Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-05-17
work here nearly all the time; I'm car

O'Clock, | worked on the Island; l crossed
the bridge and came down Main street to
Eleventh. after / came on to Eleventh
street-after | had started across it-not
square acrossit, but quartering-l saw Dr..
Baird.
Odd you hear anybody speak to DR..
Baird. A.-Not until there was mani
got banana peel on my foot and stopped
to clean it off. and there was man stand
ing close TO him-or probably he might have
stepped foot or two.
Q.-What did he say A.-Hold on; take
that back, Doctor
Q-And what did he reply Ale
said II ion't have to for any such niger
fed - as YOU" and he muttered some
thing else / did not understand.
Q.-What did Dr. Baird do! Ale
He made very short step-there is ring
in the pavement, 1 think, probably for
water, and probably a low place in the
pavement-may be he was standing in it
and he made very short step.
Q-What else did he do! A He placed
one hand on his hip, but which hand
could not tell.
Odd you know DR. Garrison before
that! A.-No, not before that day.
Odd you know DR. Baird! Ayes;
got acquainted with him, | think, in 1869;
/
few days before.
Q.-What did you notice about the man
| in front of him. A-Dr. Garrison.
Q.-Yes! Al saw Dr. Garrison point
out his finger just that way.
Odd you see the shooting, and say, if
you know, where the pistol was gotten
from! A I don't know where the pistol
came from; the shooting came nearly right
after DR.. Baird said he didn't have TO take
| it back; it was the finger of Garrison's
right hand; didn't know where the pistol
was taken from; it might have been from
his overcoat pocket or his hip pocket;
after the shooting | went to my boarding
house and got my dinner, and then went to
the depot and went home.
To Doyener-I live on the hill back of
Cameron / have lived there four years;
went there from Round Bottom, Marshall
County; l lived there on Umphrey Nc
Lanes place; my name is James G. Baker
Q.-What house was you working at on
the Island! Al believe the house Schae-
fer now lives in; just east of the Bridge
port bridge; | was working for Imhoff; a
man named Pell was working with me; ]
quit a few minutes before ten;
| Pell quit at the same time and
went TO his boarding house on
the Island; l can't name no one who came
over the bridge with me; | took the . 30
train home; | came out Eleventh street TO
Chapline, down Chapline to the railroad
and out home-that is the way generally
go; | can't tell where | crossed Eleventh
street at Heyman's; probably struck the
south side of Eleventh street about the
second window from Heymans door,
can't tell you eXactly--it might have been
twenty-five or thirty feet from the corner
I can't tell exactly: man named Ed
1
! | boarded; / didn't see him at
the house; l saw his wife; l didn't
tell her or anyone in Wheeling what had
seen: | didn't want to be drawn up as a
witness: got to the depot between II and l
o'clock; | remained at the depot; told no
one at the depot or on the train going home;
| got off at Cameron: | saw several people,
but | can't tell who | met; | might tell the
names of everybody in Cameron, but don't
know that they were all there; saw Sam
uel Parrot, for one; none of them asked me
about it that day; the next day they did; |
recolect of 'Clel Nichols being there, and
Grant Reese, the assistant agent, and.sev
eral of the railroad hands-Mr Fry; got
off the train and went right on up the hill
home-it is a good half mile; told my wife
about the shooting, just as have told it
here: / didn't caution her not to tell
it, because didn't think Wheeling people
would find out about it way out there. The
next day told Sam Parrot, and Sam Wat
son and Squire Pipes, and Doc. Davis
don't recollect all who were there; we
were talking about the affair
A.-When you first saw DR.. Garrison
how far was he from DR.. Baird: A.-Be-
tween ten ana fifteen feet
Q.-What did he do-did he move from
the place where you saw him! Ale
might have stepped in the direction of DR..
Baird. DR.. Garrison stepped toward DIR.
Baird
Q-Now. I ask you again, didn't DR..
Garrison move a step or two from the
direction of Market street towards Dr.
Baird Ayes
Q.-What dia lie sayl Ale said
"Hold on Doc; take tnat back
Ole said "hold on Doc!n Ayes.
Q.-Where was his horsei Alt was
hitched by the pavement; he was by his
horses head; by the curbstone | think IL
was hitched by strap, tied to a ring. |
noticed that.
Q.-Now, don't you know it was not
hitched! Al don't know it; | think it
was; if it wasn't, there was a strap down
to the ring; l know there is ring there,
I've seen it every day; saw it yesterday;
don't know that | particularly noticed 1t
upon the 9TH day of March; Col. Arnett
first came to me about this case, week be- |
fore last, at my boarding house; it was
after night; don't know how he came to
see me, of my own knowledge, only what
he told me,
Q.-Where were you on Eleventh street
when anything first attracted your atten-
tion3 Al was nearly acrossthe street-noI
across, but pretty nearly across; L slipped
on the banana peel in the street. toward
the south side: nothing attracted my atten-
ton, but looked in that direction because
| wanted TO see Dr. Baird; l was walking
cat-a-c ornered across the street and
couldn't help seeing him; / had my head
turned in that direction; | saw the Doctor
before started across; | had not come
many steps around the corner till | saw
him, but did not go to him because there
was another man there in conversation.
Q.-What was there in that remark,
take that back, Doc which made you
hesitate to go over, A-Because l saw
there was trouble.
Q.-Wasn't 1t because he had revolver
in his hand! A-No. didn't see 1t.
Q-And you say you saw him have MS
finger up! Ayes.
Q-Wasn't it a revolveri A.-No, l
think not.
O.-Whv do YOU say you think not
A.EBecause it is possible it was pistol.
OWN you swear it was not pistol
A.-No.
Q.-Why nots A.-Because it is posi-
BILE I was mistaken, but if was pistol 1t
was very small one. | first saw Dr.
Garrison after | started across the street,
saw DR. Baird just as | came around
the corner; l was in the street wnen
heard DR.. Garrison make the remark; it
was lust after got the banaua-peel on my
foot: | did not go to see DR.. Braid because
from the time / saw DR.. Baird till saw
DR.. Garrison. could have made but three
or four steps, and three or four steps would
have taken me two-thirds of the distance
across the street; l didn't take those steps
in the direction of DR.. Baird, be-
cause hadn't quite, made up