Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-19

| wss a little boy; he would drink, but
! not to hurt his business as l know; say
| him sometimes two or three times a day I;
! go down 10 store sometimes. and We have
! q game OF spider: that has not much to do
I with beer; sometimes had something to
1 drink on these occasions; have drank beer
I in the drug store: sometimes Hobensack
gave me money TO get beer; sometimes go
M 20 his wife 20 get the money; she knew
| was getting beer: she sometimes helped
drink IL: two or three times during the
. week; never saw the doctor drunk; there
is no person in Martins Ferry that can say
they have seen him drunk;
John Smiih-Lived five years near Mar
tins Ferry; known Doctor since he has
prsclicsd medicine; cOuldot say that l
ever saw him drunk or drink;
Never Saw Him Under the Influence.
Robert Blackford-known Doctor for ten
years: don't know that ever saw him un.
der the influence Of liquor, and never saw
him drink: have seen him often, but never
saw him intoxicated.
T.. C. Boyd-hnown Doctor for 10 or II
years; have seen him when l thought he
was under influence of liquor; once that |
know OF saw him staggering as he walked
past my store; could not say that he was
drunk at any other time; have seen him
when thought he bad been drinking; this
at his own door.
Conrad Feiters-Keep a saloon in Mar
tins Ferry: known Doctor nine or ten
wears; we had little fall out three or four
wears ago and | threw him out OF doors;
since then he don't come there; before that
he came in once in a while and got lunch
or g.sss Of beer; never saw him drunk IN
my house or drunk when he came IN; he
came in
Like Any Other Gentleman.
Mrs. c. Feiters-Wife of last witness and
testimony about the same.
Mr.. KeIly-Knew the doctor to take a
glass Of beer once. three years ago; he came
20 nv place, would say he had been drink-
ing before he came. Heard the next day
that his wife had been sick at that time.
Mrs. Baker-known doctor nine years;
have worked AZ his house; worked OIL and
on there till they moved to the new house;
| went there to paper, he came in and said
il hung d-n strip OF paper in that room
he'd cut it down and lay two weeks drunk;
| think it must have been cOntrariness, 1t
was too early in the morning to be drunk.
lie swore around there considerable about
the paper, and Mrs. II. was crying; he
gave no reason for not wanting the paper
hung: owed Mrs. II. for the work | went
there 10 do: she said she sewed for the
money for the paper, and ii was no cost to
him. ANYHOW. At another time | was
cleaning house there and ne and DR.. West
came there, and | think he was under
rgu1r: never saw him treat his wife kindly
after first two years,
The change in His DemeanOr Was No.
ticeabie
o. me: she told him once be was not in con-
dItjOn to talk. and he responded that he
was in as good condition as she was; when
| took my children there TO get them vac
cinsted, they noticed he talked GROSSLY to
her.
II. Frazier, Jr.-Never saw Doctor drunk,
never saw him drink in my life; he is my
physician, and | have called on him day
and night. and never caught him that way.
J. VI. KinslOw-Know Mrs. Hobensack
well; seen her frequently; never saw any
thing unlady.like about her; her reputa-
ton was good to best OF my knowledge.
IavOsier SpencP-The Doctor said, at the
time he was at my house, that if his wife
did not come back, he'd 20 OF and get
drunk and raise hell and blaCEcn her repu.
tation: this wss after the separation; he
showed me the letter she wrote him; my
wife wss present at the time.
Plaintiff rests and witnesses discharged.