Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-22
THE WHITE MURDER CASE.
EVIDENCE FOR THE COMMONWEALTH

The first witness sworn was Mr.. j.
p Holland, the bar-keeper of the
I saloon in which the tragedy occurred
He testified as follows:
Am resident Of Du Bois, Clearfeld
county; am % years old lived in
Millerstown at the time of the murder;
was an emplove in the beer bottling
house of Delameter where the row oc-
Cured (as to capacity in which wit
ness was employed, the Court instruct
| ed him he need not criminate himself
as to illegal sale of cigars y the saloon
was called tie Ocean - don't rccol-
lect of seeing White there during the
day Eagan was there in the after
noon; he was pretty "full !" he and |
had sqnabble about the price of
bottle of beer; be and Jimmy Hill,
who loafs around the Ocean" had
some talk about White going to whip
him (Eagan;) Eagan said White had
whipped him once and he ought to be
satisfied he admitted that White could
whip him; Eagan boasted he came
from Cork and good men came from
there; about eleven O'Clock at night
White came into the Ocean," VIM.
Morrisey, Perry, Brenan, Ainsworth,
Billy Frederick and Eagan were IN at
the time; Eagan was sitting at table
in the rear of the saloon; first saw
White in the middle Of the floor; he
went back to Eagan and said "lads
let's have some beer; | set out two
1T H1+ Il hot ri
when White went back to the table
where Eagan was sitting White hol-
lowed danger" after I set out the
beer White filed up two glasses and
Eagan took one and White the other,
and White jammed his glass against
Eagan's and spilled the beer as they
were coming up to the bar; White
kicked piece of paper into Eagan's
face and Eagan kicked it back again to-
wards White; Eagan said to White
you are going to lick me; White said
something / do not recollect; Eagan
said if you are going to lick me put up
that knife; Morrisey went to Eagan,
kind of searched his coat and said he
hadn't any knife.
When / beard White say danger"
| went and turned out the light in
the rear of the room tried to blow
out the light in the front part with
feather duster, when Morrisev knock
ed the duster out of my hand and told
me to let the lights alone; l anticipated
trouble when White said danger ;"
| heard him say he had said danger"
once to Eagan, and if he ever said it
again, it would be the last of him
White struck Eagan, down at the Leo
pold House, some months before this,
when he was drunk, knocked him
down, sta ted away from him, then
turned back and kicked him down into
the gutter some FIVE or six feet, Eagan
falling on his shoulders in the ditch.
When they were at the counter getting
the beer, and after Morrisey said White
had no knife, saw Eagan and White
get into holds, and get back into the
corner don't know whether Egan
pushed White, or White pulled Eagan
back saw White with knife in his
hand striking twice at Eagan's should
er, Eagan said He is cutting me : saw
White strike an under and an upward
blow heard Eagan hollow police > |
started to go out at the front door
could not get out because Morrisey was
standing with his back to the door;
then went around to back door, passed
around to front and three doors below
the Ocean to drug store and called Fish
er, the chief of Police; when | came
back Eagnn was down in the corner
about where | saw White and him
struggling and stream of blood run
ming from him doctor was called in
who said it was no use he was gone
did not see White there when / came
back; license was refused to Delamater
the next week, and the place was closed
up, and | did not go back there in the
business. Eagan would weigh about
2l5 pounds, about IS pounds heavier
than White
William P,rry, s,Oorn-Reside in
Millerstown; am a boiler-maker am
hard of hearing, that is trouble with
all our craft; was in the Ocean when
the trouble beganj was sitting at the
same table with Eagan, Brennan and
Ainswortb didn't pay much attention
to White, who came in the back door,
was talking on business to the other
men heard White cal! for the beer
heard Eagan ask White if he was
going to lick him; White said mo not
by Cd Id sight ; next saw Eagan
catch White by the shoulders and they
both got hack into the corner, where |
could only partly see them; | saw
their hands moving, but saw no knife !;
1 went out just after Holland at the
back door; saw Morrisey standing
with his back against the front door.
H. Ainsworth, SlUarn-Reside in
Millerstown am boiler-maker was
sitting at a table with Perry in the
Ocean saloon when the row occurred
did not pay much attention to it; l
saw them scuffling, and thought If
there was going to be any trouble |
had better go home.
Robert Girrard, srorn-Aiyed In
Millerstown when the murder was
committed saw White and Morrisey
at tie Schreiber House they left in a
short time; left to go home heard a
racket over in the Ocean : heard some
one say, L have got the better of him
and am going to keep it, don't know
who said it went across and looked in
at the window and saw Ragan on the
floor and the blood running ;saw Perry
and Ainsworth come around from the
back way to the front; Morrisey was
the only one saw in the house when
| looked in and saw Eagan; then
went up to tell Charley Johnson at
the Schreiber House, and saw White
talking to Charlie; heard him ask for
money to get away asked me if Eagan
was dead; told him the doctor said he