Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-24

O-Ddn't you get your hair cut?
A.-Yes. ] rendered i've dollar DILL
but he paid for it.
FROM PLACE To PLACE.
O-Where WAS you the night before
this?
A.-Shelhy, o.
O.-What time did you leaveT
Anime o'clock.
Q.-How did you leave?
A.-On an oyster train.
O.-How much money did you have?
Alive dollars and half.
Q-Where did you get it?
Objection and sustained
Where was you before you got to
Shelby?
A.-Chicago junction.
Q.-How did you cUlae uowp?
A-Passenger tram.
O-Before you were at Chicago June
ton?
A.-Tiftin.
Q.-And then?
A.-Findlay.
Q.-And before thai?
A.-NewarE.
Q--And before that?
A.-FIemont.
JEwELRY AND JOB.
Q.-What was your business:
A.-Selling jewelry.
q Where did you have it?
An o s2tcbel.
Q-Where did you get il?
An Cleveland. Ii was forwarded
from ST Louis, and then sent from Cleye-
land TO me. bought it from firm In st.
Louis, and had it sent to Cleveland in the
expectation would go there. ! did not
have il at GAINESVILLE. did not know the
man who was with me at GAINESVILLE. /
first heard of Gleun's death when Sheriff.
Haudlan came after ME. The papers and
everything say Glenn was killed January
18th, and was at Fairmont then. | got
to Fairmont theFrlday night before he was
killed. first went to the HUI House
with the short man | mentioned. The
only name know for him is Joe. met
him in Baltimore. He is an old acquaint-
ance of mine in New York. His name il
ice Burns.
OIL thought you didn't know him.
Al didn't know what name he was
going by then. General smile Weplsyed
cards near the saloon at FairmOnt all day.
We got dinner in the saloon, off sardines,
etc Joe went to Glovers Gap with me. l
don't know what time We got to Gloyers
Gap. WAS pretty full then. 1t was prob
ably 10 or IL o'clock at night. We stayed
there till Sunday noon, and then came to
Moundsvile. We got of at GlOvers Gap
because We were riding with the engineer,
and he told us we would have to get of. II
was raining hard and the water was high.
Q-Wasn't it freezing, instead OF rain
ing?
A.-No, sir We came on toward Wheel
ing. but got of at MOundsville to get
something to eat. This was Sunday. 1t
was warm in the morning, then got cold,
and then warm again. When we came on
to Wheeling got shaved.
Q.--Didn't you get shaved on Saturday,
the 18th?
MoUNDsvILLE AND WHEELING.
A.--No, sir. We walked up from
Moundsyille and don't know whether we
stopped at Benwood or not. We might
have stopped there and got something to
drink. That was Monday. We stayed all
night from IL O'cloCk-Sunday night-at a
miners by the name of Gleason, at the
MoundsvilIe mines. We intended TO
stop off to get something TO eat, and
stayed over. was selling gloves and had
them wrapped up in q piece OF oil paper
and under my coat. sold gloves here,
but can't say where. was here about five
hours. think | crossed bridge, / think
stone or brick bridge, but it might have
been iron. was not up as far as the mar
ket house. don't know where the
Farmers Hotel is. bought some stuff at
a store, butcher shop and bakery, and took
il to the family below Benwood, We
walked along the road between the b. &
O and the river.
Q.-why didn't you buy the stuff 10
Benwood?
A.-Because we wanted to come TO
Wheeling.
Didn't You say you had no particu'
lar object in coming here!
A.-Yes, but We just came. We got
some fresh meat, bread, etc. Joe was still
with me. He wanted me to go to Balti-
more and go in the navy. That's how we
got back to Cameron. We took the stuff
to the family and then walked on to
Moundsville. We got something to eat
and drink there; then went on TO Cameron,
and then to Fairmont. The man stopped
with at Moundsyille was Thomas Gleason.
knew him in Michigan. At Fairmont
we stopped across the river, as before. We
stayed there two days. The following
Sunday night ne went to GAINESVILLE. We
stopped in Benwood till Sunday morning,
and then went on. left Joe in Fairmont.
saw lset of shanty boats laying at Ben
wood.
THE WRITING on THE WALL.
Odd you write in the gas house at
Barnesville, in three places, Ky TOM?'
A.-No sir.
Q.-Didn't see il?
Al think | saw chalk marks on one
of the retorts. only saw il in one place.
l might have seen Wheeling paper there,
and might have read of Officer Glenn, but
don't remember it. We went to Barnes
Vile on freight train. A man l met in
Bellaire was with me. He wasn't an &C.
quaintance. didn't know him, and don't
know what called him.
A.-You were with him four or five
days?
A.-Yes. We begged coat, and sold il
for twenty, five cents. We bought wire
and msde coat racks, and snld them for ten
cents each. The man and changed hats,
but ! don't think we changed coats. II
was severe weather and the ground was
frozen. / don't think that went away
and stayed a night and then came back.
The man with me got an oyercoat, but
don't know where. saw Sheriff Hsndlar
and Chief Smith in the Mt. Vernon Jail.
don't know what told them; was little
scared. didn't know what they wanted,
and said didn't remember anything.
was born in New York. Ny mother,