The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-05-13
ANOTHER WITNESS.


John Armstrong was called. Heliyes
on Nineteenth street; has lived here
fifty years; knew DR.. Baird knows
Garrison; knew him four years remem-
beled the day OF DR.. Baird's death; was
on Eleventh street that day, at l0:4O a
m. he heard the pistol shots; heard two
shots.
Mr.. Armstrong took. the photograph
and marked the place he occupied on the
street. He was standing about the mid
die OF Eleventh street at Market street,
near Kalbitzsr's store, about 80 feet from
the crossing at DusGh & Gauss saloon.
He did not see the frat shot fred, but
looked and saw the second shot fired,
and saw the man coming down the street
with the pistol in his hand.
"When be came down quarterinR to
where ! was he stepped out into the
street. | saw Il was DR.. Garrison. l
asked him who was doing the shooting
and be said be had done 1t. asked
him il he was shooting at a dog and he
said hO had shot at DIR. Baird. said,
you didn't shoot DR.. Baird, did you :
and he said that the doctor had called
him a Niger r--- every time
he met him, and that he had stood 1t as
long as he could, and had told DR.. Baird
10 take it back and he wouldn't do 1t,
aud he shot him. He still had the pistol
in bis haad and a crowd was collecting,
and told him he'd better pqt 1t 10 he
pocket and go on. He put iE in his
pocket and went on down street.
Mr., Armstrong then detailed visit to
Pagers store where he saw DR.. Baird
and was sent after doctor.
He was then turned over to the de.
fense foT cross examination. He said
he was alone when Or. Garrison said
these things to him and that no one else
heard 1t. He attempted to describe the
location OF Dr.. Garrison az the time the
shots were fred, but was not sure 1t was
DR.. Garrison till he got down to him.
His statements on cross examination
were unimpoftaDt except lust q, W.
Kreiter had come up while they were
talking, and that he had heard the conver.
sation. Mr.. Kreiter asked DR.. Garrison
II he had hit DR.. Baird, and DR.. Garrison
said he did not know. He said that all
the statement Dr.. garrison made was
voluntary and was not ELECTED by any
questions asked. While Dr.. Garrison
vss talking to him, he stopped and
turned SID looked up towards Main
street. lie stayed possibly tYQ oE three
minutes talking. DR.. Garrison put the
pistol into his right hand. .oyercoat pock.
al and went on down street,
Mr., Armstrong said DR.. Garrison said
the reason no had ahot DR.. Baird was be.
cause Df. Baird had called him > niggeT
every time they met aud
that Dr.. Baird had called him that name
that morning and ho bad told him 10
take It back and he had refused, and he
had told him he had better take it back
and be had said he didn't have 10 take
It back and he had shot him. He also
said Or. Garrison had told Mr.. Kreiter
that he did not Slow whether he had
hit Dr.. Baird or not.
Colonel ATnett asked Mr.. Armstrong
10 whom he had told the story OF the oc-
rcrrence, and when. He replied that
be had told &r. bolt the day it happen.
ed. He said ne had 'neyeS men.
toned the matter 10 anyone
connected with this case, to nc
0na bGt Mr.. Holt. Since the grand Jury
met w told biz sop.ip.lRw, Mr.. Kennon,
He was summoned before the grand
jury and talked 10 Mr.. Howard about Il
then, mis- desire being 10 know why he
was summoned before the grand jury.
Colonel krnett closed and Mr.. How
ard asked what time OF Day the shooting
occurred. He said It was twenty min
utes Of eleven. The reason he knew Il
Mrs. Husselton came up and asked hin
the time, and 1t was twenty minutes o
eleven, Sud aitsrtaEing fey steps thu
Phots were fred, 7
Mr.. Armstrong was allowed to leayl
the stand, the defense reserving th,
right 10 call him for further examination
AN BYE WITNESS.
Leonard eerkItster lives in MarshGl
county, has known Dr.. Baird som
yeSn. He was in q barber shop Of
Eleventh street March ! In themorulDg
went to Main street; met Dr.. GRrrisO
St the corner; he was on the south cid
ol Eleventh street going to Main street
was on the Sidewalk; he first saw D.
Baird near busch & Gauss sslcpn, driI
ing In a buggy, nearest the north side {
the street; he called out, "Hello, Dal
. how goes It." "He always called m
} Dan"
. At the corner OF the alley on Elevent
street a man was standing when D
! Baird came upi be Is the prisoner