New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-30
SHEA'S WITNESSES TESTIFY
CONTRADICTORY STORY OF MGOUGH.
THE BURGLAR.
HE CooLLY SAYS THE WITNESSES WHO TEsT1-
FLED THAT HE USED \ PISTOL ARE PER

HE COOLLY SAYS THE WITNESSES WHO IESll-
FLED THAT HE USED PISTOL ARE PER
JuRERs-A BRAKEMAN's STORY.
Troy. ~ Y. June 29.--The rule against admit
I ting any spectators was rigidy enforced this
morning at the Shea murder trial. William H.
Riley. brakeman on the Ftchburg Railroad. was
the first witness to-day. He testified follows:
I voted In the WITH District of the Tenth Ward,
then went home 10 get my dinner After tnat !
walked W 70 the 8rrs polls got There ,Snre np snd
/ heard Shea say to Hayner: You've been here
Il YOU doni want to have Trouble il there is any
trouble here, you'll be the one to raise IT, Then
saw some one thrust his hand through the crowd
a wrench ard raised 1t in the air. don't know
run he the any Koo% followed by
Ross. John II. Roland was following Ross and
two or three shots after that also saw several
men northwest of Robert Ross. one Of whom
a number Of shots
on cross-examination the witness said he had
known Shea about eight years. Two years ago he
met him in Chicago but with him only about
an hour. He had met Shea in Dunlops saloon
and one night. prior to the caucus of February
s. he was in there and Shea Cleary and De-
laney lie was not sure whether not he saw
owen Judge McGoush on that occasion.
Then Mr.. Raines asked the question. How is 1t
that when Boand running seventy feet, Rob
ert Ross and McGough. who were also running
in the same direction. had only got ten or twelve
feet from the eastern edge OF the gully
The witness tried to get himself out of the din
, Guilty by changing his statement. and having Boz
land start from the polling place while Robert
and McGough were running across Orr-st.
Mr. Raines then read n statement taken by
stenocrapher upon one occasion when the witness
went TO Mr.. Fagan's office. This statement was
to the effect that Boand fred only one shot. and
this shot was fired when Boland was west Of Rob
ert Ross The witness admitted that he had made
tbo rifO took Ck
statement that Congdon and Boland were the only
persons he knew who had pistols by saying that
McGough had a pistol in his hand just after Robert
fell.
The next witness called John McGough. lie
said
home to dinner from the LIST District polls came
, over Douw-st.. and turned down North FOURTH put
changed my mind, and went over between Two
houses and across the dump to the polling place
went there alone and when | got there saw
HaSner " 80 in after them saw Cetly and Shea
coming out as if they were pushed, out Wh ,,
Look out YOU scab, what you're doing Don't you
SAID Hayner. Then Cleary struck him; and Hay
went out into the roadway, and had a CON
Ross Boland and others Then he came back
ard the door and said: by Christ IN go in there
you've got no more right in there than have. "
with that he drew wrench and struck at me
wrench wrench struck my arm Then Shea cried Look
out, Jack: and Hayner turned and s struck HIM IN
back With club crying Cub him, boys,
Ross ran pG him receiver
Quigey cried For Gods sake, Ross. Then
Sp' Ross Then tod QTsey not to hit SHEA
| William Ross pointed his revolver at me. and |
ran across Orr-st Shea north OF me, ana
when got TO the north edge Of the ravine bull
let .whizzed past my head turned ana , saw
Then heard three shots. and fen, shot IN the
y md frp1
first shot Robert Ross fell He did not go down
ben bea gSss but od I'm 9y
/ William Ross Quigicy and Adam Ross came up
Went over into the gully and that was the irst
time was in the gully me men cupDed me WIN
/ regained my footing after "A while. and ran
westward. As / did so | heard the remark: There
! he goes Men followed me
This ended the witnesses story to Mr.. Hit, and
Mr. Raines began the cross-examination. Nc
! Cough said that 1855 nc pleaded guilty 10 bur
glary in the third degree at a shoestore and was
sent to the Elmira Reformatory, where he re-
NAMED for thirteen months. Since he was released
he had been West. in Madison. Wis; Moline. III;
/ Chicago, ST. Louis and the Pacific Coast. lie
met Shea in Chicago and was with him short
time McGough identified the revolver picked up
in the gully as his. He denied that he had a re-
voiver when he ran over toward North Fourth-st.
Then the witnesses who testified that you fired
| at Boland and Congdon mistaken" asked
Raines.
They're perjurers," replied the witness. The
witness said that he had been in the habit OF car
rying a revolver for two years.
When McGough again took the stand this after
| noon. Mr.. Raines resumed the discrimination.
The witness denied that he had about June Il
/ written any letter signed Bat" Mr.. Raines then
read from letter signed Bat" but the witness
! denied that ne had written It or knew anything
about II. The letter is addressed steve" and In
! substance says:
he m ]
Sioux city, Oak. at the time Of the Hood. l want
YOU TO say when you 20 on the stand that you
went to Dunlop's about I o'clock in the afternoon.
| and when you got there you asked Dunlop where
/ 'Bat" was and he said Upstairs and that you
! then went up and asked Shea where his gun was,
and he said ii was under the table that you looked
under the table and found II all loaded.
! McGough then repeated the story Of how the
! shooting began, alleging that the first shot was
fred by William Ross who fired in the air.