The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-01-10

lamp, or headlight, pulled revolver and fred
at Briggs hitting him on the forehead and at
that time Briggs let go Of the gun. After the
was over and the crowd that had
divided to the north and south was return
ing I came back and went into the car.
expected to find Briggs there. Mr Amour
was lying in the car and ! said to Amour,
'Dick this is too bad He was lying with his
head facing the west.
At this point Mr.. Brumm objected to any
conversation at which Briggs was not present.
There was spirited argument on this
point in which Mr. Brumm said, "The real |
conspirators, and very rioters in this case are
the Town Council of the borough Of Gilber
ton and the witnesses who have been on the
stand.
Mr.. Whitehouse cited and read from
number of authorities.
Judge weidman sustained the objection.
The witness continued to testify: When /
got into the car I saw three men, Mr..
Amour, Mr. Gillespie and Lawrence Kesting
When the shot was fred by John Briggs
was standing on the street. | saw Amour at
that time he was standing on the north side
Of the car platform. He was talking to some
person on the north side of the street, facing
in that direction. heard other shooting
after the shooting had taken place on the car
by Briggs About six seconds from the time
the shot was fred by Briggs until some onS
standing on the street fred the revolver in
Briggs face and, as l thought, hit him in the
forehead. l saw the flashes Of two more
shots coming from the south side Of the car
| The first shot saw was fired by John Briggs
! From the time 1 saw the shot fred By Briggs
until l saw the shots fired from the car wss
about l. seconds and from the time after l saw
the shot fred by Briggs until | saw the shot
| fired by the man on the road in front Of the
car was about six seconds. AT the tima the
shots were fired from the south side Of the
car l was standing on the curb in front OF
| Kern's butcher shop. ! was in the act of
going back at the time l saw Flo Mshony
that night with gun in his hands, after they
were returning, after running down the street.
During the excitement did not sec him to
my knowledge. ! saw person have a hold
Of the gun, but did not notice who it was
That was Immediately after the gun Was dis
charged The person who had hold Of the
gun was standing right in front of the
dinkey. / didn't see more than one have
hold Of the barrel and the other had hold OF
the stock Of It, Immediately after tie man
on the street fired Briggs seemed to fall back
and he passed into the car. That was the
last | saw Of him. don't think much time
elapsed after the first shot when the man
grabbed the gun It was Immediately after
the gun was discharged.
cross EXAMINATION.
There was no unusual drinking iu Gilber.
ton that night. Two, three or four hollered
in middling high tone Homestead and
this party said ''This is not Homestead 81
The youngsters standing about gave kind
Of cheer. That was about IS or 90 minutes
before the shot was fired, The car pulling
back from the crossing caused that. Quite a
large number of people were in front Of
the car and at the sides Of the car l didn't
know at the time it was Mahony who had
hold of the gun that Briggs had. Some
person grabbed the gun but it was over the
rail and after it was discharged.
@ Are you sure you saw man grab the
gun, OF have hold of it2
A. saw him grab it. The man who shot
at Briggs stood about l3 feet in front of me
As near as ! can recollect, l don't think il
was the same man who had hold of Briggs
gun. don't know who he was. l canno
describe him. 1 only saw his arm and wrist
The man had his back to me. | couldn't say
whether he was taller than Mahony.
didn't see his face. Then l backed down t.
Kerns curb with my face to the dinkey.
only had to go about II feet / stood behind
the telegraph and telephone poles at Kerni
corner when the shooting was going on. Tn,
struggle between Mahony and the other man
was ended in about six seconds, when Briggi
fell back with his head against the side of tn,
car.
Q. Did you see other firearms that nigh
outside the dinkey?
A. No, sir. There were pistol shots fired
from the crowd l cannot say how many
All told there might have been from boti
sides from 10 to 20 shots fired There wer,
some pistol shots from the north side Of tn,
street. They were fired towards the dinkey
1 saw stones thrown from the north side ofth,
street saw james Hullihan after theshoot
} ing standing at the diukey, after l came ou
Of the car. l didn't 500 any marks on hin
and | didn't take notice to any blood runnini
down his face.
Q, You say you saw Briggs fire, you saw
the shots fired on the north side Of tn,
dinkey, you saw this man shoot at Briggs
and saw Briggs 90 into the car and do yol
tell us that you didn't see James HullihaI
trying to get on the car, or see if knocked
down, or lying beside the car
A No, sir; did not
JOHN CAvANAUGH,
! sworn: l reside in the East ward of Gilber
ton. was there all the evening of Angus
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