Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 18??-????, 1889-05-31

lived WilA sae the gf$ateE par. Of lie time;
s.srer beard anything against him.
ss-exauiaation-He was in my employ
aud wzs true 10 my trusts Others asked ne
about him; heard no one talk about him
before this occurred.
John Opel was recalled as to Grant Deans
reputation aud testified that it was good.
Thomas Reese live at Meyerssiale; !
run a coal mine; know Dan sine March ;
don't know much about him never heard
anything against him before this.
David Fuller-I live in Elklick township
anl am a Justice Of the Peace seen Grant
Dean frequently; didn't know him tiii
March never heard anything against him
J.B. Dean, recaIled.-The community
in which I knew Grant Dean is about
Markleysourg ss far as know his re
putation is good he is no relation 70 me,
only my father raised him.
J. II. umberson, ,recalled.-I live near
Markleysburg; know Grant Dean since
we were boys; his reputation is good.
T. J. Engle, recalled.-Testifed that
Grant Deans reputation was good.
N. w. Fike, recalled.-Said Grant
Deans reputation fJr honesty was good.
S.M. GIisson.-Live in Henry Clay
township, four miles from Mlrkleysbnrg
know Grant Dean his reputation for
honesty is good.
The Court here reminded counsel for
the def.nse that an abb as to Dean and
Hill would be useless, they only being
held as accessories and of necessity must
have been absent from the scene Of the
crime at the time it was committed.
jackson P. Sullivan, one of the defend
ants.-I live near .Beason's Works, Fay
ette county: 1 know Wm. Hill he lives
twenty-five miles from Beason's Works
on the night of the 18th of April, l was
al John Dinsmore's; fix the time be-
canse know it was my sisters birthday !;
Dinsnore is married to my sister; stay
el there from Saturday evening till Mon
da, morning, the 18th Of April; then |
went over the mountain with my bro
ther to go hunting; | saw Hill on the
i4th, at my fathers house, near Beason'o
Works; we went to Marsh Sullivan's on
Monday, April 18th, and stayed there, l
think, till Thursday then We came back
over the mountain again to my folks we
came over in a buggy; Marsh wanted TO
get house know absolutely nothing
about the Yojer robbery, more than
Ihave read never saw the goods said
to have been.tsken, except when | saw
them here in court.
Cross-examined- don't live with my
father, but live a couple hundred yards
east OF him went TO Dinsmore's on after
noon of the 18th; went over the mount
ain on the 18th had no previous ar
rangement to go; Hill is my nephew /;
Gooseman is not my uncle as | know Of ;
was over at Hills hunting had my
hounds with me wasn't on the loft the
door was not locked there were no re-
volvers found on ne; don't know that
there were any in the house; ! had a
fowling-piece there: there was no gun
with both hammers up my gun was set
ting in the room; brought it there to
hunt foxes.
Beason's Works is near the place call
ed Cool Spring Hollow; | don't know
that that is the place where the McClel
landtown gang stopped heard of the
gang through the papers; | heard was
connected with it, but you can see most
anything in the papers; | don't know
that Hills house was another headquart-
ers of the gang believe did see some
thing to that effect in the papers; Char
ley Lewis, Decatur Tasker, Hill and my
self were at Hills on the Sunday we
were arrested Mrs. Hill, my sister. and
lady by the name of Miss .Teats, who
was on visit my sister twas also there
on a visit; they weren't there cooking
when we were arrested / had no revol-
yer on my person; | had revolver
there | don't know where it was, | laid
it on shelf when went there; there was
not door locked or threat made; Tas-
ker didn't say be was sorry we hadn't
fought have been arrested before; il
was in May or June, 1881, in Fayette Co,
for robbery l was convicted and sent TO
Riverside Penitentiary; We served six
years and half there; wasn't arrested
in West Virginia they didn't try to arrest
me there; never got anything at Yoder's
and know nothing about it; never pas
sed through Ilarnedsyile for the last
fifteen years to the best of my know
ledge; | went South after | got out Of
the Peneteniiary to Alabama come back
to Cincinnati and went into saloon bus
ineSs then went to Michigan; was in
the broom making business two or three
weeks there; went to Chicago then, TO
see the place; st lyed only couple of days
then came home to Fayette county last
fall; have not been doing much of any
thing since, except hunting a little
J. NJ. Sullivan, another of the defendants,
and generally called Marsh, was then sworn
lie said-I live in Henry Clay township,
Fayetie county know Wm. Hill: know