Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-18


)ne. Another, Mr.. Lutz, said Mr. Reilly
was very pleasant man % get along with
lie was asked why, and IL then leaked out
-6at Mr.. Reilly
PAID WITHOUT QUESTION
The bills MIR. Lutz made QUIT Well. !
should say Mr. Reilly would be n pleasant
man 10 get along with Aud upon further
enc uiry II turned out Mr. Lutz. proposed
20 90 JOB OF work for MIR. Reilly, from an
estimate made through most unusual
method, and that Mr Reilly took him up.
aud what do you think Mr. Reiliyis safe
guard was.-this man OF business. who
ontshone all men VINO do or ever did bust
res on Main street, The protection were
lnc words, inserted in the con-
tract, shall not exceed $500 "
and remarkably enough. the
bill for that job was just 81 ,5OO And how
much money did the shrewdness OF Mr..
Reilly save himi Our friends Oh the other
SIDE have not told you. and they never win.
because IL didu't ave him one single cent?
Tue evidence OF DR.. Il. NJ. Baird was
next taken up and reviewed by MIR. Hue
bard, and ne concluded that DR. Baird had
no opinion OF tue mental capacity OF Mr.
Reilly, land that reduces the hundreds OF
witnesses TO nineteen. And do they say
Mr. Reilly was nationals Why. tho next
hVe witnesses admitted, in 50 many words,
that In some respects
MR REILLY WAS RRArioNAL.r
a little farther on he said II said five
OF them admitted that i'm some respects
Michael Reilly was irrational, and they
said II in manner which bore right upon
TINS question. Who wore these hve wit
neSsest They were Col. Thomas O'Brien
whom words almost failed In desert bling
the terri ole treatment by Mr.. Reilly OF his
sons. Then Me- Rlnehart told YOU in so
many words thasin rcsercnce TO mis- treat
nent OF his children, MIR. Reilly was ut
WHwaHsH N.N
had ied-whether 10 british beasts /
know not-but he said il. Then there was
Judge Rodgers. who said that on this
subject Mr.. Reilly was utteraly uureason-
able. and could not be made TO hear reason.
Mr.. O'Neill said his treatment OF his sons
was simply horriO be-" and then here is
our friend Mrs. Roth. who talked so glibly
about the trip 10 Atlantic City, ia re-
spouse 70 the polite enquiries Of our friend
Judge Melvin, but strange 10 say. didn't
talk about the things / wanted 10 know
about. But she let some things out before
shc got through. That was the trip when
Mr.. Riley told about this hale old man
travelling about with two helpless women
Two helpless womeuN He told you that
and that these helpless women went with
that hale old man TO the railroad ticket
10 hold his hands up. but In
reality 70 see that he got his right change.
He wasn't Mt 10 buy tickets for railroad
trip
That leaves fourteen witnesses. Then
there IS another class who are fifty typi-
ned by the witness Peter Erb. He thought
Mr. Reilly was very cute and then |
thought we were in for IL, and that some
thing would be proved on US right away.
Why was he cute" Why said Peter, he
Just depended on my word in buying
horses. Now that may do in some things,
and II may do for Il man of MIR. Reilly's
great intellectual ability, but, gentlemen,
don't you take that for "A cue, and 20 into a
morse trade depending on all the other man
saws. Another OF this class Of witnesses
was MIR. |. G.. Dillon. Mr.. Reilly was his
customer and Mr.. Dillon testified that he
changed In MS manner OF buying after his
second marriage. Before that marriage
he bought what Mr. Riley would call fry
olous tribes, but later he bought diamonds
-Four hundred dollars worth at one time.
and SIX hundred dollars worth at another.
and nine hundred dollars worth at an
other. But did Mr.. Reilly really buy
theme Nes-and no. He paid the bills,
but
DID NE BUY THE DGAMONDsl
No IL was Mrs. Reilly. She directed that
Mr.. Reilly should be shown certain articles,
the diamonds for this shrewd
business man, and MIR. Dillon would name
the price. and then Mr. Reilly would come
In, aud buy the diamonds which some one
else had selected, and at a price which
T.
Dillon said Mr. Reilly never got the dia-
monds for cent less than the price he
had fixed. Then there was Mr.. Ioeckler,
who said he had sold Mr.. Reilly meat
Tor years. and who said MIR Reilly
didn't know chuck stake from a porter
house, and from him Mr.. Reilly bought
the best quality Of meat when he supposed
be was getting the worst, and Mr.. Reilly
paid for II then aud there, and made the
change FORT and he never knew the diff
ference. he never knew what he was get
ting nor what he was paying for it.
Then there was another witness-the
lamented MIR FoOse-and passing him we
come to Mr.. Clark and Mr.. List and Mr.
tranzheim." Referring to Mr.. Clark's
evidence, when he said Mr. Reilly had
a sluggish mind and talked a good deal:'
he told the jury that If they would look
ABOUT them aud pick out the man among
those they know whose mind was sluggish
and who talked a great deal, they would
'1light upon tho biggest fool they knew"
BY this time MIR. Hubbard had narrowed
his witnesses down to four. Of whom he
said two were Mr.. LANG aud DR.. Frissell
Tue former, in all his long business life on
lain street, had gone in NJ Rsilly's store
Just once, and the latter had seen MIR.
Reilly three times, on one of which times
Mr.. Kelly had shown his mental capacity
TAXING PRESCRIPTION,
and also by his trying to have the doctor
attend 10 a family and business matter.
which Mr. Reilly ought 20 have attended
10 himself This reduced the number 10
two, Mr. Dolan, Benwood grocer. who
51metlmes bought groceries from Mr.
Reilly and other. Last Of all came Satan
also, Fritz LuiRcrt." Mr.. Riley bad
not believed that witness. for he mad b.el
careful 90 say nothing about him That
disposed OF the fifty witnesses on the 9TH
Pr side. GA the side OF the contestants.
Mr.. Hubbard said they had gone every.
where for witnesses They had penetrated
as far as they could into his household.
they had brought up his business so-
-iatos, and they mad brought men
from his store from the streets. aud from
anywhere they could ind man who knew
anything ABOUT MIR. Rculy's mental
capacity. Their witnesses had been exc
Jiicit, and had said they did no, think hc
had mental capacity The speaker could
bot hope 90 paint Mr.. RriIv's mental state
ls graphically as these witnesses had done
It An Instance was the evidence of Mr.
Anton EeymaGu. With C4udor and fair.
ness he had told the story OF the later
years " ir RsIHy's uf' and covered aI
classes Of Instances. from his v0t.ugaraiusf
bis own cand .da'e % nis trying % uut bis
0YercJat ON upside doWn. They wers a..
classes OF iue dents, and showed boo tine
most rIuN.uH. ..r .u amor the uff nm ffu us.. D..