Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-21
AFTERNOON SESSION.
DIR, Garrison's Cross Examination Re
sumed

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sumed
There were a number Of ladies pres
ent in the audience when Court recon
vened, and during the afternoon the
crowd was the largest of any yet in the
Court House. The ross-examination
was resumed:
Q.-Now, l ask you who told you that
your only escape was to leave town
that DR.. Baird would kill you? 4Who
told you that? A.-From what DR..
Myers told me-the effect and substance
of it was that DR.. Baird would never
let up on you till he drives you out of
town." other people have told me that
too.
Q.-When YOU fired the second shot,
what did you do? A.-The two shots
were fired as quick together, as close as
| could. and / went down the street, and
as l turned to step off the pavement
looked and he was going in the door,
and went on down to where Mr.. Dun
levy and Mr.. Kryter were-at the cor
ner by the grocery. / did not stop till
| went on down there; | don't know
John Holt.
Q.-Do you know Mr.. r. S. Taylor,
who is summoned here as witness in
your behalf? Al do not.
Q.-Do you know Mr.. Montgomery?
Al saw gentleman who | was told
was Mr. Montgomery do not know
him.
r. S. Taylor brought in.
O.-Do you know that gentleman?
Al never saw him before, that l
know Of.
Mr.. Taylor summoned for the State.
Odd you see X. S. Taylor and Mr..
Holt and Mr.. Montgomery standing
there as you came down? A.-By the
time | got down that far | saw several
people coming up that way and among
them was this gentleman, whom | have
learned since was Mr.. Holt. He asked
me who did the shooting.
O.-Didn't he put his hand out to you
on your breast? A.-No man put his
hand on ne, Captain.
O.-And didn't you brush him aside,
and go on out and meet Mr.. Armstrong
there? Al dld not see John Arm
strong there.
O.-Didn't he come up at time when
neither Mr.. Kryter nor oMr. Dunlevy
was there, and use the expression You
have heard Mr.. Armstrong use on the
stand? A.-No, sir; l did not see him;
| saw Mr.. Dunlevy on the crossing, and
| went straight to him, and Mr.. Kryter
came out to us.
Q.-The only thing which took place
n
crossing Al never stopped till |
got there-I only nodded to Mr.. Holt ;
what other people said then | paid no
attention to.
O.-Within ten feet Of the crossing,
at busch & Gaus' saloon, did you not
say you Lad, shot DR.. Baird, and that it
was because he had called you -?
A.-No; l had no conversation at any
other place, except with Mr.. Dunlevy;
I not only did not speak to Mr.. Arm
strong, but l never saw Mr.. Armstrong
until he came here.
O.-When you got down to that cross
ing-l want to ask you that after you
got off as the corner of Eleventh and
Main. and got off and walked down past
that ring, and DR.. Baird hadn't got
there yet? A.-Captain, l have told
you that so many
o. know you have told me your
wav: now | want to ask you? Al
didn't know where the ring was: | saw
it the day the view was taken; when
came down DIR. Baird was standing as
have said: | did not see him except as |
have stated; did not speak to him first,
nor did he lean out and reply TO me;
| did not meet the girl Minnie Marshal,
AS / turned TO 60 back after DR.. Baird;
| never saw her till saw her here; after
I turned TO 90 down the street, / saw no
one until saw people generally coming
out of the Market house: | may
have passed people, but l did not
notice: John Holt was the
first man saw; saw several other per:
sons standing about there, but did not
tell them; Mr.. Holt was near that
corner: did not see Mr.. Holt put his
hand out was going generally, from
the point where stepped off the pave
ment, to Mr.. Dunlevy; l don't remem-
Der to have seen Burkhardt's team: /
looked back-I didn't stop: didn't put
up my pistol until Mr.. Dunlevy or Mr..
Kryter told me; was excited, and had
it in my hand, and left 1t there until
they told me TO put it in my pocket.
Off you was so excited that you
couldn't tell that you had the pistol in
your hand, could you tell that you
didn't meet John Armstrong? A
Don't you understand me to say / didn't
know | had the pistol in my hand; |
Just had it there.
Q.-You have spoken of threats that
DR.. Baird made? Did you make any
complaint TO any magistrate to have Dr.
Baird bound over or restrained? Al
did not, because l knew that would
only incense him, and make him carry