The evening world., 1894-03-21
HOT shot. l.. 81.
FOR NEWTON.
tconnrtni IRON Fsra P1oe. ,

The nrst Witness. called was Jamiieson
nmse os Ia e ,sd S.d hs was
all his life. He had been constable
seven or eight years, 49,
On on election morning he was at the
the voterf In .ine. He had orders TO
ALLOW no one to come within l5O feet
When the carriage OF Col. Bacon's
party, came up the witness sail he had
no idea who the people were, but he
stopped the carriage and told the driver
that he could not pass, the line.
A man sitting on the box with the
driver told the latter to go ahead, and
when the Constable took the horses by
the brdle tn this man .ns heavy cane
The witness said he had seen the man
who threw the cnne at one of the pre-
what happened then7" Mr.. Patterson
"a tall man got out OF the carriage
and came towards me with his hand N
that looked like a pistol.
Il ran up against him. and felt some
thing like revolver.
az revolver he said You'd better
look out; ~ ,elf-eoeker and loaded.
An' Eosk Ls out. he SAID said, T'n II may a.; go ortr
Well. II It does says i. 1T won't
shoot me. and with that ] turned his
hand around and pointed the muzzle at
What became Of the pistol2,
gave II to Justice Newton"
The witness said that when he went to
Justice Newton's court with the four
prisoners the latter gave four papers to
him. which he ordered him to sign. He
did not read them, he said, because he
could not read writing at all. but sup
posed they contained charges OF carry
Ing concealed weapons and assaulting
On cross-examination Lawyer Wern-
berg asked the witness how II was, II he
couldn't read, he had been able to recog-
Boyle a % IN the sadi aftidayit o which he handed
him:
wei, I can make out as much as
sa'H ala tns You wisneis sisn four Of these
plants when you only had two men to
make complaints against?"
Well, there we're were other other men in the
against them for breach OF the peace,
besides the men with the gun and the
s'ifs besdes ahy wers there IN was tps fS, ghs
"Oh. ten or fifteen"
But why did you only sign four COM
"gssause there were only four handed
I You would tus, as soon have slsneq,
"fes.-that is. no; don't think I
would"
Jameson couldn't tell to whom he
had handed the prisoners he arrested.
tion OF the alleged night near the Town
Hall. 1t was probably the occurrence
which the men Of Col. Bacon,,s party de.
scribed when the Gravesend mob wac
hustling them around the roadway and
on the railroad platform.
1T didn't strike you as improbable
as | you describe. Who Wanted TO shoot You
would tell you to be careful II might &c
of when you grabbed him?" asked MIR
Weinberg
Il was too quick for him." replied tn,
constable.
us that all the answer you can sive?'
weinberg said he Would take the answer
, Jameson soon after, when asked abou
! his AFFIDAVIT which was used in the Nc
naed thss hs had ssneaS the s0o adaS
without reading 1t or having 1t rea
: They tSld me 70 sign i and I dia.
The first time heard II was when
was read before Barnard" he said. -,
e verely at the witness. He afterward
9 alluded to the late Chief Justice stvera
times as barnard" and alluded fhmil
iarly to Grout'' "Gaynor.' MAYER,
Lawyer Weinberg read the long af
davit to the witness paragraph by para
graph and Jam Jameson denied & every state
swore to a long conversation betwee
Mckane and Bacon, and that Col. Baco
had attacked him and hit him severs
: the party had drawn revolvers.
i To each one. Of these statements. tn
= witness replied:
The affidavit was five pages long o
close typewriter matter. and describe
. the alleged occurrences at the Town Hal
! alfiidayt was handed to him and he ha
i lsland, !.1is9,, - - ,.,
i in this afiidavits" asked Mr.. weinberg ' berg
In YesI ;bs villa said esUn the witness mad.
swear that neither Col. Bacon nor any {
any other paper showing their authorit!
rs is that true?" asked Mr.. weinberg.
DO you know Mr.. Roderick?"
II have only known him a short time.
i test against it?'' '
!. ~ didn't know what to do"
Is Iid you ever ten any, any one tha. tn
end u til l. you told 1t to-day on the witnes
n NO. replied the constable, VII
seemed to be now thoroughly demora
= lied
!. Lawyer Patterson sat and looked stea'
'r ily at his client while he was giving tn
IS damaging testimony against himsel
: and when he had finished did not have
question to ask.
z That's all. MIR. Jameson" he said.
Lawyer Backus sat in the bacl
'e ground and twirled his long. black mu
ID tache. Mr.. Roderick came into cou
during the latter part of Jameson
e cross-examination. but did not go 70
t. ward to the place where counsel wei
sitting. He stood In the back of Il
room and listened only to one or tw
answers Of the witness and the
hastened to the door.
h, Peter j. O'Connor, OF Gravesend, Il
Ie next witness, said he was around II
tx polls at the Town Hall from $50 A.
ce TO 1890 p. NJ, on election day. He sa
w Jameson there all that time. and I
or trouble occurred.
" What were you there, for" askt
~ Lawyer Patterson.
on ITO show Democratic voters how
m ne vote" replied the Witness and the
m was general laugh.
A' Lewis Wilson was called to corrob
rate Notary Public Boyle's testimon
He said that he was in Sutherlan nd
.. saloon on the evening OF Sunday, Dec.
'" which he showed to Jameson. He sa
ks the latter sign II.
be Wilson told Lawyer Weinberg that
,c. was a barkeeper, and acknowledged tn
~ Sunday was the busiest day In the we,
Ip oil M fNa an