The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-05-20

he purpose Of finding ont the connee
ion of DR.. Baird with il?
Al sent it there 10 discover VII,
wrote il and nv TINT means to find oil
/ Sho was the author Of it.
Q.--IIad DIR. Baird anything TO d
| Nth your sending it to Washington?
A..Not any more than il had sus
pected anyone else OF it.
Odd you write, a letter to Wash
ington?
Al did.
Q-Did you shy you suspected DR.,
Baird?
AL did not.
Odd you say he had inspired thu
Al don't think did; was very
much excited at the time and sent ii
10 headquarters, which thought was
he proper place.
Here there was o long wrangle as T.
whether Dr. Garrison had sent the letter
o connect DR.. Baird with it or not.
Q.-Didn't you expect that the result
II the investigation would confirm yonl
opinions?
Any expectations were that he
vas too smart u man to be caught in
hat kind OF a thing.
Q.-Why did you do an idle thing
,hen?
Al wanted to MAKE the effort; |
had no idea what the result would be,
Q.-You said you'd make the effort
10 do what?
Al wanted to fasten the guilt upon
The person who wrote it.
Q.-You thought DIR. Baird was the
person who inspired the letter?
Al thought SO then and think SO
o.-You thought then and think now
that DR.. Baird wrote that letter?
Al did.
Q.-Youoknew it was a violation OF
the United States statutes.
| A.-Yes; found it out.
Q.-Why didn't You go before a
United States Commissioner and make
complaint?
Al thought he had disguised his
handwriting and his composition. The
letter started out in one person and
changed to another, and he did other
things to hide his identity. ! had no
evidence that could be presented to u
Commissioner.
Q.-You say you avoided DIR. Baird?
Al did.
Q.-You know DR.. Baird's horse, do
you not?
Al have good cause to know it.
| I've been on the lookout for it nearly Il
wear, to avoid.it and DR.. Baird.
/. Q.-Didn't you come down and go
| into tbo rostnfIirn knowing that Dir
Baird was in there?
Al remember ] once went into the
postofFicc, at the south door, and saw
| Dr. Baird making faces at me, and ]
called to another man who was near.
and run down off the steps to avoid
him.
Q.-Didn't you como right in the up
per door OF the Postotiice and knowing
DIR. Baird was there?
A.-No, sir; not when knew he was
there. 3
Q.~weren't you there when DR..
Baird and his buggy were there?
Al was never that close to him.
Witness qualified the statement by
telling of once when he and Gen1.
| Alfred Caldwell. relative OF DR.. Baird,
were going to VIM. Shutters store and
Mr.. Caldwell ran away because he was
afraid to see DR.. Garrison and Dr. Baird
meet.
Q.-Didi't you go into the post Office
when. YOU knew DR.. Baird was in there
and when his buggy was standing out
side.
Al did not SEQ his buggy and didn't
know he was in there.
Q.-Didn't you pass him in the door?
A.-No, sir; l could not have passed
1 him in the door; he never gave me q
chance to pass him that close without
an assault.
Didn't you know that DR.. Baird
was in the habit of calling people these
names and saying these things to people
without any hostility whatever? Didn't
he use such language to any one he had
\ grievance against?
A.-He never threatened to kill any
one.
Q,-Neyer heard him use that Ian
guage?
Awe heard him use that kind OF
language, butt never heard him adj
dressit to anyone but me.
Q.-You've heard him call other peo-
pie that?
Al never heard him address it to
anyone.
Q.-You've heard him use it?
A.-Yes; I've heard him speak of peo-
pie so.
to be in the habit of using that Ian
guage?
Objection sustained.
Q.-Going back to this letter: didn't
YOU on january 10 say to Mr.. Beans in
SO many words that you were fixed for
\ DR.. Baird, or:would fix him or would
kill him?
Al made those remarks in ageneral
way. can not say what | did say, but
I did not say any Of those three.
Q.-Can you say what you did say?
Al can say in general way what
| l did say; said he had threatened me
and that was prepared to defend my
self.
Odd you use the words personal
violenCe2
Al may not have said those words;
I may have said assault me or some
thing OF that sort.
There was then long examination as
to what DR.. Garrison had said to Mr..
Beans at the time of the interview. DR..
Garrison he had not and would not un-
dertake to give the exact language Of the
interview, but that he had not used any
OF tho three remarks attributed to him
BIZ Mr.. Beans.
The conversation between DR.. Garri-
son and Captain Travis was then
brought up. DR.. Garrison said that Cap
tain Travis had spoken to him in the