The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-12
WARREN MURDER TRIAL
ron rnE pErExsE CLOSED
The story OF the killing Told by the
Dead Mans Daughier-Ar.
gument OF Counsel
- win Begin
To-day.
ST.. CLAlRslyLLE, July 10.


In yesterday s:report Of the testimony In
the Warren case, your compositor has 80
put Geo. Korner's testimony as to make
1t appear as DR.. Riggs. The religions sen.
timents ayowed may not suit the Doctor
so well. Korner's testimony begins where
his name occurs.
Testimony for defendant was as follows:
Clarinda Tschspat, sworn: 1 am a
daughter Of the deceased and defendant,
and the wife Of John Tschapat, Jr., mar.
ried since the killing; l lived with my
parents when the occurrence took place.
After supper pap and 'cgr Tschapat
started lo the corn field. - her had
come In to supper and pap ca back to
the kitchen door and asked, "where is the
ax~ Mother said she didn't know. He
asked several times, and then came in and
they had quarrel. Then he cSught her
by the hair and struck her with his fist in
the face three or four times, and took a
chair and threatened to kill her; when /
and DAvy run In TO separate them, and
pushed him out on TO the porch, Davy 90
Ing out with him. told mother TO get
into the room or he'd kill her. held the
door and she tried to get into the room
but the door was locked. | told her to
rbreak II open. She tried but couldn't.
He was striking the kitchen door and
punching it. Mother looked for the keys
In her bosom and couldn't find them. 1
saw the revolver in her bosom aud got
scared aud let my hand from the door;
when he forced It open about two feet and
heard the revolver shot.
| heard Pa say he didn't believe any
thing waswrong between motherand Hess,
but only let on to bedevil her. Once he
said he wanted TO fetch her d-d pride
down. Have seen him try to kill her
with different weapons. Saw him throw
corn cutter rightat her head and stuck
In the kitchen, and she ran. Another
time he run her with case knife from the
preaskfast table. He has told me TO kill
her, Handed me butcher knife and
told me to cut her d-d heart out aud he
would cat it. Davy was present and saw
him throw etoye wood at her different
times. had call and he knocked it in
the head, said he wouldn't sllow me To
have anything, no matter how much I
worked for him, and told mother i sbe
gave anything to me he would knock her
d-d brains out. Remember Frank Stack.
house being there one rainy sunday, aud
mother sick In bed and no one with her.
[ sometimes went to bed with mother TO
protect her in the last six years. Near the
time OF the killing she'd 20 into hsr room
to keep away from him. She said To keep
from auarreliug with him. She told inc
the day OF the killing, at supper, not to
send for her till he. went away.
John Tschapat, Jr., had told me
Pa had said he d give her hi ota CD
DID beating, and then go away. Wednes'
day mother was standing BY n tree In the
front yard, and told her she'd better pre-
pare TO die, as she wouldn't get TO live long
| II Pa dilu't change He said Ia her pres.
ence aud out OF it he didn't intend TO live
with her, as he hated her worse than
d-d copper snake. Had quarreled about
picking gooseberries, He was sSGaring;
Picked up a hoe handle and said he woqld
beat her d-d brains out. lie beat the
bushes. the pan out Of shape, the early
harvest apple Tree and the fence, and sat
down. and then laid down In the ience
corne: and seemed TO give out. Corn
nearly done planting When he was KILLED.
know about throwing a knife. Ma ask
ed him Why he didn't bring nome Gottee
from town Saturday night. lie said he
wouldn't get her coffee TO save her d ID
| life. Ia that quarrel be threw knife
at her. She was at the table and be
raised up with the kniie and said he would
cut her d--d heart out, aud she ran Into
The room and he threw it; II struck the
door and broke of. She took sick that
day and DR.. Riggs visited her. She was
In bed about eight days, and was some.
what sick all winter.
Cross.examination by L. Daniord: Az
ter the shooting wasn't in the kitchen
hut a few moments. DaYy said pa was
killed. / looked out aud saw him lyiug
down, and went to him. Mother was
standing crying. The door was not open
TO the room then, but was fastened.
showed Messrs. Cracratt and faris where
mother stood when she shot. was hold
ing the door. Didn't think Of latching 1t.
All thought OF was to hold the door.
Was examined by the coroner. Was scar.
ed so bad I don't hardly remember what
II did say. The evidence was written
down. 1t was the night they. arrested
mother. Davy and had pushed pap out.
Mother did not touch the door TO open It.
She had revolver in her bosom. The
door was not pulled open by her, but was
pushed open by him. TIE door was
pushed open about two feet. She raised
her hand that way, and no quicker done
than she fired. Don't know where the
revolver Is now. She didn't tell me when
Flora Holmes was there to get 1t. On the
day Of the killing, after dinner, she came
and asked me where II was. remember
ed OF 1t being in an upper drawer, where ]
had put IL o good while before. She
said she was afraid and wanted to protect
herself, and that she had as good right
TO protect herself as he had. II was then
| | told her she had better make peace with
God, &c. The two last nights she staid In
the little room. He set around about the
house agood deal OF nights. Just before
the shooting, father had struck her In the
isce, which seemed like hard licks. She
did nothing but try TO pull away. They
had quarrelled for the last ten or twelve
years, commencing about Mrs. D..
others have seen him strike her-Mike
Hess and Mr.. McMullen. My husband
saw il last winter. He struck her with
rake handle. Hess saw him strike four or
Eve times and took him away In the last
six years. Had marks on her face two
months at q time. Sometimes green set.
tied around her eyes, aud she would tell
people something else caused 1t. | have
seen her strike him. Not often, for she
didn't dare. He'd provoke her till she
didn't know what she was doing. Have
seen her throw wash water on him.
Last winter she picked up the poker at
him and he bad chair up at her. Ididn't
particnlarlyta take part with mother only;
fll stick TO Il till die. He had no bust.
ness TO charge her with other men, for l
know she Is not guilty. The evening be.
fore the killing mother andI had little
dispute, aud called him TO the house for
Rim to kill her better. She blamed me for
hiding eggs for pa, and said she'd whip
me. Yes, have said l had fears pa would
lii ma. / say positively Il was not the