Telegram-herald., 1890-10-09
WI. EACAN'S AGONY
The Terrible RsmoFse showu by
His Appearances Yesterday.
TIE EIiHnlII0s IS GOSTnTm
The AttssasF for tks Dsfsass. Jaa<s
hasth~~sss. s4hI-ets Al tAs Wit
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tlsa - Ihs has 20 D@feass.

tns forehead are sad ~ Do causc1 q
mach thinking. Those which run hori-
z0ntally are sald 10 be caused by trouble
and anxiety. fhe forehead Of William
kagans as he sat u tAe court room yes
teFday. was corrugated With many deep
furrossr1nnlug har.zontaily from tenn
PIE % temple. The whole face Is
p.nched vita that .ook OF torture which
Is seen most frequeally ia those suffer
ing great pAys.eai pain. AL during the
examination he sat Ike one dazed with
anguish. lie scarcely moved a muscle.
beyond the drawing into stronger ten
son some OF the facial muscles, as some
OK the most horrible scenes OF the muir
der we're touched upon by the witness
aud hls own sweetheart, Minnie Dyer.
EAgan and his monther met IN one
short agonizing embrace, after the ad-
lOunment OF the court, bat not word
passed between taem. A reyerent still
ness came over tne audience upon the
nrst 0utburst OF tae mothers sObs, and
whllemotherRnd oa wept convulsvely,
All spectators were moved WITH deepest
emotion.
The hrss feature of the examination
was the read ~ aua signing OF the testi-
mony taken on the 2d INST, after which
Minnie Dyer was crOss-examlncd bv
Judge Mathsws0u. The substance OF
her testimony was as follows.
81 was born n Ireland and came 20
this country about four years ago. My
parents still 1--we IN Ireland. Now live
az Mr.. Collnc'. Al Terrace-ave. have
earned my Own living since | came
here. became acquainted with
OCOnnOr when | first came 10 this
country, and have known Esgan for
about four months. ! first met HIM when
he called AZ my aunt's, Mrs. Reynolds.
i saw him the second time there also.
Since then l have known him quite
well. lie has been waiting on me
short time, about four months. The
first place | ever went with him-I can
not say where. lie mas been in the
habit OF coming every week or 80 10 see
me At the place where / worked. |
don't know whether be went with other
girls. lie invited me 10 the party at
Giblln's on Friday night.
Before we got to GlblIn's, nothing
was said about OConnor, and We never
had anv talks about HIM" After
naming Mary Rogers as one among the
ladies' present at the dance, the witness
sald that Mary Rogers IS woman
grown. They had beer ut the dance,
but no whisky. The beer was passed
around. and everybody drank some.
/ don't know how much either Eagan
or OConuor drank. The beer lasted
during the whole party. ! did not hear
Eagan say he was mad at O'COnnor.
The reason | danced first with O'Con-
nor was that ne first asked me, and OF
course | assented. Eagan never found
any fault with me for IT,"
Here followed a repetition of the
story of going out To see the body of
O'COnnor. when | put my hand on
his cheek, Eagan asked me If ne was
dead | don't know that Eagan knew
ne was dead. All that made me think
he was dead was that his face was cold.
Eagan said, when | SAID ne was dead,
My Cod and I've killed him, didn't
mean 10 do it. When we took the
walk from the house 20 see the body,
there Was no talk about any trouble.
But after NC saw the body, Eagan said
there had been trouble, an which O'Con-
nor had called him liar and struck
him. Then Eagan said he struck him
back, but bad no Intention of harming
him. | cant say whether that was the
time Re said, Minnie. guess this is the
last time we viii walk together Ny
best recollection about Il so fails me
that | can not say positively, but I
think it was. / WAS 50 excited that |
can not remember how these cOuyCrsa-
tons occurred.
sarah Giblin, the sister Of Michael
Gibln, William Billings, Dennis Scan
mann. Michael 0Hbln and John Slater,
al Of them being persons who were
present az the dance, were sworn, one
after another. Except In the matter Of
Michael tiblin's testimony, nothing
new or peculiar WAS brought out. There
were a certain few particular questions
put by the dcfeuse toeyery one OF these
witnesses one OF these persistent
questions was lu that part OF the his
tory of the affair relating 90 the drink-
ing OF beer ou the night Of the party.
The one Invariable question WAS, ''DO
yOu know of any one person who
drank no beer there that night2' Not
awimess was found who could say yes
70 this. Vet e did bot appear clear a.
the observers wlv this question was
asked. one with S. said that he had
deserved Eagan drinking twice
from the water pail, AID he
asked hlm why be drank water when
there was plenty ot beer Eagsn's re-
ply was not given. All testified that
there had been no gu % difficulty that
night between Esgan and oConn0r.
Michael Glbln testified that when
O'Conuor started home To get his flute.
he asked him # be would return. and
ne repbcd. "I vii If I don't die in =
hurry" When asked what he under
stood OsConuor TO mean by these words,
he replied that it was taken ss nothing
more than a common saying among
some people.
Drs. psnwarden and Locher we're
sworn and both described the sppear-
suCe Of TIE body. The body. when
found was lviug on the left SIDE, and
the wound that Dr. Pe1wsrden sad
caused death vas On ths left SIDE IT the
head. All the wounds nn the ght side
right pave ceen made with the fist
A. che Witnesses test fed that the
ground was stony where the hodv as.
ard the evident desire of the de-
Tense = % snow that the death wound
rss caused by tee fa3 upon the stones.
and not bv any blow infected hv Eaean.
At the request Of Judge Mstthsws0n.
A. adjourn neut of one week vas taken
for THE reading of the testimony on she
18th, sfter which Is = tacitlv Stimulated
that another week g al iourruert WI
O. tssen ~ Accommodate Judge Nat
thcwson.