The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-25

Win some Other slim fellow, whose name
he did not know. They went ten ol
. fifteen miles on the B. < D. They went
there because the other man said there
was plenty ofwork there. After getting
OF the train they walked the rest OF the
way, and got to Monongahela City about
I in the evening; they went to a brick
yard frst-this was on Saturday. He
wanted to get dry at the kiln. He cot
something TO eat at farm house on the
pike before he got TO the brick ward.
There was another man reading paper
there. Mr.. Conlin and his sons came
there. He has three sons; they are not
grown; they are small. He did not re-
member any OF their names, though he
had heard their names from time to
time. It was cold weather and he
thought he would stay there; he got
something to eat through the town. He
could not tell the name OF any person
there but Conlin, whose name he got
from the postmaster.
During the month of January, 1888,
were you not on a boat on the river?
No, sir.
How long before that were you on a
boat?
Objected to. Capt. Doyener said he
desired TO show that at or about this
time the defendant had boat, and he
wanted to find out what became Of it.
Kelly said he had no boat. Hehad been
ut BenwOod three years ago. He had
been in the vicinity OF Bridgeport and
Bellaire for month or so, selling Jew
elry and finger rings. The last one he
sold at a cigar store over the river for 3.
Capt. Dovener-What kind OF weather
was it when You were at McKeesport?
Witness-well. it was
Mr.. Sommeryille-What's that ques-
ton?
This was ruled out. The witness said
he went from Mon. City" to Union
town.
Capt. DOyener-what do you call the
police?
Objected to, and rejected.
He got to Uniontown on the 9th. He
stopped at two towns between. Lock No.
4 was one OF them. He remembered
man named Wallace at Uniontown. He
did not tell Mr.. Sommerville he fired
the brick kiln at mon. City" on the
third Sunday in January, but on the
seventh OF January, 4 Sunday. There
was 4 store robbed at Lock No. while
he was there; he could not fix the date.
1t is ten Ortwelve miles from Mononga-
hela City to Lock No. 4. He knew
man named Craig, "Ratler" Craig. He
has not been to see him here. "Buster"
Green he knew; he was in the work
house he used TO know him al, ,ROches-
ter, Pa. From Lock No. 1 he went to
town about four miles from there, where
there was n distillery, and staid there
three or four days. His friend at Union
town was named W. B. johnson.
Reference 10 the stenographer's notes
showed that he had before said W. B.
Wallace. He said Wallace was q man
who worked at Reeds coke works, at
son, who is single man and catches"
There were two other men there. From
there he went to Connellsville and from
Connellsville to McKeesport He might
know one there; yes, it was woman;
her name was Mary Slater. An inquiry
as to what he went to see Mary for was
ruled out. He said he saw her; he
went TO her house the latter part of
February. He had been at McKeesport
some time. She was u married woman
and lived with her husband. He Just
got acquainted with her. He did little
work at McKeespOrt digging bitches for
sewers for the city. He earned SIS in
all. He could not remember the Super
intendent's name. He was there a
couple Of days after he saw Mary and
then went to Pittsburgh over the B. 30.
to the junction and in from there, arriv-
ingabout 10 o'clock. Hegotsome iewelry
there to peddle, buying it from NJ Bond
that same night. Bond keeps all kinds
OF jewelry and clothing, but doesn't buy
jewelry. He is not a pawn broker. The
witness paid sixty cents for the rings,
and sold them at New Brighton, where
he was, he thought, on February 20. He
did not look ut Christie and Christie did
not wink it was February "a he was ar
rested in Ohio. There he was sitting
whiting board and pinched his finger,
making it black and blue. He was sit
ting talking to Tom Rankin, teaser in
n glass house, who noticed him pinch
his finger. He has not written TO Ran
kin; never wrote a letter in his life.
He ate supper at Rochester the day he
left Pittsburgh, at the BOncaster house.
He has not been ut his mothers house,
as near rs he can recollect, for three
years. Then he went TO New Brighton,
and from there by train to Mansfield,
Ohio. He got of;,at Mt. Vornon to look
around the town, arriving there at IL
o'clock at night and leaving at l a. m.
Inquiry as TO what he did there was
ruled out
From Mt. Vernon to Newark he went
by passenger train, getting there little
valise and bundle wrapped in gum
coat. He had no overcoat ut Mt Yer
non, but he had after lie left there. The
sleeves were not too long for him. At
Newark he went about half mile west
in the direction OF Shawnee and there
turned to the left, returning in about
half an hour. He sat down on the track
and saw Christie coming. They got to
talking, and Christie had 4 quart Of
whisky. After talking awhile they went
to saloon and drank beer. Christie
first said, "Good morning. Pretty soon
Christie pulled out the whisky and they
took drink, and then went to the sa-
loon, played few games Of cards, and
then went to a barber shop and got
shaved. The barber could not change
Christie's money, and Kelly paid for
both. He and Christie ate breakfast
about half past eight at 4 railroad res
taurant near Canal street. The witness
had pistol which he had carried one
night.
Capt. Doyenerasked him If the Mayor
of Bridgeport did not buy him ticket
and put him on the train when he was
discharged there. He said he did, but
he got of the train before it reached
Bellaire, and was in Wheeling the same
morning.
At Newark the witness had two thirty
eight and two thiTty-two calibre reyolv-
ers. The one shown him might be one
of them; he sold one to Keller, pawn
broker at Newark. He had no cartridge
out Of this pistol in the Newark jail
never carried an empty cartridge shell.