The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-21
ALL ARE HELD IN $500.
Tho -Four Mon Accused O tShootlng
at Mr.. Humphrey
1T THE BUCKEYE GLASS FACTORY
Positively Identified by n Number OF
Witnesses. aud no Evidence offered
on Bchaifof tho Dsfonsc-Tlioy all
Give Ball and arc ltcloascd-A
Grave oncnso Charged Against
Them.


cusod Of shooting with intont to kill
Alexander Humphrey, at tho Buckeye
glass works. Martins Forty, were ycs.
torday bound over to court In tho sum
OF 500 each. Five witnesses wero OK.
aminod for tho prosecution and all gave
very strong testimony. Tho defense
had seventeen witnesses to provo an
abb, but mono Of these wcro put OH tho
stand, and tholr attorneys asked for tho
mercy Of tho court
Two Of tho witnesses testified to the
identity OF all tho men, ono identified
throe and two others identified two.
Two testified to seeing two mon shoot at
Humphrey and two saw one man sho.t
at him.
Tho shooting took place in front OF
tho Buckeye glass works about 1880 a.
m. OH Monday, February 4. as Manager
Humphrey was about 10 enter the
blacksmith shop. Tho four mon charged
with the shooting arc Brock Brown,
James Dorsey, Charles Otto and Carl
Baker.
The preliminary examination was
held before Mayor W. S. kenuon yos.
tcrday in the common pleas court room
at St. Clairsvillo. George Duncan and
s. W. Boyd appeared Tor the state and
J. G. Tallman and w. T. Dixon for the
defendants.
Alexander Humphrey, the frat wit.
ness, said no came down from Stcuben.
vile, and he could not get in at tho OF.
flee door. he wont up to the blacksmith
shop and was almost to enter when iiyo
or six shots were fired ut him by two OF
four men who had followed him two
blocks, and who stood on the corner OF
First and Carlysls streets. Humphrey
testified positively that he recognized
James Dorsey and Brock Brown Us two
OF tho men. The shots wero fired at
him before he turned around and two
or three afterward. lie saw the smoking
reyolvers in the hands OF Dorsey and
Brown, who were tho first to run away.
August kayler, who was emuloved ut
Kerr Bros. planning mill, said he was
coming from tho mould shop in the
Buckeye glass works, said no was about
to come out of the door whom Mr..
Humphrey appeared on tho outside.
He saw him through the window in the
upper part OF the door. had raised tho
gas pipe with which the door was fast.
encd, had his hand on the knob to Let
Mr. Humphrey in and heard and saw
the shooting. Hetcstified that two OF the
mon were Otto and Dorsey; that James
McCaiIrey called on him tho morning OF
the shooting and asked him il he knew
OF the shooting, il he saw it and knew
tho men. and kayler answered that no
did, whereupon McCafroy asked him to
say nothing aboutit
Lucian Weidman, night Waterman
at the Buckeye glass works, who lives
on Carlysle street, about thirty yards
from First street, said he was eating
breakfast when he heard tho shooting.
Mrs. Weldman was the first to 60 out
side OF the house aud she exclaimed:
"Oh. Lucian, men are shooting ct tho
Buckeye"
Weidman then rushed out and savs
ho saw Charley Otto run up Carlysle
street toward Second. Brocky Brown
following closo behind, and immedi.
atoly afterwards no saw Carl Baker run
into tho alley and up 10 Second street,
and James Dorsey ran out on Carlysle
street.
The testimony Of Mr.. Weidman was
corroborated by Mrs. Weidmau. She
was asked il she knew the men, and if
she could point them out ono at time,
and she did this. naming each OF the
four.
The las. witness for the prosecution
was Mrs. Albert U. Moore, who re-
sides on Carlysle street, and whose at
tention was attracted by shooting, and
she ran out. She saw Otto. Dorsey and
Brown on tho corner; saw Charles Otto
shoot in southerly direction toward
the blacksmith shop door at the Buckeye;
saw Otto and Brown go up Carlysle
street; told Dorsey not to kill anyone
and he mado no response; saw tho
smoke from revolvers at the corner.
Mrs. Moore was asked il she was &C.
quain,ed with tho four mon, and she
replied that che know oil OF them ex-
cept Balor. She did not see him there
that morning. but had known Otto,
Dorsey and Brown for years.
When tho state rested the defense re-
tired for consultation. It was decided to
30 on with the witnesses, but after dobat.
ing tho matter this was reconsidered,
and Mr.. Tallman stated that no testi.
mony would DO introduced. The state
having produced testimony sufficient to
hold tho mon, no wished tho court to DO
MS lcnient as possible, and not make tho
bond excessive, believing that the mon
had not shot to kill, but to intimidate,
il thoy shot at all.
Mr.. Boyd urged that tho bond DO
made ut least $1,000 each, and gave his
reasons, and Mr. Duncan added that he
did not nsk for an excessive bond; that
tho mon had shot to kill; tho crimc was
a grave ono, felony. and not misdc.
meanor, and that tho court should fix
tho amount in accordance with tho
character OF the otiensc.
Mayor konnon named tho bond nj
$500 each, and the men woro released
on giving surety, William Scabright and
william Otto becoming bondsmen for