The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-01-11
and we turned up at McKeone's; cannot de.
scribe the gun Brown showed me-

down in the train and there have been dis
cussions as to how the affair happened and
have given my views upon it,
Q. Did you have a pretty general under
standing Of the shooting question, especially
with reference to Briggs and Mahony2
A. No, sir; not on that point
Q. 1t was talked about, do you know2
A. Among the people.
@. l mean among the witnesses?
A. Yes, sir
G. Did you hear any of che Councilmen
have anything to say2
A. No, sir.
Witness continued: didn'tsee any stones
thrown, but heard glass breaking; was much
frightened and ran two squares before !
stopped; will not swear the man saw on the
railroad was Briggs;fwhen Briggs presented
the gun he pointed it over the rail and down
to the ground.
Mr.. Brumm then turned his attention to
reading testimony given by the witness under
examination when he was before thecoroner's
jury and the following was drawn out between
the reading of the extracts:
Didn't see Briggs pull the trigger of his gun
and swear that I didn't swear before the
coroner's jury that did, at least l don't re-
member that I did can't tell whether my
memory is as good now as it was before the
coroner's jury.
Mr. Brumm then read the following quoted
extract
@. Who was it you saw pull the trigger?
A. This man, Briggs
Is that correct ask ed Mr. Brumm.
The witness replied, don't remember
swearing who pulled the trigger; ifit is there
guess I swore to it.
Q. Well, is that true did you see Briggs
pull the trigger?
A. Don't remember now that l did.
The witness also stated that he saw no citi-
zens with firearms that night and heard no.
body say anything of having shot, or making
any threats.
WILLIAM FRANTz
sworn II reside at Maizeville saw the
dinkey at Gilhcrton but didn't notice any
body who occupied it; went up on the Car
that followed the dinkoy; heard somebody
say something about the tearing up Of the
road most everybody spoke about it saw
Amour, Reynolds, Gorley and Garrett Keat-
ing talk concerning the road and Reynolds
made an expression that Amour could go
back with his gum that the people Of
Gilberton wouldn't be scared, or something
similar to that, and certainly it raised a
little excitement at the time the people were
running from here to there, more or less
frightened saw Amour coming out of the
car and standing on the front of the car and
making some remarks don't know what
they were; was standing from to 10 feet
from Amour and the car don't know that
heari anything moro; saw John Briggs
there he came out with his gun and as soon
as he got to the platform of the car he opened
fire with so me remark which didn't catch
stood there until half dozen shots had beer
fired it struck me quite hard didn't really
realize what had happened; Briggs fred the
| first shot he fired little southeast, very
| little didn't see James Partit; didn't know
| him didn't notice that Briggs fired at any
| thing Amour at that time WAS on the from
Of the car, on the northeast end, facing NOR,
north than anything else; saw Mahony
several times before the shooting occurred
and very shortly before the first shot wa
fred was standing north Of the ear, not yer!
far from it, five or six feet didn't see an!
/ person have hold of the gun before Briggs shot
saw shot fired; didn't notice whether Mahon,
took hold of the gun, or not. Didn't know
the others who fired shots there that night
shots came from the south side of the car
saw shot from the gathering outside of tn
car it was towards the west; don't knOy
who fred the second shot couldn't sa
where it was fired from five or six shot
came at once from the car the shot tina
came from the center of the track east of tn
dinkey came when these other shots wer
going of,
@. How long after the shot fired by job
Briggs was the shot from the center of tn
track ired2
A. Couldn't just say; it might have bee
10 seconds; both Amour and Briggs were o
the platform; Briggs fired the shot
At this point Judge Weidman ordered a
adjournment until o'clock Thursday morn
ing.
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