The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-09

| swept ABOUT or D CLOCK. Inc ueuulhS "3o
thrown from upstairs into alley and brought
into lower back door. A broom-cor broom
is used to sweep the floor There is, of
course, some little straw scattered. Some
horses scatter bedding more than others, but
we always put quiet horse in this stall.
There was an unusually quiet 3-yearold colt
in the STALL In reply to questions OF the
Court, the witness said: my brother Robert
was about 20 and Shaeffer about % years old. y
Israel Zeiber testified: "My lot was closed
! in on John street, the fence was not finished
all the way, there being nine feet open next
to my house, where | intended to put IL gate.
| had leased Jacob Thompson 30x3S feet of
my lot on the alley. | took up fence on the
alley and moved it to the line between the
leased ground and my lot, planting 10 feet OF
| it and leaning the rest against the posts.
About midway in stable foundation was an
opening, through which cornstalks and straw
were pushed into my garden by the horses.
| threw straw and other stuff out that day.
/ Running from my house to the stable is a
fence II feet long and or feet high. On
the night of the fire | got home about i
o'clock, sat and talked to my wife for fifteen
minutes, and then went to bed. In about
three minutes | heard sound like "ugh!'
in Mr.. Thompson's yard. | said to my wife,
Listen" and heard sound as of some one
running over barn door which lay over a
| gully at the corner of John street and the
alley. | saw no light then, but as | put on
my pantaloons saw a reflection on Mr.. Mat
thews' shed. Until | got down the fire had
broken out through the boards of the stable.
From the time heard the running until the
time | got down and saw the burning was
about two minutes. | saw Dorsey about Is
minutes after the fire was under control; saw
Clark working at Thompson's and Goodwin
and Warheld after the fire. | had nothing on
my lot that could be set on fire. | have been
an officer of the law since 1873. | worked
up case of burglary against Dorsey; he was
convicted, and knew that | was instrument
tai in securing his conviction. He was al
ways polite to me and made no threats to me-"
Cross examined, the witness said: Il work
ed up the case against Dorsey in 1876 and
1877; he had good reason to know it; for |
made the arrests and testified against him; he
was sent to the penitentiary and has been out
two years; he talked a great deal to me about
being innocent, but never threatened; two or
three weeks before the fire he said to me:
s. Mr.. Zeiber, you have a nice building;" L
said Eyes" he replied ''you deserve it, the
building burned for me was brick building,
in which had lived FIVE months; up to April,
1882, lived in a frame building on the square
near the Baptist Church; the windows of the
was from 80 to 100 feet from where the boards
were; it was the rafting of the boards heard;
when | saw Dorsey after the fire he was on
my pavement; he put up his hands and eX-
claimed: 'My God. this is awful y
Thomas B. Bond testified: Il am the pro-
prietor of the Montour House; | saw Dorsey
and three other colored men in my barroom
on the night of the fire, between 10 and II
o'clock
John Rutledge, barkeeper at the Green
House, testified that Dorsey and another col
ored man came into the bar about Z. 80 O clock
on the night of the fire, and that Dorsey said
he had not much money but wanted big
drink; that he had some work to do and would
have to be drunk to do it.
Robert Goodwin, colored, testified: II was
with Dorsey and the others at Haines' store
on the night of the fire; Dorsey proposed
game of cards, and we went down the rail
road to freight carr Dorsey, Warfeld. Noah
Squirrel and [ played; Clark was there but
did not play; Dorsey had the candle; after Il
few games Squirrel and Dorsey commenced
quarrelling and we left the car; we went to the
main street and stood around until after nine
O. clock, and then went up to Mr.. Bonds,
where l set 'em up to Dorsey and Warfield
Dorsey bantered for another game and said:
''Wait till go and ask Mr.. Thompson if we
can't have a game there;;' | went down and
Clark asked for a lantern, and Harry told him
he could not have it.; asked if we could have
a game, and Harry said he did not care; Dor
sey struck match, which he got at the Mon
tour House on the office and lighted candle;
Clark got into the carriage first, then Dorsey
and Warfeld, and | followed; | got a seat
from buggy and laid paper overit; Dorsey
dropped tallow on the paper and stuck the
candle there; Clark and played against War
field and Dorsey; Clark dealt the cards and
we played that hand, then Dorsey dealt and
either made a msdeal or | dropped a card
Dorsey called me damn cheat; called him
a damn liar; Warfeld caught me by the head |
Dorsey grabbed the candle with his right hand
and money with his left, and jumped out of the |
carriage; he went toward the back door and |
then came back and went out the front door, I
carrying the lighted candle in his hand as far
as the door, where he blew it out or the wind
put it out; got out of the carriage after him,
but could not see or hear anything of him; we |
went to the street and looked and listened, |
but seeing nothing of him went down to the
railroad and down the railroad track to 10 |
Johnson's S, where Dorsey was staying; | rap
ped and received no answer; Warfed raped |
at the window and asked if Dorsey had come, |
and 10 johnson said no; we went back to the I
street, and there Warfeld left us to go back |
to Johnson's; Clark and | started home; at |
Zeibers corner | smelt fire, and told Clark;
we ran down and called Harry and Ourser;
Harry came out and went to the pump and .
washed his face; | got horse out; the fire .
was then half way down the stable, between .
the stall and the carriage, toward and against |
the Notwithstanding, but the carriage was not
burning, nor was there any straw under it; | !
have worked there often; | knew of hole in
the foundation; the fire was l or } feet from
the hole; there are three openings, the largest
about Il feet from the carriage, partly in first |
and partly in second stall; the fire was this
side of the hole, in the first stall, half way
back in the stall; | got a horse out and ran
around to the back door with Clark and Ours
Ter, but could not open it; then went back and
helped get furniture out of Thompson's house;
then went on Mr.. Grimes roof, where | stayed |
until after the fire; as ran around back of the
stable l saw Dorsey standing at Morning
starts stable, but did not speak to him nor he
to me; from the time we all left the stable till |
saw Dorsey at Morningstarr's stable was
over three quarters of an hour; Squirrel left |
us at the railroad when we came from the car;
at the Montour House Clark and Dorsey drank;
did not; proposed to go to the stable; | |
had no talk with Dorsey except as to playing
cards; when Dorsey got out of the carriage |
could see him all the time, and nothing
ulOppCu llOm IlC CdHulcj IHCTc WIS no lire III |
the stable when we went out
Cross examined, the witness said: 'We
went to the car about s o'clock, and to the
Montour House about $50 or 10 o'clock; at
the Montour House Dorsey took matches out
of a glass on the bar; when we went to the
stable the front door was closed but not fas-
tened; the office door was shut; from time of
lighting candle to the time it was put out it
was not sEuffed; l smelt fire at Zeiber's first
corner, at the second corner | could see the
fire through the cracks in the door; ran to
the door and found it hooked; reached in my
hand and unfastened it; l awakened Harry
before looked particularly at the fire; went
about feet from the carriage and saw the fire
along the boards burning in front of manger,
the air working it gradually forward; the boards
had burned through; the horse had broken
loose, but do not know where he had gone;
it was burning no place else except at that
stall; after / called Harry he moved very
quickly; he tried to get two horses down the