The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-23
KELLY AND CHRISTIE.
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to its going to the jury, because it was
dated March 5, nearly a month before
the prisoners were accused OF any Of
Tense, in Ohio county and because 1t
had no reference or relation whatever TO
Wheeling or Ohio county. The prose-
cution asked the witness us TO whether
he had made any effort to secure the
original, and ne said he had made re-
peated efforts, but had not succeeded.
Judge Jacob finally reserved his decision
Of the point till he could consult the
authorities. Capt. Dovener said he e2-
pected to introduce testimony showing
the bearing of this letter on the case.
At the time OF the arrest OF the parties
the witness found in their possession
lot Of cutlery. As Capt. Dovener could
not claim to be able to show any direct
connection between that and this case,
this evidence was excluded and Mr..
Rickenbaugh excused for the present.
Mr.. Joseph Hoffman, young son of
John G.. Hoffman, ST., was examined as
to the surroundings OF his fathers prem
ises. He said he closed his fathers
stable on the night OF the shooting Of
Glenn, fastening both the door from
Alley g into the stable and from the
stable into the yard. He described the
location Of doors and windows. He ex-
amined the stable the next morning.
The hook Of the outside door was broken
and there were chisel marks on the door.
The widow was broken. The stable was
closed at or half.past o'clock the
Saturday night Of the shooting. Wit
ness heard the shooting in the alley, and
afterwards saw Glenn, after he was shot.
Cross-examined, he said he heard
three shots first, and then five palmer
shots following. The stable window
might be seen from Chapline street, but
was not likely to be,
Samson Hartman, OF Newark, the
next witness, saw the prisoners in the
Newark Jail while there on visit at sew
eral different times to Eli Davis. On
one occasion he heard Kelly say that II
he had known the Marshal was going to
arrest him he would have shot him us
quick us he did a policeman in Wheeling.
To Mr.. Sommerville he said he went to
the Jail to take Davis some tobacco. The
talk was along the last OF February or
the first OF March. Davis was friend
OF his years ago, but he had not lately
associated much with him. He was not
prisoner at any time while these two
men were in the Newark Jail, but had
been before, charged with assault and
battery.
G. G. Reppeto was examined as to the
calibre ofthe revolvers taken from Kelly
and Christie.
G. w. Trisler said: knew Christy: |
read OF the shooting OF Glenn; l saw
Christie about week after at the gas
works at GAINESVILLE. Christie read the
Wheeling papers. saw him again in
the train coming to Wheeling in charge
of Sheriff Handlan. The man with
Christie at GAINESVILLE was not Kelly.
Isaac Sutton, Of Benwood, said he saw
the two men at Benwood. They staid
OH small boat there. He had some
conversation with Christie when Kelly
was not there. Sutton had boat on
which his family lived, and it lay about
thirty yards below the boat occupied by
the prisoners. On the Saturday week
before the shooting OF Glenn the two
men asked him to take care OF their
boat, saying they had some things up
above and wanted to go after them.
They did not say where. On the Satur-
day evening of the Glenn shooting he
saw the two men coming up the bank
from the boat, and they came toward
Wheeling. Sunday morning the witness
saw that Kelly and Christie's boat had
been caught on the bank by the falling
Of the river. He went to the door of the
boat, and first raped and then kicked
on the door. Christie came to the door.
The witness did not see Kelly, nor did
he see him on Monday nor Tuesday.
The boat occupied by the two prisoners
had two rooms on it.
Capt. Dovener undertook to show
that Christie took copies OF Wheeling
papers aboard the boat, and objection
being made, he said that he expected to
prove that the defendant Kelly was on
the boat Mt the time, wounded; that
when the papers were read in which the
Mayors offer of q reward was contained,
they showed the boat out in the ice and
foated down the river; that they burned
the boat and Kelly bought ticket for
Bellaire.
This was not allowed in this form.
The witness said that on Wednesday
morning the boat was pushed out in the
river, in the ice, and iloated down. The
river was full of ice-crowded full. Wit
ness afterwards saw Kelly in jail here;
he went there to see ii he knew him,
and he did know him.
On his cross.examination he said the
Sheriff here asked him to appear here,
and took him to the Jail. He left word
with his wife for him to come to Wheel
ing; he had told the Sheriff some time
before that he thought he knew some
thing about the case. He supposed the
Sheriff had heard something about his
having seen these parties. The witness
had talked to n policeman here, whose
name he could not remember, about the
case. This policeman came to Benwood
to see Sutton and another party, to get
them to come to Wheeling to identify
some other parties before these men
were brought here. He saw the other
parties, but could not identify them.
He did not know how the authorities
here found out that he had seen the
parties on the boat. The witness "hap-
pened" to live on boat because he
bought boat and moved on it. He lost
his property by the flood OF February,
81, and then bought a boat and had
lived in it ever since, ut various places
along the Ohio river where he was en-
gagged in railroading and working in iron
and steel mills. Living in u boat was
better than paying rent. He had lived
Mt BenwoOd since April 10, 1887, when
he came from Parkersburg.
benjamin F. sutton, brother OF the
last witness, who also lives in boat at
Benwood, corroborated his evidence and
identified Kelly as man he had seen on
ashanty boat Just above that Of the wit
ness's brother. He saw him, he thought,
about the seventh or eighth Of last Janu-
airy. He saw him last the day before the
boat left. The last person he saw about
the boat was somewhat darker person
than Kelly; this man had a scar on his
face or neck, he thought on the left side.
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