Bridgeton pioneer., 1894-05-24

and found Chris bleeding profusely,
and asked him If he was hurt much: !:
he replied II don't know, Mr.. Yerkes,
don't KNOW" and was in gteat agony.
Tried to help zaiss upstairs, but he
said he could not go upsta.rs.
Physicians and officer Albee were
called and did what they could for tt @
wounded man.
Zaiss'. family lived at Ja, vier, and
the witness went for Mrs. q Mss, re-
turning with her about nin- CLOCK in
the morning.
When witness came down stairs he
did not stop to examine tn- doors and
windows, but hearing groa. 8 In the
cellar, went imme diately down there
where he found Zaiss bic ediuu.
Found, after wards that Il rear win.
dow was open, At '.d there some
children's clio nirg and IL barrel
near y. nis pants and sheet were
fonnd h.s jack krife and mouev rag
wh1en had bee1 III .ue pants Iocket,
were < jn,.
q .iss toid hin. during the forenoon.
that he had seized a stick OF wood
while after the man, who had ran out
of the window and struck the man
with ii, and thought he knocked him
down.
| The man, he said, arose and hit him
in the mouth with black jack. He
grappled the man and they fell to the
ground, q aiss said he holding on to
the mans throat; the man got away
from him and leaped the fence; he
grabbed the man by the leg and pulled
him back, and then the man knitted
him, he said.
The piece of wood which 2 Hiss had
said he struck the man with, was
found.
Zaiss died within five days--on Nov.
9Th.
Ina V. Eston was sworn, she was at
the residence of Mr.. Yerke's on the
night of the robbery.
Her testimony was corroborative of
that of Mr. Yerkes.
She had been aroused In the night
at 2 o'clock, heard the clock In an ad-
journinG room-When she saw the fig.
ure of person In her room, at the
foot of her bed; Mrs. Ives had been
sleeping with her, and her impression
was that the person was Mrs. Ives;
she found by putting her hand out,
that Mrs. Ives was in the bed, and she
thought she had fallen asleep between
seeing the figure at the foot of her
bed and putting out her hand to ascer-
tain If Mrs. Ives was in bed.
Her watch had been lying on the
bureau, and when she learned that a
burglar had been in the house, she
found that her watch was gone. The
watch was subsequently recovered by
Prosecutor Logue.
The watch was produced and identi-
fled by Miss Eston.
The Court adj burned for dinner. All
jurors but the panel of this case are
excused till Thursday morning.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
DR.. Wiley, for thirty years a prac-
ticing physician, was called and
stated that he was called on the morn
ing of Nov. 30, early, to attend a
wounded man, who he learned was
Christian Mss, at the bakery of Mr..
Yerkes. He said he found him at the
foot of the stairs in pool of blood.
The man was almost pulseless, and
with a clammy sweat. The f1oor was
covered with blood. He was placed on
a lounge. He found on the man seven
stab wounds. All of which he desig-
mated. One of them was 81 inches
long, into which he thrust his hand
another a very deep one along the
spinal column; this was about inches
long. Other wounds were described,
which were of a fearful character ac-
cording to the doctors statements.
One of them, three or four inches long,
was on the head, but not of severe
character. The man died from shock
and heart failure, occasioned by the
loss of blood
DR.. Giles Wilson was called; he said
that he was called to attend the
wounded man Zaiss, on the early
morning of Nov. 81. He said he found
the man suffering from knife wounds,
causing shock; he found him seriously
wounded; he was unable to say which
of the wounds could be said to have
been mortal wounds.
Prosecutor Logue displayed great
skill la the conduct of the case; from
the cool methodical andr analytical
course pursued in the prosecution he
shows a masterful control of details
| which argues the solid founda ation of