Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-17

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Otto Jaeger was one.
Q-Otto jaeger Is uO' in the inrisdic
lion of this Court? A No, but that's moi
my fault
Q.-Neither is DR. Reed nor Miss Green.
lee. Tell us some one within the jusisdic,
tion of this Court? Al believe Godfrey
Schul Was one
Q-WhY didn't you tell him to get up
his own petition2 Al don't know.
Q.-Why didn't you get up one for him
and then stop? A.-Several people came
TO me.
Q.-YOu know who circulated the peti-
tions? A.-Yes rome of them.
Didn't your wife circulate oneP A
No, l don't know that she did
q Didn't your step'dsughter, Mrs.
Wheat, circulate one? A-Yes, believe
she did.
Q.-Who told her TO circulate il? A
don't know.
Q-Why did you write that headingP
A.-Well, can't say.
= You was convinced to do it in spite
of yourself? Al thought was in the
hands of my friends l was opposed to
circulating the petitions.
Didn't you say you wrote the petit
tons on the day they were circulated?
A.-Yes, but want TO correct that; it
WAS about 8 o'clock the evening before.
2 Who corrected you in that? A
My family, at home, to-day.
Q-Was Mr.. Schul at your Office? A
Yes, he was there; Otto Jaeger dida't say
anything to me about il, as far as | en-
recollect.
Q.-Didn't you sign names to the petit
uons? Al might have written peoples
names; don't know.
Q.-There were none of these petitions
out that you didn't write? A.-Captain,
l understand there WAS but one petition
| wrote the different headings of the same
petition. l composed it and made four or
five copies.
Q.-You kept one yourself? Al can't
say did.
Q.-Didn't you tell Mr.. Caldwell you
took one around? Al had one ia the
afternoon and got few names.
Q.-How many names did you get? A.
i haven't the remotest idea.
Odd you write all the names You
got? Al can't say.
Captain Dovener here read number OF
names from the petition, and asked the
witness, 10 each case, where they lived.
They sll lived close around witness house,
and one was DIR. McCoy's domestic.
Q.-Didn't yOu sign all these names at
one time, with the same pen and the same
irk? Al didn't sign one of them.
Q-Isn't il all in the same ink? A
Yes, but did not write them.
Petition handed TO Jury TO make COM
parisons with Witnesses handwriting
Q.-DoctoI, this Mrs, Werner, who you
said Won didn't remember to have seen.
Didn't yOu get her nameP Al can't
say.
Q-Who wrote that? Al haven't
the least conception in the world.
Will You say You were not there?
Al can't say.
OWN you swear to this jury you
were not? A i will say / don't know
Q.-Were their not persons who signed
that petition, who asked you to take their
names off Al have no recollection.
Q-And were they not taken OF? A
have no recollection.
Q.-And in rubbing them off in pancil
we're they not rubbed 70 you could not
tell whose name it was? Al don't
know.
[Sho wing petition Wasn't this name,
then? objection. A i don't know.
Petition shown to jury.
doctor, this lady, Mrs. Wheat, at
the time this happened, was living in your
house with you? A-Yes.
Q.-Then one Of these petitions started
right from your house? Now, you said
Godfrey Schul asked you to get mp petit
ton. Now, mention one other person?
A i have said over and over again that
my memory does not serve me in that par
ticular can't doit.
. And yet you say many other persons
asked you to draw up the petition. This
suit was brought in September, 1887,
wasn't it? Al don't know.
Q.-Aud this has been the basis of your
defense ever SINGER A Which?
Q.-Whst you did was at the instance OF
other parties-will you tell the Jury how,
if suit was brought i'll August, 1887, how
in few weeks after that, you never gave
it any thought? Al never thought OF
that petition until yesterday, when my at
tention was called to it. never saw that
petition from that time to this, to the best
of my recollection, nor ever thought about
it,
OIL wish you would examine that pc
tiuon aud state whether or not those five
names or any portion of them, were not
written by some of the members OF your
fimily? Al cannot say.
O.-How about Mrs. Wheat? Al
can't say.
Is it your wife's writing? A.-No.
0 Is it Mrs. Wheat's writineP A-No.
Q -Is it your sons writing? Al
wouldn't like to say ii wss or WAS not.
O.-What name Is that rubbed out? Is
it William Dixon? Al can't say.
O.-Examine it. You know William
Dixon? A.-There is such man in our
ward. After examining with glass -
l think that is the name, pc sibly.
Odd you ever have a talk with
William Dixon about taking his name off,
A.-No, sir; did not
Doctor, you said you never carried
that petition around? Al don't remem'
Der saying it.
Q Did you ever carry it around? A
This?
O.-Yes. Al got few names on the
afternoon Of the meeting OF the Board.
O.-You said you took the petition home
and threw it in the waste basket? A
Yes.
O.-And never saw it again? Now,
d;6n,t von have IL again, up at the build
ing of the Board of EducationS Objection
argument; overruled. Any mind is
not clear on that.
Didn't you have it there, and exam
inc it, and compare it with the petition
DIR. Pipes had filed? A.-Yes; tnat was
the night of the meeting OF the Board when
we compared 1t.
Ono. but didn't you have it there
again with Mr.. Hannah You know him,
don't you? A.-Yes.
O.You and he were sort of together
in this? All we had it there 1t has
escaped my recollection.
O-Didn't you have it there and count
the names, and didn't the Pipes petition
have 355 names, and only about 277 on
the Mccoy petition? Al can't say
about it.
O-You found the Pipes petition has
been on file at the Board of Education
ever since it was filed thereP Al don't
know.
O-Wasn't it there every time you
went for Nov, will you tell this Jury
why vou took that petition away? Al
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