The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-09
THE CORONER'S INQUEST.


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THE CORONER'S INQUEST.
The Testimony Rather nIeagre and Con
nIetinG-HearinEt to be Continued to-day.
Coroner schultze impaneled a JuEl
consisting Of Benjamin Bachman, GeorgC
Arkle, Stephen Wilcox, R. v. Merchant
Henry Henk, Henry O. Meyers, William
Purcell, G. G. Murdoch, Godfrey Win
zsireid, Joseph Green, Jacob straub ant
I, ]. Stone. After being sworn and for
mally viewing the body, the inquiry wa
adjourned TO Squire Arkle's office,
John Miller, OF Bridgeport, was swor1
i frat, He saw both the doctors, he said
lust before the shooting. DR.. Garrison
spoke to him at the corner OF Market and
Eleventh streets, Just then DR.. Baird
drove up and hitched his horse. DR.
Garrison said he was going to get into
trouble. He then had his revolver in
bis hand. Miller followed him up street
and heard him say to DR.. Baird: "You
take that back" He didn't Say what.
Dr.. Baird said: "You nigger6ed e o.
b-,I I don't have to take 1t back"
He had his horse hitched and walked
toward Garrison, and Garrison shot him.
After DR.. Garrison shot the second time
Baird said: "You g. OF abb you,
shot me-" After the shooting DR.. Gar.
rison said as he passed the witness, "1t's
done.n H.,
He said in substance: / was standing
| In the door OF my store. A colored boy
was III the window. l heard pistol
shot / Hooked acroas the street and saw
DR.. Baird. He was looking toward
Market street. l saw DR.. Garrison q
little further from me. / stood watch
| ing them to see where the firing was.
An at once I saw DR.. Garrison pull up
bis revolver and take aim at DR.. Baird.
l thought, perhaps, he had blank car
fridge, for DR.. Baird stood still, making
no effort to protect himself. DR.. Garfi.
son took deliberate aim and fired, and
DR., Baird stood still for an instant and
then ali at once he ran into the store.
They were about thirty-fve or forty feet
anart. DR.. Baird seemed to make no et-
f5rt TO get away. That surprised me,
and / thought he only had blank cart
ridge and wanted to scare the old fellow.
EYE WITNESSES.
VS.. McGrew, who was in Prsger's
store, said: 1heartl the shots; was in
side the store, and the door was closed.
DR.. Baird walked into the store, and a
lady tbefe asked him what was the mat
ter. he said DR.. Garrison had shot
him. went out, and he was standing
in the store, to the right OF the door as
Won 20 in. did not see DR.. Garrison,
nor aid not see the shots fred.
William Addlesberger was just across
the street from where the shooting oc.
CURED. He said DR.. Baird was about
ten feet from the paper store door, and
DR.. Garrison twelve or fifteen feet from
him. ~ was walking along when
heard the report Of a revolver. Hooked
across and saw DR.. Garrison holding |
revolver up. He said: Take that back.
Dr.. Baird made no reply, and DR.. Garri.
son shot again. DR.. Baird walked into
tho naper store. DR.. Garrison still had
ia revolver in his hand when l last
saw him."
Charles Phillips, q boy employed by
Prayer, said be was sitting in the back
part of the store when he heard two
shots. They were about ten seconds
apart. He hadn'tgot TO the door when
DR.. Baird came in. A lady in the store
went up to him and said: "ob, Doctor,
who did itP" He said: "Dr. Garrison
shot me-" DR.. Baird said he would go
10 the back part of the store where peo.
ple couldn't see him. He had nothing
In his bands; his gloves were on, and
he took them off. DR.. Baird did not
live over fifteen minutes. The lady got
some water and tried to wash of his
face. Then he got on the table. The
boy thought he lived aboutten minutes
after that.
WORDS PASSED AT THE ALLEY.
Leonard Gerkstettler was across the
street from Prager's when DR.. Baird
drove up. This witnesses evidence was
important. he said:
Dr.. Baird passed me at the market
house. He always calls me Ben, and
said, "Ben, how goes it?" / said, "All
right" There was a man at the alley.
DF. Baird stopped little there, and
then rode up and stopped to tic his
horse. Then the other man fired two
shots. The fellow said, Take that
back" and DR.. Baird said, "No, l don't
have to-" and the other man fired.
was right across the street, on the left
hand side, and they were on the right,
When he went to tie his horse the man
went up 10 him and said, "Take that
back" They were talking at first at the
O. When the second shot was fired
was DR.. Baird's face toward the man who |
shot him, or his back? A. His face was
toward him, and when the second shot
was fired he turned away from him
Juryman Merchant-Did you hear DR..
Baird call him a =-of a b? A.
u Juryman stone-Dld you say the first
time YOU noticed Dr. Garrison DR.. Baird |
was In his buggy and DR.. Garrison
stopped him2 A. When DR.. Baird got
to the alley DR.. Garrison stopped him.
Then DR.. Baird drove up little further
and stopped to tie his horse, and Garri' |
SON came up and said: "YOu take that
back"
O'Clock was going in the lower end OF
the market house and heard shot. l
walked up, and there was second shot,
and / saw DR.. Garrison drop his arm.
He came towards me with revolver in
his hand. saw a dog across the street,
and supposed he had shot at the dog.
said. 'How do yop do, Doctor He
only nodded. Some one said DR.. Baird
was shot, and went to the store door,
but couldn't get in. We took DR..
Baird's buggy and went after his son
George. When we got 10 Bookings We
met Dr. Garrison with a pistol in his
hand, ! met Officers Porter aud West,
told them, and they went up 10 CARR. |
son, They went on down, and met the
Sheriff at DR.. stifel's, When Garrison
shot lie dropped his revolver, looked
over his shoulder and came down to.
wards me.P
MR. PRAGRR's STORY.
Mr.. /. D. Prayer, proprietor of the pa