The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-05-15

A.-Turned half round.
Q-How did he turn; to the right ol
LEFT?
Q-Was Dr.. Baird facing Market
street at any time?
A.-No, sir.
Q,-Was he at any time with his bacl
toward Main street2
Al did not see him with his bacl
TO Main street.
Q-You were before the coroner?
.A.-Yts, sir.
Q-Did you say DR.. Baird was looking
TO Main street because he got out OF tbs
buggy and walked toward Main street
A.-No. sir; didn't see him get ou
OF the buggy.
Q-You are the William Baldwin who
testified before the coroner?
Q-You knew DR.. Baird. How long
had you known him?
Ask months.
Q-How many shots were fred2
A.-Two.
Q.-Was there any doubt about II?
A.-That was all heard.
Odd you not say to Mr.. Howard at
the inquest that he fired two or three
shots?
Al said two.
Odd not say two or three?
A No, sir; / said two.
Odd you Bay he turned his head
anu not his body?
At this point Mr.. Howard objected
and said Col. Arnett was assuming to be
asking questions and using the language
used before the coroner when he was
not, and that he was making an effort to
entrap the witness into contradiction.
Col. Arnett disClaimed any such In
tenEon and went on at length to defend
bimBelf against the imputation. Hethen
stated to the witness aud the Court that
he now has no reference to the steno.
graphic report OF the Coroner's inquest.
He was asking concerning the statement
OF the witness while on the stand. The
reporter repeated the question and Mr..
Howard wanted to know II the Court
had ruled the question admissible. The
Court said it should go and the boy an
swsred mo, sir"
Q-Is it true that Dr. Baird turned his
body, or that he only turned his head ?
A.-He turned both.
Q-What did Dr.. Baird do when the
first shot was fired? was asked you at
the inquest, aud you said he turned his
body.
A TOR KNOT STORY. -...
Here Mr.. Howard objected again;
stating that Colonel Arnett had not
given all OF the answer that the boy had
G.ade bafore the coroner. There was
another long argument.
Mr.. Howard said: "Your Honor,
Colonel Arnett is like the preacher who
wanted q text to preach on against top.
kuots, a kind OF bonnet. lie hunted
through the scripture till he found let
those upon the house top not come
down. and he took for his text top not,
come down, and preached his sermon
on that. Colonel Arnett hunts for
pieces OF questions without cousidera.
ton for their meaning"
Colonel Arnett-The trouble with my
friend is that bis topknot has come
down. daughter.
Colonel Arnett continued the examin.
ton uninterrupted, eIicitipg very little
mora information as to what was said
before the coroner.
The boy said he had not noticed the
hoTna and buggy, nor did he Bee DR..
Garrison leave tho scepe. The boy said
Dr.. Baird was on the pavement all the
time till he went into Prager's atore.
Adam Butkhart said he worked for
the Reymann Brewing Company; he
was driving a delivery wagon for the
brewery on March Z; he remembered
when DR.. Baird was shot; he was stand
ing at tue hitching post at busch &
Gauss, In front OF the barber shop (the
small green post
He marked the photograph, showing
The location Of the post and himself.
lie was hiIGhing horse at the hitch
ing post preparatory to going to DusGh
& Gauss cellar after appty kegsI his
attention was attracted by the arst shot
a second shot was fred; he did not hear
o word spoken; between the two shots
DR.. Garrison was right across the alley
iroE. the witness, between the alley and
Main street, ABOUT six feet from the
alley; DR.. Baird was standing about ten
feet further on; when the witness first
saw DR.. Baird he was turning toward
Lain street; he did not SEQ DR.. Baird dc
anytbiugy DR.. Baird made no motion
with his hands; he had nothing in hiE
hands; witness described the way the
shot was fred. He said DR.. Garrison
drew uD the pistol, and holding 1t lev
eled s6out the time required to count
siE, tirol.
Colonel Arnett Groes.eESmined him,
Q.-You saw nothing that transpirCd
before the tirst shot was fired?
A.-No, sir.
WENT INTO THE CELLAR.
Q-You heard no words spoken?
QQ-SOu 'i did not see the frs. sho,
fred?
Q-How far, as near as you can tell
was DR.. Garrison from you at tho time
A.-About thilty.fve feet.
Q-You saw DR.. Garrison turn ant
leave2
Ayes, sir.
Q.-And you turned and went int
the cellar b!iore be reached yon2
Ayes, sir.
Eddie Briggs was examined: he kneV
DR.. Baird knew DR.. Garrison; remem
bered where Dr.. Baird was killed; h
was Just about to turn the corner c
Eleventh and Main streets; he was haI
on Main and half on Eleventh. he wa
at Lash's corner; he saw Dr.. Baird aite
the first shot was fired; the first shot a
tracted HE attention he turned when h
beard the first shot and immediatel
another shot was tired; DR.. Baird vi
facing Pagers door when the secon
shot was fred; DR.. Garrison was facin
Naip street; DR.. Baird was facing Pr
gers door when witness 6rst saw him
when the second shot wns fred D
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