Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-16

IT GOES on AGAIN THIS MORNING
Arguments Of the Attorneys Heard, and the JHr,
Lacked up fsr the Night

hlu buooblhBs bho heN oehth
him why he shot, and he told her none oi
her business" she could not be shaken in
her testimony. II was quite light on the
street ut this point
Officer Mike Hanley, who arrested Veins,
said that be wore a brown hat and over
coat When the officers caught at Veins
hip pocket, Veins said: 81 have no gun
there" Hanly asked him where he. had
put it and Veins answered II did not
have any,"
j. n. McNulty and Edward McNulty
testified to the light in the sidewalk. Be-
sides the electric street light there was a
large Office light, and natural gas jets and
big light at the stable entrance.
Mr.. Wallace opened the case for the de-
tense, and at once put the prisoner on the
stand. His testimony caused a sensation.
He fatty accused George Kelson, one of
the men accused as accessory, of having
fired the shots, Veins said the fight be-
gan between Kelson and Pressel. Some one
cried, "Hit the black cur" Kelson an
swered, "Oh, 1 guess not" Kelson then
pushed through the crowd to Veins
and said to the latter, "Give me
your revolver, you fool:" then, taking
the weapon Ke,son fired twice. Veins
left, and next saw Kelson at the Central
station. He asked for his revolver, and
Kelson said: 81 gave it to Hains to give to
his old man. Don't say a word about it."
He had not talked to Kelson since.
A BLUE OR BROWN COAT.
Veins said he had on a blue coat, and
not brown one, as Officer Hanley said.
He stoutly denied that he had talked to Miss
Wright or any other girl after the shooting.
After the noon recess Veins was recalled.
He testified that he did not fire shot on the
night of the murder The quarrel started be-
tween Kelson and white man named Pressel
He said he was in the crowd, and his revolver
dropped on the pavement. kelson grabbed Il
and fred two shots into tho crowd. Veins
then left the place. but returned again soon
after TO see If anyone had been shot.
He then went 20 Mrs. JohnHtons house,
At " Logan street, where he was arrested,
lie Identified the revolver Detective Coulson
had found hs being his. but stated that I've had
not used IL. and Teafilrmed that kelson had
BRED two shols from a. on cross examination
Veins positively denied that he had told
William Johnston, another prisoner, that he'
(Waims), had done tho shooting When con
tronted with the testimony NJ tho inquest
Veins became somewhat confused, but stuck
10 his story.
night Of Apr b, she started out for FrooofieH'
ON the way she met Gerte Norris, They car
ried Miss 1OiliverH basket between them. On
Fulton street they met Harris, who put y re-.
volyeT into the basket and told the girls TO keep
g, Miss IolllyoT let so Of the bake and Miss
Norris took IT,. A short distance further along
they met George Keson, who asked II they
had seen Harris, They told him they hadn't.
MiAs Norris then took the basket and dumped
the revolver out Of H., Witness didn't know
where Miss Norris dumped the revolver De-
tectiye Couson found the revolver lying at the
mouth OF sewer. Witness was positive she
had not testified before the Coroner that Miss
Norris had uumueQ the revolver into the gutter
where IL was found.
Lotue Johnston, Of 70 Logan street, testified
that Veins went to her house on the night Of
the murder. between 1880 and II o'clock, lie
had on black Atlif lat, She identified the hat
Meimai had In tho court room ~ the one he
wore on that night, Also his black Oyercoat
md black pants.
EFFORTS OF THE DEFENSE
The defense made a strong effort to provo
from tho contradictory testimony Of the wit.
nesses In regard 10 Veins hat that keson did
the shooting. A package offered In evidence was
identified by Miss Johnston as the one Veins
took 20 her house on the night Of the murder
Witness positive that Veins was not cry
ing when he came 10 her house. lie did not
say, 1--WE got something TO tell you" and did
not lie down the lounge face downward.
with his face covered by his hands. She was
positive she had not told Inspector McAleese
and Detective COulson that VEINS had acted
thus
Charles Ganse testified that Veins wore =
not know what kind. DIR. J. Guy McCandless
testified that Veins had been employed by
him for six months Their relations were sew
cred about month before the murder. Wit
ness could not testify to Veins general char
acter.
Detective Coulson saw Veins after he was
arrested. He then wore brown stlh hat,
which was somewhat larger than the black one
exhibited in court. The black hat was posi-
ness did not recollect what kind of hat Kel'
son wore He remembered that Veins had
brown hat on because he had been looking for
the man with the brown hat and brown coat al
the murderer, and he noticed that Veins hat
was brown after he had been arrested.
VEINS identified the black stiff hat and
oyercoat exhibited in the court room as the
ones worn by HIM on the night Of mis- arrest.
Dr. McCandless gave him the oVercoat about a
year ago.
KELSON TELLS HIS STORY.
Here the defense rested, and George Kelson
was put on the stand by the Commonwealth
Kelson said he did not work on that Saturday.
On the night of April 8, Kelson, Frank Sey
mour, Ulysses VEINS, William Harris and
Charles Ganse followed the colored Mason's
parade TO the scene of the murder. They went
on out to Tunnel street and were disOrderly
and iostling people on the sidewalk. He heard
Veins testimony. He did not fire two shot.
and did not hear the shots fired. He first knew
placed in the Eleventh ward police station
viii Johnston gave him two revolvers. One be
threw INTO L0e yaru In6 rear OF lIO or III
ton street. He did not see O'Hara and did no
know there had been a fight. He did not fgh
with Pressel. He threw the revolver away be
cause his boarding house mistress had told hin
the police were after him and he did not wan
10 have it with him if arrested. He did no
know at that time why the police were afte
him. He knew Veins had a revolver, becaus
he dropped it at the B. q o. depot and Kelsol
saw It.
roborated Nelson's testimony. While goinI
up Elm street Veins said to witness: "Betweei
me and you. Billy. did that shoot
ing" Johnston left Veins at Mrt
Johnston's gate and went mp TO Fulton street
evidence several notes Veins had written t
the other prisoners in the jail in which h
made threats aglinst them il they swore agains
him at the trial ,,. -,
Jobnston's evidence. Kelson took him to rea
OF l26 or l2s Fulton street. and there they foun
Sei couisou oorroborated his brother officer
stAtoment Ella Toliver told him wher
Clertio Norris had thrown the revolver, an
there he found H.
ARGUMENTS AT SToHT.
william ]. Bremen, Esq, IN the evenin
epened for the Commonwealth. He outline
the case. reviewed certain discrepancies IN th
evidenee and made clear 20 tho jury son
polnts In the testimony which seemed obseuf
Andrew Robertson followed for the defens
He argued in the line Of an accidental shootln
ana asked that due mercy should be shown b
James K Wallace followed in the same lin.
making mastery review OF the entife e'