The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-03
THE DEFENSE BEGINS
lis Testimony in tho Garrison HON.
icldo Trial.
HOW GARRISON WASiPERSECUTED
BY DR.. Baird..-Witncsscs Testify to
Frequent Meetings OF tho Two Men.
Tho Fight In the City Building aud
DR.. Baird's Threats to Kill DR.. Gar.
rison.

Garrison Caso yesterday, anu mo TO-
icnsc examined icw OF its witnesses
before adjournment. Tho testimony OF
ono Of the states, W. II. Fec, was partly
corroborated byono OF tho dciense's own
witnesses, Councilman A. G. Iladlich.
Mr.. Eco testified that some time in
January DR.. Garrison came into his
office and uttered threat against DR..
Baird, saying he had just been talking
10 friend down at tho corner and DR..
Baird had passed and grossly insultod
him. Mr.. Iladlich testified that some
time in January DR.. Garrison and he
had been talking at tho corner OF Mar
kot and Sixteenth streets and DR.. Baird
had passed, hurting an insulting cpithet
at DR.. Garrison, Tho testimony is
given below in full.
Ed. Booking, the first witness called,
testified that on or about tho 18th day
Of January he and Dr.. Garrison were
walking up Chaplino street. When
about opposite Robert Cransle's they
saw DR.. Baird drive past them in his
buggy. DR.. Baird saidnothng, and DR..
Garrison, turning to tho witness, said:
"Thcre comes that d 8 Baird
now" Tho witness thcn asked DR..
Garrison why he did not lick DR.. Baird,
md lick him worse than he had done
before. "Ihe thing isn't settled yet"
tho witness said DR.. Garrison replied.
Tho cross.oxamination was BY Mr..
Somerville: go,
Q.-How is it you were summoned on,
this trial and not on the last. Al
had said nothing about it, i had been
sick. .GI
Q.-To whom did you say say anything
about it? A.-To DR.. Wilson.
Q.-When was. that? A.L5A few days
after the trial. l was sick in February,
March and April of last year. l came
out on Easter Sunday. H,.n,
Q.-How long were you in Wheeling
after that? A.-Till the first or second
week in June. To-.
Q.-Were you out Of your sick bed
during the trial? Al was.
Q.-Did you think over ithfs matter
during the trial2 Al did not.
Q.-Why didn't you mention it be-
fore? Al supposed the matter had
come to an end. ! hadn't mentioned it
before, because l hadn't thought OF it..
The conversation occurred in January,
1891, about rs near as can recollect.
Q.-You now remember the conversa-
ton distinctly, do you? Al do.
Gas well as you did then? A
Yes.
Q.-What did DR.. Garrison say? A.
He said: "1here comes that d.
8 Baird lspoke about tho trouble
between them, and he said:
IRIS NOT SETTLED YET"
Q-What was DR.. Baird doing? A.
He was driving in his buggy, and was
nearly opposite Robert Cranglc's.
Q.-What did you say when DR.. Gar
rison said that? Al asked him why
he didn't lick DR.. Baird worse than he
did before, and then he answered, that
it twas not yet settled.
Q.-When did you tell Dr.,aWilson
about this conversation? Ala dav or
two after the first trial. l discussed the
trial several times with DR.. Wilson.
GLOW was it you did not recall
that conversation on these occasions?
Al did remember, but II didn't
mention it to DR.. Wilson until after the
trial. i IN;
Q.-Were you not in such condition
Of body and mind that you attended to
no business? Al was attending to
business at that time. "a.
In answer to questions by Mr.. Som
erville, Mr.. Booking said he became
SICK shortly after the conversation with
Dr. Garrison. His physicians called
MS sickness heart failure Still, he was
all right at the time OF tho talk with
Or. Garrison, and remembered tho &C.
casion very we'll.
On the redirect examination Mr..
Booking said the reason he had not said
anything about it before, was because
nc didn't want to be a witness in the
case.
William II. Fec, assistant city clerk,
said he knew DR.. Baird and DR.. Garri-
con. lie said that about six months
before DR.. Baird's death he had con
Versatlon with DR.. Garrison. .ss
U-What did ho say? Ale said
he had been talking with some
6ody on the corner and that DR.. Baird
mad passed. stuck his head out Of the
buggy and said: There goes that
nlcgerfcd -" He said that DR..
lard would say that once too often and
mat would be the end OF the old fool,
or the d old fool, the witness didn't
remember which.
oh cross.examination Mr.. Fee said he
remembered Of talking with DR.. Garr-
son once again, when the witness had
h'eu an application ior
ADMISSION INTO LODGE,
TO which Dr.. Garrison belonged.
Q--Was your application still pend
Ing, ut the time Of the conversation DO.
tween you and DR.. Garrison? Al
don't remember.
U-Did DR.. Garrison say whom no
mad been talking to, when Dr.. Baird
called him that? Al don't rccollect
Vi nm having said who it was.
N--Why can you remember that
!!hfeat, and nothing else 2 A..-Because
!" made an impression on me.
Q-lsn't it true that it made no i'm
preston until alter the trial? At
o'1h,t make much impression upon mo.
colonel Arnett asked Mr.. Fec If he
hau not been at the Atlantic engine
mousse the evening or al evening or two
alter the shooting.
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