Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-22


any of these meetings. His was
strange and wild.
TOM DoUGDAsl
s sworn: | live in Yankton, on Second
street. [ have resided here since 1881. l
know Dickey. He was in business on
Third street, in this city. l was en-
ployed in cleaning up around his saloon,
after O'Brien went out, for about three
weeks. I knew O'Brien. Dickey hired
me to open up in the morning and to
clean up generally. [ staid late on some
nights. Frequently when l came in the
morning I would find him lying on the
floor in q little side room. He would
tell about the big crowd that had been
there the night before, and of the fahts
that be had. He said that he had had a
terrible time but that he threw them
over the back fence, one at a time. One
morning l found him standing
on q small table making aspeech. He
said that he was a lawyer, that he had
been admitted to the bar, He said that
all the big men of the town had been
there the night before. Two days be-
fore the shooting of O'Brien 1 went
there in the morning and Dickey had
his hands in his pockets. | thought he
had q revolver, Be said. "You and
Tom Stewart bring back that ice chest"
The ice chest was standing there exact,
ly where it had been all the time. He
could ha e seen 1t if be had looked that
way, l got out. l think that Dickey
was crazy, and is crazy now. (Ihe wit
ness also related an interesting fish
story.)
Cross Eraminats0n-Dickey did not 60
fishing while l was in his employ. [
don't think he knew what he was doing
at that time.
D. wHITDON,
being duly sworn, testified as follows: l
reside in Yankton. Have lived here for
the past eight months. | knew O'Brien
and Dickey. l worked for Dickey about
a month, after OBrien went out of bust
ness, cleaning up his saloon in the morn
ing, l went to the saloon several morn
ings and found Dickey lying on the floor
He said that there had been such a
crowd there that he could not get away,
Dickey aetec strangely and l was scared
and did not want to work there. He
acted wild. He would tell me of
big fights, and crowds that had been
there. He said that he threw every one
of them over the fence. He said that
Tom Stewart was there one night and
that he knocked him down With a fish
aud threw him over the fence, and
Dickey got me to go and look and
see him, but Tom was
not there. [ worked there
until Dickey shot O'Brien, On the
afternoon of the killing, DIckey and l
went to Guys saloon together from
Dickey's saloon. He left me there aud
said he was going to the bank. We LEFT
O'Brien tending bar for Dickey while
we were gone. l think there was some,
thing wrong with Dickey III his head.
Gross Eramtnotion-I began WORK
there about the first of July. / noticed
first about his being queer. l saw a wllc
look about him. l don'tknow whethe'
Diekey was drinking hard or not.
Redirect E1amjnation-Tbis was abou.
the fourth OF July.
G.. B. HAGEN
sworn: I reside in Yankton county. ]
knew O'Brlen two or three years
[ knew Dlckey over a year ago
Don't know when O'Brien went out o
business. l saw Dickey and OBrien OF
the day of the shooting. [ talked witt
Dickey two weeks before the shooting
[ saw Dickey at one o'clock, in his owl
place on the day of the shooting. / hat
Is conversation with him He asked m,
if / had some money for him. He want
ed to borrow twenty dollars. l told hiH
[ did not have any money, but woulC
get some. That night l went to Dona
hue's. I saw O'Brien there. 1 SAY
Dickey again that day. He said tina
he had built a railroad in Ohio. 81
showed me q revolver and said q mo
was going to kill him. L saw Dicke
again that day. O'Brjen was ther,
O'Brien treated. Dlckey asked me fo
money again. This was not over o
honr before the shooting. Dickey sal
OBrien and Stewart were going to mo
him and again he said O'Brien had twer
ty Indians and was going to mob hin
Dickoy told me at one tim
that he was doing q bj
business. He told about fights and til
fence story. Dickey had a dog and b
said the dog could talk and sing. Thi
was two weeks before the shooting.
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