Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-22
apy of these meetings. His manner wal
strange and wild.


any of these meetings. His manner was
Strange and wild.
ToM DOUGLASS
sworn: l live in Yankton, on Second
street. | have resided here since 1881. ]
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. 1 knew O'Brien. Dickey hired
me TO open up in the morning and to
clean up generally. [ staid late on some
nights. Frequently when / came in the
morning 1 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 ~theSfghts
that be had. He said that he had had a
terrible tine but that he threw them
over the back fence, n at a time. One
morning l found him standing
on q small table making speech. He
said that he was q 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 / 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 ba e seen 1T if he 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 EGamindtS0a-Dickey did not 60
fishing while | was in his employ. [
don't think he knew what he was doing
at that time.
D. wHITDON,
being duly sworn, testified as follows: /
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. [ went to the saloon several morn
ings and found DIokey lying on the floor
He said that there had been such a
crowd there that he could not get away.
Dickey actea strangely and | was scared
,nI ia MT x1nnt fN r,nrly thnra II a
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 q fish
and threw him over the fence, and
Dickey got me to go and look and
see him, but Tom wal
not there. [ worked there
until Dickey shot O'Brien, On the
afternoon of the killing, Dlckey and
went to Guys saloon together from
Dickey's saloon. He left me there anc
said he was going TO the bank. We LEI
O'Brien tending bar for Dickey while
we were gone. | think there was some
thing wrong with Dickey In his head.
Gross Eramfnatt0n-I began worl
there about the first of July. l noticed
first about his being queer. | saw a wilt
look about him. DON'T know whethe
Dickey was drinking hard or not.
Redirect EDamtnatioa-Tbis was abou
the fourth OF July.
G. B. HAGEN
sworn: / reside in Yarkton county.
knew O'BrIen two or three years
L knew DIckey over a year age
Don't know when O'Brien went out O
business. l saw Dickey and O'Brien o.
the day of the shooting. L talked wit
Uickey two weeks before the shooting
[ saw Dickey at n o'clock, in his ow
place on the day of the shooting. I ha,
"a conversation with him He asked M
If had some money for him. He want
ed to borrow twenty dollars. l told hin
[ did not have any money, but woul
get some. That night l went to Don't
hue's. I saw O'Brien there. / ga
DicBey again that day. He said tba
he had built a railroad in Ohio. FL
showed me a revolver and said q mo
was going to kill him. [ saw Dicke
again that day. O'Brien was Their,
O'Brien treated. DIckey asked me ft
money again. This was not over a
hour before the shooting. Dickey sal
O'Brien aud Stewart were going to mo
him and again he said O'Brien had twel
ty Indians and was going to mob hir
Dickcy told me at one tin
that he was doing o bj
business. He told about fights and II
fence story. Dickey had a dog and |
said the dog could talk ard sing. Th
was two weeks before the shooting.
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