; left
Ghere in 1876; Riley was there when came
there; think he left there before l did; Riley
did not break out while I was there; the
prisoner is the same man 1 saw there as a con-
against him.
| AMOS HILL TESTIFIED.
Remember the shooting; 1 keep q grocery
store at Austin; went home at about s O'Clock
the evening of the shooting; the night was
dark and misty; walked Main south to Allie
ghany; when l got home looked at the clock;
it was $50; walked home in the middle of the
street; heard someone coming from
| the west in the street, near
Main and Allegheny street; heard the
party breathe hard as he passed me, Indicating
that he had been running; he passed close to
me; it was too dark for me to see who it was
he came from towards the house of Judge
Page.
L
| Reside at Chicago, Illinois; am in the employ
of Allen Pinkerton; have been there seven
years; have been engaged as a detective in
this case; took the case about the Sd of Septem-
| Der last; was sent to Austin by the agency; ar
| rived at Austin; went to see Judge Page and
| looked over the ground and made inquiries of
| the judge; met Frank Riley at his saloon one
day; Judge Page drove by; hotel keeper said,
| there goes Judge Page;" Frank said some
| thing did not understand; it was not friendly;
| l staid at Austin : one week; went to
Waupun; saw some letters at Judge
| Pages from q guard by the name of CLAY; 1
learned John A. Riley made remark the
night before he left the prison that led Clay to
| believe that he was the man that shot Judge
Page; that Riley said he was going up into
Minnesota to make some money: stsid at Wau-
| pun two days; his name was on the book there
as John A. Riley; he was known as "Buckskin
jack that he was hard case; had broken
out once; had been there four. or five times; a
guard said Frank Riley was at the prison the
| 5th or 9Th of August last; the deputy warden
| said Frank was there and jack asked him how
he knew he was there; he replied
| that some one in Oshkosh told him;
| I went to Winneconnee and Oshkosh; saw
Chief of Police Ford at the latter place; he
| said Buckskin Jack was hard case; he did not
| feel safe when he was there; l saw conductor
who said he saw man on his train who an
| swered to the description of Frank Riley; that
| he got off at Portage; left Oshkosh and went to
New London; John Riley had been there at a
| house of prostitution then called 1.-THE FARM
also learned that his wife was there; he had been
there twice; about the 10th or 18th of August he
had no money and his wife gave him money to
go to Minnesota and see his friends; he came
back from Minnesota about the 25th or 26th of
August and had plenty of money; Frank Stout
said that one Carr lighted matches in the tim
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Riley counted over 5000 which
he said he had made in Minnesota; Riley
wanted to buy stout's saloon; Carr was the
proprietor of ''the farm;'' Riley went to
Stevens point and took his wife with him; I
followed and went to the Curran House at
Stevens Point; saw John Riley in the postoffice
the day after came; think about the Oath or
18th of September; was there week or so be-
fore l got In with him; Riley was keeping
house over the slough; it was called "The Forts"
there was one woman there besides his wife;
| was there five or six weeks; Riley told me he
had been ten years in Waupon; said he had
broken out of there with two others; that Keys,
over the wall by "sheeney Georges"
noted thief, and they were about three
months fitting the keys and getting ready.
The guards discovered them as they were 60
ing out and fired, and they returned the fire
and got away, but had to leave Allen, one of
Gnolr party. hlloy GOOk Inc leaQ SuQ GQey ran
towards the river and got away; they went
through hotel and took what they wanted,
food and other things, and then doubled on
their track to put the officers off the scent;
they got into hay and crawled out of sight.
While they we're there some one came to buy
some hay, and they feared discovery and were
ready to shoot. They went to Oshkosh to
an aunt of Kinroy's, Mrs. McCuen. and
there were given away and captured;
they were in the dead lock nearly one year.
While he (Riley) was in Waupun one Corners
had said something about him land he dared
to fight. Corners came ihalf way and
Riley Jumped on him and stabbed him a dozen
times with knife, one blow nearly reaching
vital point While at Stevens Point Riley and
1 talked about doing crooked work and looked
at G safe in hardware store. He said there was
an old lady down at AmherstJ JUNCTION he bought
his house of for $500 or $3.50, who could be
stood up for her money. He said he meant to
tell some of the boys about it.
He showed me safe in gro
Gerry store that would be good one to get off.
He told me about marrying his wife and that
he had three children; two of them were in a
convent; he had been married nine years; said
the last time he went to the penitentiary
he had a child die while he was in
Jail; said he plead guilty and went up for one
year; he said he had the name of "Buckskin
jack" given him on the river; he told me that
when he was up for robbery at Warsaw he was
afraid they would bring him up for cutting a
man; that in a quarrel with man he stuck
him with knife in the head and broke half of
it off O saloon keeper and had the blade yet.
When the sheriff took him to Waupun, he said
he introduced the sheriff to the warden; the
sheriff was surprised the warden said:
John is an old customer of ours" He (Riley)
went away while I was at Stevens Point to
look after some girls. A night or two before
he went away he wanted me to throw a stone
khro,1 nhf Hor odnu IF hnr pod t,x
one Frazer, called whisky Bill" to hit him
and knock the life out of him; said he did not
want Whisky Bill under his nose; he had
| done him some dirt, or given him away; said
he could get his brother Frank to come and
do it in minute. He had done
job for Frank up in Minnesota, but he did
not want Frank to know he was keeping a
house of i'll fame; said if I done it no one
| would mistrust me, but they would come and
arrest him and he could have his wife and
girls to prove he had not been out of the house.
He told me just before ne went away to fix
him good while he was gone; he went away
Monday and got back Thursday; while away at
Milwaukee he was locked up as dangerous
character.
DIR. o. W. GIBSON TESTIFIED.
Reside at AUSTIN attended Judge Page the
night he was shot; arrived there soon after the
shooting; the night was very dark; I found
him suffering from gun shot wound. his sys-
tenn having received a severe nervous shock;
he had received some nine or ten wounds, all
but one from shot and that the most serious
one, from slug or ball; the wounds were in
the neck and scalp; two of the shot were buried
in the external table of the skull and remain
there still; four of the shot, in the muscular
portion of the neck, were removed; gave the
wad TO o. w. Shaw.
DETECTIVE WOOD RESUMES.
Riley brought back two girls; he was fined
in Milwaukee for carrying concealed weapons;
Riley said he would give me almost anything
asked to get Whisky Bill out of the way;
he told me about travelling about in Minnesota
with thief nataed One-Armed George; he
said they made good business; George
was no good to do work, but was q good stall