St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-17
Patrick Gallagher. the Self
Confessed Poisonep, on
the Stand.
Powders Furnished by Demp-
sey to Put in the
Mems Food.
His Story Not Shaken by a
Severe Cross-EXami-
nation.
Davidson. His Accomplish,
Corroborates His Tes-
timony.

PITTsBURG, Jan. 16.-Interest in the
Homestead poisoning case increases
day by day, and this morning before
court begun the room was crowded.
The principal witness of the morning
was Patrick Gallagher, the cook. upon
whose confession the charges of poison
ing were made. Gallagher's testimony
did not materially differ from his pre-
Vious story, which implicated the cooks,
Beatty and Davidson, and the defend
ant, Hugh Dempsey, master workman
of the Knights of Labor. Eight or ten
other witnesses who worked at the mill
during the strike. and who were vic
tins of the mysterious disease. were
examined at the morning session, but
nothing new was elected. The symp-
toms in each case were the same, and
several of the witnesses had not fully
recovered from the severe attacks.
Patrick Gallagher, the self-confessed
poisoner. very calmly told the story OF
his connection with the cases. He said:
81 have worked as cook in restaurants,
hotels and boats since 1871. 1 know
Hugh Dempsey (pointing TO defendant).
l first saw Dempsey last August at No.
Sc Third avenue, III Knights Of Labor
hall. Dempsey said he would furnish
me with
Powders TO Put in the Food
furnished to the men in the mill. Demp-
sey said the powders were often used
to weaken prize fighters: that it would
be impossible to analyZe it. Dempsey
said a Chicago man was to furnish the
powders. Dempsey told me the pow
derS had been tried Oh Pole or Hun
garian: that they made him sick. L
got the first three powders on
Sept. Z or 8. A bottle containing
three powders was given to me by Hugh
Dempsey. VINO also gave instructions
how to use them. The powder was dark
yellow. The day following put one
powder into thirty gallons OF soup; the
next day put one powder into thirty
gallons of tea. and the third powder was
used the same way. then got nine
powders from James Davidson and used
some of them, giving the others to
| Alexander McCord, another cook. L
used these powders in the tea" At
this point court adjourned for dinner.
| When court resumed in the afternoon
/ Gallagher again took the stand. lie
! stated that in all he got eighteen pow
| ders from Dempsey. He used the pow
| der in the soup, aud he got some OF 1t
| himself. 1t made him sick and gave
J him the diarrhea. Continuing he said:
Il did not know it was taking the
| powders. l saw Dempsey Sept. %,
| and told him was sick, and he told NE
| to lay off few days and then to 20
! back. DEMPSEY told me to go to GIN
I IN +Ea C1iN
/ had just talked to man named John
! Wilson, ana
| Told Dempsey About II.
81 said we could get menin Cincinnati
| to do the job in the mills. Dempsey
! said there was a man going to
| Cincinnati to collect money for
/ the strikers. and he could
! hire two cooks there. He said l
was too tired to go and had better take
rest. This was the day L left the mill
! or the day after, Sept. p or Sept. %.
! Dempsey asked me ii il would not be
| good idea to send Beatty, and l told him
/ it would. | saw Dempsey the next day,
and he told me he had concluded to send
Beatty to Cincinnati. Beatty just then
| came in, and Dempsey told him he had
concluded to send him Beatty to Gin
cinnati, and that he would send the
other man to Beaver Falls. Beatty said
that would just suit him.
II next saw Dempsey the Monday fol-
| lowing i'll his office. Dempsey said be
ought to hear from Beatty soon. He
! showed me a telegram from Cincinnati,
which said: Two good agents on the
road l went two or three times after
that to see Dempsey, and he said 1t was
very funny he had not heard from
Beatty. Before | went to work again
! two cooks came from Cincinnati, Tony
Gilfoil and William Coleman, and they
went to work in the mill. L
Reported to Dempsey
that they were here, and he said: Don't
| YOU bring them near me. | don't want
| any one but you, Beatty and Davidson,
| to know l am il this They came here
| Sept %, and went to work Oct. l. l
went to work the same day. We all
worked in No. cook house. L was on
| the night turn. After | went back to
| work | got some more powders from
| Dempsey. He gave me six. l took
them to No. cook house, used one
and put the rest in the pastry cooks
drawer. Coleman was pastry COOK. The
next time l looked for the powders they
were gone. | used the powder in No. 6
! cook house in the coffee the night | got
/ l.,
William Griffith got part of this coffee.
| saw him take something OFF the stove;
! whether it was coffee or tea l could not
swear. l don't think 1 got any more
powders from Dempsey after Oct. 4.
! left OcE. Is. From Oct. 1 to IS l received
only one package of powders from
| Dempsey.
q saw Dempsey again Oct 20. I told
! him there was a detective in the mill.
| | went to Dempsey about ten days after
that and asked him about my money. /
received some money, but not directly
from Dempsey. Oct. II L
Got Some Money.
~ saw Dempsey that day. He called
me over and said: -Four detectives have
| been Watching me ali morning. Slip
! into that building and you will get that
money! This was the building where
! the Citizens cars run through from
| PENNSYLVANIA to Liberty streets. Demp-
! sew went iuto the office where the watch
man stays and followed him about fif-
teen minutes after. went in and a
ilSman whom 1 would recognize, said:
-l~sSign that receipt Ibid so and he gave
me S25. l presented a bill TO Dempsey
about Nov. ). Davidson was with me,
,land when l presented my bill Dempsey
Esaid: Davidson. where is your bill%
Dempsey took my bill and marked it %.
SIX. Dempsey presented the bill to
\ Beatty and he said: TO = with Demp-
: sew: he can pay. his own BILL "
The bill in question, with the so. K,
Dempsey" was shown him and identi-
fed.
''When l first heard of Beatty's arrest
I wrote note to Dempsey III which [
said: i see Beatty has been arrested
| in [ onisviIlp SRrd me Soma money