Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-01-21

no men there. | watered and washed
my mule, and put him in the stable
NV mule stood in the stable beside
Sammy's. Sullivan, Lawler and Hop
kins were sitting outside waiting fol
me. | left Sammy in the stable with
his mule he was trying to get the har
ness off +; | saw no one else in the sta
bic; | did not notice how many mules
were in their places, bat | saw Sammy
Hunters mule in its place | saw Sam
my at the trough with his mule wher
| started to the stable | went home
with Lawler, Hopkins and Sullivan
McLain did all the feeding. ] didn't
feed my mule.
Cross-examination-I don't know
how many were at the stable; there
was a crowd at the trough; went
straight home from the mill
James Sullivan cross-eXamined-l
was coming to the dump when | un.
hitched Il did not notice any one, as
I was in a hurry four or five were al
the trough when | left it.
Harvey Colgan, sworn-I was at
work with a horse and cart at the steel
works on the day of the murder;
unhitched when the whistle blew at
night; l kept my horse in the stall
next to Hunters; mine was the third
stall and Hunters was the fourth; he
was just coming into the stable with
his mule as l was going out to go
home; five of US boys went home to-
gether; | saw McLain standing under
the shed, near the stable door, as
went into the stable with my horse
there was no light in the stable and it
was pretty dark at that time a lantern
was kept hanging in the stable, but it
was not burning that night; | did not
see any other men there.
Observation-Disclosures said he
was quite long time getting his
horse ready and in doing his work.
John Hart, recalled-There was no
light in the stable at the time took
my mule in; / saw Theodore Gross
standing in the door of his stable as |
came away he had comb and brush
in his hand, but was not doing any
thing
Jas. Phillips, sworn-Was driver
at the steel works at the time of the
murder; Hunter came to the watering
trough after got there; there was no
light in the stable, and it was pretty
dark; there was a window behind my
stall and | could see saw several
BOYS, but no men there.
Cross-examined-W When | came out
I did not see Hunter; | suppose he
was in the stable, but | do not know :;
when | left for home, three or four of
the boys were at the trough attending
to their horses.
THE TUG OF WAR.
Theodore Gross, (colored) sworn-I
worked at the livery stable for Mr..
Brinton and lived with him; don't
know how long | lived with him lived
with him in Lawrence county; moved
out there and then came back again !;
don't know how long | lived with him
after he came back to Braddocks my
work was to clean horses and buggies
and the stable the stable was between
the house aud the Connellsville Rail
road don't know how old | am lived
with Mr.. VIM Mckinney awhile; you
could see his house from Brinton's,
down the road a piece don't know
how long | lived with him came back
from Lawrence county last winter ;
don't remember the time Sammy Hun
ter died; remember of hearing it, but
don't know the month old man Nc
Kinney was at Turtle Creek the day
Sammy died, and came back in the
evening; | cleaned the horse and put
her in the stable shut the stable up
and stood by the stable door, and old
man Gisal was pumpin' water there,
and Sammy Hunter come to the water
trough with his mule and began wash
ing; old man Gisal says, "Never
mind Sammy, but put him in the
stable :" saw Sammy 60 into the
stable and
SAW MILAN HIT HIM
twice with a coal shovel; then saw
Gisal hold bag and old man McLain
put him into it; then saw McLain
sling him onto his shoulder and go out
of the door and turn down along that
fence; then they went up over the
railroad and down on the other side
then they kept on straight; then turned
down that hollow, and when they
turned down that hollow and got over
the riyer bank couldn't see no more
of them; McLain went into the mid
die stable where Sammy's mule was
kept; in the stall down this way to,
ward the door; Sammy's mule stall
stands up next to the Pennsylvania
Railroad, on the right going into the
stable | was standing at the watering
trough when McLain went into the
stable the shovel was about that
broad in the blade Indicating about
eighteen inches); when McLain went
in the stable | walked down and looked
in; Sammy was coming from his
mules stall, walking backward, as
McLain hit him; he hit him bach
of the head with coal shovel; Sammy
didn't do anything when he was hi
he fell; he fell toward Connellsvillt
Railroad back into the entry; fel
backward; Sammy laid there little
while and then Gisal held the bag ant
McLain put him into it; the first time
Sammy was struck he kind of stag
gered; then McLain hit him agair
and he fell McLain hit him with tht
the edge of the shovel the handle o
the shovel down toward the iron was
broken; | had seen it setting in th'
stable and would know it now if | saw
it Sammy was put into the bag heaC
first; it was a coffee sack can't sal
how long or wide it was. Shove
exhibited. Witness-This is tn,
shovel he hit him with. Witnes
gave representation of the manner il
which McLain struck Sammy. Wit
ness continuing, said the bag was go
from the granary on the barn foo