Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-05

The twelve citizens selected to sit as jurors in the
case Oh the United states vs. John Daley. murder,
slept last night I'm one OF the Jury rooms at the
CITY Hall, and FLED out OF the building this morn
log, In charge OF two baifYs, to breakfast at the
Nationai Hotel The van brought Daley from the
jan about $50 O'Clock. Daley walked into the
courthouse with a rheumatic limp. He wore an
oid faded gray coat; pair OF light-colored trous-
ers, worn and discolored, and an Old black hat of
sort material Since the day OF the tragedy his
beard, then close cropped about the lower part of
his face, has grown out into full beard, begin
ming with a snowy white patch in the neighbor-
MOOD OF the temporal bones, suddenly changing to
Dlack on his cheeks, and then ending In an IRON
gray bush around and under his chin. His
small head Is quite bald on top. His little
eyes are active and vigilanL Altogether,
the brownlsh hue from exposure. not vet
Dleached out oy jail We, he has trampish look.
This was the figure that sat down in front Of Judge
montgomery, In the Criminal Court, this morning,
and folding his hands In his lap, twirled his
thumbS apparently the most unconcerned person
and SaeE TO y niSns tes
lury-box little before 10 O'Clock. The jury yes
terday heard how Daley had, on the afternoon OF
July - last, fallen upon the venerable JOS. c. q.
Kennedy while he was walking In busy thorough
rare and stabbed him to death with numerous
knife To-day his counsel Messrs Miller and
that Daley was insane.
A WITNESS WHO THINKS DALEY Is NOT OF SOUND
MIND.
The first witness called to-day was Francis p.
Kelly. q man with q patch over one eye Mr..
Kelly had a great comforter wound about his
throat and, being in delicate health, asked to be
permitted TO sit down. A chair was given him and
he sat down, sinking out OF view OF most OF the
scSuyiSi about miles from P Phi He
said his acquaintance with Daley began there
about fifteen years ago and continued until seven
or eight years ago, when Daley LEFT the place
Daley worked in a calico print mill there Mr..
Kelley pictured Daley as sort OF butt OF the CON-
man who was not altogether there Being asked
TO explain this phrase, the witness said he meant
"a man who was not altogether In his mind" He
said that the boys and Others on the street used TO
halloO at him SHOW about the women" and other
things, and Daley would only grin ami smile.
sometimes he would answer the question. The
witness did not think he was insane, but believed
ne had not real good sense and had not q sound
mind. When asked by the district attorney why
he thought Daley was not OF sound mind, MIR.
Kelley said he did not think man OF good sense
would allow people to "hOller" at him on the
street and take IL as he did. Witness met Daley
know him Daley earned about 50 q
week: he was reputed to be man OF good habits
and saving, and he went often TO the Catholic
church.
The next witness also came from the Falls Of
Schuylkill. IL Mrs. Margaret Hanlon with
whom Daley boarded for eleven years She said
sometimes she thought he was of unsound mind.
servant girls went TO the city and bought bon
net. When she returned Daley said ne did not
Ike the bonnet, and he threw II into the parlor
IRE and burned it. Afterward he paid for the
bonnet He got very religious and used to talk
religion to witness. He went from her house in
1877 TO Catholic college or Institution at Ger
there TO become a brother. When he came back
he said they were all rascas and trying to get his
money, and that he did not believe in any re-
lgion. He returned to her house from Washing
ton some years ago. His actions were strange
He would sit for a long time without talking. One
morning he went out without saying ything and
she never saw him again.
did you notice, asked Mr.. Miller, "any deiusion
OF his In regard to the ladieS?r
HE Thought" said Mrs Hanlon, "that every
lady that spoke TO him was In love with him." on
cross-exarnination Mrs. Hanlon said she could not
say Daley was insane, but he did great many
crazy acts. One day he went to his room and
threw his trunk out through the window, breaking
the glass. She never knew him to threaten any
jeremiah Hanlon, Mrs. HanIon's husband, loco
motive engineer, living at the Falls OF Schuylkil,
was next called. He did not think Daley was alto.
gether Of a sound mind. He used to come home
nights talking and laughing to himself, and go to
every room in the house hallooing and screaming
When any one asked him what was the matter
they couldn't get no sense out OF him." ON cross
examination the witness said that one time some
one said there was a fire, and Daley rushed up
stairs and began throwing things out OF the WIN
dow.
This recital evidently brought up some amusing
episode 70 Daleys mind, for he stopped twirling
ANOTHER WITNESS AS TO DALEYs DRLusIoNs
Patrick Ryan, of Philadelphia, formerly OF the
Falls OF Schuylkill the next witness, thought
Daley was crazy. 'Sometimes," he said, 'he has
seemed TO be right sound, but more times he
hasn't"
"Do you know Of any fancies or decisions he
had?" asked Mr.. Miller.
"a never knew him to do anything bad said the
witness, who evidently had but vague notion OF
"Did you know of any fancy or delusion he had
about Women?"
~ never knew him TO do anything said the
witness, "but have heard OF It."
He saw Daley after he went to the brothers at
Germantown. Daley said he did not think he
could become a brother, and when witness asked
him why, Daley said because they were tempted
very much. Witness asked how they were tempted,
his sleep with women-women coming To see him,
and attempting TO come into his room. Witness
laughed at him and said 1t was foolish idea.
When Daley left the Institution he told witness
the people at the college wanted to give him medi
cine 10 poison him.
Michael Burns, another Schuylkin Falls man,
thought Daley was OF unsOund mind. Boys at the
mill used TO throw rag balls at him. When ne
found any one at his seat at the table he used to
become so excited he could not speak. He thought
Daley was much worse now than he was at the
Falls.
WASHINGTON WITNESSES
Jno. G. Crogen, OF this city, knew Daley In the
fall OF 1884, when Daley boarded for time at the
Forrest House on New Jersey avenue His opinion
u
what he based his opinion he said Daley would
come into the bar-rOOm, sit down by the stove.
then jump up suddenly, throw down the poker
making great noise, and then pace up and down
or rush out and into the house, Slamming the door,
never saying anything TO any one He did not act
like a rational man.
Mrs. Eliza Bannon, who lives at 18th and
streets, testified TO having known Daley for
twenty-five or twenty-six years Daley lived at
her house nve or six years, and left there about
TWO years ago. From his conduct she thought
that at times he was not OF SOUND mind. He used
TO act very queer. He would walk around the
floor and swear or take out his pOcket-handker-
chief and tear II. sometimes he would curse
somebody who, he said, had robbed his father He
said the brothers In Germantown wanted TO rob
him OF his money, and that they had tried to
poison him
8On cross-examination the witness said she knew
Daleys stepmother. Her name was Winifred and
she had heard that she used TO live in Mr., Ken
nedy house as a servant.
At this point the court took recess
YESTERDAYS TESTIMONY
Yesterday afternoon, after The STARS report
closed, the direct testimony for the Government
was concluded. DIR. Lachlan Tyler testified to the
fatal wound; Henry B. Mason watchman at the
Safe-Deposit building; VIM q. Rabbit the street
railroad transfer man at the I5th-street junction
and John Lee, colored newsboy, described the
assault on Mr.. Kennedy. Mr.. Rabbit had seen
Daley walking up and down the pavement, near
the scene OF the tragedy for two hours before the
assault Lee saw Daley approach Mr. Kennedy
and strike him on the back with his INST; then as
Mr.. Kennedy turned, Lee said Daley stabbed him
Elections Of Officers.
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