The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-25
KELLY HAS AN ALBI, TOO.
He Tells His Whereabouts when
Joe Glenn was Shot.
HE is coRRoBoRATED BY MEN
Who can have no Interest in His Ac-
quIttaI-The Wounds on His Per-
son Accounted for-The Testi-
mony all Pleading.

sessions of Part of the Circuit COur
in which the trial OF Thomas D. Kell
and Harry Christie for the murder
officer Joe Glenn last January is in pr
gress, was the statement OF the deieuC
ant Kelly. He gave what purported
be an account of his wanderings befor
and after the murder and his whert
abouts at the time Glenn was shot, an,
accounted for his wounds which haI
been ascribed to Glenn's bullets; ant
other witnesses corroborated his state
ments.
The evidence was closed in the after
noon, and the arguments begun. Mr.
SommerviIle for the defense and Capt
Dovener for the prosecution remain u
speak. The case is expected to go to the
jury sometime in the afternoon.
The eagerness to hear the proceeding:
yesterday was not whit reduced, and
the interest in Kelly's testimony has moi
been exceeded at any time in the pro
gress of the trial. There was almost
breathless silence in the room when,
after Court had been formally opened,
Mr.. Sommerville said:
''Mr. Clerk, please swear Thomas D.
Kelly"
Kelly stood up and took the oath and
stepped to the witness stand to undergo
the ordeal.
Mr.. Kelly, will you state where you
were on the 18th and 26th OF December
oil last year?
Locked up in Bridgeport. was there
from the 24th TO the 18th for drunken
ness and disorderly conduct. From there
/ went to Washington, Pa, on the even
ing Of the Goth and from Washington to
Monongahela City, leaving Washington
on the evening OF January I, Saturday
night. l was there a little over a week.
know a man there by the name Of Con-
lin, who has brickyard. fired up for
him on the second and third Sundays
in january; that was the eth and 18th.
left there on the following Saturday,
but wasn't around there after the 18th
for q week or more. / was in Mononga-
hela City on Saturday, the day before
the 18th Of January. | first met Chris
tie at Newark on the morning of the
day | was arrested. had never seen
or spoken TO him before. was not in
Wheeling on Saturday, the l4th nor Sun
day the 18th OF January and had moth
ing to do with the shooting OF Officer
Glenn at that time, andI was never shot
myself. That mark on my leg and one
on my arm were caused by falling
against the sparks and clinkers OF the
pig iron running out at mill in Bel
laire while was engaged in fight there,
and the next morning l got burned on
the arm again by falling against a stove.
The Mayor of Bridgeport got me some
cosmoline salve and bandaged my arm
up.
/ never told anyone in the jail at New
ark nor Mt. Vernon that was connect
ed with the shooting Of Officer Glenn of
this city. never said anything of the
kind to either George W. Mcfarland,
Walter Joy, Eli Davis, Samson Harri-
man or any other person. never men
toned q word of the kind.
This ended his examination in chief,
and Captain Dovener at once began the
cross. questioning. He brought out
among other things, that the prisoners
name was not Thomas D. Kelly" but
Robert Ferries, and that his home was
at Rochester, Pa, where his family still
lives. He said he had never had any
talk with anybody on the subject of his
connection with the Glenn murder
never said he was guilty or not guilty.
He did not know he was arrested for the
crime till he was brought here. He had
talk with Sheriff Handlan at Mt. Ver.
non, in the forenoon, but did not deny
any connection with this crime. He did
not tell the Sheriff nor Captain Porter
Smith that he was never in Wheeling.
He told them he had been here some
time before, but not at the time that the
matters they asked him about took
place. He said he had been here every
time he talked to them, and never de-
MED having been here at any time.
In the course OF his cross-examination
he once or twice came pretty close to the
Mt. Vernon burglary OF which he stands
accused, but each time Captain Dovener
was stopped by Mr.. Sommerville or the
court, or voluntarily changed the DRIFT
of the inquiry, before the witness was
obliged to affirm or deny anything, or to
decline TO answer. He was taken over
the same ground repeatedly, and then
jumped back by question intended to
take him by surprise, but he stuck to
his original story very closely, through
the somewhat involved repetitions and
renarrations.
He said that he had fight at the mill
at Bellaire where the blast furnace is.
He there received the wound on his arm
and leg, having them burned with
molten iron which flew from the mass
coming from the cuPola. Ha had on no
coat; it was hanging in the pit His
pants and shirt were on, and they were
burned. He threw them away at Mo
nongahela City, Pa. One burn he re.
ceived on his arm by falling against hot
pig iron. This was in fight at Bellaire
on the Saturday before Christmas. He
did not tell Mr.. Sommeryille this fight
was on Friday.
The stenographer read from his notes
OF the testimony in chief the statement
that on Friday he was fighting and fell
on Il stove and was burned. He said
this was another time. On Saturday he
fell on hot pig iron.
Mr.. Dovener-Didn't you say those
burns were caused by sparks flying?
No; / said the sparks flew and | fell on
them. This was right where the iron
comes out of the;cupOla. / had two fights
one in the Bellaire mill where the
cupola is and the other this side OF Bel
laire. stopped that night at a sort o.
boarding house where the paper mill is
He got his supper at Bellaire Friday
evening with, Tom Eaton; he was raised
alongside Of him. The fight at West
Wheeling was caused by the witness
tramping on the other mans heel, anC
the man turned around and hit him il
the jaw. He hit him three times in all
He did not know this mans name. IL,
had no trial at Bridgeport; yes, he die
have a trial on Thursday morning ant
was turned loose, and started right fo
Little Washington. He caught freigh
train here, but he went back TO Bridge
port tist, though he was released OF
condition that he leave town. He die
not let anybody who had him locked NJ
aaa him ua vvapN hantg 10 ana fbi