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

foT-fOr fun or what? Objection
Q-WhO took that petition then? A
Mrs Jesse Wheat.
Q-Who nurolei il ami held il no?
Al dOn't know; probably the Clerk OF
the Board
Q.-Do YOU know Capt. William
SchocSey? Yes.
Q.-On the evening Of the meeting of the
Board didn't you 90 to him and get him to
sign il? A.-Perhsps did; l don't recol-
lect about it.
Q.-And didn't You tell him, as an in
ducement to Capt Schockey to sign it,
that Mrs. Pipes went for meat. and came
back and found DR.. Pipes and Miss Green
lee in bed together? A.-No, Sir.
Q.-l will ask you if on the evening be-
fore that day you didn't meet Capt.
Sehockey and tell him [readipg the meat
story" from the declaration. A.-No,
sir; never told him that,
Dwell, I'll ask it TO you litue diff
fereat. Did yOu have any Conversation
with him on that subiectP A.-Not that
can call to mind. | have been trying to
think since | have been sitting here, and
call to mind.
Q-Tll ask YOU if you didn't approach
Capt. Schockey with petition TO have the
Board not TO appoint Miss Greenlee, and
ask him to sign it? A If saw Capt
SthOckey at all, it has escaped my recOl-
lection.
Q.-And didn't you tell him you knew
Of many things that you were ashamed 10
repeat? Objection; argument; allowed !
Al have answered that had no recOl-
lection of talking with Capt. Schockey.
Q.-You said You were at Mrs. Wer.
ner's? Al didn't say so.
Q.-Was you there? Al said 10 the
best of my recollection l was.
Dwell, after you got up this petition
quite lot of ladies came up with you to
accompany you to the Board of Education?
Al dou't remember M TO how they
came up; they we're thsre.
Didn't you pay tine way of the
ladies? did not.
Didn't you furnish the pay? A
did not.
Q-Didn't your wife? A If she did
she never told it to me.
! Didn't the ladies come up on the
car with you? Al don't know how l
came up. l often walked up, and pre-
sumo walked up that night.
Q-Your wife Was there that night? A
Yes, hut dou't know how she got there;
there were fifty or sixty ladies there.
don't know how many. What got the
petition there, don't know, as l remem'
Der nothing about it.
Doctor, didn't you make the mo-
ton to appoint committee 10 investigate
this trouble? A.-Whsther l did CT did
not, | csn't recOlsct. | heard the min
utes so Iesd, yesterday. | had forgotten
ths matter ii heard it read yesterday.
Q-Wasn't Dr. Pipes President of the
Board? A Yes, but he was not in the
chair.
Never mind the chair. He was enti-
tied to appoint that committee, wasn't he,
and didn't he call Mr.. Dobbins to the
chair, and didn't he appoint the commit
tee? A Yes. The committee met, and
and DR.. Pipes and Mr.. Eschstruth " re
before the committee.
O-Who else? Al can't say.
O-Wasn't Mrs. William Hall there?
Al she was, don't know it.
Q-Wss DR.. Siathers before that com
mittee? A II he was | never knew 1t
till now.
Q-Aud Was John Devine before that
committee? Al don't remember.
O.-And wasn't W @. Hsndlan, FIX
Sheriff, before that Committee? Al
don't know.
Q.-Don't you know he wes, and was
asked what ia the trouble, and didn't he
say there were two things the matter
Jealous wife and jealous doctor? Al
don't know about it.
Q.-Wasn't Joseph Freese there? A
don't know.
Q-And wasn't the report of that Com
mittee for an investigation, four to one?
A.-Yee, that is what the record sald
yesterday.
O-And wasn't Prof. Crago there? A.
I don't know. If he was have forgot
ten it
Q-And was not the petition prepared
after that? A.-Yes, after that the petition
WAS got up.
Q-What WAS Miss Stephens doine
there? A I haven't the least concsp'
ton.
Q-Let us sec if | can't refresh your
recollection. Wasn't she teaching? Al
believe ST the time We wrote the pet tion
il WAC night. What she was doing iheu
couldn't say. -, ..
Ooh, Doctor, yen know l didn't
mean that? A.-That is what thought.
Q-What was she doing at the time:
Al presume che WAS teaching, but mol
lawfully or legally.
O.-She was teaching that day? A
Yes.
Q-And she continued 10 teach? A
Yes. 10
Q.-She was not afterward removed?
A.-No.
O-She continued TO teach until she
fell sick? A.-Yes: she was confirmed, and
WAC then lawfully and legally teacher.
O.-Doctor, believe you sta ed what
YOU did you did as school commissioner
and for the interests OF the public down
there? Do you know William White?
A.-Yee.
O.-Where does he live? About
two and half miles from Wheeling.
Q.-What county? Al don't know
O-Will you say to this Jury that you
don't know in what county he live5. A -
Yes. he lives close to tue line. Come o!
them live in one county and some In the
other
Ole don't live in the school district
of Wheeling? A-No.
O-Do you remember meeting MN on
tram going TO Moundsvil(e, and repeating
these slsnderous stories TO him? A.-No
Ole had NJ interest in 1t, had ne!
He had no children going to school? OBJ
] IL 10 cd vi /
O.-After the meeting of the Board, and
the appointment of Miss Greenlee. dldn'
Won and Mr.. Eschstruth get together, and
Won tried to get Mr.. Escbstruth TO sign
his name for an appointment for another
teacher and he refosed? A.-Haye no
recollection.
O.-Wasn't there a meeting of the Board
the next morning? A.-Not that re-
member Of.
O.-Wasn't there meeting Of the COM
missiouers? A.-There was call for the
meeting Mt Mr.. E5chstruth's house.
O.-When was that, with reference to
the Board meeting? Al don't recol'
lect.
O.-Wasn't Miss Greeulee appointed at
.hat meeting? Al have no recollec'
tjons of any such meeting; she never was
nominated. c-,oo
wasn't teaching legally Al said she
had been nominated, but her nomination
had not been confirmed, and DR.. Pipes put
her in. She was merely named for the
nIace and az soon rs she was named, enc
was nut into the school and began to
teach. She wss confirmed at the next