Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-09
THE CoRONEU'S JURY RESnEEED
THEIR VERDICT LAST EVENING


from Moyer-W.tnesses Examined.
The jury tina. was appointed to render
their verdict of the shooting uffray, which
occurred ON Monday evening about nre
o'clock, met at Coroner Evau's office,
situated on Morris street,at seven O'clock,
but owing to The delay of two of the iu
rors, they dill not commence examining
witnesses until hdf-pa>t seven o'clock,
when the following persons were exam
ined
The first witness examined was Harry
Shrading, who testified us follows:
{" Dd d not get to the place of the shoot
ing until after the Shot was fired. Was
not personally acquainted with james Nc
Cormick. He asked me To get him a
drink of liquor, said would if he be-
haved himself; took him to the Man
sion House, and after arriving at the ho-
tel another old man treated him, after
| diG / did not see him until he Was shot.
He said he was going down (mean-
ing the camp to do him (Aloyer) up, be-
fore he would leave the city, and wanted
me to go with him, butI did not 90. Isaid
to him that the man (Moyer) had author
ity to put him out. He said he could not
put him out Two men were with him I;
one of them said he would do the --- -
---. The other man did not say
nothing"
The next witness called was Mr.. Z.
Blair, who testified as follows:
II was coming out of the tent, heard
some on ask for Movers tent, aud some
one informed him it was on the other side.
saw gentleman coming out of Meyers
tent without coat or hat. heard this
man say don't shoot me; for | am not
Meyer. | saw Mr. Beck have club in
his hand running down toward the tent;
then heard the report of the revolver or
some frearm. saw the man thai was
shot | saw Meyer outside of the tent,
and he called for assistance, and said the
men were rebbing me. think there was
three men together.
John Fisher was the next witness to
take the chair and he testified as follows
Il saw Mccormick standing outside of
Mr.. H. V. Hughes camp at 2 O'Clock Mon
day afternoon; | saw him on Sunday be-
hind the B. & o. depot; was not with
Mccormick on the afternoon of the shoot
ing was not with him when he was
shot he said his name was James Nc
Cormick, carpenter by occupation; have
been here about seven weeks; | heard
him say he was going down to see him
(Moyer); l was not in his company in
Philadelphia"
The next witness was Joe. O'Colligan, |
who testified as follows:
81 was acquainted with Mccormick, ,and |
worked at Mansion Transfer, Philade-
phia, three years ago; was not with
him since o'clock \. NJ. Monday saw
him laid out he (McCormick) went over
to the tent, and Informed me that the
watchman had "done him up >; saw
him with razor.
Mr.. w. V. Hughes was the next wit
ness called who testified concerning
Meyers character, which is as follows
&" He was superintendent of my camp
aud looked after provisions, etc; his
character, as far as ! know, is frst-class
for honesty and sobriety, and was EN-
ployed by me about six weeks he came
to me with a recommendation from Lieu.
tenant Beane, of Norristown, and worked
in the commissary. My orders to him
was to keep order, and also allow no
drunken people around, which think he
did did not know Meyer until l en-
ployed him in this city"
MOVERS STATEMENT
Monday night, about O'clock, as near
as | can judge, was in my tent fixing
up my accounts, | heard mans voice
outside calling Mr.. Meyer" asked |
what was wanted. The man inquired if |
l wanted to hire any carpenters asked:
d" Who are you " He says " Never
mind, you don't know me-" | said
GO Put your head in the tent, and let me
seeyou."
With that he put his head in the tent
and an arm was thrust through between |
sections of the tent, and in the hand was
u revolver. The man said You're
the --- ~ - -- I'm going to do up! "
With that I jumped up, grasped the re,
volver with my left hand and turned the
muzzIe toward the ground. He wrenched
it from me and jumped back in the dark
ness. | dropped down under the table,
and CROPPED about until | found my re
volyer, which is thirty eight calibre pur-
chased by me at Dibert's hardware store
lust last evening. / found the weapon,
and by that time two men jumped into
ne tent, knocked the lantern over, and
'hc light went out. They commenced
eating me over the head One of them
said "Wait till / get shot at him !,
With that pointed my revolver upward
and pulled the trigger. 1t snapped tire
fin time, but did not discharge. They
to beat me over the head, and