The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-14

some remark about going 70 the boat and go.
Z Mr.: Thomas Wilson, who was with Keller
Of the saloon In Moundsvlllc, said thatMr.i
Keller was not under the influence OF lIuuor
In any degree OH the Fourth. He was sober
when be left the boat and sober when he re.
turned, and only drunk part OF glass OF
whlskey while absent from the boat. He
was on the boat till after the collision, and al
the time the boat was struck was OH the hur.
rlcane deck beside the bell. lie had left the
pill house not more than twenty minutes
before the collision, md saw no signs OF any.
thing there which led him TO believe that
Keller was intoxicated. There was no wills.
key drank In the pilot house 10 bis knowl.
edge. n
In response 10 question from Mr.. Doven.
er witness snid he still had the half.pint OF
whisky he GOT ut Moundsville, and there was
not more than half an inch OF the contents
gone. lie and Keller had not stopped at any
other saloon In Moundsyille: was In tLe
saloon at the head OF the beach at Mounds.
Vile, and heard some young man ask for
liquor. Did not know the young man. Kel.
Ter dill not ask for my liquor there, or II he
did witness did not hear him. lie drank q
little liquor out Of the flask that evening, and
that was all. lie did not sec Keller after the
collision; did not know that Keller was unde,
the influence Of liquor that evening.
Mr. Gray asked the witness " hat was hi.
occupation, md was told lie was printer.
is that old man inspector Thomas vii
sonl across the table your father"
you have considerable respect for his
gray hairs, have you not?n tal s' n
Capt. Dovencr objected to this question,
md wanted to know the object OF II, Mr.,
Gray answered that he proposed to show that
the witness was reluctant 10 confess certain
things which there was reason to believe were
true, on account Of the presence OF bis father,
As Mr.. Gray putt, TINT though young man
might have become recreant 10 principle, had
fallen into habits OF drinking, and OF 'becon,.
Ing intoxicated, lie would hesitate to confess
II IN the presence OF his father.
The question was finally sgreed to, aud fol.
lowed by MI inquiry rs to whether he would
not be loath to speak freely on tho matters
under examination In the presence Of his
father, to which he answered that hc would
somewhat.
Mr.. Cracrait asked II the witness had seen
Mary Harden In the pilot house. lie did no.
know her. "Do YOU remember seeing IN"
woman there who Is living with Keller?'
This provoked further discussion. In the
course Of which Mr.. Cracrnft said he boldly
offered to show that this pilot was drunk and
that he took upon the boat and into the plot
house the most notorious prostitute In The
city oil Wheeling, woman OF whose name
Keller was so afraid that he held his mouth
In the dust and refused TO tell who she was
until he was schoolcd Mt noon %
Mr. Dovener retortct that that had moth.
Ing TO do with this case. lie would not say
what he might prove about the other pilo,
concerned In this inquiry. lie would no,
attempt to go back anu drag over the embers
OF the past. lie was not obliged 10 20 of
into side issues TO make case. 1915 &C.,
go back as far as you please" said Mr..
Cracraft. 1.-THE question Is not what Mr.
Long has been, but what he was on the
Fourth OF July. The devil was one OF the
brightest angels In the hosts of the Lord be,
fore he was pitched over the battlements.n
The examination was finally continued,
and MIR. Wilson cOrroborated Keller's state
men!s us to the course of the boat Just prior
to the accident, saying that before any
whistle was blown they were near the Ohio
shore, and bcuring in that direction.
Columbus Stewart, Of New Cumberland
who was
Is THE PILOT HorsE WITH KELLER
ut the time OF the accident, was the mex,
witness called. lie was in the pilot house,
he testified, almost all the time from Wheel.
ing TO the point where the collision occurred,
only leaving few minutes to get lunch, a
good while before the accident. There we're
six persons in The pilot house. lie was sit.
ting on the bench, and some one remarked
that boat was coming He stood
up and looked out. lie thought
when the Louas whistled size was bear.
Ing toward the Ohio shore. The distance
between the two boats was not very great
then. The Lomas whistled once, and the
Scioto answered as promptly US possible he
considered, with two blasts. The Scioto was
then nearer the Ohio than the West Virginia
shore, and was running straight up the river.
When lie first noticed the Lomas, Keller
said, Il wonder why she don't whistler and
afterwards said, is she never going to
whistler He had not known Keller before
that day, when he formed u slight acquaint-
nnce with him. lie saw no conduct in the
plot house that was out OF place. 1t never
occurred to him that the pilot was under the
influence Of liquor.
In answer to questions by Mr.. Dovener, Mr..
Stewart said the SciotO was not nearer tho
Ohio shore when struck than when she first
si9naled. As soon rs she had blown Pilot
Keller pulled the bell rope, and u bell rang
in The engine room, what for the witness did
not know. The Tomas was not over 500 Yards
distant when she first whistled. lie did not
think Keller had been drinking. Witness
thought the pilot did everything In his power
to avert II collision.
Cross examined by Mr.. Cracraft. lie had
not particularly noticed the course of the
boat on the up trip. Could not locate the
Tomas ut the time she first whistled with re.
ference to Mingo island, nor with reference
to Mingo furnace. Nobody but Keller was at
the wheel OF the Scioto. There was II mun
standing by tho door, another sitting on a
stool, himself, his wife and lady whom he
did not know in the pilot house at the time.
Ills wife had no introduction to the ether
lady that he knew of. This lady in no way
intcrfcrel with any OF the movements of tho
pilot; did not touch the wheel, the treadle or
any OF the ropes. 1t WAS some little time
frem when he first saw the Lomas until she
whistled. - "
Walter app, another member OF the same
iishing club as Fred. Hoffman, who testified
IN Inc forenoon, was next sworn. He told II
story which differed from that OF Mr.. UoO.
man in no important particular, except tLat
he guessed the boats were about 600 Yards
apart when the Tomas first whistled. II
seemed little longer 10 him than usual from
tue Lomas's whistle to the Scioto's answer.
The Scioto was steering toward the Ohio side
when she whistled, and was nearer The Viz.
glnia shore. She started to veer toward the
Ohio shore at some laree rocks Just above lie
Deyinney WAREHOUSE. The Lon,us was about
opposite the furnace when she whistlcJ, and
the Scioto was about ut tho warehouse, He
could almost throw stone from her TO The
shore. ~ :
On tho cross-e1aminatlon Cant. Doyener
showed the witness receipt signed "Walter
Glenn" and asked him II lie knew that man.
lie said that was his name, the last name
App, being admitted for the sake of breyitv'
The receipt was for money paid by Captain
Booth for catching chairs thrown in the river
ut the time OF the accident The witness was
also questioned about drum he had some
trouble about, and which lIe picked IN in
the river. He said he did not.charre 81 for
recovering it, rs had been charged, but said
be would keep 1t till n blanket which had
been stolen from him wus.returned or paid
Once during wranslc between the coun.
'el, Inspector Wilson remarked, "Geut,e.
men, keep 1t up, aud let's hear all about IL.
We all pay taxes, and this Is at the expense
of the Government"
At the conclusion Of Apps testimony, the