Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-20
THE DEFENDANT
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Q.-What was your expectation?
Al only knew l sent it there; was
under great excitement.
OIL want to know what was your ex-
pectation? objection to the repetitionl
Q.-I believe you said you thought
You'd made the effort-to do what?
A.-To find the author OF that letter,
with view to fixing the guilt of the
author.
Q.-You thought it was DR.. Baird?
Al can give you my reasons.
Q.-I don't want your reasons. You
thought Dr. Baird wrote it? Al
thought so then, and | think so now.
Q.-And you wrote there to confirm
that? Al expected to find he was
too sharp to be caught.
O. Repeated. Am l right? A
You certainly are.
doctor, understand you to say
you thought then aud you think now he
wrote that letter? A.-YeS.
Q.-And you knew it was a violation
of the statutes of the United States?
Al didn't know just what the law
was till afterwards.
Q.-You did know afterwards? A
Yes.
Q-Then, why didn't you make in
formation before the United States
Commissioner? Al know Dr. Baird
didn't pen the letter, but l know his
style and know he changed his style
put in broken sentences. He started
out 20 say -" aud then changed it to
I'VE" aud | know the language in the
letter is not used by any other human
except DR.. Baird.
O.-YOu had the will to see DR.. Baird
punished for writing letter of that
kind-for writing it, or causing it 10 be
written-and be sent? Aft l had, l
would have had him arrested.
Odd you have the will? A.-No,
l had not, Captain.
OFF not, why send it away? Alt
was my duty to send it away. l sent it
to Washington for the purpose which
has been stated many times.
Didn't you go TO the pOStoflice at
the same time as DR.. Baird? You know
DR.. Baird'S horse and buggy? Ayes.
Q.-AS well rs DIR. Baird? Ayes,
and better. had good cause 10 remem-
Der them and look out for them. al
ways avoided it when / could.
Wasn't it standing in front of the
postotlice, at the gas post, and you
walked down on the left hand side and
went in, and when you went in Dr.
Baird was there? A.-Where?
Q.-AnSwer my question Al
have in my mind a time when | went in
on the lower side and out of the upper
door and ! saw him standing there
making faces at me, and | thought he
would attack me then, and | called TO
some one outside and ran down the
steps to avoid him.
Q-WhO was that person you called
10. A l don't know; | went in the
south door.
On the Sixteenth street side? A.
No; l went up the steps.
O-YOu know where that gas post |
mean Is: it's right by the upper swing
ing door? A-YeS.
O.-NOw, on chat day didn't you walk
down Market street.-the buggy was
empty, and Dr. Baird was inside-and
90 past Or. Baird right in the dOOr-yOu
90 i'm one door and he was coming out
of the other? A.-No, Captain; l was
never that close TO him but on the eth OF
March: yes; there was once; l was with
/ a man on South EOtf street and the man
with me ran away.
/ O.-Who was that man? A.-Gen-
oral Alfred Caldwell.
Q.-Where was that? Alt Twenty
sixth and Eoif street.
Q.-And General Caldwell ran away?
A-Yes, / suppose he wanted to avoid
trouble. We were going to Skaters,
and he ran off. and | went in Skaters,
and then Mr. Caldwell came in and said
that was Dr. Baird and he didn't want
him to see him, and that made ne more
afraid than ever.
Q-Now, how did you get off to South
Eotf street from the pOstOifice? Didn't
YOU meet him there and go in, and DR..
Baird said something, and you went in
and asked Metcalf If he hadn't heard
that? A.-BUt didn't see the Doctors
buggy there.
Here the defense raised an objection
10 Captain Dovener pointing at DR.. Gar
rison, and there was little racket over
/ it.
Q-Well, you say you did not enter
/ the building with d full knowledge that
DR.. Baird was present and that his
buggy was empty, or that you expected
TO find DR.. Baird inside? Al say
did not.
O.-DO you remember that occasion?
/ Aft it was the occasion l speak Of
Q.-DO you remember the occasion
when Metcalf did that? Motioning
with finger Al remember | was
telephoned Tor; when | went home my
wife told me, and went down.
Q.-How close did you pass to DR..
/ Bard? A.-Some distance; went in
and he was standing off some distance;
/ never passed him in the door; he
would never have let ne pass him in the
door; he'd never let me approach like
that before?
Q.-When did he prevent you? A
There'at the City Building.
Q.-And then you held him up and
battered his face up, didn't YOU? A
40; he struck at me, and it spent its
force on my breast.
Q-And you hit him several times in
the face? A.-NO.
Q.-Two or three times? Al hi
him.
Q.-And then you held him with your
left arm and beat him, and you knew
he would not try to let you pass? A
He wouldn't have let me pass there
he had threatened me.
Q.-You have known him to use that
same language, have you not? A