Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-25
THE END NEAR.
[Continued from Fourth Pace |

Q-who did you have fight with in
Bellaire?
Al don't know exactly.
Q-When wss ii?
A.-Friday before Christmas.
Q-Where was IL?
AT the mill-t blast furnace.
Q.-And you got the burn on the elbow,
how?
Al fell sgainst stove.
Q.-And the hurt above?
A-0n Friday morning at the mill. The
one on the elbow was Saturday morning.
Q-Aud the one on the leg?
A.-From piece of running pig-iron-a
spark / fell on it That was the only
burn / got The iron was running out of
the eupols. Sparks were flying, and one
hit me on the leg and one on the arm. 1t
burned hole in my pants. l
THREW THEM IN THE RIVER
at MonoDgahels City. They were worn
out. l threw away the shirt too. / also
threw away my u-dershirt and drawers, In
Uniontown, Pa, about the 10th Of Feb
ruary. / told Mr.. Sommerville / got the
hurt on the leg while fighting, and fell on
pig iron, on Friday, but you didn't ask me
If was fighting. Was fighting, and was
knocked down, and fell on the sparks and
got burned.
O.-What kind of house was You in
when you had the fight?
Alt was in the part of the mill where
the furnace is, right where the iron runs
out of the cupola.
Q.-what did You fall on?
A.-On the sparks. The man knocked
me there, and hit me a couple OF times
more. He bruised my face. / had marks
ON nv face when was arrested In Bridge
port. They were from the Bellaire fight,
and in one the next day at q house above
Bellairs. The first fight at Bsllaire grew
out of a disp1te as to who would pay for the
ghiskey. We were drinking. started
10 Bridgeport that night, and stayed at
house about halfway between Bridgeport
and Bsllaire. It's q kind of hotel, in
little town by q paper mill. l got there
about 10 o'clock, and went to bed as soon
a. got there.
OSThen what time did you have for
the fight there?
Al did that Saturday morning. got
NV breakfast there. and supper Friday
night before at Tom Eston's in Bellaire. L
Knew him. TIE Saturday morning tight
was because / tramped on fellows heel.
He turned around and
HIT NE IN THE JAW.
He hit me three times and knocked me
down. l went to Bridgeport and then 10
Ftnayille. In the afternoon | came bacS
IN bridgeport was arrested and locked
up. I was tried the next Thursday morn
inc and was turned loose. l came over
here and went right to Little washington
I caught freight train.
OIL thought you said, awhile ago, you
came over here and went back to Bridge
port. ,1,.
to Little Washington.
Odd you 90 back to Bridgeport
Ayes. a..
O-When you were released, wasn't it
on condition you leave town.
A.-Yes.
Odd any one see you when you went
backs w .,.,
Al wouldn't let 'em. / went back to
see a man. forgot hisname. he was ID
the lookup, and was to have been tried
after me. went to the depot to see MIN
O-What time did you start to Little
Washington?
About two O'Clock.
O-Didn't you say q while ago you
went in the evening?
At was in the evening got there
about or 10 o'clock. got supper AT .
bouse near the depot. stayed all nlgn,
| a. tha GAS house. The next morning !
vent to a house four miles out OF town
with some other fellows, where new wa,
ter works was being built. was there
over a week. got there Thursday night
| STAYED there till January 7th. Did notn,
inc Some of the men went 70
work On the reservoir. Ihere
we're six men, and 1 was with them
a week.. don't know any Of their names
I don't know the name Of the boss TnS
ssa.her was wet, and waited there to SEE
if Il wouldn't dry upa little, so ! could gel
work. went to Monogahels City wner
7 Ieft there. It's only ten or fifteen miles
across The country. One Of the men went
lin me. but don't know his name, frsi
a. last We went on the B. & 0. train.
had peysr been there before. Invent tners
to get work.
o.-wby didn't you
GET WORK IN WHEELING,
;rstead of going clear to Monongeheli
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