Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-07-28

4 there was a glassware drummer OF HAL
| ufacturer. from Bridgeport, Ohio, who
! remembered our being in the Hough
House that evening, Friday, January
| 18th. 1888. but / know of no attempt TO
! get his testimony for me at my trial.
After we had been up town some time,
while we were passing a store, an OLD
/ gentleman hailed US and asked II Hough
would not give us room. We replied,
/ no. He said he had TO do so. and told
us 10 20 down 10 the mayors house, a
| few doors east Of there. He was Dr.
/ Brown or Grey. He talked 10 him bit,
and finally said it was no use, but Tor
us to 20 10 some other hotel he directec
/ us 10. But we went back 10 the depot
and into a little eating house at the
/ platform and tried 10 get something TO
/ drink: they would not sell, but told US
| to 20 over the river TO a restaurant just
! al end of the bridge where we could get
/ il We did so. There we met some
/ Young fellows with a guitar or banjo,
/ and I sang a song or two and told them
about the fuss at the HOugh House.
/ Then three or four left. We went
! along 10 a small building where the
/ band was practicing. After that l do
/ not remember anything much till morn
/ ing. when we went over to talrmOnJ
and got breakfast in a large, square
| frame hotel at the top Of the hill
/ About 9 or 10 a. m. we went TO Burn S
saloon, (this was Saturday, January IA,
/ 1851 I got some tobacco at
| a grocery store just opposite.
/ About noon Mr.. HaganS and Mr.. Wat
son came up on the express train, and
| 10 the saloon. where l met for the first
time We had something TO drink.
During the afternoon l sold Mr.. Vance
q pair of shoes. I had some
/ talk with Mr.. Hagans during the
/ day. about South Bend. Indiana, Uni
versity. concerning a relative who at
tended school there. Mr.. Hagans also
attended the same school.
In the evening, after the lights were
/ lighted. Mr. Hagans. Mr.. Watson, myself
and partner were in the back room and
/ sang for some time. I said we We're
going TO Wheeling that night, on the
! express at 9 p. IN. think it left. Mr.
| Hagans looked at his watch and said we
had better start for the depot. as it was,
nearly train time. Before we got 70
] the depot the train passed us. As it
/ STAYED some time, we caught it and beat
our way 10 GlOver's Gap. After getting
/ left at GlOver'S Gap, we crossed the
track to a hotel kept by Chas. Wells's
mother. and asked for supper. She said
all right but as IL was late We must
| pay extra. We would not do that and
/ left. and went across the creek TO a
bunk house where were a lot Of rail-
road men. We drank and talked, and
finally fell asleep. We were there when
/ this man Glenn was shot, between u
midnight and 1 o'clock a. m, Saturday
night. January nth and 18th, 1888. In
/ the morning. Sunday, January 10TH, /
went into Chas. Weiss store by the
track and bought some stuff. Wells
was making up the mail when l went
/ in. After I went out he
also came out and placed the mail
pouch on the catcher, four or five min
utes before the express came from
Wheeling, going east. He saw us
| standing there. BY the evidence Of the
train dispatcher, who was called by the
State that train was the only train by
which we could have reached Glover S
I Gap when Wells saw us there, and it
passed GlOvers Gap at a speed Of 40 or
so miles per hour. The Mr.. Wells l
mean is ex-senator Chas. Wells. of your
district. He was here TO see me and said
he was satisfied I am innocent, and
would do anything he could for me.
While I was In Jail in Wheeling, a
young woman came TO see someone. She
| told him she remembered my coming 10
Mrs. Wells's hotel that Saturday night
| for supper-but that she had never
| seen Kelley. who was with me in jail
before. She was an adopted daughter,
or a niece Of Mrs. Wells. We left Clio
ver's Gap about 10 or II a. m, Sunday
on q local train. and came TO Mounds
vile. and left the next morning and
walked TO Wheeling. On the way we
found a family living under a culvert
Of the b. & O. track. They said they
had been washed out by the high water
and were forced 20 live there. Three or
four of them were little children. As
they were starving We promised to get
them some provisions. and did so. We
went on to Wheeling and fooled around
until about 2:30 or p. m, when we
went to a barber shop 20 get shaved.
I
the State of New York He had lived
at Albany. which is my home. l think
his name is SOhnell. on Main street
this side of the creek bridge. SOmmer-
Vile found him, but l ce8ld gent moth
! ing satisfactory from him, SOmmer-
Vile.
After getting shaved | went 10 a drug
store and got a pint bottle of raw alcO-
hol I send YOU a letter I got from c.
Schnepf. a druggist. l think the store
where l bought the alcohol is the one on
his envelope. The purchase would be
recorded by the clerk. This is import
ant. We remained in some time, and
then took some stun to the family men,
toned. This was on Monday, January
10th 1883.
The next Sunday l went TO Barnes
Vile. Ohio The State brought two men
from there. One said it was Monday
January 10th. when l was there; the
other. Sunday. January 22d. They We're
brothers and of equal veracity.
At the trial the State brought a man
named Harry Exley, Of Wheeling
who Swore he saw me in a horse show
the night Glenn was shot; that l had a
fuss with him about a reserved seat.
John Shorts came and told Sommerville
he (ShortSl was the policeman on duty
there that night; that he elected the
man: that l was not the man; but John
Shorts was not put on the witness
stand. He was the only man the State
had that ever saw me in Wheeling at
the time Of before, or after the murder.
None of the men who saw Kelley on thu
boat al Benwood or down the river, ever
saw me- or claimed that l resembled