Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-02
THE GARRISON INQUEST.
Eye-Witueuses Describe the Encounter at
Hastings stntion-The Victim Was Al.
lowed 70 Bleed to Death.

Eye. Witnesses Describe the Encounter at
Hastings stntion-The Victim Was Al.
lowed to Bleed TO Death.
The inquest on the death Of Thomas Gar
ritson, the lad of II years who was killed BY
Edward Abbott at Hastings station, was
conducted by Coroner Mcdowell yesterday
afternoon. The first witness examined was
Hezekiah Garrison, father of the deceased.
The boy left the farm at Harrietsville with
a younger brother, Harvey, to go to coal
mine, where he had some friends, at 9
o'clock Sunday morning. He returned
after the family had retired Sunday night,
his jaw hanging down and his face bleed
ing.
Susan Garrison said that her brother told
her, when he came home, that he was on the
depot platform at Hastings station, mile
and a half below Harrietsville, when
Edward Abbott and Jnmes Wells came
along. Wells was cursing, and Abbott was
carrying a flask. Wells called Garrison
vile name, and when Garrison resented it
Wells and Abbott both struck him, Abbott
throwing the flask, which struck him on the
cheek, the flask breaking and cutting his
cheek.
John Garrison testified that he met his
brother on Sunday evening at Hastings,
just before the fight occurred. He noticed
that his brother had been drinking. He
saw Wells and Abbott approach, but was
engaged in conversation with another man
a short distance away, when he heard
scuf1e, and looking around he saw his
brother strike Wells, and then saw Abbott
throw the flask which struck the deceased.
Harvey Garritston testified to having ac-
companIed his brother on Sunday and to his
taking several drinks. The scene at the
station platform, as described by him, was
that when Wells and Abbott came up,
Wells called the deceased vile name, to
which he replied by striking Wells heavy
blow in the face with his fist. Wells stag
gered, and Abbott, who had quart flask
in his hand, threw it with great force,
striking Garrison on the cheek. Garrison
fell, the blood streaming from his face, and
Wells and Abbott both jumped back. pull
ing revolvers and exclaiming, "Stand back
or I'll shootr' The witness got his brother
up and took him home
james Wells, when sworn, denied much
of the testimony of the other witnesses, and
the Coroner had some difficulty in getting q
clear statement from him. He told, how
ever, OF how he and Abbott had spent part
of the day in "speak-easy" kept in q
shantY at Bridgeville, where they drank
good deal of beer. Abbott bought flask of
whisky, most of which he and the witness
drank while walking to Hastings station
Sunday evening. The witness spoke to
Garrison when they met at the station and
was struck in the face by him. Abbott
then threw the flask, which contained
small quantity of whisky. When it struck
Garrison it broke and Garrison fell. Wit
ness denied that he had revolver or that
he called Garrison the vile name ascribed
to him by the other witnesses.
From the testimony it appears that a
brother Of the deceased went to BridgevilIe
Sunday night for DR.. Kidds, but the latter
refused to go to attend the injured man, be-
cause, he said, he did not feel well. DR..
Newcomer was then asked to go. but he re-
fused to go also, sending q solution which
he ordered applied to the wound. No doc
tor went near the young man until Monday
afternoon, and he had been bleeding pro-
tusely ever since the wound was received.
DR.. E. G. Hustler testified on the stand
that death resulted from hemorrhage, but
that the case had not been properly treated.
The witness said he had been called to at
tend the case on Wednesday, and arrived
about ten minutes before the young man
died. He had held apost-mortem examina-
ton and found that the facial artery had
been severed, causing the patient to lose
control of his lower jaw. If ne had at
tended the case he would have tied up the
artery.
The testimony of a number of other wit
nesses was taken, after which the inquest
was adjourned until 10 o'clock this morn
ing, at Mansfield. -