Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-12

Peter Griffin, alias Lee. talking TO Kill
lain. He thought be looked like Peter
Griffin. The other was combing his hair
and kept his back toward Thomas.
Between and 4 o'clock on December %.
q man whom Thomas positively identified
as Peter Griffin came to Thomas house and
asked for Clark. After considerable nego-
tiatlon through Thomas, Killain, who was
upstairs making baskets, descended and met
Griffin. Each man said to theother, "Hello."
Killain, his wife and Griffin left Thomas
house and went to the boat. where they
remained abou. an hour. Griffin and Kill
lain then went north along the Valley rail-
way, and in quarter Of an hour Killain
came back alone. After that Killain and
hiswife worked at Thomas house until 925,
when they hurried away Thomas said that
he learned, few days later that his clock
was nearly 20 minutes fast Mr.. Thomas
said that Killain's wife told him the
strangers name was Peter and that he came
from Pittsburg. Mr.. Thomas said that he
did not, from the first, like the looks of Mr..
Grifhn's eyes. As matter Of fact, Griffin
is crOss-eyed.
When Mr.. Thomas was shown a lot of
photographs be instantly picked out the
portrait Of Peter Griffin, SAYING to the Cor
oner, snow, amt there something wrong
about his eyes?" He said that the photo
graph of Conroy looked very much like the
tall man who was combing his hair Thomas
said that q bemloek oar, which he made for
Killain, was found broken in Killain's
skif on December "a He knew it was not
broken on December q.
HIS STORY CoRRoBoRATED.
The story Of John Thomas was corrobo-
rated BY his aged mother, Mrs Elizabeth
Thomas. She described Peter Griffin, but
her eyesight was so poor that she could not
tell one photograph from another. She said
that she had left her ''specs" at home, and
nobody else's would fit her eyes.
Jacob Phillips lives near the river, al
most quarter of a mile below the house of
John Thomas. Right across the road from
him is the gate to the Valley eampmeeting
ground. BE testified that at about 1896
o'clock on the night of December %, he
beard steps passing his house. Looking
out, be saw two men hurry BY and enter the
gate to the camp.
Mrs. Maggie Inman testified that during
the evening of December %, about $50
O'Clock, she went into Rudert's store to get
change for bill. She noticed two strangers
standing outside the store. One, who wore
dark brown OTercOat and
sloueh bat stood beside the natural
gas pipe in front of the store.
Another taller man stood near the house,
beside the door. When Mrs Inman came
out Of the store, the short man stared at her
20 hard that she was frightened and ran all
the way home. She positively identified
the photograph Of Griffin as the portrait of
the man who stood beside the gaspost. The
tall man, she said, wSs older and wore a
brown gondola hat. He had q sandy
mustache. Mrs. Inman had been at her
home less than ten minutes when she was
alarmed BY the shooting and heard men
running past her house toward the river,
Detective Fitzgerald was then sworn.
Re said; sT have known Griffin and Kill
lain three years. 7 arrested Griffin in the
Evansburg jail in March, 1888 BE was
tfied in The Criminal Court Ia Allegheny,