The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-24

coming heIe on the ruiIIOau HOnl rtlT-
mont.
When Christie was through brief
recess was taken, to let the jury stretch
their legs, but the big crowd remained
jammed tight in the court room.
After the recess Christie was recalled
and said that never in Jail at Newark or
elsewhere did he make statement that
he took part in the killing of Officer
Glenn in Wheeling. He always denied
1t after being accused OF 1t. He never
said the hole in his hat was from shot;
he told everybody to whom he ever
spoke about it that it was burned by
cinder. He had a cartridge shell while
in Jail at Newark, and he said the bullet
from that shell had killed a man up
North-Bill Burt; and so it had. The
witness got the shell whenit was thrown
out OF the revolver. Burt was not n
police officer. He never told Eli Davis,
or George Mcfarland, or Samson Harri-
man, or anybody else that he killed
Glenn or helped kill him.
Re-cross examined, Capt. Dovener
asked il he and Kelly did not after be-
ing told that they were wanted here,
take leg off an iron bedstead? This
was objected to.
Capt. Dovener said he proposed to
show that after requisition was OBJ
tanned for the men in West Virginia,
they tried to escape from Jail, and that
they took the leg OFF the bedstead to kill
the jailer. This was rejected by the
court.
CoRRoBoRATIvE EVIDENCE.
Mr.. C. Schnepf, the druggist, was
called with his weather record, and said
that on Sunday, January 10, it rained.
In the afternoon it turned into hail and
sleet and got colder. 1t was colder on
Tuesday, the oath, than on Tuesday the
18th. 1t rained on the eth, Sth and 9th.
The book in which he keeps his record
was put in evidence by the State.
Mayor G. W. Seabright was next put
on the stand, and examined as to the
offer OF n reward by him on behalf OF
the city on the Tuesday or Wednesday
after the shooting OF Glenn. He offered
81 900 reward, and afterwards this was
printed in all the city papers, and ran
for several weeks. The reward is still
standing. He was asked il the reward
had been claimed, and If SO by whom,
but this was ruled out.
Capt. Dovener asked if any witness in
this case had claimed this reward, but
this was ruled out also. The order Of
Council was passed January II. Glenn
was not dead at that time.
G. NJ. Watson, OF Fairmont, said he
was at Fairmont on January II, and saw
Harry Christie, the defendant, about a
mile from that town, in q saloon kept
by William f. Burns, now dead, who
was killed at that place one week ago
last Saturday. The witness was there
with Christie three or four hours, and
then he and Iagans went to Fairmont,
He described the situation Of the Hough
house, and to Capt. Dovenersaid that the
hotel had been there several years, and
anybody might have seen it long ago or
recently. That Saturday was q very dis
agreeable. day; it rained or showed. 1t
was not a clear day. He did not know
how the weather was here, but it rained
or showed II miles east OF here. He
was not in Wheeling later than last No
vember before the shooting OF Glenn.
He had looked at the books at that
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goods bought the day the defendant was
in the saloon were charged rs purchased
on January Il. The man with Christie
was called Williams. He was heavy set
and the witness thought he had light
mustache. Christie was about us he is
now. He thought he was smooth-faced
To Mr.. SOmerville he described the
pantnlOOns worn by Christie, lust rs
Christie had.
John L. Wells, Of Glover's Gap, a
brother OF Capt. Charles E. Wells, was
next called, but not being in the court
room, some time was spent waiting for
HIM. When he finally appeared he said
he had seen Christie before, but not
Kelly. He was standing in his store
door about o'clock on Sunday morn
ing, putting up the mail, when Christie
came in and bought some eggs and took
them over to the sand house, Just across
the railroad track. He described the
store, very much rs Christie had done,
and also a boarding house which stands
near the store, and the bunk room
where railroad men sleep, the bridge
near the depot and other points at
Glover's Gap.
On his cross examination he said he
could not say what month this was; it
was a right nice Sunday morning, and
not raining. 1t was in the year 1883.
1t was before the east-bound train
passed that he first saw Christie. He
could not describe him, nor could he say
what time the east-bound train was due
at Glover's Gap, and he did not remem-
Der whether the man he saw had mus
tache. There was another man there
with a sandy mustache and red hair, he
thought; he was sandy Completed. The
man was pounding coffee in tin can
with n coupling pin. He believed
Christie was bare.headed.
Charles G. Woods, Clerk Of the Board
of Commissioners, was called to prove
the offer OF q reward by the county, but
Capt. Dovener admitted all the defense
desired to establish and he was not ex-
amined.
W. G. Beans was examined MS to the
publication OF the offer Of the reward in
the papers, but this was also admitted,
and after settling some minor points
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