The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-02-14
MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.
Flocks Of People Attend-The
Attorneys Have Much
Wool-Pulling.

Dew eese on the night OF january "a,
was called IN Justice H. c. Levens
court this morning at 10 o'clock, but
owing to the absence OF several state
witnesses, the case was adjourned up-
I'll 2 o'clock this afternoon, when the
prosecution and defense announced
ready for trial.
The state lis represented by Prose
cutting Attorney Hoffman and Geo.
F. LOngan, Esq. The defense by w.
ID. Steele, Esq.
The court room was packed with
people.
The case in which Mr.. DeWeese is
prosecuting witness. was called first.
That of John 5. Rissler will follow.
Mr.. DeWeese was the first witness
placed on the stand.
He said his sheep were in
a so acre meadow. He found three
Stats of fence around pasture. the
morning he missed the sheep. Fence
was all right a week before
this. Searched all over the
neighborhoOd for the sheep.
in vain heard some sheep had been
: driven south night before, and Mr..
Rissler and / started in search of
them.
At this stage of the proceedings.
the floor of the court began to sink
under the heavy weight, and as a
measure of safety. Justice Levens adj
jOurned the trial to the circuit court
room.
The following is continuation of
last evenings testimony As given by
Perry Deweese. in the great sheep
trial now in progress in this city:
Got first information as to sheep
going south. last Thursday night,
that they were out about old hospital.
Followed trail down Lincoln road to
Mr.. Reeds house, and then Mr.. Ri>-
sler and | went two miles farther
and stayed all night. Next in
formation was that the sheep were be-
ing driven east, toward Mora. Then
heard they were at Mora and loaded
on the cars. When | reached Mora
and found sheep had been shipped
north, l came back to Sedalia, and
got information as to where the sheep
had been shipped via, Mora and the
Missouri Pacific to National Stock
yards, East st. Louis.
Found out who billed sheep, to
whom billed, and then swOre out war
rant for arrest of the Woodland
brothers.
Mr.. Steele's crOss-examination follow
ed the above and was very rigid. MIR
Deweese testified substantially as
follows.
went to St. Louis Tuesday TO see
if the sheep had gone any farther than
that place. They had been consigned
to Evans. Snyder & Buell. Found
man that bought and killed them.
Evans paid for sheep in currency.
Bought them for 2 cents per pound.
6,16O Ibz.-s123. 1 had 240 sheep
on Gentry farm and 100 at home.
Made count Of sheep three weeks he
fore night Of oath. Fed my sheep
Sunday, 22d. Saw them Monday %.
l counted my sheep Friday 18th.
Part of sheep were marked with under
bit. were full blood merinO.
THE SECOND DAY.
Every seat in the large circuit cour,
room was occupied by nine o'clock Thu
morning, half hour before Judge
Levens called time. A. matter oi
fact, this sheep trial draws as we'll a.
murder case, and many persons from
the country are attending.
John S. Rissler was the first witnes:
called this morning. He merely gave
rehearsal of the story as it appeared
in the BAzoo last Sunday morning.
John A. Wrong: ! am freight
agent Of the Missouri Pacific railway
I've got the way-bills from Mora. hill.
here shown Same sheep shipped
from Mora to Sedalia were the SAME
as those shipped from Sedalia to st.
Louis. Tom Woodland was around
my office latter part of last January /:
was in nv Office about the time sheeI
were shipped to St. Louis; had u,
conversation with him. He was at
tending to some stock business with
Mr.. Dubbs.
Cross-examinatiOu: Stock were
shipped in J. M. StevensOn's name
he had to sign certificate in my office
Did not see Stevenson there was q
man there with Mr.. Woodard; have
known Woodland for years
this certificate was sent t.
the freight claim agent in St. Louis
Con Donahoe: Live at Curd
Petty's. Night of January "a, wa.
at a party in town. STAYED in town