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


he said Eagan and some of his Irish
friends had done that; be says, L will
get even with him; | will leave his
wife a widow before she expects it, in
the afternoon | was at the Ocean,;
this was the day of the murder; Eagan
was there; went out and in few min
utes White came in; be said, that fel-
low has got it up his nose; the big
Irish son of a-don't like bone in
my body, and if he comes across my
path before night | will kill him. at
the time of the tragedy | was asleep
up over GaisfoTd's billiard room.
WITNESS DENIES RESPONSIBILITY.
Cross ecanined-- don't feel that /
am largely to blame for Eagan's death;
| neve agitated Eagan to lick White;
| never spoke to Eagan about White;
| do not go around picking fights;
when there is going to be fight | go
away; O'Brien never heard me say so;
If O'Brien and Holland said so, they
lied; sat up with the corpse, washed
it and laid it out, and STAYED there un-
Til it was put into the coffin, and sent
to Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Eagan offered
to give me some of Eagan's clothes,
but | would not touch them; watched
the corpse as an act ofkindness; drank
len or twelve glasses of beer that day,
and ate two sandwiches; don't think
the quantity of bread was out of pro-
portion to the beer-it might be to you,
! (Col Thompson); l was not at Bemus'
livery stable, the day of the murder,
with Eagan, hunting White, and did
not hear Eagan say he was going to
lick the son of a; at one time l was
bartender in the O'Brien House; am
not janitor of gambling house; |
swept out Roberts gambling room
sometimes; worked for anboydy that
paid me; | was about fourteen months
on the police force of Millerstown; no
one contributed to keep me, at Millers-
town; William Duffy loaned me money
to pay my fare to Butler; White said
it was Eagan and his Irish clique got
him shot; belong to the same politic;'l
organization as Eagan; both Democrats;
don't go to same church; don't know of
any such organization as Mollie Ma
Guires in Millerstown; never heard of
the like until | heard it here at court;
| Billy Perry was in the saloon that day;
| had no talk with Perry about White
that day; did not say to Perry Now
Billy, stay in a little while and see Ea-
gan kick the G. id stutfing out of
White | did not say any such thing,
and any man as would run away and
get captivated and go into the prisoner
and see him and make up such a state
ment as that. lies; Perry ran off with
out paying his bill and they put a de-
tachment on his tools at the depot and
he had to come back; | did not hear
much of the testimony; | was taking
care of Mrs. Eagan's little boy, seeing
he did not run down street and get lost;
would do that for any child.
Question by Col. Thompson-Then
you were going around like the good
Samaritan, like an angel without wings
looking after the child?
Answer-The wings is all right, but
| dent think either you or me will ever
get many of them to wear.
The Colonel intimated that they
might 60 where the wings would get
scorched. and Jimmy replied, you and
me will get our share of that
James Smith, sacorn-Corroborated
Frederick and Tufts as to threats in the
billiard room.
| Hugh McFddden, S,COrn.-Am con-
stable of Donegal township; arrested
White on the 9th of March on the Mi
chae Barnhart farm; went to shanty,
heard a window back of shanty falling
down; went around, saw a man run
ming toa ards the woods. started after
him; fred couple of shots; he Stun
bled and fell and came up with him
and found it was White; he had pair
of overshoes and his boots in his hand;
he said, Mac, if / bad of had my boots
on | would have led you a lively
chase;' brought him to Jail; he told me
to tell he had given himself up; | claim
the reward offered by the County Com
missioners.
p. G. BOYLE, scOrn.-Was at East
Brady on the 9Th of March; rode over
in cutter from there to Millerstown
with Mr. Maloney and Johnson; was
present when the arrest was made
White said if he had had his boots on
he would have led US a lively chase; |
asked him why he did not get away
he said it was on account OF the snow
on the ground he could not get away
because they would track him.
CrOss-eramined Did not know
when we were coming over that Malo-
ney and johnson were after White l
learned that after the arrest found
out all could about it as newspaper
reporter.
Vim. Mitchell, s1corn.-Am turnkey
of the JAIL. "a man by the name of Jesse
Glenn was in Jail; he and White were
talking about Jim Glenn who was out
at Petrolia Glenn said he lived three
or four days; White said his man did
not live that long.
Court took recess on account OF the
absence of one OF the Commonwealth's
witnesses said to be on the road, and
after his examination Commonwealth's
counsel say they will rest.
OUen Brady, sacOrn.-Offered SO
as reward for arrest of White; came
to Butler to induce Commissioners to
increase the reward offered; did not
know at that time where White was;
| gave $50 toward fund to carry on
the prosecutions; heard collection was
taken up after church one Sunday; Ben
Forquer was raising funds to carry on
the prosecution; Theo. Craig came to
me Saturday. March 5th, and told me he
knew where White was; he said he
would come to my house on Sunday
and tell me; he came and gave me this
paper.
Commonwealth rests.