The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-01-11

cannot say whether he was sitting on his |
hunkers or standing up.
O. When Mr.. Reynolds swore he was in
Foley's hotel when the shooting took place he |
was mistaken
A. ] don't know.
Q. You swear he was there2
A. As near to it as possible.
@. Well, then, if he was there an instant |
before could it have been possible for him to
be in Foley's hotel when the shot was fired |
A. 1 don't know. | can't say.
O. Do you mean you don't know whether
Reynolds was there before the shot was fred
and know whether he could have been in
Foley's hotel when the shot was dred2
A. He might have been and might not. |
couldn't say he was right there.
Q. You did swear Reynolds was there just
the instant before the shooting took place
talking to Amour and now do you swear that
although he was there the instant before the
shooting he also could have been in Foloy's
hotel, with the doors closed at the time the
shot was fred2
A. / can't givea any other reason.
Q. Is it not the reason that you can't give
an answer because you are afraid to contra
dict what Reynolds swore to
A. No, sir.
@. Well, now then, can't you give us an
explanation? l will give you another chance
A. can't give any more, 1t may have
been 10 seconds when l stood in front of the
car and looked at Briggs after the shooting,
but didn't see Mahony grab the gun. l
watched Briggs until the second shot was
fred. 1t came from the crowd in front of the
dinkey. saw the revolver and the hand
that held it, but don't know who fred the
shot.
O. You swore before the coroners jury
that you saw Mahony when the shot was
fired?
A. l say he was there then.
O. And before you said you didn't see him
before the shot was fred for a minute moro
or less =?
A. Less, 1 suppose2
O. So much less that you now bring it
right up to the shooting2
A. Yes, sir. When Briggs fred he was
facing little to the southeast with the butt
of the gun under his arm and the muzzle
resting on the dinkey rail He did not have
the gun up to his shoulder.
WILLIAM o'BRIEN
sworn Il live in the East ward of Gilberton
l took no hand in the tearing up of the
electric road, 1 was at different places that
night but AT the time the first shot was fired
/ was right in front of the dinkey, on the
north rail. | heard Garrett Keating. He
mentioned to Amour that he was against the
tearing up of the track, but now that they
brought Winchester rifles he was with the
Borough Council and if they wanted to lay
| the road that night they would have to do it
with picks and shOvels but couldn't do it
with Winchester rifles. He didn't think it
was manly for them to come to shoot innocent
people. Amour was talking to Heating,
Reynolds and members of the Borough
Council heard Reynolds say they couldn't
scare the people of Gilberton, or something
| like that. Amour allowed that no couldn't
| help it, that he was kind of forced to go there
by the officials of the company to do his duty
! heard somebody hOller about the Girardville
militia and Homestead and with that Briggs
came right of the car using the words Here
we are, what do you wsnt?' or something
like a curse couldn't catch it. He laid the
gun over the rail and fred, He fred east.
He might have shifted it a little to the south
east. saw a man fall, but there were some
people between me and the man who was
shot and l couldn't see who he was l heard
a kind of groan and heard afterwards it was
Parft l saw Flo. MahOny at the time
Briggs fred the shot and afterwards in
Foley's saloon. At the time Briggs fred
didn't notice whether anybody else had hold
of the gun; turned and walked away.
only saw Briggs have hold of the gun. /
got away before the second shot | heard
several shots, but don't know who fred them
CROSS EXAMINATION.
don't know whether the other shots
heard came from the dinkey or not saw
one shot close to the dinkey, but it was SC
close l couldn't tell whether it came from the
dinkey or the bystanders. l saw the fash o.
this shot and it seemed to be or e feet il
front of the car, That was the first flash
saw after Briggs fired his shot. l only saw
two Aashes-the Briggs shot and the secon6
shot, but after that l heard several shots il
rapid succession. | didn't see and frearm
with any person outside of those in the
dinkey and saw nobody under the influence
of liquor.
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