Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-12-23

Gallagher first suggested going to Home
stead
Pinkert.n Detective J. H. Ford was the
next witness called He was questioned
By Captain Breck. He said:
II know Beatty, Gallagher and David
son. at No Isl Second avenue | heard
conversation betweeen the three men
Beatty told the Others what was IN the
powder that had been used in Homestead
mill. He said they contained rhenbarb.
snuff and other stuff the character of which
it want necessary for him to state | did
not hear him say where the powders had
been procured Gallagher said he thought Il
DEMPSEY had been there to direct affairs the
powders would have proved more success
fll Beatty said be thought not Gala
said the use OF the powders had first been
suggested by a man named Tom Brady
Again on Dec. 4 | heard Beatty and Galla-
gher taking Beatty arranged to e. u
Homestead TO get recipe Tor powders
Gallagher told him to pay 50 for 1t II necess-
arr. A. there was money in 1t; that they
could go west and use the powders to breas
A miners strike They were at Gallagher !
room az the time. / was IL the next room
Lnuis Wolfes sworn-My home is IN An
napoIis. Nd I conducted a hotel 10 Iha'
plaee;I came To HOmesteed and worked tWo
dags in the mixing house; tnen / was iisus !
steward of restaurants Nos. /. ana ..
hired Patrick Gallagher as cook: ne was on
the night tuin; he was there untlI the hiiu
die Of September: then he worked Ia otnSi
co,kI,on4.,s:I have seen Beatty in the mill
saw him one night in bunk house So'9 Win
Gallagher and others; do not think he was
employed in the mill; I recognized him as
.oon az I came here to-day. On the sew
enth of September ms wife came on IRON
AnnapoIis and to celebrate her LrrlVal
iuvitad between thirty and forty of my
friends to little supper. Prior to that !
mad an idea that something was wrong; l
fhourht the men we're being drugged; /
took 4 COOK into my confidence, but We
conId NOT discover lust what was going on
A number of those who attended the sup
ger In honor Of the arrival OF my wife be-
came very sick. The following day my
wife va- stricken down She Suffered ter
ribly from cramps and vomited great zeal
She was s0o1 reduced from lZO 70 90
pounds in weight. 1, too became SICK and
nave been re1aced from 17S to l4o
pounds"
{ o Nesbitt was the next one to take
the stand. He said: 81 live in Munhall;
was born and raised in Allegheny county;
am a master mechanic in Homestead mill;
/ was at the supper given in honor OF Mrs.
Wolfes: nv wife was with me; was taken
very i'll that night; the pains IN my stom-
aeh we're terrible; was in bed for hve
weeks aud in the house for eight weeks;
am not fully recovered
Cross examined by Mr.. Brennen-"l had
not been working harder than usual before
taking sick; the heat did not affect me; II
was not warm that night for my vile wore
her he wv wraps. Ny wife became sick
the next day, but her condition did not be-
come serious
". L. Bullock, pay roll clerk in the Car
negie office at HOnfstead, came next. Un n
fortunately | was at the W"ltes' supper,
said be II became deatbly sick early the
following morning. | am still under the
care of DR.. Cunningham, of Swissvale; !
live near that place. / was in perfect
health until the sth Of Septembe-. slept
in the Office that night, rs | had work 70
do: did no; eat more than usual that
evening; | drank some of the coffee; i con
tinued at work for eight days, though /
should have been in bed DIR Weible, the
company physician. was treating me; he
gave me DO relief, and came down to the
homeopathic hospital for treatment; lost
sixteen pounds in eight days
CAPTAIN Breck, for the prosecution,
smoke briefly. He said it was not necessa-
rv for the commonwealth to show its full
hand AT a preliminary hearing; that the
evidence Of the witnesses examined would
he corroborated in court, where the com
mon wealth would produce all its evidence.
At the conclusion of Captain Breck's ar
eument Alderman McMaSters made The an
nunncement contained in the opening par
agraph of this report
What bail do you requires asked Mr..
Bremen
Give thousand dollars
"Is that not excessive Y
s'Ify0u think it is you can 60 into court
Monday and ask To have the bail liked,
said the magistrate a. he closed the docket
Beatty was led back To jail and the
hearing was over.
CAPTAIN Rreck is said to have 205 wit
nesses ready to prove the poisoning cases
when they get into court.
The feeling against Beatty in the mill al
Homestead is very bitter and his life
would not be safe there.
Louis Simm. alleged to be a victim Ol
the Homestead poisoning plot, died last
Sunday at the Allegheny General Hospital
after three months illness, during which
his body wasted from 185 pounds until he
was skeleton Of 70 There seemed to be
hut little left of him but skin end bones.
and says the case shall have one OF the
most searching Investigations ever given a
suspicious death
Every dav new cases of men whose
health was badly shattered in the Home
stead mill and of some deaths from disease
contracted there are coming To light
Only a bare mention has been made OF the
demise of Hugh Kennedy, who was one oi
the guests at the reception given by Rest
urant Keeper Wolf to his wife on her ar
rival from Annapolis Bob Watson,
Alfred Davis, Mr.. Langthorn, a young en-
ginerr graduated from Columbia College,
Kennedy and Others were invited and at
tended Closer was also there. Mr..
Wolf told the boys not 10 eat any supper,
as be intended TO have special spread foI
them in honor of his wife.
One of the dishes served was Hamburg
steak. and it was remarked afterward that
every body who ate of the meat got sick.
The meal was prepared by the regular
cnnks in the mill Kennedy left the re
ception early TO go to work, but on the
way to his place he was taken violently ill
H., vi as seized with a fit of purging, aud
soon blood Streamed from his throat caused
by a hemorrhage in the stomach. He
died before he could be removed to the
hospital II Is the general belief of the
men that Kenneay's death was due 10 poi
son placed in the steak and coffee.
telegram from Greensburg Saturday
stated that the ply sicians now think that
Samuel Neigley, who died here September
10 after "a few days illness, was poisoned
at the HomcItead works. Neighley was
for several years engineer at the county
home, aud when he went to labor IN the
mill was a man of vigorous aud robust
health ii soon got sick and was sent
home. DIR Kline diagnosed his ailment as
typhoid fever and treated him for the dis
ease. but he died. Physicians who saw
toms of typhoid, unmistaken evidences OF
poisoning were present, and subsequent de-
velopments confirm their suspicious
of people whose health has been injured
in the mill, the examples are numerous
James Freeland, who lives on Atwood St,
Pitrsburg, is notable instance He was
a brakeman on the TT. Wayne road before
be went int the mill, man of great ply
steal strength and good health. Now he is
the shadow of his former self. After few
weeks experience IN the mill, be got SICK.
and has not been able To recover. He Is
weak. thin and his eyes are sunken.
Robert Watson lost 40 pounds of flesh
the first two weeks he worked at Home
stead, and then he quit eating at the mill
He is now troubled with rheumatism, and
DR.. Joseph n Dickson thinks the poison
has settled in his bones and is gradually
working out of his system. Other non
union men complain of the same thing.
Joseph Dabbs, a son of b. l.. ii. Dabbs.
the photographer, il another Homestead
victim who is much the worse for his ex-
periencc in the big steel plant.
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