Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-23


or after we broke the boxes Creighton
said we had been drinking"
Assistant Jailor John Lane testified
that the testimony given by Williams
was substantially the same as his state
ment at the jail Thursday night. The
| statement just given was fuller and more
circumstantial.
Jacob Wilhelm said he saw the boys
in his place Monday night, he thought
J between II and l. o'clock They got a
glass Of beer and went right out. He
couldn't say which one paid for the
drink.
Letter Carrier Charles Stewart testi-
| fed 10 finding the torn mail in Alley
| fourteen, near Fosters shoe store.
]. q. Graham, an employe of Potts
testified that Williams bought pair Of
| trousers, shoes and socks from him on
Thursday morning, paying for them
with FIVE dollar bill. Williams said
some one was waiting outside-to hurry.
Witness did not notice who IL was.
Officer Jack West testified TO finding
J a letter on Twelfth street, between Eoff
and Jacob. 1t was Greer 81 Laing en-
velope. He knew Taylor. He lived on
Charles street, above Twelfth, From
Main street and alley nine person CO.
ing to Taylor's home would pass VIII ere
witness picked up the letter. After he
found the letter, witness went back
with Officer Terrill and found scraps Of
| So check, and later a gentleman
brought up s22 check, both on Greer
Sc Laing.
Taylor said he wanted TO make state
meut, and also had some witnesses, one
of them being James NJ. Taylor, his
| father, and his two cousins.
James NJ. Taylor said he was the
father OF Ed. Taylor, one of the accused.
He said Ed. left home between and s
o'clock Monday morning, with another
boy, to look for job at the new glass
| house at Moundsyille. They got back
| between and o'clock Ia the after
noon, and Ed. never left the house until
( eleven o'clock the next morning. He
went to Moundsville with his brothers
son, William. He couldn't swear the
bows went 10 Moundsville-he simply
| knew that they started from home for
! there. Mr.. Nayor led the witness
! through all his movements and those or
the members Of his family, during Mon
/ day. He said no one went out or the
/ house that night. Witness and wife
went to bed about ten o'clock, and the
| other BOYS went 10 work about II, eX-
cept Ed. who slept in the same room
with witness and wife. Thomas George,
William Taylor and Cunningham Iay-
lor also sleep in the same room and In
one bed. Witness knew VIM. Williams
would see him on the streets once IN
while, but never saw him at his house.
He had heard Ed. speak OF Williams.
! Pressed as to how he knew the boys
were at home Monday night, he said he
knew it was the night the boxes were
broken, and his boys didn't do 1t.
Asked how he knew the boxes were
broken, he said he saw it in the REG
IsrER, Monday morning. He followed
this by saying he couldn't read himself
az all, and was all confused and bug
gered up"
William Taylor, a step-brother Of Ed
ward Taylor, described the trip 10
Moundsvile, saying he woke Ed. up at
| ) o'clock Monday evening and they got
on freight train about 1880 or 1850
with Nick Halpin and Geo. Macayoy.
| He detailed the trip, and was told at the
glass house to come back next Monday
or Tuesday. They came back on the Is,
& O. Witness left Ed, in Benwood and
got to the City Hall at p. III. Ed
came up on the motor, and got home a.
ESQ. Witness went to bed after dinner
and slept until 10 p. m. Witness had
| known Williams for eight years. Wilkins
and Ed. were good friends, played ball
together, ran around together, etc.
When. witness got up at 10 p. m. Ed,
Tom, George, Cunningham and his step
father were all sitting up. I'D was
talking about MoundSville. 81 knew
| Ed. was in the house when | got up, be-
cause l talked to him. ! asked him how
il was he didn't get in the caboose with
me and Nick Halpin, and he said Maca'
voy was skeered and wouldn't get on.
1t was little after 10 p. IN. when
asked about that. The first | heard
about mail boxes was when the cop came
up and tackled US, Thursday
night, except mother read it in
the paper. l left home at 1880 Monday
night to go to work. left Ed. In the
house, with his shoes Oft and took TN
kew and locked them ali in, and took
the KEY with me. got back at a. m,
| fixed it as Monday night, because il
was the day we came back from
| Moundsville."
Thomas George testified that "the
bows" were all in the house Monday
night all evening; witness got home
about 5:l5 D. m, from the City Bank.
Ed. and witness went to bed about the
same time-midnight They sleep in
the same room, Ed. was in bed at G:3O
Tuesday morning. Witness and Ed.
were Shedding Tuesday night and
mart OF the time Wednesday night
Witness first heard of the boxes being
robbed Tuesday evening, when he got
home from work. Mrs. Taylor read il
in the paper They take the evening
paper, and not the REGISTER. Williams
told witness Wednesday evening he was
going to the show, and witness sent
word by him to Eek. McGee, and Nc
Gee said he saw him there.
John Snyder, of alley Il, knew both
boys. He didn't see Edward that night
Williams ate supper at witness house
Monday night. He said he was going
to the gas works. He then came back
about SIS p. M, and rushed the grow
er. lie stayed there until nearly nine
o'clock.
Cunningham Taylor thought Edward
was at home Monday night. He saw
him lying on the floor. he was not GU
of the house that night.
Andrew Snyder was a bTother-in-lav
Of Ed. Taylor. He lived in alley Il
Ed. was not at witnesses house on Mon
day afternoon. Witness didn't see I'D
Monday at all.
Eek McGee, of Seventeenth street