Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-25

Al KNOW QUO SOdiths
Q.-What does he do?
Ale works in q brick yard. l fired
for him on the 18th and 21st Of January
the second and third Sundays in the
month. fred the flues in the brick kiln.
Q.-How long did you remain there.
Al wasn't there for week.
Q.-Where were You before the third
Sunday?
Al was in Monongahela City the Sat-
urday before.
Q.-where did you first meet the de-
PENDANT, Christie?
A.-Newark, O., the day 1 was arrested.
Odd you ever see him before?
A.-Never before.
Q.-Were you in Wheeling January 14th
or 18th?
A.-No.
Odd you have anything TO do with
SHOOTING OFFICER GLENN?
A.-No, sir.
Q.-was you ever shot in Wheeling?
A.-No.
Q-How did you get those hurts?
An Bellaire. i got one by q bum
and another by piece of pig iron.
Odd you have treatment for your
sore arm in Bridgeport
A.-Yes. The Mayor got me some salye,
and bandaged the arm up himself.
Odd you ever tell any one in the Jail
that you were connected with the shooting
of Officer Glenn?
A.-No, sir; never did.
Odd you ever say 80 to Joy, or Nc
Farland, or the Others?
A.-No, sir; never word.
To Dovener:-
Odd you ever talk to any one about
the Wheeling matter?
A.-No, sir; l never talked to a living
soul about it.
Q-Nsver to Sheriff Handlan or Chief
Smith?
A.-No, sir.
Q-Not word?
A.-No, they asked me, and I said /
knew nothing of it.
Q-when did you first see Sheriff Hand
An Mt. Vernon, in the forenoon.
Didn't you deny ever being in
Wheeling?
A.-No, sir. l said I had been in
Wheeling, but not for any length of time.
| told him was in Bridgeport, Christmas
day.
Didn't he ask you if you came to
Bridgeport by the B. & o. road, aud You
said you had?
A.-No.
Q-Didn't you say you crossed the
bridges from the Island?
A-Yes. He didn't ask me how far
down had been in Wheeling. told him
l had been to few saloons. / don't
think / told him had been down little
below the Market House. didn't say /
had been as far down as the big house on
the corner 1.-THE McLure), but j have been
there. 1 was
ARRESTED HERE YEAR AGO
last Christmas.
Q.-What is your name?
A.-Robert Ferris.
Q.-You live in Rochester, Pa?
A.-Yss, have mother there.
Q.-Didn't you tell the Sheriff ut the
time you spoke of being in Wheeling, you
went back to Bridgeport in the aftsrnoonP
A.-Yes.
Q-And that you remained there Q
while?
A.-Yes, day.
Q.-And then where did you go?
A.-Little Washington. / only stayed
in Wheeling a couple of hours. Then /
went back to Bridgeport, and then came |
over and went ont Oh the b & O. to Little |
Washington. i told the Sheriff / used TO |
know some Wheeling glass house bows.
told him / used to know Billy Young
here ! got acquainted with him in
Rochester. I mentioned Bradley Craig |
and David Pugh. They lived here. He
asked me what glass house they worked |
in, and I said the Riverside, aud he said |
there was no such glass house here. !
ssid the glass house was by big brewery,
aud he said 1t was either the Central or
Hobbs.
Q.-Had You heard of the murder before
the Sheriff saw yon?
A.-Yes. John Fowler, the Deputy
Sheriff, told me they were trying to get
that they said we were the
purderers Of the policeman. Mcfarland
told me
BE KILLED THE WHEELING POLICEMAN,
but that he didn't want me to tell. He
laid there was q big reward. He said Just
what he said the other day said. told
him it was none of my business. That is
aD | talked about it.
Q.-Nothing else?
A.-Well, the States attorney told me |
they were going to take rs back.
Ole didn't know how or when Il
wss done?
Ale didn't say.
Odd Sheriff Handlan ask You If you
were in Wheeling in January?
A.-Not to my knowledge. / think l
aid no.
Q-was you in Wheeling in January, |
A.-No.
Q-How long was you in Little Wash
ngton?
A little over week.
ON talking to the Sheriff, at Mt
Vernon, in the afternoon, didn't he ask
7ou II YOU had been in Wheeling in Janu-
Try. 1888, and Won said you had between
Christmas and New Years9
Al might have said 30.
Q-Didn't he say wasn't you there
lbout the first of january"
A.-Not to my knowledge.
Q.-Then didn't he say "were Won there
bout the middle Of January" and didn't
Iou say ''0n the 15thq"
Al might have said 80.
Q-Aud didn't you say 81 can prove
where was on the 18th. was in little
fair in Ohio on the 18TH can settle
hat?n
Al won't say I did or didn't.
Q.-lfyou were in Pennsylvania on the
5th, why didn't you say SOP
Al won't say said it'll don't recol-
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