The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1892-02-11

exposed. His hand is compare
lively small, but his wrist is as
large as the arm of an ordinary
sized man. He didn't seem to
know what to do, what would be
done with him. He said he
thought what will be done will be
all right.
THE coRoSER's INQUEST.
On Saturday evening Corone r
Heft, Squire Br-hm, Dr. Mansfield,
Ed. Davenport, Sheriff Wright
and Constable Davy went to the
Bickel HOMESTEAD. |. Young Bickel
was put under arrest and brought
to Logan and lodged in Jail.
DR.. Mansfield made the post
mortem. We give below the
statement taken under oath by
young Ric!lel and bis mother.
JOHN BICKEL's SWORN STATEMENT.
John Bickel, being frst duly sworn testi
fed as follows:
am son of the deceased. ! will be %
years old the Goth of next May. live a
home with my parents. There are twelve
child ell. L am the Oldest one at home:
There are sevo n at home rather was l.ni.
drunk or more so. lie came at me with Il
pocket knife and swore lie would I'LL oil
of US, the whole family, ana would gel out
OF the way himself, and said to me, IL will
take you first" and came at me with the
knife drawn. then just lodged bebiL
him and shot him two or three times,
can not tell exactly which, 1 was SO ex
cited. 1t was 6-shootcr Smith & Wesson,
80 calibre. He was I'm Logan Y s;er,lay and
came homo SO drunk that he co,.ld scarcely
walk and we were mp witt. lin tr, Ing tn
keep him quiet, Iill midnight. MoJh cr
stayed up with Linn all night and my
brother James get up in tie after psrt of the
night and stayeu with liIn. He WAS quar-
relsome and inclined to fight with all of
us. When he came nj me with the knife, 1
thought it wa> my cn!y chance. Mother
and 1 were trying 10 quiet hini, but he
would not pay any attention 10 oui talk.
got the revolver from tie mRntel in the
same room where generally kept II; have
had trouble before .sith him, once II: vice
every year JOHN Bl EEL.
SARAH J. BIc!.ELS STATEMENT.
Sarah ]. sickol. age so years, being dui )
sworn testified as follows:
The deceased is my husba nd; is IS years
old; was born in Germany. We have thir-
teen children living and five dead. He
went TO Logan yesterday morning and
came back near 10 o'clock last night. asked
him If he wanted anything to eat agd he
said he did not. / hxei him some supper
but he did not eat anything. only dunk a
little coffee. He was very much intcx icated
and gtaggered from one side OF the house
to the other, ana wanted TO get the guns,
and saying that he had to kill somebody,
and kept on that way til ten minutes
past two, he jumped up and reached and
wan.ed to get the guns again, and still kept
saying he had to kill omebody. He went
in the room several times hunting the re-
volver, and toll me To lie still, but I kept
watching him and trying to quiet him. He
kept this up until about five O'Clock in the
r1a
and eight O'Clock. He then jumped up aid
took chair and threw it and hit another
one, knocked it over and acted like he was
wild. He kept wanting TO drink. He mad
brought home bottle OF whiskey and a.
bottle OF alcohei and kept drinking it at
times all through The Eight. He always
made such fuss about il that we Just hu
mored him and let him have his d ink
when he asked TOR it. He is quarrelsome
when drinking, AMI mas been drinking a
good deal OF late. About two weeks ago he
came home from town drunk and jumped
onto one of the boys and would probably
have killed him If Il had not been for me
aud neighbor. After eight o'clock this
morning he Still kept on wanting the guns,
and was quaIrelsome till noon. Every once
In while lie would run up and hit Joha
and tell him he was better man than he
was and threatening him and others;would
draw chair to strike, and offered to strike
me and we had TO take 1t away from him.
At noon l wanted him to come out and eat.
He said he did not want anything. 1 got
him to take little coffee. He then came
into the room again and hit John with his
fist on the arm and swore he was going to
kill the whole family. Then he opened his
knife and swore he would commence on
him first. He was swinging the knife and
ran at him with the knife open; John ran
out Of the way, and whirled around ard
shot him With the pistol. ;iid not know
he had it till he shot him. / can't tell how
many shots but think 1t was two or three
times. l was so scared and excited l can
not recellect. did not see John get the
pistol. There were no others present but
me and John, the other children were all
afraid and were out, stayed In the kitchen
and out doors, afraId he woull hurt them.
SARAH JANE BICKEL.