Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-31
A SHORT SESSION
FOR The TRIAL OF TIE REILLY WILL CASE
YESTERDAY.
Half-a-Dozsn Witnesses on the Stand During The
Day-Ths Evidence Of the Sans General Tenor
as On Friday-To Resume Tuesday.

examination By Mr.. Russell. The audi
ence was not large at the opening OF
Court, but rapidly increased, as the morn
ing progressed, TO about the usual proper
tion. There was some little delay IN get
ting started, owing TO the absence OF the
witness Powell, and it was quarter OF
ten before the witness again took the
stand.
By MIR. Russell: Q.--You drove Mr..
Reilly about for year and nine months'
Ayes.
0.-What time did your ministratlons
commencef About six O'CLOCK. ia so up
and get him up and wash and dress nlin'
aud after breakfast get him down 10 the
store.
O.-What time would you get 10 the
ssoret About nine O'Clock >.
O'-And then you took him back to din
ner! Ayes.
O.-And when would you get back to
the storel About one O'Clock, unless
he was taken sick, when 1t would De along
O.-And then you would take him up TO
supper! Ayes. and after supper put
Odd you ever go out after supper
with himl Ayes. I've taken MIN 10
the Opera House after supper.
The witness described the trips 10 tne
Opera House, about taking Mr. Kelly IN
and seating him, and taking MIN none
again, where he generally sat, etc.
O.-As understood you, he went TO the
store every day! Ayes, don't Kno"
EVER MISSED DAY
roing 10 the store until he was taken sick,
O.-Except Sundays Ayes, except
O.~What did ne do on Sundays Ale
usually got I'D at about half-past elght
and got has breakfast, and then his son or
Harry Zane would go for the mall-he had
a large maitland he would look over IL
and get ready for Monday. Then he wou!d
look at the paper and go 10 sleep, aud tne
paper would fall on the floor and ne woula
be found asleep. He didn't read the mall
after Thomas died. Thomas used TO take
care OF the mail before his death. The
last few months he didn't read his mail as
usual. but he used TO have 1t brought up
inst the same and it lay on the stand Tor
him. He used TO cut the ends oil the let
ters. but he didn't read the letters. 60
O.-How many times, before his nnaI
sickness. did YOU take the mail TO the store
without the ends of the letters cut on! n.
i couldu't tell that. IL was more than
once, but how long it was before his SICK
ness 1 couldn't tell.
Q.-Before he quit cutting the ENDS on
the letters he used TO read his mail on
SUNDAYS! A.-Yes. He used to sit by
the window. when I'd bring up a pitcher
of ice water, winter and summer, and he'd
look over his mail. When Mr.,
Reilly didn't cut off the ends of the letters
they would be taken TO the store Monday
morning unopened.
O-What else did he DO on Sundays A.
He'd look at the paper, and then go 10
Sleep Sometimes I'd rub him and NIX
about him.
Q.-Thars all he did on Sundays A
Yes.
OF course didn't rub him all the time,
but was always about there.
Odd you
RUB HIM IN CHURCH!
A.-Rub him in churchl What would l
rub him in church for!
Oh don't know. You said that was all
he did on Sunday-looll at the letters and
read, ana 20 70 sleep. You didn't say any
thing bout church.
A.-You didn't ask me, and thought !
wouldn't say anything about Il.
Witness then told about getting Mr.. Reilly
ready for church and taking him there, but
he didn't .uJW yyuat time church began.
lie didn't pay attention 10 the time. Mrs.
Reilly tOUh care of getting them TO church
Oh, Mrs. Reilly looked after the
time on Sundayl Ayes.
Q.-And you looked after it the rest OF
the week! A.-Tes.
Witness said the deceased was pretty
regular in going TO church the first year
witness was with him, but latterly he was
very irregular. The last time he went TO
church was the Christmas before ne dled.
O.-That was the last Christmas he
went 20 church! Ayes; ne didn't go no
more, because he died.
O.-That was good reason, wasn't 1t!
Witness said the last time deceased went 10
church was on Christmas. Witness took him
down 10 the store, GA Christmas morning.
Mir. O'Neill was there, and they looked
over the mail, anc about ten O'CLOCK ne
took him up 10 church, where strange
gentleman met him at the door, and said:
flames. III take care Of Mr. Reilly" and
took him by the hand and led him 70 seat.
Witness didn't see Mr.. Reilly again until
twelve o'clock, when church was OUT as
witness went back to the store.
MIR. Russelrs questions, which ran some
what in the same channel at times,
IRaITATED SIR. HUBBARD,
who said "a verdict cannot DC postponed
Tor ever bY an useless cross-eXaminaJlon. J"
O.-James. did any sudden change take
Mace IN Mr. Reilly's condition, A.-Sick-
ness.
O.-Yes. or any other way. Ayes,
he would ret SICK suddenly down at the
store. unknown to himself.
O-I mean was there any sudden change
IN his general condition. A.-Ho got
feeble and grew weak in his mind.
Q.-Do you know what sudden means!
Ayes.
After giving his somewhat hazy idea of
the meaning OF sudden as describing
Mir. Reilly's mental condition, witness said
there was no sudden change IN his mental
condition. but he gradually grew worse
and worse. Witness would notice that
when he would take him 10 people he
would come away without knowing any
thing more than when he met them. lie
grew worse gradually during the last nine
months witness was with him, up 70 tne
time OF his last illness.
O.-Thep on this Christmas day he was
worse than at any other time! A.-No,
not more than on other days. he acted
lust as had other days before that. Christ
mas was the day before he was taken
sick. He seemed cross on that day. When
/ went up to dress him it seemed that l
couldn't suit him, and his wife had TO
speak to him that morning about being so
cross. 1t had been gradually growing on
him all along, and ! kept out OF his way
until | took him 10 church. / shunned
him until put him into the buggy 10 take
him 10 church. When he wasn't growing
at me he was fussing with the girls, and
when he wasn't doing that he was
QUARRELINS WITH HIS WIFE.
Witness said deceased quarrelled with
Mr. O'Neall at the store every cnsnce ne
got.