Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-20
CAPTAIN COOPER'S STORY.

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surrender yourself as soon as you came
Pittsburg? You're under indictment fo
riot and murder, are you not?"
The witness didn't have to answer, fo
Judge Kenneny took Mr. Burleigh's vie'
that such questions were neither cross-e1
animation nor common sense. Proceedin
under cross-e1amination the witness said
81 am not under arrest now" and then re
verting back to the journey of the Pinkcl
tons to Pittsburg in July last related ho'
he commanded the New York and Phila
delphia divisions, Captain Norton the Chi
cago division, with Captain Hinde in gen
eral command
Mr.. Bremen then asked: isn't it
Ruba Nst for years YOU have been Hey
aNo 81, "a circus?"
asa Pinksrton I was with Barnum's circu
There was a o, tive for nine years"
this question, and udge VI
to be Informed what ''Hey! L. y, -
be. 1t was explained that it Is s
applied to a circus employe who as.um-
the garb and air of q countryman in order
to protect yokels and hayseeds from the
bunko men infesting circus The witness
went on with his description of the make
up of the Pinkerton brigade.
Only Ten Regulars in the Party. .
There were only ten regular Pinkerton
men among the 300 brought to Homestead
1here were two boxes of guns each con-
tanning 30 to IS Winchesters, on the boat
AS to the fray itself, he was cross examined
as follows:
les; SIX or seven shots hit the boat.
One of the bolts from it hit me. l was laid
up eight or ten days from the wound.
2 DID the bolt from the cannon hit Won
on the cheek? A. No; it glanced Off NV
knee 1t was a round bolt 1t was about ID
O'Clock. Tore hole in the bow of the boat
=. Was there no firing after l:3O or Q
O'Clock? A. was mistaken Yesterday |
There was shooting occasionally after that
1880 didn't see him shot,
U Dla You nave plenty of ammunition
a No, but the Winchesters of some of the
10 men were still fairly well loaded
z. How long was il from the time Connors
was snot TIL he received medical assistance?
A light hours afterward. medicsi
force, dressed Connor's wound, The esSF ,rton
was not a member Of the PinkertopS STUDENT
q. Did you order Pinkerto,,.
tn you gave command? A v as not to fire
not TO fire. The bsrges we les, 1 told the
before the ganT .te at the bank ter
ap plank was put out
len on the bank wher
nut 100 came after. II
could see plainly.
cred by a Voney.
10 order to fire did the
There was a moments
tand second volley.
Dr the econd volley.
s they pleased aftel
people on the bank
event the men from
vorksP A. No; / haC
he order? A. Mr.. Potter
said we were not to at
hey fetched the Sheriff
were on the Little Bill
re command OF Pinkertou
syou go away? A. Somebody
otter told me to stay till Ii,
1 the Sheriff and not to &c
ou in Pittsburg prior to 1892
y Commonwealth as not cross
many times have you been in
rleizh-I want to know If thai
is put in good faith: If It is to ps
d up all right.
udge Kennedy ruled the question out.
q. You Del0G IN command selected tht
men to fire at the men on shore: A. Yes
placed them where they could command tn,
Dank-where they could fire through holes
cut in the boat l had the holes cut an houl
after the first battle, about $50 or A M
My orders to my men were to shoot anyone
who fired on the boat. Not to fire till they
saw a man shoot, then hit him If they could
The First Cannon Shot.
Q. When was the cannon first fredf A
The first shot hit the boat at IL o'clock L,
was fired from the Homestead side. After
wards shots came from a cannon on the
Braddock side.
Q. Weren't the first cannon shots fired
from the Braddock, or Pittsburg side? A.
No, sir.
Redirect examination-Q. The man who
threw himself with a pistol over the gang.
plank and shot was not the first to fire on
YOU? A We were fired on from the bank
The men on the bank began to fire soon
as the man the gangplank fired. We
had not fired at ALL
@. How close was Hinde to the man on the
gang plank when he was shot7 A. About IL
or L feet. Hinde was not the only man shot
then; two or three more. NO order to shoot
had been given from our boat. Three men
or the boat were shot before any order was
given to return the fire. was hit with q
stone at shat time.
lett that You cut port holes? A. Before the
Little Bill lett and we had been ordered not
TO land. One of the port holes was aban.
shot through it. just after had looked
ont of this hole bullet came through and
lodged in post from which l afterwards
dug 1t out.
O Were the orders not to fire given before
or q fter landing? A Before.
Q. What time did shooting begin from be-
hind the breastworks? A. About $50 or
O'Clock.
Adjective With Barnum's Circus.
@. In what capacity were you with Bar.
num'sP A, AS detective, and Connors was
emDloved on race track as watchman
employed by Pfnkerton-
Re-cross-examined. Q. Nobody had been
hurt on the boat till the man VINO threw
himself down on his back on the gang plank7
A Nobody. / was little behind Hinde. 1
saw Kline hit on the torehead.
Q. only flesh woundY A. Well, he died.
and / taTued and saw Kline TALL. Then /
gave the order TO IRE.
o. A, to the bullet which you dug out of
a most Won say it came from the pun phouseP
A. Yes That's where most of the shots
came from.
The witness then left the stand.
w II. Burt, of the Pinkerton force, tes-
tilted: al live in Chicago. Have lived
there IL years. used TO go to school with
Mr.. d. E. Patterson when he taught school
in PittsburS."
MIR Bremen wanted TO know whether
this was considered recommendation and,
amid much laughter, the Court ruled that
the testimony might be accepted in the
nature of an excuse.
Mr.. Burt continued: "Shots were fired
ct the boats before we cams -hreast of the
rr7l.