Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-05
NJ SHOOK & co.

sitting with his head down; witness couldn't
tell II he was asleep. He would talk 20
witness about horses, and would ask the
same question over again. Fritz LuiAert
had great influence over him. "Whatevcr
he told him went" Witness knew this
Things, aud Nc. Reilly would l. We il done.
He made Wi mess haul stone for the road AT
the pork house tina, way.
TO Mr.. Russell witness said he worked
Tor Mr.. Reilly eleven months. He often
pu5 mp orders ~ the store when he was
asked, whilo his team was waiting for Il
load. " tness talked 70 Mr. K lilly fire.
quently ~ the store about tins horses. He
would ASK ms about tnsm, aud then would
wax around aud ask me again. He
their condition, etc. Ono dag a horse had
It's leg hurt, aud Fritz told him its leg
on Pit 10 be creased. a ID Mr. Refill V told
witness 10 do 10. With IS supposed il was
u good thing Tor the morse
ANTON REYMASH.
Witness knew Mr. Reilly for over thirty
years In the early part OF his acqugint-
ancn Mr.. Reilly was considered TO be
good business man. There was change
towards the last especially the last two or
three years They were uotn Directors in
tho STATE Fair Association and in the Elm
Grove road. Witness would meet him fire.
quenty At other times than tho meetings or
tue Boards when Mr.. Reilly was going out
70 the pork house i'm mis- buggy. The meet
logs OF Tho Boards were hold every month
la the Elm Grove Board they would s md
for MIR. Reilly and his man would bring
bin up. II took a long time TO get Mr.
Reilly u understand. He would 80 TO
sleep or at least mis- head would drop down.
Even when a motion was all seconded
and was ready TO be acted on, Mr. Reilly
would ask what was being dOne-what
was going on, and we would have TO ex-
plain TO him. and then he would make a
motion 10 do T., when OF course that had
been done, and IL wasn't necessary. That
occurred quite frequently. lie would get
I things mixed, and ask questions not con-
nected with tbs matter. Towards the last
we would take no notice OF IL. We were all
sorry Tor bis condition, and respected old
age, and smOotned IL over by taxing no
| notice OF it. lie did such things many
times. Often he would get me TO stay after
the others LETT and would ask me cues
tions about now we were getting along, and
II we were curtailing expenses, etc i
would sometimes help him on with his coat,
but sometimes he would get his coat wrong,
and get hold OF tho tails iirSt. He did sucn
things many times, but we tried to take no
notice OF it,
Witucss detailed the circumstance about
Mr. Reilly being left off the Finance Com.
mit 80 at his own request, and when IL was
done and Col. ROLF was named in MS stead,
be got aagry and said he had oeeu treated
badly and blamed it ali on George Hook.
MIR. Reilly resigned, but it was not accept
cd and "a committee was appointed 10 see
Mr.. Reilly ana explain that he was
LEFT orr by his owS REQUEST,
but ne did not seem 70 understand IT, Aftcr-
wards Mr.. Reilly came 10 the meetings
again
The witness also detailed how Mr.. Reil-
~ had asked him to vote Tor Mr.. Zane for
Superintendent, as being very good man,
and had then voted against him When
toll plsf1 4 4
know Mr.. Zane at all. This was in 1890.
Witness did not know then that Mr.. Zane
was relative of Mr. Heilly's wife, but he
knew IL now. "Mr. Reilly was childish
growing weak in body and mind, and 10
grew on him toward the last. ] would not
think he was capable OF transac;inR bust
ness requiring great thought. You could
sometimes speak 10 MIR. Reilly a few
words or small questions, and he would
answer as nationally as any man could but
| III 1t required any great amount Of think-
! ing he could not TO my thinking, he al
ways wandered on
| To MIR Russell witness said the last two
| years he did did not think Mr.. Reilly com
/ petcnt. he would wander from the sub
! jeCt "As M instance, one dav 10 was very
| warm, and we were drinking a glass
! of beer and talking about peer, anc
! he asked mo about expenses, aud he
/ told me TO Curtail expenses, and after
} while ] found ne was talking about tho
|
| Reilly would be very drowsy at both the
| Board meetings and 90 20 sleep, aud wher
/ he would wake uD he would require an ex
| plauation. Witness couldn't tell how much
| stock MIR. Reilly had in The Fair Associn
! ton 40 one had very much ~ first
/ they were al about equal. but after IN,
| Hood OF 1885, some OF them had TO double uJ
the stock 20 hold itup. Mr.. Reilly may havD
bad cas- much as 81 900 OF stock in the stat,
/ Fair Association. buf he could not be sure
[ o. q B. DO. .t e. a.
| OF stOcE. Witness himself had the mos
stock. Mr. Reilly wouldn't take any more
| re voted FOR the increase. They ma,
made Q mp every one would take his hare
but Mr.. Reilly wouldn't, and witness haC
| 10 take his share Mr.. Rcillv's stock Daft
no dividends either in the Fair Association
or the Railroad. 10 never paid anything
WILLIAM MOONEY.
witness was Boa the employ Of Mr. Refill
| in 1883 and 1889 for FIVE or six months ~
was teamstor. lie met Mr.. Reilly fro
qucutly at tho pork house, and would tai
with him. "Most everything ewOuld te
me ~ do, after J would do 10 he would cor
tradiCt a., and saw he didn't tell me-" Wi
ness told about MIR. Reilly sending him 10
O load OF hay from the Pan-H andio track {
Mauche8'er When witness Camo bach
| Mr.. Reilly asked him where hO had beer
and when witness told him he got angr
and said he didn't tell him to haul tho has
! Witness also told about Mr. Reilly irwin
20 Guy bis own horse, when 10 was hitchc
| up with a strange horse 20 try the lattoi
and said he thought 10 would make q goo
| match for his horse, as 10 was about th
size ana color. Mr.. Reilly had owned H.
| horse before witness went 10 WORK for hin
Witness said Mr. Reilly was easily inat
cnccd Ov others. except his sons Frii
Iinkert had great influence over him III
often saw Mr.. Reilly sitting down when d
would be drowsy aud sleepy
10 Mr.. Russell witness went over fh
horse incident again. aud said Mr. Refill
had not been told tho horse % be sold wa
! hiichod mp with ono OF his own Nj
Luikert was head man 40 the pork hous,
CHARLES WHEELER
! Called but came not.
At this point Mr.. Hutchinson said AZ N
outset there had been an Understandable,