Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-20
AFTERNOON SESSION.
A Large Audience Present-The Defendant
on the stand.
Recess.

Inc AFTERNOON StSSlOu OROhNN ''SAA e''
old-time audience present, all the avail
able space in the Court room being
filed. A number of ladies were present.
The proceedings opened by the State
calling Samuel Parrot, Robert Watson,
Doctor Davis, J. L. Booker and Thos.
Pipes. They were sworn and excluded.
Mr.. Jason Stamp then resumed the
stand. and said he would have to cor
rect his answer to the question: "Where
were YOU when the shooting took
place." and made a correction, inserting
the words: "a man stopped him there
and was talking some; l don't listen.'
The witness said he had not finished the
examination of the transcript; it would
take some further time. The steno-
grapher was told to make further ex-
animation, and he would be called
again, and the State said they would
not cross-examine until that time.
A delay here ensued, owing TO the
obsence of witnesses, and officers had to
be sent for them. The defense then
called "Dr. Geo. l. Garrison" and
THE DEFENDANT
took the stand amind suppressed ex-
element, extending throughout the
Court room.
BY Arnett-What is your name? A.
George Irwin Garrison.
O.-What is your age? Al will be
forty on the 9th day of October.
O.-Where were you born? AIN
West Liberty.
Q.-How long did you live there? A.
| lived there until 1878.
Q.-Where did you go to from there?
Al then went to Burton, Wetzel
county.
Q.-How long were you there? A
I was there from June, 1878, to Septem-
Der 18th or 18th, 1881.
Q.-And then you came to Wheeling?
A.-Then l came to Wheeling.
O.-And you have been here ever
since? Al have been here ever since.
Q.-Are you married or single? A
am married.
O.-You knew DR.. George Baird? A.
i did.
Doctor, wish you would tell me
if you had some difficulty with Dr.
Baird in the City Hall, last September:
Al did.
Q.-Tell us about it? An the
morning, little after o'clock, | came
down, and came up in the hall, and
went into the corridor opening into the
gas Office, and from which you go into
the Offices of the City Clerk and the Cit!
Receiver: | entered the door on the
right-both doors were open, and
kept to the north side, and as
went in l saw DR.. Baird, and as l went
in he said: "You d-n dirty negro
-" turned to him and said: "Doc
tor, you are an older man than | am
but you must not talk that way" anC
he said; You d-n --, it you talk t
me I'll kill you," and he struck at mt
in the breast. Then he threw out his
hand, and l caught his arm and struck
him, but l couldn't hit him hard be
cause too close TO the partition, and
had hit him twice when Officer Dekt
rushed in and said it must stop. Hi:
sons and Deku and Shellhase and Lash
ley were there, and they took him off
He said: Now, you Cd niger -
you accidently BACKED my eye, and I'm
going to kill you" He tried to come
to me, and got close to me, but l didn't
strike him; 1 simply put my foot ou
and pushed him away from me.
Q.-When did you go then? A
went into the front gas oflice-whert
they pay gas bills-and he left cursing
me and said. "You are sired by a
niger and damed by -, by Jesu:
Christ" and | went back to the private
office of the Gas Board, and was there
a0out ten minuteS-I don't know how
long it waS-I was there thinking abou'
it, when | heard a noise, and looked VI
and he was standing in the door, and he
said: "You id niger --, I'll xii
you yet; you know what TO expect, and
and his sons came in and took him out
He said: 81 simply came back to tel
the niger - what to expect"
Q.-What time was it? Alt was
little after nine o'clock. don't know
how long l was in there; after he came
back stayed longer: | went there tC
wait till he got away, and supposed h'
had gone away; | waited longer-ter
minutes or so, and then | went away.
Q.-When did you see him next? A
1t was probably two or three week:
when | first saw him after that, it wa:
at DR.. Hupp'S corner-near DR.. Hupp''
corner, on Eoff street, or just above
there; I was on my bicycle. He SHOOK
his head at me and said something, bur
couldn't say what it waS--I was toe
far away.
Q.-When did You meet him next:
Alt the REGISTER office; | wa:
coming out Of the REGISTER office, and
he passed and called NE dirty --.'
Q.-When did You meet him next:
Al met him on Sixteenth street, and
on Eoff street, and on Market street,
and on Main street, and on Fourteenth
street, and on McCulloch street, and on
the streets in the Sixth ward, and he
applied the same epithets to me.
Odd you reply to him? Al
never replied to him.
Q.-Do you remember being in d bug
gy on Sixteenth street? Al was in
the buggy with Mr.. Van Keuren, COM
ing down Sixteenth street, and DR..
Baird was coming up. He said: "YOu
d-n -" He tried to catch me
with the wheel of his buggy on Four
teenth street, once, and called me a
''nigger -." l was going up Mar
ket street once, at Eleventh street, on
the right hand side, and he tried to
catch me again, but be didn't say any
thing, He met me once on Main street,
within a square of my house, and APP