The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-05-12

Q ance he would meet and once in a Will
3 raised bis bat to some lady VIII
{ spoke to him. Arriving at the scene
: the crowd became jam and tn
{ half dszen police officers detailed fo
daty at that point had their hands 1
, little more than full keeping them back
Hundreds OF curious persons made ex'
. cuses to pass up Eleventh street to get {
! look st the prisoner, and the ladies WerC
. particularly anxious 10 see the mar
charged with murder. About half an
hour was spent looking about Prager'E
store, the Market alley. at the ring in
TIE curl, Join Waltou's window, the
house where DR.. Baird's patient was
copfiued, and other things that might be
alluded to by witnesses. After the
Judge was assured that the ground had
been thoroughly covered, the procession
reformed as before aud marched back to
the court room.
The crowd of spectators that returned
was not nearly SO large as that which
vent to the scene, but the lobby was
well filled.
THE FIRST WITNESS.
There being nothing in the way the
examination Of the States witnesses was
begun.
DR.. L. D. Wilson was placed upon the
stand. He answered the usual questions,
showing that Dr.. Baird had been one
Of his acquRintances during life, thst be
knew Of his death, that he died Ia Ohio
county, on Eleventh street in Wheeling,
that his death was caused by two gun
shot wounds, one Of which shots struck
him In the breast, passed through the
breast bone, cut the left common carotid
artery, passed through the top Of the
left lung and striking the shoulder
blade, detected little and was found
near the point OF the shoulder. The
other ball entered almost at the ear hole
on the right side, passed Immediately
through the head and came out Of the
left eye, cutting both lids. From the
direction OF the wound in the breast,
Dr.. Wilson thought If the person firing
the ball held the pistol In his right hand,
the person shot would etand three
f0urths facing him. At the time Of the
second shot the person shot would have
his hlck turned three-fourtbs. DR..
Baird's organs were all In q healthy
state. His death was from hemorrhnge
from the first shot. He then desCribed
the artery cut as the main artery going
10 the head. The blood ran into the
chest cavity from the hemorrhage.
The other gun shot wound might have
caused death but not 80 soon as the
other. 1t would not take more than
ten minutes for death to ensue from the
first shot. The wound in the head did
not break any Of the vital structures.
Q-"Was there anything from either
ahot to impair the physical sensea?"
A.-"Ths one in the head would have
discontinued the sight and might have
destroyed other senses from the shock"
Q-"Was the first shot necessarily
latil2"
Att was" The pistol with which
the shooting was done was called Ter.
DR.. Wilson saw DR.. Baird few min.
utes after he died, lying on a small table |
in the rear end Of Pra2eps store. He
had on his ordinary everyday clothing.
~ did not notice the number OF coats.
They were open."
At this point the pistol was produced |
and Or. Wilson produced the ball he
took from the shoulder OF DR.. Baird and
trying it in the pistol, said 1t was the sizs
and that pistol might have produced the
wound. It's number, $3.50 Smith &
Wesson, was taken by the stenogrspher
and the ball and pistol were offered in
evidence.
DR.. Wilson was taken in hand by Col. |
Arnett and answered the questions 10
the same elect as when Questioned by |
Howard. 4 careful examination Of
the body was made about 4 4p. m. at DR..
Baird's home.
He described the position Of DIR, Baird
TO his assailant as q threequarter front
view at the first shot, and a three.
quarter rear view at the time Of the sec.
ond shot, Col. Arnest having questioned |
him closely ss 10 their relative positions.
de thought the mental faculties would
be preserved, after the frat shot, until
the heart became too feeble to supply !
blood to the brain. The time would de.
pend upon the blood vessel being i'm
peded in its aow, and one might have
iull faoulties from FIVE to ten minqtea.
As 10 the shock that two such shots
would create, no stated that the effect ol
the second shot would be largely lost in |
the shock from the first. They would |
be nearly as one shot.
ANOTHER WITNESS.
Sheriff steenrod was placed upon the
stand, He remepbered the day Dr. |
laiId Tag Killed, but not the date. He |
met Or. Garrison at fourteenth and
Ohapline streets. He passed hin, and
DR.. Garrison said he was coming down !
10 give himself up 10 him. II walked
back down to Fifteenth street and up to
the jail with him. l asked an officer,
Jack West, who was with him when I
met him, Il hp had the piatol ald DR. |
garrison' said he had It. In the jail he
took 1t from his right hand overcoat
pocket. II has been in my posseBaion |
siuOe. There were two empty SHELLS In |
1t. 1t Ia Ia the same condition now as
then. There are two empty shells and
three loaded" The sheriff did not know
the kind Of a pistol II was, aud could not
see the name. Here half a dozen attof.
peys, sheriAs and others tried TO UNLOAD |
i and failed till Capt. Doyencr came to
the rescue.
A, K. Thompson, employed at Par.
sonsls photograph gallery, was sworn
and identified the photographs he had
taken for the State Of the scene Of the
tragedy. The first picture was taken
from asecond.s!ory window on the south
side Of Eleventh street and shoys tho
north side o! thai street. fha picture
was put in evidence. Two other pic.
thrts, taken from Main and Market
streets respectively, were identified and
placed in evidence.
oou1 adjourned till a:S9thsmornlng.
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK.