The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-04

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sitting down In the store tho moment
DR.. Baird was killed, aud i, s.tgysd i
S HAD SEEN NOTHING OFT. .slH.
When tho crowd cntby, sweitzer
said, he went out tho door to'-sce what
was tho matter. G.ia es7s.slg al (.
Mrs. Palmer said she had lived in
Wheeling nine years and had known
DR.. Garrison thirteen years. She 70.
lated that one timo when ,DraGarrison
had stopped In irontSof hsr5house, TO
ask her how his patient ono Of her fam.
lily, WINS getting along, DR.. Baird passed
and called DR.. Garrison niggerllcd s.,
OF n -, and drove on. l~."'if = hh
John Quigg was called to provo that
DR.. Baird had said something Gbout DR..
Garrison, but rs on tho OCCASION re-.
ferred TO DR.. Garrison Was on2a Street
car und DR.. Baird and tho witness wero
on the pavement, and DR.. Garrison
could not possibly have heard tho rc-
mark, tho witness was not required to
testify aud was excused.
Contractor d. r.; Brooks ,recollected
that on one occasional his house, while
hc WIS sick, Dr. Baird 4 notwithstanding
him. Mr.. Brooks suggested that y he
and DR.. Garrison tix up their difficulty,
and he replied: "No, III be d. ii
do. I'll fix the Niger So OF a.
yet" DIR. Garrison was not present.
The tnlk with DR.. Baird was Tho result
OF u conversation Mr.. Brooks had had
with Dr. Garrison, and In consequence
Of his conference with tho latter lie told
Or. Baird that there was n peneeablc
solution OF the difficulty possible. 4 !,
Dorrance McGinnis, who Keeps etall
at the southeast crHof the mar.
ket house, said no was standing
near his stall when no z heard
the shots. Ito saw DR.. Garri-
son como down Eleventh street and
cross ont into tho street near sDusch &
Gauss. lie stopped on Stolzo& Bnyha's
crossing. No one was with him. and no
did not stop to speak to John Arm
| strong. Tho witness and Kreitcr then
stepped up 10 DR.. Garrison. &
On cross.eXumination no said he was
over toward his stall when DR.. Garri-
son stepped on the crossing, and he and
Mr.. kreiter walked out to talk to him.
The doctor wasin the middle OF the street,
close to tho wagons. On tho redirect
examination he said during the time he
saw Garrison and the time the latter
stopped, u
NO ONE SPOKE TO DEFENDANT.
Sherlf,Stccnrod said on the day OF the
homicide he passed DR.. Garrison in the
middle Of Fourteenth and Chapinc
streets. The doctor called to him and
gave himself up. The sheriff thought
tho doctor had flight overcoat on, but
no was not positive. ; Jack Wost, the
policeman, was-with him. DR.. CARR.
son told him he had come to give him.
self up. 7ar>t.
DR.. Garrison was put on the stand,
but his examination was interrupted to
allow Marion McGrew, q witness. to
testify, Mr.. McGrew desiring to 90 over
the river TO his home. 81. -,
Marion McGrew, iof"Martin's Ferry,
testified that at the time OF the Killing
OF DR.. Baird, he was standing within
the door OF Prayers paper store, with
Mr.. Prayer to his left. Tho report Of
the pistol attracted Ills attention, and
after DR.. Baird came in, he stopped out
DR.. Baird's horse was standing near the
hitching ring, with the strap dangling
down on the pavement. The witness
stopped down and hitched the horse.
The buggy was-'a5 top buggy, and the
top was up, to the best OF the witnesses
recollection. lie did not notice DR..
Garrison when he first passed.
On cross-cXamination he said he
thought he sawssa tpair OF lspectacles
picked up. :.n1Hedittnoksee oDrs Garri-
son pass, nor, Dr.tBaird sdrive,up and
hitch his horse.
DR.. GARRISON TEsTlrrEs.
DR.. Garrison himself was put on the
stand. He said he was. married and
had wife and three children; and his
wife was at present at .sthe bedside Of
his sick child. The state Directing, the
part referring to his wife being at the
bedside OF his child was stricken out.
Q.-You knew DR.. Baird? Al did.
Odd you have trouble with him
A.--Ycs.
The defendant went on to state
that at the time the county convention
occurred in this city, some time before
tho shooting, the doctor ran against
him in an insulting way, attempting to
provoke an alteration.
| Q.-When did you meet him again
A.-On the oath day Of September.
Q.-State the trouble in your ow n
way. Al was going into the gas
office and saw DR.. Baird coming from
the receivers Office. l stepped aside
and he called me d negro son Of q
-. l. told him, you must not
call me that. !. You are an
old man but won't have you call me
that He replied You d niger
B. OF b.. Open your head to
me, and III crush you to; the earth.
lie then struck at me and caught hold
OF him and struck ;;him a fcw blows.
Officer Deku came up and said y "Stop
this" DR.. Baird WINS taken away Ny
glasses had fallen on the floorEand !
picked them up.s Dir, Baird snatcLed
them from mo Sahd isaid: "You niger
of b, thoscaremy glasses.' lie
then started at me again and 4 put up
my foot and pushed MIN away. YOU'RE
sired by niger and damned by a.,
you niger s-Iof q =, he said
stepped away and went into the back Of
fec with Mr.. Lashley. DR.. Baird kept
calling me names and kept shouting:
You niger s. of a -;rll kill you
C. d You, you black s. Of a
-! III get even with you'll
HIS SONS RUSHED IN
and caught hold Of him, and Others
tried to pacify him and induce him to
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