Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-10

Grocott, charged with being one of the
men having criminal relations with the
young girl Mamie Stephens, ION or
about January 1sth," took place before
Justice Ankle, yesterday afternoon, be-
ing succeeded by some further question
ing in the case OF the State v. Else
Gray. The State was represented by
Mr.. Howard, Grocott by Col. Arnett,
and Gray by Mr.. Jordan. The examin-
alton of the girl as to Grocott was as
follows:-
Q.-Do know Mr.. Grocott? Ayes.
Q.-How long have you known him?
A.--Oh, good while.
Q,-About how long? Al don't
know; for several months.
Q.-Where did you get acquainted with
him? AIT the pottery. | know
where his house is, on the Island.
was at his house once.
Q.-How did you come to go there?
Ale asked me to go.
Q.-What was the conversation in
which he asked you to go to his house?
A.-Well, he asked me to go over with
him several times, and | refused, but
he kept on asking me, and | went
with him one evening after work.
Q.-When was that? Al don't
know how long it was ago; it may have
been before Christmas.
Q.-WaS there anyone at the house?
A.-No one but he and |.
81 tha
family? A.-No.
Q.-WaS it dark? At was kind of
dark when we went over.
Q.-How long did you stay? Al
left there about eight o'clock.
Q.-Wnat transp!red while you were
there? A.-Well, we sat and talked,
and drank wine, and ate fruit, and I
stayed there for while, and then came
away.
Q.-What part Of the house was you
in? An the front room.
Q.-Any other part Of the house?
Ayes.
Q.-What part? A,-Well, in every
part.
On. what other rooms? AIN
the bed rooms, and In the bath room,
and in the kItchen-that's about all the
rooms there are in the house.
Q.-What occurred In the rooms?
No answer.
Q.-Who went with you to the bed
room? AIR. Grocott.
Odd he have intercourse with
you. Al don't like to say.
Q.-What is the truth aboutit? No
answer.
Q.-What is the truth about it? A
He did.
Q.-What did Mr.. Grocott say to you
about going over TO the Island? A
Well, when l first started TO work,
about two or three months ago, he asked
me to go over 10 his house. lie said his
wife was away. / said l would not do
it. He asked me several times, and said
| could set the day. He kept asking
me, and | went over once. He offered
me no inducement, and gave me moth
ing. He said his wife had gone TO
Florida, and that there would be no
trouble about it.
On cross-eXaminatiOn, to Colonel Ar
nett, the girl stated That she was only
at the house once, and Mrs. Grocott
was not there. She could not tell
whether was before or after Christmas,
but 1t was not long ago. She
said she left the pottery
and came up Main street with
Lizzie O'Neal, and Grocott was behind
them. Lizzie O'Neal left at Twentieth
street, and she came over the creek
with Grocott and up Sixteenth street
TO Market. GrocOtt stopped at the
fruit stand at Fourteenth and Market
streets, and afterwards went to the
Wheeling Bakery, while she stood wait
ing at Dillon's window. They went on
up Market street to Eleventh, and up
Eleventh to Main. On Main street Gro
colt stopped at one or two fruit stores,
while she waited at the corner of Tenth
street, and then they went over the
suspension bridge. When they reached
the Island Grocott went first, and she
followed. They went TO the house on
Vermont street, and he let her In at the
back door. She didn't know it was on
January 18th, and had told no one that
was the case. She didn't want to talk
about Mr.. Grocott, and had only
told Officer Terrell, after he had asked
her. She remembered when Mrs. Gro
colt came home from Florida. The visit
TO his house was two or three weeks
before that time. She said she was
never at the house when Mrs. Grocott
was there. Asked if Mr.. Grocott had
not discharged her at the pottery, she
said no, he had given her another job,
at lower wages, claiming she had
sleighted her work, "but l did it as well
as anyone else. He talked to my aunt
about me; she said he told her things.
l haven't said this because he reduced
my wages but didn't like it at the time"
To Mr.. Howard, witness said she was
acquainted with Mrs. Grocott, having
met her at the pottery, where Mrs. Gro
colt worked. Mrs. Grocott had never
said anything to witness about her run
ming around, but Mr.. Grocott had
spoken to her about it, and gave her
advice before and after she went home
with him.
The examination OF the witness was
very long, but she stuck 20 her story,
repeating Ii several times with great
circumstantiality, and insisting that it
was true.
Mrs. Grocott was then called, and
said she knew the girl.
Q.-Was she ever at your house?
Ayes.
Q.-When? A.-She came to my
house one evening after Mr.. Grocott,
and told her he was not there. She
came in and sat down; she staid good
while, aud l asked her why she staid,
as she knew had to do my homework
in the evening, and then she went
about with merfrom one room to an
other while worked. She asked me
to please tell Mr.. Grocott TO excuse her
from work the following day, as she
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