Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-12
NO CAUSE IS FIXED.
Much Conflicting Testimony in the
Oakdale Murder Case.
ALL OF THE DOCTORS DISAGREE.
A wilkins Township Squire Strikes Big
Snag of Justice.
YESTERDAYS GRIND In THE COURTS

Cebeste Sherlier, Michael Sherlier,
Almond Deliss and Edward Le-
grand were placed on trial yes
terday before Judge Porter in Grim
inal Court for the murder of Napoleon
Legrand, brother of one of the defendants
The deceased was with the defendants at a
French festival held early in December at
the house of Batiste Labor, Toms Run.
All had more or less to drink and fight oc-
CURED, in which the deceased is said to
have been beaten so severely that he died
December IA, ten DAYS after the festival.
District Attorney BurIeigh and Attor-
news Follner and McQuaide are conducting
the case, the former the prosecution and the
two latter the defense.
DIR. NJ. P Cullman testified that he
thought death resulted from pleurisy, but
he could not decide whether blows super
induced the pleurisy. The wounds on the
body were one on the back and slight one
on the back of the head. Judge Porter re-
marked 10 the witness that the next time he
was sent to make post moftem examina-
tion he should make it complete or not at
tempt it.
DR. Oakley, of Oakdale, believed death
was caused by conclusion of the brain.
Lecrsna Struck His Brother First.
Mrs. Anna Durante had seen the fight and
testified that the brother of the deceased
struck the latter the first blow on the head
with a pair of brass knucklers. Batiste
Sherlier, she said. hit him with beer glass,
and that Deliss kicked him, and that several
Others in the room assisted in the assault
Eilliers Durante corroborated the tes-
timony of Mrs. Durante.
Mrs. Barnard testified Edward Legrand
struck his brother, and that the other de-
PENDANTS Jumped on him and kicked him
in the stomach. y
Mr. Mcdonald testified to hearing loud
language and seven or eight pistol shots and
one musket shot, and heard also cries for
assistance.
Doctors Differ in Their Opinions
TIL? Commonwealth here rested, and the
defeuse placed DR.. Stevenson, of Oakdale,
on the stand. He testified he had attended
the deceased. and that he was suffering from
typhoid fever. The witness was called in
few hours before the death of Legrand, and
saw that ne could live but a few hours. The
cause of mis- death, lie said, was typhoid
fever: that all of the indications of this.
fever were present, and that an e1amina-
tion did not disclose to him any skin discol-
oration..
This witness was examined at length upon
the technical points of typhoid fever, the
length of its course, etc; and also in regard
TO the characteristics of 7leurisv
During this testimony Mrs. Deliss, wife
of one of the defendants, took fit, and it
was some time before she recovered. This
incident created a little excitement, but it
was soon checked.
Edward Legrand denied having struck his
brother, or that the latter had been jumped
upon bv anyone. He said his brother was
drunk and disorderly, and that he tried to
prevail upon him to go home but could not.
He said no beer glass had been used, because
all Of the glasses were up stairs
He said his brother had been struck by
Deliss, but the blow was not hard one.
The witness was still on the stand when
court adjourned until this morning.
All of the defendants are Frenchmen and
their examination had to be done through
an interpreter