The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-01-12
O. Do you say positively you did not say
you were present and the grabbing was after
the firing, or words TO that efTect2
No sir

u do you say positively you dld not say
you were present and the grabbing was after
the firing or words 10 that effect2
A. No, sir.
RE-CRoss EXAMINATION.
have lived in this county about 10 years
and have been in the country about that time,
JOHN cANF1FLD.
live at Homesyille and was employed by
the electric railway company as repairsman
on the 3lst of August last I went 10 East
Gilberton on the dinkey. got on at Homes
vile and rode to Gilberton. ] knew John
Briggs, John sweony, Robert Benny,
aud Pat. Doughelty and some other re.
/ pa,fsmen on the car. 1 didn't know
Richard Amour. lie was on tho car. There
were firearms ON the car ! couldn't exactly
say who carried them. 1 saw them with John
| Briggs snd Amour. I saw men putting them
/ in the dinkey but l can't say exactly who.
1 couldn't say what conversation Amour or
Briggs bad on the way to Giberton. Id,dnt
hear Amour give any orders. I was on the
outside of the dinkey, watching tho trolley.
when we got to Gilberton we were rd,itd
to take the tools out and 60 to work, which
we did. Mr. sweeny ordered us. There was
p big crowd standing outside and some we're
crying, "where is the Girardville militia
Mr.. Briggs said "Here we are, what do you
want ?' and got Outside, snd just at that time
I heard a shot and jumped from the back Of
the diukey aud ran away. / didn't see
Briggs do anything only get up and go out
side. That was the first shot / heard. l
heard other shots when I was about 10 or 90
yards from the dinkey. / don't know who
fired the second shot, or where it was fired.
I did not 90 back to the dinkey. got on a.
piece down the road and went home on it,
When l ran after the shot, kept run.
ming for a couple Of hundred yards and can't
say whether or not ! stopped on the way.
Briggs got on the diukey at lower Mnhanoy
Plane, at the Bear Ridge breaker / couldn't
say whether he had any firearms with him,
but l don't think he had a hat On. I couldn't
say whether he made any expressions. On
the dml,ey going home were myself Tat
Dougberty Pat Dewitt, Amour my father
aud perhaps one or two more.
DR. ENTERLINE
Recalled upon request OF the dele se The
doctor stated that McHeury Wilhelm, ESD
tried to ez mine some witnesses at the cor
oner's inquest, but failed. The doctor forbid
him to do so upon request of the District
Attorney. When asked why he did not
forbid George J. Wadlinger, Esq the doctor
said he inferred from the questions asked
that he was for the Commonwealth. DR..
Enterline did not notice any mark Of powder
or burns on Palfts body OF clothing,
SAMUEL PARFIT,
Father of the deceased James Parit, swore
that the young man was p years Of age and
about foet or inches in height. He
could not guess the weight. He identified
the coat of the deceased, but said that the
deceaseds trousers were so much covered
with blood and unfit for inspection that he
buried them and therefore could not produce
them
JOHN +, REYNOLDS
Recalled upon request Of Mr.. Brumm and a
tedious cross examination as to why the track
was torn up followed.
Mr.. Reynolds said he did not recoleci
swearing before the coroner's jury that "thc
q crowd gathered around just as 1 thought OF
b supposed everything was arranged nice and
& peaceably and Dick would leave If he did
g he didn't mean it, but his memory was better
at the inquest than at the trial.
Q. Do you recollect having told Mr.. vii
helm that the road would not be torn mp and
g the matter would be fixed up. after the meet
4 i ing at which the resolution to tear up wa'
passed
A. No, sir, not after the last meeting.
O. Is it not true that under your ordin
anco if the tracks were not in repair you hsC
a right to repair those tracks and charge q
per cent to the company?
D A. 1 am not positive of that?
O. Did you, as Council, individually o.
. collectively, undertake to put the road in re-
pair2
{ A. No, sir. We never did. The Counei
o did all the repair that was done.
S Q. Then the borough did?
G A. Yes, sir.
i Q. And did it very sausWctorily2
A. Yes, sir
. Q. Then there was no cause Of complain
d against the company afterwards if the borough
:, did the work
A No, sir,
= O. Then, really the only cause of com
plaint was because the company had thei
/ tracks laid on unconceded territory
d A. l don't say that. / saw the feeling wa
among the people that the Borough Counci
G should compel this company to do something
A. g., Hy thair road buE efter renpat,d uotirp
., and requests from the Council they reiuse
1t to do anything in the matter and by adyio
of our solicitor this was the only possible wa,
we could get the com pany to repair the roa
throughout the borough was to tackle am
d tear up this disputed point.
JOHN HuLLIHAN
n sworn IL am the Chief Burgess of GilbertoI
u had instructions, verbally, from five mem
bers of the Borough Council TO hire men {