National Republican., 1880-02-24

| well appeared ana was reCOXnlLeu.) ITO Ictt
| the storo because the police said that
Quaker building a. d then went back to
| Mrs. Halls; he told them all about tho mur'
| der; Plun WAS there ut that time; Pinn pro.
| posed that they 90 over aud tell Mr.. Sibley,
and they did; then they went to the drug
store together he stayed about fifteen minutes,
aud then returned to Mrs. Halls whore he
remained until near IL o'clock, when he wont
home to Mrs. Lees; he did not have u collar or
| Crayat on that night; he had never threatened
in any way to do injury to Mr.. Hirt the wit
ness was in Hirths store whom Quecnan was
arrested; he did not do any thing but buck the
policeman Pinn tied the kuot in his blue
nerktie ut the Jail; he could not do 1t; he did
not have anything to do with tho murder of
| Hirth.
Cross.examincd He rccolccted the night
| OF the murder, and It was dark, looking like
rain; he did not see lIirth on that day, aud
| WAS not In front of his store, but might have
gone past there during the day; he took his
! dinner on that day at Lighters store; 1t WAS
| l o'clock when lie left aud went to CuX's shoe
shop; lie was there until 3 O'Clock, whom he
| went over to Rose JOlinsons house, and stayed
there playing with the baby; he then went
back to the shoe shop; he could not tell who
! was there at that time; he remained there
until $3.50 o'clock or Il little more; he went to
Rose JOusOu's the second time aud stayed
there fifteen or twenty minutes; he could not
say where lie went from thurc, but IL might be
Mcrcer's oyster shop; lie then went back to
the shoe shop aud remained until Quecnan
came in; ho remained there until huli.plst .
o'clock with Quocnan; nj that time the
two left, Queenan being q short distance in
front Of the witness; he stopped around the
corner on Fourteenth street near Green's
store, but the witness did not speak to him
again; the lamp was lighted In COx's shoe
shop before they came out, and the stores
all
witness came down to n hlGcy store below
Green's and looked into the window; Mr..
! Lighters store was above Samson street; he
was not close to Hirths store that night;
be WAS st the window Of the fancy store
about half a minute; he could not
tell why lie stopped there; the witness was
alone; Quecnan was going out Fourteenth
street. .and when witness saw him last he was
crossing Samson street; when witness returned
from the tAucy store he went to his home In
Samson street; he was there about two
three minutes and changed his coat; he then
went to Rose Johnsons and talked u little
whle boy named Abe Lee was there; Rose
was up stairs; the boy left him there alone,
aud he stayed there u right smart while, fall
ing asleep he slept about fifteen or twenty
minutes; he did not 20 out Immediately aftor
waking, but stayed twenty or twenty-five
minutes after the bell rung for six; Rose did
not come down stairs before he lett the house;
:
STROLLER, Plum, Robert Robinson aud others
were there; when he came out it WAS after
Z O'clock; he then went to Fourteenth street
and Lighters store, aud after he got what he
wanted lie went out; he then started out Four.
ternth street to K street, then to Fifteenth, 10
T, to Mrs. Halls; it was near o'clock when
ho got there; he could not tell when ho saw
Queenan at Mrs. Halls last, but saw him out
that way on Tuesday night to pound party;
he saw Piun ut Mrs Halls pretty often; ho
went to see Miss Shiles and the witness TO see
Miss Barber; they were Hll in the kitchen
when be got there that night; Peudletou WAS
lying down in the next room; the witness did
not joiu Ia the general conversation; it WAS an
hour after he got there that lie escorted the
girls home; he met Matilda Mullen on Nine
teeuth, Just above S street; he had no
t collar on that night, because he had
mono clean; lie had no scarf, aud never wore
} one; lie did not ask Mr.. Duhey the time at
S twenty-five minutes past 7, Oh the corner
of Fourteenth aud Samson streets, on the
: night Of the murder; he was not In front OF
! Hlrth'S store OIL the evening of tho murder
between $40 and o'clock; he was no nearer
/ than the millinery store; lie came back the
second time from the drug storo with Sui
Barber; he knew Sergeant Satlel, and saw
him at the drug store when he first went
t there with the two girls; he saw tho Sergeant
and Officers Ahern aud Gantz there; he look cd
/ at the body and tho girls were with him. lac
went out with the other people; when he re-
turned to Mrs. Halls, Miss Barber and tn,
witness went into the kitchen, aud he
stayed there until IL o'clock he
went to sleep in the roclling-chair
aud Pinn woke him up and they went out o
the house together; he knew JOhnson's name
) was Ben, but did not see him at all that day
@ thought he saw Johnson last about two week,
s before Christmas he knew Thomas johnson
but did not see him on tho day of the murder
lac pnI mt ha
t OF Twelfth and T streets that night about 63C
o'clock, and Ben johnson WIS not with them
z he knew Richard Craig by sight.
# To the Courts Queenan had on an over
c coat anG dark clothes the night that the wit
ness saw him; Pinn had on dark clothes also
Redirect; lie saw tho coat that johnson
. testified that Pinn had on that night but h
. did not wear IL; he saw the coat that johnson
y. picked out ~ the one that Queenam wore OF
= that ight; the coat that the witness had OF
\ that night WAS now at his house.
!, SAMUEL AUSTIN
. was examined: He heard of the murder O
n Hirth at Burns Shoe store, on Fourteenth
& street; he knew Bedford and had been nc
quuintcd with him for two years; he owct
Bedford twenty five cents; he lett 1il3 Cor
n corlu street aud went TO 1928 q street. wher
>, he remained until twenty minutes of
- o'clock; lie then went on Fourteenth street
:, aud looking in Benteys drug store, saw tina
/ Buck kiuahsln's, saw Bedford IN there, waitet
:, for him to come out, but he did not, and tn
= witness went on home.
- Cross-exalnined by Mr. Perry Ittook abou
:. ten minutes to 20 FROM Bcntley's to Bucking
~ hams store.
- ROSE JOHNSON
y was examined Sho knew Bedford, aud re
y nembered the night Hirth WAS killed. Sh
;, saw Bodlordod that night; he came to he
:, house about ten or fifteen minutes to
"a O'clock; he went to sleep and she up stairs
~ when he woke up he called her, went out am
), she came down and fastened the door; Ii
l., must have stayed three quarters OF au hou
II after the @ o'clock bell struck.
70 Cross examined: Bedford was not iu he
n. house but once that day.
10 sTRoTuER II. PINN
IS was cZamined lie remembered tho night o
7 the murder, and WAS ut CoX's shoe shop tina
!. nighG he saw Bedford aud Queenan there, an
q it was q little before o O'clock: Bedford re
d manned some time; went out with Quecua
|, and came back alone in five minutes; severi
7 others cauo in tho shop after that; Bedior
r. stayed there until halI-past o'clock; he dit
p not know where he went
Il WILLIAM r. CRIsWELL
If was examined lie knew the drug store at +
ii street Circle; he saw llirlhs body lying u
~ "a. H,,r, Lc l-nn,y Rod fnfd aud hin, = a.,