Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-22

w ute puICDdSc ~ ldi &c huiiO at A'iuiP
sons hardware store; the knife wa:
similar to one | purchased a. the same
time Knife shown to the jury.
Charles Fl. Johnson, s,Uorn-An
proprietor of the Schrieber House
White and Morrisey were at my house
on the night of the murder, drinking
White said O'Brien told him Jimmy
Hill was going to pick fuss with him
and Charley Eagan was to take it NJ
and lick him; he said he had come W
by the Ocean, but did not 60 in be
cause Eagan was in; White got chew
of tobacco from Frederick, cut it will
his knife, and svid if Eagan would
Jump on him he would use that knife
if he had nothing else; he said if Ea
gan did not kill him the first blow, ht
would kill Eagan; said be would no
begin to fight Eagan, and he would
kill him; then they all left; | was abou
closing up when White came to the
front door with a knife in his hand
with blood on it, aud said: 4 guess
have killed Eagan;' He wanted S25
| said hadn't it; he wanted $40; die
not give it to him, he was bleeding
from the face and nose; said his shoul
der was out Of place; and he was forced
to cut Eagan.
Simeon O'Brien, s,C0rn.-I am a
machinist; live in Pittsburgh; was at
Millerstown the day of the murder
was in the Ocean on the afternoon ot
the trouble; heard Eagan said he did
not want to fight he had got out of a
scrape that cost bim $50 and did not
want any more; told White between
5 and O'Clock this evening, that Ea-
gan would fight him, not to go to the
Ocean; White said he would not un-
less be had business; White said if Ea.
gan crossed his path be would leave
his wife widow; he said Eagan had
paid Madden 5000 to shoot MIN at Fair.
mount Park
John Knor, srorn-Heard White
say 20 some persons last October that
Eagan was a treacherous son of -
and he would cut the heart out of him
the first opportunity he had.
John Hammer)y swears he heard
White express threat to leave Ea,
gan's wife widow before night.
The balance of the testimony was
mostly corroborative.
Mrs. Eagan, wife of the murdered
man, was on the stand in the after.
noon. Her testimony created a pro-
found sensation in the court because OF
the vehemency of her speech and part.
ly on account of an air of settled dis.
tress into which her sudden and great
bereavement had thrown her. HeI
testimony ran as follows:
NY husband left home about quar-
ter to eight on the morning of the mur.
der. He was supposed to be in the of
fee at eight. He was repairing on the
Western Union Telegraph line. Had
been in their employ fourteen years
building lines in the east and west, and
finally was stationed at Millerstown,
where we lived. About midnight
heard footsteps in the yard, and think
ing it was Charley. | called, Charley
is it you?' Somebody answered, it's
about Charley He's hurt | asked
them to bring him home. They said
they could not, and that | must come.
Thinking be was hurt on the railroad,
and would find him in the telegraph
office, | went with them. Up by the
telegraph Office we went and stopped
before the Ocean saloon l saw him
lying there. That's the last | remem.
ber. When l came to again | saw by
the clock it was quarter to one, aud
Bill MorrIsey stood looking down on
me. | asked who had done this. They
said Billy White. | never heard of
White before but twice, and did not
see him until yesterday.
Here the witness broke down com
pletely Counsel for the common
wealth asked here where she came from
and how long she had been in this
country9
Colonel Thompson, counsel for the
defence objected on humane principles.
Judge Bredin interposed mild OBJ
lection saying that he failed to see
what it all meant
1T means said the grief-stricken
woman, rising, that | am LETT widow
with two children, one of them born
since his murder, and without friend
this side Of the sea-
DR.. Rumberger, S,UOrn-Am prac-
ticing physician and surgeon; was cal
led in by the inquest to make post
mortem examination; found six wounds
upon the body, one underneath the
right color-bone, about an inch or three
quarters of an inch long and penetrat-
ing down underneath the head of the
bone of the arm, one down about three
inches below and to the right, striking
the junction of the second rib with the
hreast,bone. one in the right arm-pit
about two inches long, one across The
right arm with a ragged edge, as if a
double cut or the knife had turned in
the leshy part of the arm, one in the
right side between the eighth and
ninth ribs, which cut the cartilage, and
another wound in tho left groin, which
almost severed the large artery and
from which he would bleed to death in
\ few minutes; my opinion is that
death resulted from shock and hem
combined.
DR.. Nc CdSkey, s,oorn-I agree
with DIR. Rumberger in every particu-
lar as to wounds on ~Eagan's body; /
was in Turner's drug store the night of
the murder; some one told me to come
up to the Ocean, Egan was bleeding
to death; | went up; he was about
gasping his last: | don't think he made
more than one or two respirations after
| went in.
TESTIMONY OF THREATS.
H. L. Frederick, smorn-Played
pool with White the evening before
the murder happened; about I o'clock
White said, 'Eagan tackled to me again
last nipht hnt IL he eyer tackles tn me