Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-21
body was lying on the floor when he ar
rived. He identified the club and whip.
TaE AFTERNOON SESSION

TIE AFTERNOON SESSION
Further Evidence Adduced by the state,
Witch Rests aud the Defense Makes q
start
The first witness at the afternoon ses-
sion was Mrs. Reitz, who was a neigh
Dor Of the Brlessch family, and who
went to the house on the day of the
murder, soon after Officer Snyder and
the prisoner left. She said she examin-
ed the corpse and found the breast Of
the woman wet, as though IL had been
washed, and the clothing was wet. The
body was cold, or seemed so to her. The
dress was open at the breast, and was
wet all over. Her cross-examlnation
was comparatively short.
Mrs. Jaeger was next called. She
knew Briesach and wife by sight, wit
ness living near them on Pike street.
Witness saw Mrs. Brlesach the day Of
the murder, sitting on stone wall, near
the kitchen door. Her head was hang
ing down. Briesach was near by, at
the Kitchen door, Witness heard him
speak, but did not understand what be
said. A colored woman, Mrs. Sly, and
Mrs. Deubler were standing at the fence
on one side Of the Briesach yard.
Q.-Do you know anything that was
going on there unusual? A.-Only the
same as l always heard.
Q.-What did you hear? Al heard
them talk.
Oh what kind Of way? Al
could not hear.
O.-You could not understand what
was said? A.-No.
On cross-examination, COL Arnett
asked the witness what she knew OF
Mrs. Briesach's condition as TO sobriety
on the day Of the murder, and witness
said she did not know. He then asked
il she knew her condition as TO sobriety
at other times about the time Of the
murder. This was objected TO, and the
objection sustained.
officer Henry Snyder was then re-
called, but before he testified, Mr.. How
ard formally offered In evidence the
large club, the window stick and the
whip, the weapons with which the muir
der was committed.
Mr.. Snyder was then handed q small
package containing a muslin rag.
O.-What is that? A rag.
Q.-What rag? A.-The rag he was
using when first saw him.
Q.-What did he do with itP A.
= He threw it In bowl.
Witness then went on to say that
after he took away the prisoner he
came back TO the house. The rag had
been in = bowl containing about q
quarter OF an inch of water. When he
got back, the rag had been taken out
and thrown under table. He found
il, and took it home.
To Col. Arnett witness said the muir
derer was wiping the club with the rag
when he first saw him. The officer
stood up and illustrated Briesach's atti-
tude and motions, and described more
minutely how be had thrown the rag
into the bowl. The officer said he
picked the rag up out OF the bowl,
looked at 1t, and threw 1t back. Wit
ness put g mark on the rag when he
first saw IL, so 1t could be identified.
Witness said, in reply to questions, he
attached Importance to the rag at the
time, and marked it for Identification
as evidence and kept It for that purpose.
Pressed by counsel, witness swore posi-
lively that the rag was the same one
Briesach had used and which witness
found. Col. Arnett attempted 20 have
the witness say he was eager to get all
the evidence be could against the de-
fendaut, but witness would not be
caught that way, and said he only took
the rag because he deemed IL OF import
ance in the case. He had used his judg-
meut in the matter.
The rag was then offered In evidence.
The defense objected, but was over
ruled, and the State, at $40 o'clock,
rested.
The first witness for the defense
was Officer James Creighton. He knew
the defendant and his victim.
Q.-Do you know anything OF any
trouble occurring in East Wheeling, and
if so, what? objection; sustained.
Col. Arnett insisted on being heard,
and the Jury was excused while the
matter was argued to the Court. The
objection was Siill sustained,
John Bachelor, . resident OF Coal
street. was next called. he had known
defendant for fourteen years. He
never knew OF anything against de-
PENDANTS reputation.
On cross-examination witness said
he had met defendant in saloons, and
both had worked in the Top mill.
Briesach was a drinking man. Wit
ness had seen him drink and had drank
with him, but never saw him drunk.
He lived a neighbor to Briesach thirteen