The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-30

tho latter leaned out OF his buggy. 1t
was right ION" tho alley above Market.
lilo did not hear what DR.. Baird said to
Or. Garrison when they first spoke.
After they spoke he did not know
whether DR.. Garrison walked back along
sido Of DR.. Blird's buggy, or whether
he calno back after Dr.. Baird got out.
!le, only saw DR.. Garrison when he told
DR.. Baird ~.
TO TAKE THAT BACK.
He had talked to a man named Miller
and asked him who the man was who
shot DR.. Baird. DR.. Baird was in tho
street, and not on the curbstono or
on the pavement. DR.. Baird was stoop.
ing over when DR.. Garrison spoke to
him. ~
II being half;past twelve o'clock court
adjourned until 9 p. IN.
When court'reassembled G%oeckstnet-
tor was againeon tho stand. He told
Mr.. Howard that DR.. Baird stepped up
on the pavement out of tho street after
tho first shot. He could not say whether
he was on the pavement or in the street
before tho second shot was fired. He
told Colonel Arnott that he did recol.
lect having had a talk with Jailcr
Dimmy after tho occurrence. He did
not tell Mr.. Dimny that ho was in the
barber shop on Eleventh street and
came out after tho shooting, and no did
not tell Mr.. Dimmy all he knew about
the case was from heresay.
City Engineer Hogo showed plans OF
Eleventh street, with the location OF
the hitching ring and other points
marked. .. o. Gcntler's store, Mr..
lioge said, was lao feet from the hitch
ing ring, the distance from the ring to
the nearest gas Dap was three feet five
inches, and from tho ring to tho win
dow at which tho Walton children
stood was thirty.uine feet III n direct
line. The gutter in the pavement was
about twenty feet from the hitching
ring. From the ring to the alley was
about thirty-six and i quarter feet. The
distance from the ring to the hitchipg
post just below the door to the barber
shop was ninety ieet. From tho ring
to the center OF the barber shop door
was about eighty-four feet. From the
ring to tho center OF the door to Gaus s.
Dusch's saloon was about l16 feet.
From the ring to the corner of the curb
ut the west side OF back Market street
was about 100 feet. From the corner of
the curb Mt Stole & Bayha's store was
about tifty.seven feet. From the ring
to the center OF Prayers door was
IA $40 feet. From the ring to Mrs.
Knights door was sixteen and a halt.
Other distances were measured off bv
Mr.. Hoge from the plat he had sur
veyed. Six blue print copies OF the
plat were identified by Mr.. Hoge as
copies, and one was taken in charge by
the stenographer.
OTHER y WITNESSES TESTIFY.
Miss Minnie Marshall said she was
coming down Eleventh street from
Main to Market, on the north side OF
the street, at the time OF the shooting.
She knew DR.. Baird and DR.. Garrison
by sight. She noticed DR.. Baird when
he got out of the buggy. When she
first saw Garrison he was standing at
the alley. Then she saw him standing
close to DR.. Baird. She heard Garrison
say, take that back" She heard DR..
Baird say nothing. When she heard
the shots she saw them carryDr. Baird.
On cross-eXamination she said she
first saw DR.. Garrison standing at the
alley. When she passed DR.. Baird he
was tying his horse. DR.. Garrison was
standing at the corner Of tine alley when.
she first saw him. Asked when she saw
DR.. Garrison for the first time she said
she saw him passing under her window
a week or two weeks before tho shoot
Ing. When she ran back after the
shooting, she saw Dr. Garrison coming
toward Market street, with q pistol in
his hand. Minnie's recollection was re-
freshed by Col. Arnett, and she said
that when she first saw DR.. Baird he
was STOPPING over tying his horse to the
hitching post. When she got to the
Market house she heard the shooting.
She corrected Il former statement and
said that when she first saw DR.. Garri-
son that day, he was not standing at the
alley, but was walking toward Main
street, between the alley ami Market
street. She confessed that she was a
prostitute and was at present an inmate
Of Martins Ferry house. She said in
answer to another question that she had
not really noticed anything particular
about the whole affair, until she heard
the shots.
French Walton, sixteen years old, liv.
ed on the south east corner OF Main and
Eleventh streets, upstairs at the time
OF the shooting. On hat morning he
was at the second story window oppo.
site the hitching ring with hts sister
and Netf Laing. AsShe. got to,the win
dow 81
TIE .HEARDAsYELJ,
and looking across the street he saw a
man with a.pistol inshis hand, in the
act of:iring. DR.. Baird turned and the
man fired again Dr:TBaird was stand
ing II little, west Of tfio'ring. His hands
were hanging ut his sides, and he made
no motion with them. DR.. Garrison
was standing on the pavement, be-
tween DR.. Baird and Market street.
After the first shot DIR. Baird turned
away from DR.. Garrison.
On cross-examination he said that a
remark OF his sisters caused him to 90
to the window, near which he was sit
ting on n lounge. When he saw DR..
Baird he was west OF tho hitching ring.
He said, indicating tho distance from
the witness chair to the water cooler
about eighteen feet-that DR.. Garrison
and DR.. Baird were that far apart.
Q.--What was there to call your at
tention to DR.. Baird? A.--Nothine. I
didn't know whom or what the man
was shooting Mt.
Q!-fou didn't know what he was